2016 Program
Overall Schedule
Tuesday, August 9
- Morning: Plenary session and Mathematical Art Exhibition reception
- Afternoon: Parallel sessions
- Evening: City reception at Jyväskylä City Hall
Wednesday, August 10
- Morning: Parallel sessions and plenary session
- Afternoon: Parallel sessions
- Evening: Public Lecture
Thursday, August 11
- Morning: Plenary session (Finnish Day)
- Afternoon: Parallel sessions
Friday, August 12
- Morning: Parallel sessions and plenary session
- Afternoon: Public Day - Fun workshops, Movie Festival, Poetry Afternoon
- Evening: Informal Music Night
Saturday, August 13
- Morning & Afternoon: Excursion Day
- Evening: Music Night
Detailed Schedule
Printable versions:
- 2016 Bridges Finland: Full Program (20 pages)
- 2016 Bridges Finland: Abridged Program (4 pages)
- University of Jyväskylä, Campus Map (2 pages)
JYU REGISTRATION: August 8, 2016, 10am – 6pm and August 9, 2016, 8:00am – 9:30am |
Tuesday August 9, 2016 | |
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JYU Aud 1 9:30am – 10:20am Welcome Remarks and the Reza Sarhangi Memorial | |
Break 10:20am – 10:30am | |
JYU Aud 1 Morning 10:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 1 (Plenary) Chair: Eve Torrence | |
10:30 | The Subtlety of Influence Math, Art, and Black Mountain College Marjorie Wikler Senechal |
11:30 | Squares that Look Round: Transforming Spherical Images Saul Schleimer and Henry Segerman |
2016 Art Exhibition Opening 12:30pm – 1:00pm (Lea Pulkkinen Hall) Lunch Break 1:00pm – 2:30pm |
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JYU Room 2 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 2 (Regular) Chair: Carlo H. Séquin | |
2:30 | The Elevation of Coxeter’s Infinite Regular Polyhedron 444444 Rinus Roelofs |
3:00 | Hypocycloid Juggling Patterns Craig S. Kaplan |
3:30 | From Klein Bottles to Modular Super-Bottles Carlo H. Séquin |
JYU Room 3 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 3 (Regular) Chair: Donald Spector | |
2:30 | Geometric Circles in Aleksis Kivi's Texts Tiina Katriina Kukkonen |
3:00 | The Rhythm of a Pattern Sama Mara |
3:30 | Colors and Incomputability Donald Spector |
JYU Room 4 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 4 (Short) Chair: Kenneth Brecher | |
2:30 | Possibilities of the Parabola Robyn Gibson and Melissa Silk |
2:45 | A Fast Algorithm for Creating Turing-McCabe Patterns Markus Schwehm |
3:00 | Three-Dimensional Score: Seeing Music, Hearing Sculpture Miika Karttunen and Atte Tenkanen |
3:15 | The “Dual Nature” of the Point János Szász Saxon |
3:30 | Mathematics Meets Cinema: La Figure de la Terre Osmo Pekonen and Axel Straschnoy |
3:45 | Polyhedral Tableaux Kenneth Brecher |
JYU Room 5/6 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 5 (Workshop) | |
2:30 | (Room 5) Mathematics Through the Matrix of Poetry Tom Petsinis |
2:30 | (Room 6) Elliptic Paraboloids in Circumpolar Vernacular Architecture Nancy Mackin |
Coffee Break 4:00pm – 4:30pm | |
JYU Room 2 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 6 (Regular) Chair: Tom Verhoeff | |
4:30 | A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the Analysis of Contra Dances Matthew Thomas and Crystal Peebles |
5:00 | Planes and Frames: Spatial Layering in Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square Paintings James Mai |
5:30 | Three Mathematical Sculptures for the Mathematikons Tom Verhoeff and Koos Verhoeff |
JYU Room 3 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 7 (Regular) Chair: Gary R. Greenfield | |
4:30 | Tuti Weaving Abdalla G. M. Ahmed and Oliver Deussen |
5:00 | Modeling Braids, Cables, and Weaves with Stranded Cellular Automata Joshua Holden and Lana Holden |
5:30 | Turing-like Patterns from Cellular Automata Gary R. Greenfield |
JYU Room 4 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 8 (Short) Chair: Nikita Mamedov | |
4:30 | Teaching and Learning Basic Group Theory Through Building Models of Polyhedra Sviatoslav Archava, Leela Goel and Erin Traister |
