Are quasicrystal almost periodic patterns?


Yves Meyer,


(ENS de Cachan, Académie des Sciences)


Jueves 17 de noviembre 2011



The Nobel prize in Chemistry 2011 was awarded to Dan Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals". We will first admire a few quasicrystals and then raise a fundamental issue: "Are quasicrystal almost periodic patterns?" Almost periodicity needs to be defined properly and the answer is left as a surprise.