Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences
City University of Hong Kong
Mathematical Analysis and its Applications
Colloquium

Organized by Prof. Philippe G. Ciarlet and Prof. Roderick Wong

Generalized Laguerre Pseudospectral Method For
Unbounded Domains

by
Professor Michel A. Van Hove
Head and Chair Professor, Department of Physics and Materials Science
City University of Hong Kong

Date: October 4, 2006 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue: Room B6605 (Faculty Conference Room)
Blue Zone, Level 6
Academic Building
City University of Hong Kong

Abstract: Quasicrystals, discovered in 1982, present amazing structural and physical properties. Quasicrystals are non-periodic but have long-range orientational order.  Particularly unexpected are their surface properties: hard (like tungsten), rust-free (like aluminum oxide), non-sticky (like glass), and slippery (like Teflon). This makes them very useful in frying pans and other applications. Amazingly, it is possible to understand these properties with the "high-dimensional" (e.g. 6-dimensional) model used to geometrically describe quasicrystals. This description also involves the Golden Mean, Fibonacci series, Penrose tiling, self-affinity, 5-fold rotational symmetry, etc.            

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