4:45 | Molecular Modeling of Four-Connected Zeolite Frameworks with Mathematical Beading Chia-Chin Tsoo and Bih-Yaw Jin |
5:00 | A Zometool Model of the B-DNA László Vörös |
5:15 | Phylogenetic Analysis of the Ancient Greek Paeonic Rhythms Godfried T. Toussaint |
5:30 | A Musical Polyhedron Updated for the 21st Century Cathleen O'Neil |
5:45 | Prelude Op. 11, No. 1 by A. Scriabin: ICVSIM Relations Nikita Mamedov and Robert Peck |
JYU CLab1/Room 5 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 9 Workshop | |
4:30 | (CLab1) Exploring the Arts Online with the Wolfram Language Christopher Carlson |
4:30 | (Room 5) Rhombic Triacontahedron Puzzle George Hart and Elisabeth Heathfield |
Welcome Reception 7:00pm – 8:30pm |
Wednesday August 10, 2016 | |
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JYU Room 2 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 10 (Regular) Chair: Douglas M. McKenna | |
9:30 | Hex Rosa Markus Rissanen |
10:00 | From Checkerboard to Cloverfield: Using Wang Tiles in Seamless Non-Periodic Patterns Tuomas Nurmi |
10:30 | Tendril Motifs for Space-Filling, Half-Domino Curves Douglas M. McKenna |
JYU Room 3 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 11 (Regular) Chair: Jay Zimmerman | |
9:30 | The Conformal Hyperbolic Square and Its Ilk Chamberlain Fong |
10:00 | Almada Negreiros and the Geometric Canon Simão Palmeirim Costa and Pedro J. Freitas |
10:30 | Portraits of Groups on Bordered Surfaces Jay Zimmerman |
JYU Room 4 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 12 (Short) Chair: Samuel Verbiese | |
9:30 | Scales and Temperament from the Mathematical Viewpoint Steven A. Bleiler and Ewan Kummel |
9:45 | Constructing Meaning Through Making and Creating Gail Tang and Alan Tollefson |
10:00 | Two Non-Octave Tunings by Heinz Bohlen: A Practical Proposal Reilly Smethurst |
10:15 | The Pentagonal Numbers Meet the Choose-4 Numbers James Morrow |
10:30 | Off the Wall: A Brief Report Charlene Morrow |
10:45 | Bridges as an Incentive to Collaborative Works II Anusch Bayens, Carlo De Pauw, Carmen Geens, Mark Pieters, André Thomas, Alex Van Bogaert, Samuel Verbiese and Nico Willemsens |
JYU Room 5/CLab1 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 13 (Workshop) | |
9:30 | (Room 5) Origami as a Tool for Exploring Properties of Platonic Solids Natalija Budinski |
9:30 | (CLab1) Spinning Arms in Motion: Exploring Mathematics within the Art of Figure Skating Tetyana Berezovski, Diana Cheng and Rachel Damiano |
Coffee Break 11:00am – 11:30am | |
JYU Aud 1 Morning 11:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 14 (Plenary) Chair: Bruce Torrence | |
11:30 | Immersion in Mathematics Judy Holdener |
Coffee and Lunch Break 12:30pm – 2:30pm JMA Board meeting |
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JYU Room 2 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 15 (Regular) Chair: Craig Kaplan | |
2:30 | The Size and Shape of Utopia Andrew Simoson |
3:00 | Geometry and Aesthetics of Pentagonal Structures in the Art of Gerard Caris Cornelie Leopold |
3:30 | Combinatorial Poppies Karl Kattchee and Craig Kaplan |
JYU Room 3 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 16 (Regular) Chair: Dan G. Brown | |
2:30 | A Mathematical Approach to Obtain Isoperimetric Shapes for D-Form Construction Ramon Roel Orduño, Nicholas Winard, Steven Bierwagen, Dylan Shell, Negar Kalantar, Alireza Borhani and Ergun Akleman |
3:00 | A Taxonomy of Generative Poetry Techniques Carolyn Lamb, Dan G. Brown and Charlie L.A. Clarke |
JYU Room 4 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 17 (Short) Chair: Sharol Nau | |
2:30 | The Fourth Dimension in Mathematics and Art Jean Constant |
2:45 | The Golden Ratio and the Diagonal of the Square Gabriele Gelatti |
3:00 | Blogging Math Art CSusan Happersett |
3:15 | A Successful Art&Math Exhibition with Workshops II Gisèle De Meur and Samuel Verbiese |
3:30 | The Math and Art of Folded Books Sharol Nau and Richard Nau |
