BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260521T072010EDT-2011V1uux9@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260521T112010Z DESCRIPTION:Title: Order and disorder in tilings and non-tilings\n\nAbstrac t: In tiling theory\, many deep questions arise from the subtle ways that the local information encoded in the boundaries of a set of shapes determi nes the long-range behaviour of the tilings those shapes admit.  I am part icularly interested in three problems in this domain: Heesch's problem\, w hich asks how many times a non-tiler may be surrounded by copies of itself \; the isohedral number problem\, which asks how many transitivity classes a shape may force upon its periodic tilings\; and the (now resolved) eins tein problem\, which asks for a single shape that is forced to tile non-pe riodically.  I will discuss these problems\, some of the mathematical and computational research that has been done to study them\, and their genera lizations to multiple shapes.\n\nVenue: Hybride - PK-5115\, Pavillon Prési dent-Kennedy\, UQAM\n DTSTART:20260522T183000Z DTEND:20260522T193000Z SUMMARY:Craig Kaplan (University of Waterloo) URL:/channels/channels/event/craig-kaplan-university-w aterloo-372983 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR