Bridges Donostia

Mathematic
s, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture

San Sebastian
, Spain

July 24-27, 2007

The Bridges Organization

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Art Exhibit Submission
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Program

Conference Program

The Final Program will appear here on July 7, 2006.  If you are a speaker and have obligations not to speak on certain dates, you need to contact Reza Sarhangi by July 1, 2006.

Tentative Schedule

Tuesday Morning, July 24, 2007
General Session I
Luis Peña Ganchegui Auditorium, School of Architecture
Chair: George Hart

9:00 –  9:30

 

Registration

       

 

9:30 –  10:00

 

Welcoming Remarks

Javier Barrallo

School of Architecture

The University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain

 

Reza Sarhangi

Department of Mathematics

Towson University

Towson, Maryland, USA

 

10:00 –  10:45

 

Edge-Constrained Tile Mosaics

 

Robert Bosch

Department of Mathematics

Oberlin College

Oberlin, Ohio, USA

 

10:45 – 11:30

 

Poverty and Polyphony: A Connection between Economics and Music                   

 

Rachel W. Hall

Saint Joseph’s University, USA

 

Dmitri Tymoczko

Princeton University, USA

 

11:30 – 1:00

 

The Art Exhibit Reception

 

Visiting Artists at the Art Exhibit

 

Supported by the School of Architecture, the University of the Basque Country

Robert W. Fathauer

Tessellations Company

Phoenix, Arizona, USA

 

Anne Burns

Department of Mathematics

Long Island University

Brookville, New York, USA

 

 

Tuesday Noon, July 24, 2007
Residencia Olarain Dining Hall

1:30 – 2:30

 

Lunch at the Dorm Dining Hall

Please note that lunches and dinners should be booked and paid in advance (one day prior) at the Olarain reception desk before 8:00 pm.

 

 

Tuesday Afternoon, July 24, 2007
Special Sessions I – II
Rooms 1 and 2

3:30 – 6:40

Please see the next 2 pages for the schedule of each of the Special Sessions

The Chairs of the sessions are responsible to keep the sessions on time.

 

 

BTTB Workshop Session I
Room 4
Coordinators: Mara Alagic and Paul Gailiunas

3:30 –  4:40

 

Imaginative Quilted Geometric Assemblages

 

Elaine Krajenke Ellison

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

 

5:00 – 6:10

 

Zome Workshop

 

Paul Hildebrandt

Zometool Inc.

Longmont, Colorado, USA

 

 

Tuesday Evening, July 24, 2007
Residencia Olarain Conference Room
Only by Invitation

7:30 – 9:30

The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts Associate and Editorial Boards Meeting at the Dorm Conference Room (Only Board Members Please). All others by advanced request from Gary Greenfield.

 

Gary R. Greenfield

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

University of Richmond, Virginia, USA

 

Richard Steele

Editorial Director,

Taylor and Francis, UK

 

 

Tuesday Night, July 24, 2007
Residencia Olarain Dining Hall

9:30 – 10:30

 

Dinner at the Dorm Dining Hall

Please note that lunches and dinners should be booked and paid in advance (one day prior) at the Olarain reception desk before 8:00 pm.

 



Tuesday Afternoon, July 24, 2007
Special Session I
Room 1
Chair (3:30 – 4:50): Robert W. Fathauer
Chair (5:20 – 6:40): Anne M. Burns


3:30 –  3:50

 

2D and 3D Animation Using Rotations of a Jordan Curve

 

Peter Hamburger, Edit Hepp, and Richard Wartell

Western Kentucky University, USA

 

3:50 –  4:10

 

Light, Movement and 3D – Light Images Viewed as Photographs

 

Jack Tait

Clyro Herefordshire, UK

 

4:10 –  4:30

 

Fractal Art: Closer to Heaven?

