9:00 – 9:45

Welcoming

The Renaissance Banff Conference Scientific Organizing Committee

10:00 – 10:45

The Droste-Effect and the Exponential Transform

Bart de Smit

2:30 – 3:15

Mathematical Analogy and Metaphorical Insight

Jan Zwicky

8:00 – 9:00 pm

The Man Who Saved Geometry

Siobhan Roberts

9:00 – 10:00 pm

Reception

Max Bell Foyer and Lounge

11:00 – 11:20

A Geometric Analysis of the Seven Heavens

B. Lynn Bodner

11:30 – 11:50

Symmetry and the Sacred Date Palm in the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria

Sarah C. Melville

12:00 – 12:20

Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking – An Approach to Understanding Beauty

Carol Bier

11:00 – 11:20

SolidifyingWireframes

Vinod Srinivasan

Esan Mandal

Ergun Akleman

11:30 – 11:50

Abstract Art from a Model for Cellular Morphogenesis

Gary R. Greenfield

12:00 – 12:20

Fermat’s Spiral Mandalas

Robert J. Krawczyk

11:00 – 11:20

Looking at Math: Using Art to Teach Mathematics

Pau Atela

11:30 – 11:50

Pedagogical Principles for Teaching Art in Mathematics Courses

Russell Jay Hendel

12:00 – 12:20

Beauty in Art and Mathematics:

A Common Neural Substrate or the Limits of Language?

Daniel J. Goldstein

3:30 – 3:50

On Parsimonious Sequences as Scales in Western Music

Richard Hermann

Jack Douthett

4:00 – 4:20

The Complexity of the Musical Vocabulary of the Nzakara Harpists

Barbra Gregory

4:30 – 4:50

Detecting Meter in Recorded Music

Joseph E. Flannick

Rachel W. Hall

Robert Kelly

5:00 – 5:20

The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms

Godfried Toussaint

3:30 – 3:50

Some Surprising New Properties of the Spidrons

Dániel Erdély

4:00 – 4:20

Using 3-D Models As Image Generators For Digital Fiction

Michael Mahan

4:30 – 4:50

Digitally Spelunking the Spline Mine

Curtis Palmer

5:00 – 5:20

TSP Art

Craig S. Kaplan

Robert Bosch

3:30 – 3:50

ζ-Irrationality Search: After a Golden Section Approach,

Another Esthetic but Vain Attempt

Dirk Huylebrouck

4:00 – 4:20

Strange Physical Motion of Balls in a Cylinder

Akihiro Matsuura

4:30 – 4:50

Space from Nonspace: Emergent Spatiality in Dynamic Graphs

Tim Boykett

5:00 – 5:20

Dynamics on Discrete Structures: A Dialog between Squares and Circles

Tiziana Giorgi

Robert Smits

11:00 – 12:20

A Method for Illustrating Border and Wallpaper Patterns

Gwen L. Fisher

3:30 – 4:20

Playing Mathematics and Doing Music

John Belcher

4:30 – 5:20

A Physical Proof for Five and Only Five Regular Solids

Robert McDermott

9:00 – 9:45

The Manifold Beauty of Piano-hinged Dissections

Greg N. Frederickson

10:00 – 10:45

Geometrical, Perceptual, and Cultural Perspectives on Figure/Ground Differences in Bakuba Pattern

Donald W. Crowe

Dorothy K. Washburn

2:30 – 3:15

Alice Boner and the Geometry of Temple Cave Art of India

Robert V. Moody

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Delicious Rivers

Ellen Maddow

and friends

11:00 – 11:20

Spiral Tilings with C-curves Using Combinatorics to Augment Tradition

Chris K. Palmer

11:30 – 11:50

Aliasing Artifacts and Accidental Algorithmic Art

Craig S. Kaplan

12:00 – 12:20

Meanders

Paul Gailiunas

11:00 – 11:20

Symmetry, Proportion and Scale: Tools for the Jacquard Designer and Weaver of Silk Velvet

Barbara Setsu Pickett

11:30 – 11:50

Tessellations from Group Actions and the Mystery of Escher’s Solid

Ioana Mihaila

12:00 – 12:20

Fairfield Porter’s Secret Geometry

Chris Bartlett

11:00 – 11:20

Aesthetic Aspects of Venn Diagrams

Barry Cipra

Peter Hamburger

Edit Hepp

11:30 – 11:50

D-Forms and developable surfaces

John Sharp

12:00 – 12:20

An Introduction to the Golden Tangram and its Tiling Properties

Stanley Spencer

3:30 – 3:50

Mathematical Measures of Syncopation

F. Gómez

A. Melvin

D. Rappaport

G. T. Toussaint

4:00 – 4:20

The Harmony of the World

Christopher Arthur

4:30 – 4:50

Geometry and Harmony

David Rappaport

5:00 – 5:20

Circular Distributions and Spectra Variations in Music

How Even Is Even?

