| | | Professor Alastair Rucklidge
~ A Cut-and-Project Approach to Periodic Approximants ~
~ of 12-fold Square-Triangle-Rhombus Aperiodic Tilings ~
The last presentation of the day was in two parts with Alastair Rucklidge electing to go first and set the scene. Petra Staynova would then to take over to explain the joint research the pair were currently engaged with. Alastair began by showing an example of an aperiodic pattern produced by standing waves of two (1998), then three (2006), carefully chosen different frequencies on a oil surface. Tilings were then sought as approximate models, this in itself being a substantial subject and the focus of Merin Joseph's recent (2023) PhD thesis (supervised by Alastair Rucklidge and Daniel Read). Essentially, the long term goal, as in the previous talk, is to be able to develop the expertise to be able to design stable quasicrystals in soft matter.
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