Uwe Grimm,
in Dynamical and Complex Systems,
LTCC Advanced Mathematics Series volume 5,
edited by Shaun Bullett, Tom Fearn and Frank Smith,
World Scientific Publishing Europe, London (2017) pp. 41-80
Uwe Grimm has been active in this research area since he joined the
Open University in December 2000. Supported by a research grant from
the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, a group of
post-doctoral researchers, research students and visitors joined from
October 2006.
From September 2007 until March 2008, Uwe Grimm spent six months as
a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.
In 2009/2010, Michael Baake will spend several months in the group as
a Leverhulme Visiting Professor.
At the 10th International
Conference on Aperiodic Crystals ICQ10 in Zürich 2008, the
group contributed two talks (SG,UG) and two posters (MH,CH). Manuela
Heuer's and Svenja Glied's participation were supported by IUCr Young
Scientists awards, and Manuela Heuer won a prize for best student
presentation for her poster
Similar sublattices and coincidence rotations of the root lattice
A4 and its dual.
The year 2009 turned out to be a busy year, with Uwe
Grimm co-organising the exhibit
How do shapes fill space? at the
Royal Society Summer
Science Exhibition 2009 as well as the 6th International
Conference on Aperiodic Crystals Aperiodic'09 in Liverpool and a
satellite workshop in Leicester, and presenting invited talks at
meetings in Austria and France in July and October.
Aperiodic'09 was the
first major conference on aperiodic order in the UK and attracted
about 110 participants from a range of disciplines including mathematics,
physics, crystallography and materials science. The remit
of the conference covers two broad areas of research,
incommensurately modulated and composite crystals on the one hand,
and quasicrystals on the other hand, sharing the property that they
are aperiodically ordered solids.
A related EPSRC-supported workshop on Mathematical
Aspects of Aperiodic Order was held in Leicester in the week
preceding the conference, and attracted about 40 participants.
Highlights of the conference included a public lecture "Simple sets
of shapes that tile the plane but cannot ever repeat" by Roger Penrose
and a visit by Alan L. Mackay, bringing together two distinguished UK
scientists who made seminal contributions to the subject.
Two trips to Japan (ICQ11 Sapporo and RIMS workshop, Kyoto) and
Korea (KIAS workshop) were highlights in 2010. The visit to Korea was
supported by a Royal Society International Travel Grant. Uwe's talk
Some comments on a hexagonal monotile at the Korea Institute
of Advanced Study was videotaped; the recording can be viewed
here.
The year 2011 started with an Oberwolfach workshop in January. With
Marjorie Senechal, Uwe co-chaired a microsymposium What is order,
and how can one describe it (What kinds of matter diffract?) at
the International Congress of Crystallography in Madrid in August. At
the congress, Uwe was elected to the Commission on
Aperiodic Crystals of the International Union of
Crystallography. In September and October, invitations to
workshops at BIRS in Banff and at the Fields
Institute in Toronto meant two visits to Canada.
Activities in 2012 included presenting a talk at the
workshop Periodic
orbits in dynamical systems at the Erwin Schrödinger
International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna in May,
organising a session on Geometric complexity in aperiodic order
at Mathematics
of Distances and Applications in Varna in July and — last
but not least — the 7th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals
Aperiodic
2012 in Cairns in September.
2015 saw a visit to the Heinrich-Fabri Institut in Blaubeuren,
where Uwe co-organised a
Workshop
on Spectral Theory of Aperiodic Systems (right), one of the first
meetings that Uwe's PhD student Lax Chan (supervised jointly with Ian Short)
attended. Uwe also presented
invited talks
in Leicester,
Trondheim,
Oberwolfach and
Paris,
and was a member of the International Program Committee of Aperiodic
2015 in Prague.
The year 2019 started with the workshop
Aperiodic
Order meets Number Theory at the MATRIX insitute in Creswick (see
photo on the left), which Uwe had co-organised. Two new PhD students
started in February, Ibai Aedo and Tom Bridge, both co-supervised with
Ian Short. In April, work on the
new EPSRC
grant commenced, with Yasushi Nagai joining the team at the Open
University. In the same month, Uwe presented a talk at a workshop on
Mathematics of
Crystallisation at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.
This was followe3d by a talk at the
14th International
Conference on Quasicrystals in Kranjska Gora in late May, and an invitation to talk at the
Optics
at the Nanoscale meeting in Capri in September. In the summer, Uwe
joined the Editorial Board
of Acta Crystallographica A.
Uwe Grimm has been active in this research area since he joined the Open University in December 2000. Supported by a research grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, a group of post-doctoral researchers, research students and visitors joined from October 2006.
From September 2007 until March 2008, Uwe Grimm spent six months as a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. In 2009/2010, Michael Baake will spend several months in the group as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor.
At the 10th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals ICQ10 in Zürich 2008, the group contributed two talks (SG,UG) and two posters (MH,CH). Manuela Heuer's and Svenja Glied's participation were supported by IUCr Young Scientists awards, and Manuela Heuer won a prize for best student presentation for her poster Similar sublattices and coincidence rotations of the root lattice A4 and its dual.
The year 2009 turned out to be a busy year, with Uwe Grimm co-organising the exhibit How do shapes fill space? at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2009 as well as the 6th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals Aperiodic'09 in Liverpool and a satellite workshop in Leicester, and presenting invited talks at meetings in Austria and France in July and October.
