Flat bands of discrete periodic operators on graphs

Series
Math Physics Seminar
Time
Friday, April 3, 2026 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Ilya Kachkovsiy – Michigan State University – ikachkov@msu.edu
Organizer
Matthew Powell

I will give a brief overview of spectral theory of discrete Schrodinger-type operators on periodic graphs and discuss the recent result (joint with Matthew Faust) on the absence of flat bands for generic potentials.