Fall term 2025
Tilings and Patterns
The first midterm is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd at 9:00-12:00 (room M2). This is also the final exam of the 5 ects course. Material includes everything in Part 1 of the lecture notes (up to Section 5 on page 61).
Next lectures are after the exam. Program of the week 27.10.-31.10. (all classes in room M1):
- Lecture on Wednesday Oct 29 at 12:15-14:00
- Lecture on Thursday Oct 30 at 10:15-12:00
Some slides (pdf, best viewed in full screen mode):
- General introduction to some topics of the course (mostly symmetries)
- Plane isometries are compositions of at most three reflections
- Frieze group examples
- Deriving the 17 wallpaper groups
- Flowchart to determine wallpaper groups
- Robinson’s aperiodic Wang tile set
- An aperiodic Wang tile set of 14 tiles
Lecture Notes (pdf):
Lecture Slides (pdf):
- Lecture Tuesday 9.9.2025
- Lecture Thursday 11.9.2025
- Lecture Tuesday 16.9.2025
- Lecture Wednesday 17.9.2025
- Lecture Thursday 18.9.2025
- Lecture Tuesday 23.9.2025
- Lecture Tuesday 30.9.2025
- Lecture Thursday 2.10.2025
- Lecture Tuesday 7.10.2025
- Lecture Tuesday 14.10.2025
Homework Assignments (pdf):
- Homework 1 (15.9.2025)
- Homework 2 (22.9.2025)
- Homework 3 (29.9.2025)
- Homework 4 (6.10.2025)
- Homework 5 (13.10.2025)
- Homework 6 (16.10.2025)
- Homework 7 (3.11.2025)