2015 Program
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- 2015 Bridges Baltimore: Full Program (14 pages)
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| REGISTRATION: July 28, 2015, 4pm – 6pm and July 29, 2015, 8:00am – 9:30am |
| Wednesday July 29, 2015 | |
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| UB Moot Court Morning 9:30am – 12:00pm SESSION 1 (Plenary) Chair: Kelly Delp | |
| 9:30 | Bridges Baltimore 2015 Organizing Committee Welcoming Remarks (No registration during this time) UB Administrations and Bridges Board |
| 10:00 | The Arts of the Hidden Alan Kay |
| 11:00 | Highly Unlikely Triangles and Other Impossible Figures in Bead Weaving Gwen Fisher |
| 2015 Art Exhibition Opening 12:00pm – 12:30pm (JMA Reception) – Outside Moot Court Lobby | |
| UB Room 1 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 2 (Regular) Chair: Tom Verhoeff | |
| 2:00 | Symmetric yet organic: Fourier Series as an Artist's Tool (JMA Invited Speaker) Frank Farris |
| 2:30 | Figurative Tours and Braids Robert Bosch and Tom Wexler |
| 3:00 | Three Families of Mitered Borromean Ring Sculptures Tom Verhoeff and Koos Verhoeff |
| UB Room 2 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 3 (Regular) Chair: Donald Spector | |
| 2:00 | Designing 2D Ordinary Differential Equations To Obtain Abstract Paintings, Illustrations... Ergun Akleman and Huseyin Kocak |
| 2:30 | A View of Music Ellen Gethner, Shannon Steinmetz and Joseph Verbeke |
| 3:00 | The Musical Canon Inside Differential Equations Donald Spector |
| UB Room 3 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 4 (Short) Chair: Kenneth Brecher | |
| 2:00 | Gallery Layout in Borges' Library of Babel Jonathan Millen |
| 2:15 | Theory of Intersection Karl Kattchee |
| 2:30 | Schematic Drawings of the Polychora Taneli Luotoniemi |
| 2:45 | Perspectives on Borges' Library of Babel Cj Fearnley and Jeannie Moberly |
| 3:00 | Design Anamorphosis in the Math Class! Kristóf Fenyvesi and Markus Hähkiöniemi |
| 3:15 | The "ΦTOP": A Golden Ellipsoid Kenneth Brecher |
| UB Room 4 – 5 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 5 (Workshop) | |
| 2:00 | (Room 4) Mathematics Through the Lens of a Kaleidoscope A Student Centered Approach to Building Bridges between Mathematics and Art Gail Kaplan, Rachael Gross and Kim McComas |
| 2:00 | (Room 5) Math-Infused Art Lessons, Art-Infused Math Lessons Rachelle Guernsey |
| Coffee Break 3:30pm – 4:00pm | |
| UB Room 1 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 6 (Regular) Chair: James Mallos | |
| 4:00 | Great circles: the analysis of a concept in mathematics and poetry Emily Groscholz |
| 4:30 | 3D-Dithered Ortho-Pictures: 3D Models from Independent 2D Images Gershon Elber |
| 5:00 | Knotology Baskets and Topological Maps James Mallos |
| UB Room 2 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 7 (Regular) Chair: Stanley Spencer | |
| 4:00 | Magnetic Circle Packing in Creative Outreach and Refreshment Robin Linhope Willson |
| 4:30 | Integrating Origami Art with Mathematics in a College General Studies Course Norma Boakes |
| 5:00 | The Stomachion in Wonderland Stanley Spencer |
| UB Room 3 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 8 (Short) Chair: Susan Mcburney | |
| 4:00 | Flowing, Organic Forms Using Adaptive Line-Drawing David Chappell |