JYU CLab1/Room 5 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 18 (Workshop) | |
2:30 | (CLab1) Legerdemain: Exploring Tessellation with CatsEye Douglas Easterly |
2:30 | (Room 5) (Pattern)² Liz Shreeve and Melissa Silk |
Coffee Break 4:00pm – 4:30pm | |
JYU Room 2 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 19 (Regular) Chair: Ron Asherov | |
4:30 | Another Look at Pentagonal Persian Patterns Jean-Marc Castera |
5:00 | Geometric Patterns as Material Things: The Making of Seljuk Patterns on Curved Surfaces Begüm Hamzaoğlu and Mine Özkar |
5:30 | Underlying Tiles in a 15th Century Mamluk Pattern Ron Asherov |
JYU Room 3 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 20 (Regular) Chair: S. J. Spencer | |
4:30 | Strictly Coding: Connecting Mathematics and Music Through Digital Making Pam Burnard, Zsolt Lavicza and Carrie Anne Philbin |
5:00 | Genera Esfera: Interacting with a Trackball Mapped onto a Sphere to Explore Generative Visual Worlds Lali Barrière and Anna Carreras |
5:30 | Not only Art but also Rocket Science/strong> S. J. Spencer |
JYU Room 4 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 21 (Short) Chair: David A. Reimann | |
4:30 | Teaching Combinatorics with “Poly-Universe” Eleonóra Stettner and György Emese |
4:45 | Sections of Coxeter Orbihedra Motiejus Valiunas, Emilio Zappa and Briony Thomas |
5:00 | Beautification of Islamic Patterns via Constraint Satisfaction Yongquan Lu and Erik D. Demaine |
5:15 | Spelunking Adventure VI: An Equal Tempered Icosahedral Scale Curtis Palmer |
5:30 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: Just Another Braid Hans Kuiper and Walt van Ballegooijen |
5:45 | Snub Polyhedral Forms Constructed from Flexible 60-120 Degree Rhombic Tiles David A. Reimann |
JYU Room 5/6 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 22 (Workshop) | |
4:30 | (Room 5) Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Movement and Mathematics in College Erik Stern and Julian Chan |
4:30 | (Room 6) Dual Models: One Shape to Make Them All Mircea Draghicescu |
JYU Room 7 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 23 (Abstract) Chair: Rebekah Rousi | |
4:30 | Engaging Diverse Students Through Digital Literacy in an Australian University Enabling Program Jennifer Stokes |
4:45 | Exploring Multiple Representations: Animated Graphics Interchange Format as a Cognitive Tool Mara Alagic and Glyn Rimmington |
5:00 | Hypercross: Pure Mathematics Meets Sacred Geometry Silas Drewchin, John Higli and John Saxon-Szasz |
5:15 | Experiences of Guiding Questions in Life-Based Design Education-Building Blocks for Vision Creation Rebekah Rousi |
Elevations and Stellations 7:00pm – 7:30pm | |
Bridges 2016 Public Event: Leonardo's Bridge in Ice Aud 1 8:30pm – 10:00pm |
Thursday August 11, 2016 (Finnish Day) | |
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JYU Aud 1 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 24 (Plenary) Chair: Kristóf Fenyvesi | |
9:30 | Interdisciplinary Research, Learning and Innovation at University of Jyväskylä Kaisa Miettinen |
10:00 | Mathematics of Juggling: A Personal View Harri Varpanen |
10:30 | World as Numbers: Living in an Algorithmic Culture Raine Koskimaa |
Coffee Break 11:00am – 11:30am | |
JYU Aud 1 Morning 11:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 25 (Plenary) Chair: Osmo Pekonen | |
11:30 | Crystal Flowers in Halls of Mirrors: Mathematics Meets Art and Architecture Kirsi Peltonen |
11:30 | Mathematics Learning through Arts and Collaborative Problem-Solving: The Princess and the Diamond-Problem Markus Hähkiöniemi, Kristóf Fenyvesi, Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen, Mirja Tarnanen, Päivi Häkkinen, Merja Kauppinen, Anne Martin and Pasi Nieminen |
Coffee and Lunch Break 12:30pm – 2:30pm | |
JYU Room 2 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 26 (Regular) Chair: Roger Burrows | |
2:30 | Artefacts to Enhance Geometrical Thinking Zekeriya Karadag |