Modern Mathematics, the Art of Nature, and the nature of Art

 

Charalampos Saitis

University of Dublin, Trinity College

Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

 

4:30 –  4:50

 

Fractal Knots Created by Iterative Substitution

 

Robert W. Fathauer

Tessellations Company

Phoenix, Arizona, USA

 

 

30 Minutes Break

 

 

5:20 –  5:40

 

Composite Diffusion Limited Aggregation Paintings

 

Gary R. Greenfield

University of Richmond, Virginia, USA

 

5:40 –  6:00

 

Four Square Variations

Zsofia Ruttkay

University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands 

6:00 –  6:20

 

Geometrical Transformation: A Method for the Creation of Form in Contemporary Architecture

Ülkü İnceköse

Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

 

6:20 –  6:40

 

Imaginary Gardens – A Model for Imitating Plant Growth                                             

Anne Burns

Long Island University

Brookville, New York, USA

 

 

Tuesday Afternoon, July 24, 2007
Special Session II
Room 2
Chair (3:30 – 4:50): Gail Kaplan
Chair (5:20 – 6:40): N.G. Nicolis
 

3:30 –  3:50

 

Baskets for the Mathematics Classroom

 

S. Louise Gould

Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, USA

 

3:50 –  4:10

 

The Power and Potential of Art in Literature to Teach Mathematics

 

William P. Bintz

Kent State University, Ohio, USA

 

Sara Delano Moore

Director of Mathematics & Science

ETA/Cuisinaire, Illinois, USA

 

4:10 –  4:30

 

Zany Projects – The Art of Mixing Compass with Computer                               

 

Rebecca Kessler

The Miami Valley School

Dayton, Ohio, USA

 

4:30 –  4:50

 

Mathematics and Symmetry:  A Bridge to Understanding

 

Gail Kaplan

Towson University, Maryland, USA

 

 

30 Minutes Break

 

 

5:20 –  5:40

 

Magritte: Analogies in Mathematical Reasoning

 

Natasha Rozhkovskaya Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

 

5:40 –  6:00

 

“Gödel, Escher, Bach”, in other Eras

 

Dirk Huylebrouck

Sint-Lucas Brussels

Brussels, Belgium

 

6:00 –  6:20

 

A Simple Procedure to Generate Curves and Surfaces

 

Alan Sutcliffe

Wokingham, UK

 

 

6:20 –  6:40

 

Electrostatic Patterns in the Interior of a Circular Region

 

N.G. Nicolis

The University of Ioannina, Greece

 



Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Excursion to Bilbao
Tickets on sale tuesday during registration and coffee breaks
Details here


Thursday Morning, July 26, 2007
General Session II
Luis Peña Ganchegui Auditorium, School of Architecture
Chair: Carol Bier

9:30 –  10:15

 

Symmetric Embedding of Locally Regular Hyperbolic Tilings

 

Carlo H. Séquin

CS Division, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

10:15 –  11:00

 

Journal of Mathematics and the Arts: Aims and Scope, Highlight Papers from First Issues, Submission and Reviewing Processes, and More

Gary R. Greenfield

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

University of Richmond, Virginia, USA

 

11:00 – 11:45

 

Coffee Break, Art Exhibit

 

 

11:45 – 12:30

 

Two Papers:

Modeling D-Forms

and

Inout Sculptures

 

Ergun Akleman

Department of Architecture

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas, USA

 

12:30 – 1:00

 

Pattern, Rhythm, Music

A. Borhani

Persian National Music Ensemble

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

 

Thursday Noon, July 26, 2007

Residencia Olarain Dining Hall

1:30 – 2:30

 

Lunch at the Dorm Dining Hall

Please note that lunches and dinners should be booked and paid in advance (one day prior) at the Olarain reception desk before 8:00 pm.

 

 

Thursday Afternoon, July 26, 2007
Special Sessions III – V
Rooms 1, 2, and 3

3:30 – 6:40

Please read the next 3 pages for the schedule of each of the Special Sessions

The Chairs of the sessions are responsible to keep the sessions on time.

