Texas A&M University, Department of
Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 8th of October 2003, 3:00-4:00
Groups and Dynamcs Seminar
The symmetry of
densest packings
Charles Radin of University of Texas at
Austin
I will use examples of packings/tilings by Boroczky and Penrose to
reexamine Hilbert's eighteenth problem, in particular the relevance of
nondiscrete groups in the study of spatial symmetry.
There is an introductory article on this material at: ftp://ftp.ma.utexas.edu/pub/papers/radin/18.pdf