| 4:15 | Building Polyhedra from Polygons with Colored Edges Mircea Draghicescu and Anca Browne |
| 4:30 | A Pattern Tracing System for Generating Paper Sliceform Artwork Yongquan Lu and Erik D. Demaine |
| 4:45 | Geometric Visual Instruments Having Pinnate Forms Shunsuke Akimoto and Akihiro Matsuura |
| 5:00 | Chains of Antiprisms Tom Verhoeff and Melle Stoel |
| 5:15 | From Mathematical Curves to Decorative Ornaments Susan McBurney |
| UB Room 4 – 5 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 9 (Workshop) | |
| 4:00 | (Room 4) Composing Mathematical Poetry Carol Dorf |
| 4:00 | (Room 5) Thinking like a Pianist/Mathematician/Potter-Designer: Strategies for Tuning Ocarinas Elizabeth Paley |
| Reception 6:00pm – 7:00pm | |
| The Mathematics of Being Human Sponsored by Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Wednesday July 29, 2015 at 7:00pm The Wright Theater The University of Baltimore |
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| Thursday July 30, 2015 | |
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| UB Room 1 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 10 (Regular) Chair: Paul Gailiunas | |
| 9:30 | The Curious Creativity of John Horton Conway Siobhan Roberts |
| 10:00 | The Golden Spiral: The Genesis of a Misunderstanding Paul Gailiunas |
| 10:30 | A Divine Error Dirk Huylebrouck |
| UB Room 2 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 11 (Regular) Chair: Emily Grosholz | |
| 9:30 | Can Human Assistance Improve a Computational Poet? Carolyn Lamb, Daniel Brown and Charles Clarke |
| 10:00 | Poetry from Finite Projective Planes Daniel May and Courtney Huse Wika. Galaxies Containing Infinite Worlds |
| 10:30 | Julia Randall's Poetic Finitude: Mapping the Infinite onto a Poem Emily Grosholz |
| UB Room 3 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 12 (Short) Chair: Patrick Honner | |
| 9:30 | Turing Patterns in Photoshop Andrew Werth |
| 9:45 | Emergent Orange Jim Bumgardner |
| 10:00 | Two-Frame Animations in Conway's Game of Life Robert Bosch |
| 10:15 | Exploring the Manifold of Image Patches Yevgen Matviychuk and Shannon M. Hughes |
| 10:30 | Into the Shadows: Approximating Images by Orthogonal Projection Kelly Delp and Sam Lloyd |
| 10:45 | Monte Carlo Art in Scratch Patrick Honner |
| UB Room 4 – 5 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 13 (Workshop) | |
| 9:30 | (Room 4) The Aesthetics of Scale: Weaving Mathematical Understandings Eva Knoll, Wendy Landry, Tara Taylor, Paul Carreiro and Susan Gerofsky |
| 9:30 | (Room 5) Lissajus Curves: an Experiment in Creative Coding Lali Barrière |
| Coffee Break 11:00am – 11:30am | |
| UB Moot Court Morning 11:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 14 (Plenary) Chair: Carlo H. Séquin | |
| 11:30 | The Symmetries of Things John H. Conway |
| Lunch Break 12:30pm – 2:00pm | |
| UB Room 1 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 15 (Regular) Chair: James Mai | |
| 2:00 | Math Bugs Mike Naylor |
| 2:30 | Fun with Whirls Kerry Mitchell |
| 3:00 | Permutations of the Octagon: An Aesthetic-Mathematical Dialectic James Mai |
| UB Room 2 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 16 (Regular) Chair: Ergun Akleman | |
| 2:00 | "In an Ocean of Ashes": Order and Chaos in Mathematics and Literature Katharine Ahrens |
| 2:30 | Ordinal-Contextual Dissimilarity for Analysis of Heroes in Tragedies Bahman Afsari, Katayun Mazdapour and Bruno Jedynak |