Aperiodic'09 was the first major conference on aperiodic order in the UK and attracted about 110 participants from a range of disciplines including mathematics, physics, crystallography and materials science. The remit of the conference covers two broad areas of research, incommensurately modulated and composite crystals on the one hand, and quasicrystals on the other hand, sharing the property that they are aperiodically ordered solids.
A related EPSRC-supported workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Aperiodic Order was held in Leicester in the week preceding the conference, and attracted about 40 participants.
Highlights of the conference included a public lecture "Simple sets of shapes that tile the plane but cannot ever repeat" by Roger Penrose and a visit by Alan L. Mackay, bringing together two distinguished UK scientists who made seminal contributions to the subject.
Two trips to Japan (ICQ11 Sapporo and RIMS workshop, Kyoto) and Korea (KIAS workshop) were highlights in 2010. The visit to Korea was supported by a Royal Society International Travel Grant. Uwe's talk Some comments on a hexagonal monotile at the Korea Institute of Advanced Study was videotaped; the recording can be viewed here.
The year 2011 started with an Oberwolfach workshop in January. With Marjorie Senechal, Uwe co-chaired a microsymposium What is order, and how can one describe it (What kinds of matter diffract?) at the International Congress of Crystallography in Madrid in August. At the congress, Uwe was elected to the Commission on Aperiodic Crystals of the International Union of Crystallography. In September and October, invitations to workshops at BIRS in Banff and at the Fields Institute in Toronto meant two visits to Canada.
Activities in 2012 included presenting a talk at the workshop Periodic orbits in dynamical systems at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna in May, organising a session on Geometric complexity in aperiodic order at Mathematics of Distances and Applications in Varna in July and — last but not least — the 7th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals Aperiodic 2012 in Cairns in September.
In 2013 Uwe presented a talk at the workshop SubTile 2013 at the CIRM in January, an invited topical talk at the German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting in Regensburg in March and an invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science in Philadelphia in June. At the 12th International Conference on Quasicrystals ICQ12 in Kraków in September, Uwe will gave an invited tutorial. Also, with Michael Baake he finally completed the first volume of their book series on Aperiodic Order, which was available from late August.
In 2014, Uwe presented a couple of invited talks at the AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, and an invited talk at the 23rd Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography in Montréal, where Uwe was elected Chair of the IUCr Commission on Aperiodic Crystals. A highlight was the Mini-Workshop Dynamical versus Diffraction Spectra in the Theory of Quasicrystals at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (left), which was co-organised by Uwe.
2015 saw a visit to the Heinrich-Fabri Institut in Blaubeuren, where Uwe co-organised a Workshop on Spectral Theory of Aperiodic Systems (right), one of the first meetings that Uwe's PhD student Lax Chan (supervised jointly with Ian Short) attended. Uwe also presented invited talks in Leicester, Trondheim, Oberwolfach and Paris, and was a member of the International Program Committee of Aperiodic 2015 in Prague.
The year 2016 brought along a number of workshops and conferences, starting with Dynamical systems for aperiodicity in Lyon in January and a Lorentz Center workshop on Combining Aperiodic Order with Structural Disorder in May/June. Uwe presented talks at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science in Philadelphia in May and at the 13th International Conference on Quasicrystals ICQ13 in Kathmandu in September. On the right you can see him explaining correlations between two points.
2017 was a very busy year with travel to Australia, Germany, USA, India and France. Uwe presented talks at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Snowbird in May, a Lorentz Center workshop on Aperiodic Patterns in Crystals, Numbers and Symbols in June, a Workshop on Aperiodicity and Hierarchical Structures in Tilings in Lyon in September and at the CIRM workshop on Tilings and Recurrence in Luminy in December. In addition, Uwe was a co-organiser of The 29th international conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics FPSAC 2017 in London in July and a member of the international program committee for the XXIV Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography in Hyderabad in August, and attended an Oberwolfach workshop on Spectral Structures and Topological Methods in Mathematical Quasicrystals in October. At the end of the year, volume 2 of the Aperiodic Order book series appeared in print.
In June 2018, Uwe co-organised a workshop Quasicrystals: Pattern Formation and Aperiodic Order, at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. One of the highlights was a public lecture by Sir Roger Penrose, who shared his Thoughts on non-periodic tilings old and new, which was accompanied by an exhibition and talks featuring three artists, Dominic Hopkinson, Shelley James and Richard Henry. Rhciard was also involved in the 2009 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition — see photos below. Other highlights in 2018 include talks at the 9th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals, held in Ames, at a workshop on Model Sets and Aperiodic Order in Durham and at the first Joint Meeting of the Korean Mathematical Society and the German Mathematical Society in Seoul.
The year 2019 started with the workshop Aperiodic Order meets Number Theory at the MATRIX insitute in Creswick (see photo on the left), which Uwe had co-organised. Two new PhD students started in February, Ibai Aedo and Tom Bridge, both co-supervised with Ian Short. In April, work on the new EPSRC grant commenced, with Yasushi Nagai joining the team at the Open University. In the same month, Uwe presented a talk at a workshop on Mathematics of Crystallisation at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. This was followe3d by a talk at the 14th International Conference on Quasicrystals in Kranjska Gora in late May, and an invitation to talk at the Optics at the Nanoscale meeting in Capri in September. In the summer, Uwe joined the Editorial Board of Acta Crystallographica A.