3:00 | Shape-Changing Polyhedra Roger Burrows |
JYU Room 3 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 27 (Regular) Chair: Javier Barrallo Calonge | |
2:30 | Dancing Math: Teaching and Learning in the Intersection of Aesthetic and Mathematical Literacy Paul Moerman |
3:00 | Fostering Creativity in the Teaching of Mathematics with Project Based Learning Javier Barrallo Calonge and Luis Martín Yagüe |
JYU Room 4 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 28 (Short) Chair: David Chappell | |
2:30 | Pointillist Graphing of Iterated Function Systems Risto A. Paju |
2:45 | A New Algorithm for Rendering Kissing Schottky Groups JKento Nakamura and Kazushi Ahara |
3:00 | L-System Nomographs: Aesthetics to Calculation Leif Roschier and Ron Doerfler |
3:15 | Polygon Spirals Nick Mendler |
3:30 | Flatscape of Measure Polytopes Glenn C. Smith |
3:45 | Thoughts on Generative Art David Chappell |
JYU Room 7 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 29 (Short) Chair: Katie McCallum | |
2:30 | Organic 3D Mesh Creation Through Particle-Based Physics Simulation Sage Jenson |
2:45 | Digital Mechanics and The Rolling Coin Clock Bjarne Jespersen |
3:00 | Chladni Figures Revisited: A Peek Into The Third Dimension Martin Skrodzki, Ulrich Reitebuch and Konrad Polthier |
3:15 | Baton Rolling on a Series of Curved Surfaces Akihiro Matsuura and Yuki Yamada |
3:30 | A Eulogy in Honour of Anders Johan Lexell, an 18th Century Finnish Mathematician Joonas Ilmavirta and Johan C.-E. Stén |
3:45 | Why Do Mathematical Presentations Sometimes Sound Like Cookery Shows? Katie McCallum |
JYU CLab1/Room 5 Midday 2:30pm – 4:00pm SESSION 30 (Workshop) | |
2:30 | (CLab1) Euclid's Digital Elements: Straightedge and Compass Softwares as Aid for Geometrical Design Vladmir Sicca |
2:45 | (Room 5) Modelling Environmental Problem-Solving through STEAM Activities: 4Dframe's Warka Water Workshop Kristóf Fenyvesi, Ho-Gul Park, Taeyong Choi, Kwangcheol Song, Seungsuk Ahn |
Coffee Break 4:00pm – 4:30pm | |
JYU Room 2 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 31 (Regular) Chair: Paul Gailiunas | |
4:30 | Interlinking Polyhedral Wire-Frames Walt van Ballegooijen and Carlo H. Séquin |
5:00 | Euler-Cayley Formula for 'Unusual' Polyhedra Dirk Huylebrouck |
5:30 | Helical Petrie Polygons Paul Gailiunas |
JYU Room 3 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 32 (Short) Chair: Robert Bosch | |
4:30 | Prime Portraits Zachary Abel |
4:45 | Representational Random Walks Max Grusky |
5:00 | Texturing Coloured Images in Black and White Hank Guss |
5:15 | Creating the "Discover the Art of Math" Exhibition Kertu Saks and Aare Baumer |
5:30 | Mathematics on TV? Yes, We Can! Rogério Martins |
5:45 | Lights Out Animations Robert Bosch |
JYU Room 5/6 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 33 (Workshop) | |
4:30 | (Room 5) Fractal Flipbooks Andrea Hawksley and Scott Kominers |
4:30 | (Room 6) Lumifold: a STEAM Activity Melissa Silk and Jane Martin |
JYU Room 4 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 34 (Short) Chair: Susan Goldstine | |
4:30 | Mathematikon: A Mathematical Shopping Center Bianca Violet and Andreas Matt |
4:45 | Pattern Design Using Cellular Automata and Iterative Relocation System Jae Kyun Shin and Seung Ryul Choi |
5:00 | Sculpturing Surfaces with Cartan Ribbons Matteo Raffaelli, Jakob Bohr and Steen Markvorsen |
5:15 | Novel Textile Knot Designs Through Mathematical Knot Diagrams Nithikul Nimkulrat and Janette Matthews |
5:30 | Pied de Pulse: Packing Embroidered Circles and Coil Actuators in Pied de Poule (Houndstooth) Loe Feijs and Marina Toeters |
5:45 | A Recursion in Knitting Susan Goldstine |
JYU Room 7 Afternoon 4:30pm – 6:00pm SESSION 35 (Abstract) Chair: Leena Turja | |
4:30 | Innovation of Mathematical Study through the Integration with Arts and Technologies Keigo Kawakubo and Ryosuke Nagaoka |
4:45 | On the Artistic Aspects of Magic Squares Hossein Behforooz |