| 3:00 | A Theoretical Framework to Represent Narrative Structures for Visual Storytelling Ergun Akleman, Stefano Franchi, Devkan Kaleci, Laura Mandell, Takashi Yamauchi & Derya Akleman |
| UB Room 3 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 17 (Short) Chair: Rachel Hall | |
| 2:00 | Introducing the Möbius-Twisted Turk's Head Knot Carlo H. Séquin and Lorenzo Larrucea |
| 2:15 | Hypernom: Mapping VR Headset Orientation to S^3 Vi Hart, Andrea Hawksley, Henry Segerman and Marc ten Bosch |
| 2:30 | Large, Symmetric, "7-Around" Hyperbolic Disks Sean Liu, Young Kim, Raymond Shiau and Carlo H. Séquin |
| 2:45 | Infinite Rhythmic Tiling Canons Clifton Callender |
| 3:00 | A Musical Scale Generated from the Ratio of Consecutive Primes Reginald Bain |
| 3:15 | Programmable Mathe-Musical Boxes Rachel Hall |
| UB Room 4 – 5 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 18 (Workshop) | |
| 2:00 | (Room 4) Square Seeds and Round Paths: Exploring Patterns within the Art of Classical Labyrinths David Thompson and Diana Cheng |
| 2:00 | (Room 5) Hearing Math and Seeing Music: a Workshop on Pitch Perception and Temperament Evelyn Lamb (participants are encouraged to bring their own headphones) |
| UB Room 6 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm OPEN SESSION Chair: JoAnne Growney | |
| 2:00 | An Open Session in Poetry An informal gathering for poets to read to each other and talk about their work |
| Coffee Break 3:30pm – 4:00pm | |
| UB Room 1 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 19 (Regular) Chair: Darrah Chavey | |
| 4:00 | Curved Islamic Star Patterns of Medieval Egypt and Syria B Lynn Bodner |
| 4:30 | The Geometric Studies of Some Mosaic Design Compositions and Puzzles... Reza Sarhangi |
| 5:00 | Double Strip Patterns: Between Strip Patterns and Wallpaper Patterns Darrah Chavey, Monica Menzies Meissen, Todd O'Bryan and Glenn Terry |
| UB Room 2 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 20 (Regular) Chair: Karl Schaffer | |
| 4:00 | Nonplanar Expansions of Polyhedral Edges in Platonic and Archimedean Solids David Reimann |
| 4:30 | The Platonic Solids: a Three-Dimensional Textbook Martin Levin |
| 5:00 | A Skeleton Key for the Platonic Solids Karl Schaffer |
| UB Room 3 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 21 (Short) Chair: Kazmier Maslanka | |
| 4:00 | The Shapes of Our Souls and Other Student Concerns: Poems about the Course "Mathematics in Literature" Marion Cohen |
| 4:15 | Visualizing Rhyme Patterns in Sonnet Sequences Hartmut F. W. Höft |
| 4:30 | Inspire Math-Girls-Women (perhaps with poems) Jo Anne Growney |
| 4:45 | The Geometric Structure of Scribal Variation among Manuscripts of Langland's Piers Plowman Roger Bilisoly |
| 5:00 | Linguistic Oddities: An Artist Explorer at Mathematics Conferences Katie McCallum |
| 5:15 | The Paradigm Poem Kazmier Maslanka |
| UB Room 4 – 5 Afternoon 4:00pm – 5:30pm SESSION 22 (Workshop) | |
| 4:00 | (Room 4) Exploring Ratios and Sequences with Mathematically Layered Beverages Andrea Hawksley |
| 4:00 | (Room 5) The Shape Snacker: a Bite of Origami and Math Alan Russell |
| Friday July 31, 2015 | |
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| UB Room 1 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 23 (Regular) Chair: Douglas Dunham | |
