Congratulations to Matthias Saba for the successful defence of his PhD thesis “Photonic crystals with chirality — Group theory, algorithmic tools and experimental approaches for Gyroid-like photonic material” (see link) in December 2015.
The Bulletin of the German mathematical association ‘Mitteilungen der DMV’ has published an overview piece ‘In a material world: Hyperbolische Geometrie in biologischen Materialien’ by Myfanwy Evans and myself, describing the role of negatively curved interfaces, three-periodic nets and weavings, and more complicated entangled structures. Read more