Richard J. Krantz

Jack Douthett

3:30 – 3:50

An Approach in Coloring Semi-Regular Tilings on the Hyperbolic Plane

Ma. Louise Antonette N. De Las Peñas

Glenn R. Laigo

René P. Felix

4:00 – 4:20

Anamorphosis.com: Computers, Mathematics and Art

Phillip Kent

4:30 – 4:50

A Perspective on Infinity: Anamorphism and Stereographic Projection

Michael Frantz

5:00 – 5:20

(Vector) Fields of Mathematical Poetry

Carla Farsi

3:30 – 3:50

Splitting Tori, Knots, and Moebius Bands, Part I

Carlo H. Séquin

4:00 – 4:20

Splitting Tori, Knots, and Moebius Bands, Part II

Carlo H. Séquin

4:30 – 4:50

An Interdisciplinary Course:On Beauty: Perspective, Proportion, and Rationalism in Western Culture

Alison Fleming

Sharon Frechette

Sarah Luria

5:00 – 5:20

Symmetries and Design Science: Two Graduate Courses for a Mathematics Education Program

Reza Sarhangi

Jay Zimmerman

11:00 – 12:20

Paper Polylinks

George W. Hart

3:30 – 4:20

A Thousand Cranes and Statistics

Cheryl Whitelaw

4:30 – 5:20

Tessellation Techniques

Stefanie Mandelbaum Jacqueline S. Guttman

9:00 – 9:45

Three-Dimensional and Dynamic Constructions Based on Leonardo Grids

Rinus Roelofs

10:00 – 10:45

Malekula Sand Tracings: A Case in Ethnomathematics

Marcia Ascher

1:50 – 7:00

Excursion

BBQ at the patio of the Donald Cameron Building to follow

Robert Moody

11:00 – 11:20

Recursion in Nature, Mathematics and Art

Anne M. Burns

11:30 – 11:50

Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices

Jay Kappraff,

Slavik Jablan

Gary Adamson

Radmila Sazdanovich

12:00 – 12:20

Video Screening

Jinnah Yu

Ergun Akleman

11:00 – 11:20

Mathematical Models of Gothic Structures

Javier Barrallo

Santiago Sanchez-Beitia

11:30 – 11:50

Wisdom in Art: Mathematics in Islamic Architecture in Iran

Hourieh Mashayekh

12:00 – 12:20

Aspects of Symmetry in Arpachiyah Pottery

Duncan J. Melville

11:00 – 11:20

A Ukrainian Easter Egg Monument Stands for Thirty Years

Robert McDermott

11:30 – 11:50

NAMAN: Dream Altars, Vietnam

Michael McConnell

Jim Rose

12:00 – 12:20

Generative Art and Aesthetics

Susan Happersett

11:00 – 12:20

Connecting Gross-motor Movement, Dance, and Mathematics in the Elementary Curriculum

Virginia Usnick

Marilyn Sue Ford

9:00 – 9:30

Welcoming

Edgar Coxeter

The Coxeter Day Organizers

9:30 – 10:15

Coxetering Crystals

Marjorie Senechal

2:30 – 3:15

Symmetrical Hamiltonian Manifolds on Regular 3D and 4D Polytopes

Carlo H. Séquin

3:30 – 4:15

Some New Tilings of the Sphere with Congruent Triangles

Robert J. MacG. Dawson

4:30 – 5:15

Coxeter and the Artists: Two-Way Inspiration

Doris Schattschneider

5:20 – 5:30

The Next Gathering

An Announcement

John Sharp

Phillip Kent

7:30 – 8:30

A reception by the PIMS and BIRS in honor of Robert Moody’s retirement

Nassif Ghoussoub

8:30 – 10:00

Musical Evening

David Fulmer and friends

10:30 – 11:00

Fractal Tilings Based on Dissections of Polyhexes

Robert W. Fathauer

11:15 – 11:45

Polyhedral Transformation: Explosion-Implosion

Robert McDermott

12:00 – 12:30

Symmetric Linear Constructions in Motion

Douglas G. Burkholder

10:30 – 11:00

Factor Group Transformations on Escher Patterns

Joshua Jacobs

11:15 – 11:45

Two Results Concerning the Zome Model of the 600-Cell

David A. Richter

12:00 – 12:30

H.S.M. Coxeter and Tony Bomford’s Colored Hyperbolic Rugs

Douglas Dunham

10:30 – 11:00

Mosaic Art: from Pebbles to Pixels

Irene Rousseau

11:15 – 11:45

Orderly Tangles Revisited

George W. Hart

12:00 – 12:30

Serial Polar Transformation Motifs Revisited

Gary R. Greenfield

11:00 – 12:20

Dynamic Geometry/Art in Mathematics Classroom

Mara Alagic

Diana Palenz

8:00 – 10:00

Donald Coxeter: The Man who Saved Geometry

Siobhan Roberts

8:00 – 10:00

Delicious Rivers

Ellen Maddow

and friends

1:50 – 7:00

Visiting Lake Louise and More

BBQ at the patio of the Donald Cameron Building to follow

Robert Moody

7:30 – 10:00

The Last Gathering

David Fulmer and friends