The Webinar on Decorating a Kitchen with Mathematics took place on Thursday, April 18th, 2024 from 5 pm until 6 pm, with Sebastian Barbieri, Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Santiago of Chile, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker defined Wang tiles and did various exercises in which he asked the audience if we could tile an arbitrarily big kitchen or not given certain tiles. Sebastian Barbieri then introduced the concept of an algorithm, described the Wang question and explained how all this is related to the Turing machine. The speaker also presented the famous Kari tiling, the Robinson tiling and the Jeandel-Rao tiling.