 

 

BTTB Workshop Session II
Room 4
Coordinators: Mara Alagic and Paul Gailiunas
 

3:10 –  4:20

 

Math/Art Projects

 

Ann Hanson

Science and Mathematics Department

Columbia College

Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

4:25 –  5:35

 

Using Art to Teach Maths, Using Maths to Create Art

 

Julie Dobson

Ulverston Victoria High School

Springfield Road, Ulverston, Cumbria, UK

 

Jenny Gage

Millennium Mathematics Project

University of Cambridge, UK

 

5:40 – 6:50

 

Building Models to Transition from Dimension to Dimension

 

Robert McDermott

Center for High Performance Computing

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

 

Thursday Evening, July 26, 2007
City Hall
 

7:30 – 9:00

 

The City Hall Reception for

 the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

Sponsored by the School of Architecture, the University of the Basque Country, T&F, and the City of San Sebastian

 

 

Thursday Night, July 26, 2007
Residencia Olarain Dining Hall
 

9:30 – 10:30

 

Dinner at the Dorm Dining Hall

Please note that lunches and dinners should be booked and paid in advance (one day prior) at the Olarain reception desk before 8:00 pm.

 



Thursday Afternoon, July 26, 2007
Special Session III, Room 1
Chair (3:30 – 4:50): Francisco Gómez
Chair (5:20 – 6:40): Vinod Srinivasan

3:30 –  3:50

 

A “Sound” Approach to Fourier Transforms: Using Music to Teach Trigonometry

Bruce Kessler

Western Kentucky University,
USA

 

3:50 –  4:10

 

Transgenic Visual-and-Sound Compositions

 

 

Artemis Moroni, Rafael Bocaletto Maiolla, and Jônatas Manzolli

Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil

4:10 –  4:30

 

Pattern, Rhythm, Music

A. Borhani

Persian National Music Ensemble

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

4:30 –  4:50

 

Mathematical Models for Binarization and Ternarization of Musical Rhythms

 

Francisco Gómez

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

 

Imad Khoury,  Jörg Kienzle, Erin McLeish, and Godfried Toussaint

McGill University, Canada

 

Andrew Melvin

Brunel University, UK

 

Rolando Pérez-Fernández

Universidad de Mexico

 

David Rappaport

Queen’s University, Canada

 

30 Minutes Break

 

5:20 –  5:40

 

Structure and Form in the Design Curriculum

 

M.A. Hann and B.G. Thomas

School of Design, University of Leeds, UK

 

5:40 –  6:00

 

The Effect of Human Experience on Formal Word Meaning

Russell Jay Hendel

Towson University, USA

 

6:00 –  6:20

 

From Modeling Foliage with L-systems to Digital Art

 

Glyn M. Rimmington and Mara Alagic

Wichita State University, USA

6:20 –  6:40

 

Modeling High Genus Sculptures Using Multi-Connected Handles and Holes

Vinod Srinivasan, Hernan Molina, and Ergun Akleman

Texas A&M University, USA

 

 

Thursday Afternoon, July 26, 2007
Special Session IV
Room 2
Chair (3:30 – 4:50): Carla Farsi
Chair (5:20 – 6:40): B. Lynn Bodner
 

3:30 –  3:50

 

The Pentagram: From the Goddess to Symplectic Geometry

 

Elisa Prato

Università di Firenze, Italy

 

3:50 –  4:10

 

Shape, Time and Chemistry: Some Platonic Meditations

 

Farzad Mahootian

Shepherd University

West Virginia, USA

 

4:10 –  4:30

 

Geometry and New Urban Order

 

Cristina Argumedo

Universidad de Rosario, Argentina

 

Mª Francisca Blanco and Miriam Pisonero

Universidad deValladolid, España

 

Dora Giordano

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

4:30 –  4:50

 

Breaking Color Symmetry

 

Carla Farsi

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

 

 

30 Minutes Break

 

5:20 –  5:40

 

Revisiting the Geometry of the Sala de Dos Hermanas

 

Ann Robertson

Connecticut College, New London, USA

 

5:40 –  6:00

 

Allahverdi Khan Bridge (Si-O-Seh Pol) of Esfahan – An Example of Art and Mathematics

 

Hourieh Mashayekh  

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

Hayedeh Mashayekh

Tehran, Iran

 

6:00 –  6:20

 

Geometric Constructions and their Arts in Historical Perspective

 

Reza Sarhangi

Towson University, USA

 