5:00 | A Teaching and Learning Approach Based on Combination of Mathematics, Music and Digitally Mediated Learning Helps to Overcome Preservice Teachers Mathematical Anxiety Dawid Björkman, Alfred Landwehr Sydow, Behram Kelmendi, Sleyman Esso, Karin Boberg, Patrik Dinnétz, and Alla T. Alzhanova-Ericsson |
5:15 | Volumetric Golden Ratio Spiral David Koski |
5:30 | STEAMing in Early Childhood Education: Play-Based Workshops in Finnish Child Care Centers Leena Turja, Tarja Liinamaa, Mari Jatta Rissanen, Sari Lipponen and Terhi Laakso |
Athenis Finlandiae Cultural Event 6:00pm |
Friday, August 12, 2016 | |
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JYU Room 2 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 36 (Regular) Chair: Robert Fathauer | |
9:30 | Visual Arts and Mathematics Education: Looking for Integrative Phenomena Mirka Havinga and Päivi Portaankorva-Koivisto |
10:00 | Koch-Like Fractal Images Vince J. Matsko |
10:30 | Fractal Gaskets: Reptiles, Hamiltonian Cycles, and Spatial Development Robert W. Fathauer |
JYU Room 3 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 37 (Short) Chair: Gregg Helt | |
9:30 | Repeating Fractal Patterns with 4-Fold Symmetry Douglas Dunham and John Shier |
9:45 | A Rose By Any Other Name... Gregg Helt |
JYU Room 4 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 38 (Short) Chair: Mike Naylor | |
9:30 | The Hendecagonal Stars in the Alhambra Dirk Huylebrouck and Antonia Redondo |
9:45 | Classifying Hexagonal Tilings in Islamic Architecture with a Single Numerical Parameter Peter J. Lu and Eric Broug |
10:00 | Generalized Brunes Stars and System of Pythagorean Triples Dmitri Kozlov |
10:15 | Extracting Unit Cells from Tilings with Color Symmetries: Case of Counterchange Patterns Venera Adanova and Sibel Tari |
10:30 | Plane-Filling Curves on Transitive Grids Jörg Arndt and Julia Handl |
10:45 | Knight Mazes Mike Naylor |
JYU Room 5/6/7 Morning 9:30am – 11:00am SESSION 39 (Workshop) | |
9:30 | (Room 5) Mathematical and Physical Properties of Rope Made for Decorative Purposes Alexander Åström and Christoffer Åström |
9:30 | (Room 6) How to Draw Perspective Directly on a 3D Plane Tomás García Salgado |
9:30 | (Room 7) Similarity Drawn Freehand Teresa Downard |
Coffee Break 11:00am – 11:30am | |
JYU Aud 1 Morning 11:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 40 (Plenary) Chair: George Hart | |
11:30 | TBA Corey Cerovsek |
12:20 | Bridges 2017 Craig S. Kaplan |
Lunch Break 12:30pm – 2:00pm | |
Bridges Public Day Aud 1 2:00pm – 6:00pm Chair: Kristóf Fenyvesi www.familyday.hu | |
JYU Room 2 Midday/Afternoon 2:00pm – 6:00pm | |
2:00 4:30 |
Bridges 2016 Short Movie Festival Robert Bosch |
JYU Room 3 Midday/Afternoon 2:00pm – 6:00pm | |
2:00 | Poetry Afternoon Sarah Glaz |
4:15 | 2016 Mathematical Theater: Hypatia’s Circle Tom Petsinis |
JYU Evening 7:00pm – 7:30pm | |
7:00 | Vivid Spirit and Tangram István Orosz and Lajos Szilassi |
JYU Aud 1 Evening 8:30pm – 10:00pm | |
8:30 | Informal Music Night Mike Naylor |
Saturday, August 13, 2016 (Excursion Day & Music Night) | |
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Excursion 9:00am – 11:00pm (EUR 63 includes bus, lunch, museum, and concert) | |
Bridges Music Night 6:30pm – 8:30pm Concert by Corey Cerovsek and Paavali Jumppanen |
Room Legend | Event Locations |
- Aud 1 = Auditorium 1 - Room 2 = Auditorium 2 - Room 3 = Auditorium 3 - Room 4 = Beeta - Room 5 (R5) = Alfa - Room 6 (R6) = Gamma - Room 7 (R7) = Delta - CLab 1 (C1) = B211.1 |
- University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland Mattilanniemi 2, Agora building - Welcome Reception City Hall, Vapaudenkatu 32 - Elevations & Stellations Art Gallery of Central-Finland’s Natural History Museum, Jyväskylä, Vesilinna, Ihantolantie 5 - Athenis Finlandiae Cultural Event Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, Lutakko campus, Piippukatu 2 - Vivid Spirit Näyttelykeskus Soihtu (Soihtu Exhibition Center at JYU Campus), Jyväskylä, Seminaarinmäki, S-rakennus (S-building) |