| 9:30 | Real-World Tessellations Robert Fathauer |
| 10:00 | Soccer Ball Symmetry David Swart |
| 10:30 | Fractal Wallpaper Patterns Douglas Dunham and John Shier |
| UB Room 2 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 24 (Regular) Chair: Briony Thomas | |
| 9:30 | Folding Pseudo-Stars that are Cyclicly Hinged Greg Frederickson |
| 10:00 | Yvon-Villarceau Circles Equivalents on Dupin Cyclides Francesco De Comite |
| 10:30 | Nested Polytopes with Non-crystallographic Symmetry induced by Projection Briony Thomas, Reidun Twarock, Motiejus Valiunas and Emilio Zappa |
| UB Room 3 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 25 (Short) Chair: Samuel Verbiese | |
| 9:30 | Fractal Tiling Illustrations of Geometric Series Lorelei Koss |
| 9:45 | A Concept Map for Book 1 of Euclid's Elements Alexander Boxer and Justace Clutter |
| 10:00 | Graph Theoretic Descriptions of Psalm Literary Structure Russell Jay Hendel |
| 10:15 | A Successful Belgian Art & Math Exhibition with Workshops De Meur and Samuel Verbiese |
| 10:30 | Geometry in the Pocket Mehrdad Garousi |
| 10:45 | Bridges Exhibits as Incentives to Collaborative Artworks Anusch Bayens, Carlo De Pauw, Carmen Geens, Seniz Karaman, Mark Pieters, André Thomas, Alex Van Bogaert, Samuel Verbiese, Rudi Willaert and Nico Willemsens |
| UB Room 4 – 5 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 26 (Workshop) | |
| 9:30 | (Room 4) A Workshop Using the Log Cabin Quilt For Teaching Math Concepts and Patterns Cristina Packard |
| 9:30 | (Room 5) Use of RangoLee Art in Elementary Mathematics Education Madhuri Bapat |
| Coffee Break 11:00am – 11:30am | |
| UB Moot Court Morning 11:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 27 (Plenary) Chair: Carlo H. Séquin | |
| 11:30 | Math Helping Art Conservation Ingrid Daubechies |
| Coffee and Lunch Break 12:30pm – 2:00pm | |
| UB Room 3 Midday 2:00pm – 3:30pm SESSION 28 (Short) Chair: Adam Arstall | |
| 2:00 | An Exhibition of Exponential Sums: Visualizing Supercharacters Paula Burkhardt, Gabriel Currier, Stephan Ramon Garcia, Mathieu de Langis, Bob Lutz, Hong Suh |
| 2:15 | Surfaces with Natural Ridges David Brander and Steen Markvorsen |
| 2:30 | A New Way to See Inside Black Holes Richard Henry, James Overduin and Kielan Wilcomb |
| 2:45 | Katzengold: Pyrite, Plato, and a Polynomial Stephan Klaus and Bianca Violet |
| 3:00 | Cayley Cubic and the Visual Arts Jean Constant |
| 3:15 | Expandohedra: Modeling Structural Transitions of a Viral Capsid Adam Arstall, Briony Thomas, Reidun Twarock and Emilio Zappa |
| Bridges Baltimore Family Day Chair: Kristóf Fenyvesi | |
| UB Room 4 – 7 Midday 2:00pm – 3:15pm SESSION 29 (Family Day Workshop) | |
| 2:00 | (Room 4) Elevations – Stellations Rinus Roelofs, Helen Yu, and Marion Roelofs |
| 2:00 | (Room 5) Riddles and Jokes Marion Deutsche Cohen |
| 2:00 | (Room 6) Block Workshop John Hiigli |
| 2:00 | (Room 7) The Story of the WOW Calendar Doug and Aynn Titchenal |
| Coffee Break 3:30pm – 4:00pm | |
| UB Room 4 – 7 Afternoon 3:15pm – 4:30pm SESSION 30 (Family Day Workshop) | |
| 3:15 | (Room 4) Spherical models inspired by Fr. Magnus Wenninger Joseph Clinton |
| 3:15 | (Room 5) Make Geometric Art with ITSPHUN Mircea Draghicescu |
| 3:15 | (Room 6) Make Your Own MP3 with "Algorhythmic" Generation and Aksak-Euclidean Synthesis Mehmet Vurkaç (for this workshop you need to bring your laptop) |
