SMS scnews item created by Hannah Bryant at Thu 8 Feb 2024 1443
Type: Seminar
Modified: Thu 8 Feb 2024 1502
Distribution: World
Expiry: 22 Feb 2024
Calendar1: 22 Feb 2024 1300-1400
CalLoc1: Law Annex Lecture Theatre 026
CalTitle1: SMRI Seminar: Daryl Cooper ’Symmetry, old and new’
Auth: hannahb@w1d4n6z2.staff.sydney.edu.au (hbry8683) in SMS-SAML

SMRI Seminar: Cooper -- Symmetry, old and new

SMRI Seminar:
’Symmetry, old and new’ 
Daryl Cooper (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Thursday 22nd February 
1:00-2:00pm (AEDT)
Law Annex Lecture Theatre 026 & via Zoom 
(register/join: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89772007378)


Abstract: I will discuss symmetry from a combinatorial perspective. Examples include 
wallpaper groups, 4-valent graphs,  regular languages, molecules,  Penrose tilings, 
and geometric 3-manifolds. It turns out that for each of these classes there is a 
finite universal geometric object that encodes all the possibilities. 

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