| 3:15 | (Room 7) String Art in Mathematical Education Radmilla Radojevic and Branislava Jakovljevic |
| UB Room 4 – 6 Late Afternoon 4:30pm – 5:45pm SESSION 31 (Family Day Workshop) | |
| 4:30 | (Room 4) Experience Workshop Introduces 4Dframe, Jomili and Saxon’s Polyuniverse Kristóf Fenyves |
| 4:30 | (Room 5) Make Geometric Art with ITSPHUN Mircea Draghicescu |
| 4:30 | (Room 6) Imaginary Mathematics Jean Constant and Bianca Violet (for this workshop you need to bring your laptop) |
| Moot Hall Afternoon 2:00pm – 7:00pm Family Day Shows | |
| 2:00 | Robert Bosch Bridges 2015 Short Movie Festival |
| 3:30 | Sarah Glaz An Afternoon of Mathematical Poetry |
| 5:30 | Robert Bosch Bridges 2015 Short Movie Festival |
| The Wright Theater Afternoon 2:00pm – 9:00pm Family Day Shows | |
| 2:00 | Karl Schaffer, Saki, and Laurel Shastri Math and Dance |
| 2:30 | Tim and Tanya Chartier Mime-Matics |
| 3:30 | Steve Abbott Mathematical Theater |
| 5:30 | Karl Schaffer, Saki, and Laurel Shastri Math and Dance |
| 6:00 | Tim and Tanya Chartier Mime-Matics |
| 7:00 | Vi Hart Music Night |
| Saturday August 1, 2015 | |
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| UB Room 1 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 32 (Regular) Chair: Christopher Carlson | |
| 9:30 | Self-Avoiding Random Walks Yielding Labyrinths Gary Greenfield |
| 10:00 | A Novel Line Fractal Pied de Poule (Houndstooth) Loe Feijs and Marina Toeters |
| 10:30 | Algorithmic Quilting Christopher Carlson, Nina Paley, and Theodore Gray |
| UB Room 2 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 33 (Regular, JMA) Chair: Craig S. Kaplan | |
| 9:30 | Can zombies write mathematical poetry? Mathematical poetry as a model for humanistic mathematics Gizem Karaali |
| 10:00 | Barbers and big ideas: paradox in math and poetry Alice Major |
| UB Room 3 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 34 (Short) Chair: Douglas G Burkholder | |
| 9:30 | 3D Lenticular Imaging for Art Yitzhak Weissman |
| 9:45 | Nature as a Strategy for Pattern Formation in Art Irene Rousseau |
| 10:00 | Eight-Pointed Star and Precise Construction of 7x7 Square Grid Dmitri Kozlov |
| 10:15 | Algorithms for Morphing Escher-Like Tessellations Kevin Lee |
| 10:30 | Random Walks on Vertices of Archimedean Tilings Vincent J. Matsko |
| 10:45 | Unexpected Beauty Hidden in Radin-Conway's Pinwheel Tiling Douglas G Burkholder |
| UB Room 4 – 5 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 35 (Workshop) | |
| 9:30 | (Room 4) Unit Origami: Star-Building on Deltahedra Heidi Burgiel |
| 9:30 | (Room 5) Connecting with the Sierpinski Tetrahedron Alice Petillo |
| Coffee Break 11:00am – 11:30am | |
| UB Moot Court Morning 11:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 36 (Plenary) Chair: Kelly Delp | |
| 11:30 | Modular Origami Halftoning: Theme and Variations Zhifu Xiao, Robert Bosch, Craig Kaplan and Robert Lang |
| Lunch Break 12:30pm – 2:00pm | |
| UB Moot Court Midday 2:00pm – 4:00pm SESSION 37 (Regular) Chair: Carlo H. Séquin | |
| 2:00 | The Concept of Elevation applied to Flat Tiling Patterns Rinus Roelofs |
| 2:30 | Laser-Cut Plywood and Cable-Tie Sculpture George Hart |
| 3:00 | 2-Manifold Sculptures Carlo H. Séquin |
| 2:00 | Bridges Finland 2016 Osmo Pekonen and Kristóf Fenyvesi |
| Coffee Break 4:00pm – 4:30pm | |