6:20 –  6:40

 

Frieze Patterns of the Alhambra

 

B. Lynn Bodner

Monmouth University, West Long Branch, USA

 



Thursday Afternoon, July 26, 2007
Special Session V
Room 3
Chair (3:30 – 4:50): Jay Zimmerman
Chair (5:20 – 6:40): James L. Mai

3:30 –  3:50

 

Painting by the Numbers: A Porter Postscript

 

Chris Bartlett

Art Department

Towson University, USA

 

3:50 –  4:10

 

The Ideal Vacuum: Visual Metaphors for Algebraic Concepts

 

Jessica K. Sklar

Pacific Lutheran University

Tacoma, Washington, USA

 

4:10 –  4:30

 

Ricochet Compositions

 

I.A. de Kok, T. Lucassen, and Zs. Ruttkay

Cluster: Human Media Interaction

University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

 

4:30 –  4:50

 

Portraits of Groups II, Orientation Reversing Actions

 

Jay Zimmerman

Mathematics Department

Towson University, USA

 

 

30 Minutes Break

 

5:20 –  5:40

 

When is a picture not a picture?

What is really in a Random Tandem?

 

Simon Bexfield

Letchworth Garden City, Herts., England

 

5:40 –  6:00

 

Does it Look Square?

Hexagonal Bipyramids, Triangular Antiprismoids, and their Fractals

 

Hideki Tsuiki

Kyoto University, Yoshida-Nihonmatsu, Japan

 

6:00 –  6:20

 

Shiva: Two Views of Burnside’s Lemma at Work

 

 

James Mai

School of Art

Illinois State University, USA

 

Daylene Zielinski

Bellarmine University

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

 

6:20 –  6:40

 

The Modular Color Palette:  Systems of Color Selection in the Paintings of James Mai

 

James L. Mai

School of Art

Illinois State University, USA

 

 

Friday Morning, July 27, 2007
General Session III
Luis Peña Ganchegui Auditorium, School of Architecture
Chair: Carlo H. Séquin
 

9:30 –  10:15

 

Addled Tangles of Sanguine Language—an Eclectic Syncretic Syntactic Taxonomy

 

Benjamin Wells

University of San Francisco, California, USA

 

10:15 –  11:00

 

Symmetry and Structure in Twist-Hinged Dissections of Polygonal Rings and Polygonal Anti-Rings

 

 

Greg N. Frederickson

Department of Computer Science

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

11:00 – 11:45

 

Coffee Break

 

Art Exhibit

 

The Art Exhibit will close at 2:30 pm. All artists should remove their artworks by 3:30 pm.

 

11:00 – 11:45

 

11:45 – 12:30

 

Entwined Circular Rings

 

The 2008 Bridges Announcement

 

Rinus Roelofs

Hengelo, the Netherlands

 

Local Organizers from Leewarden, the Netherlands

 

12:30 – 1:00

 

Pattern, Rhythm, Music

A. Borhani

Persian National Music Ensemble

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

 

Friday Noon, July 27, 2007
Residencia Olarain Dining Hall
 

1:30 – 2:30

 

Lunch at the Dorm Dining Hall

Please note that lunches and dinners should be booked and paid in advance (one day prior) at the Olarain reception desk before 8:00 pm.

 

 

Friday Afternoon, July 27, 2007
Special Sessions VI – VII
Rooms 1, 2
 

3:30 – 6:50

Please see the next 2 pages for the schedule of each of the Special Sessions

The Chairs of the sessions are responsible to keep the sessions on time.

 

 

BTTB Workshop Session III
Room 4
Coordinators: Mara Alagic and Paul Gailiunas
 

3:10 –  4:20

 

From Folding and Cutting to Geometry and Algorithms:

Integrating Islamic Art into the Mathematics Curriculum

 

Carol Bier

The Textile Museum

Washington, DC, USA

 

4:25 –  5:35

 

The Geometry of Asian Trousers

 

Penelope Woolfitt

London, UK

 

5:40 – 6:50

 

Exploring Cubes Woven on the Skew

 

Felicity Wood

Oxford, UK

 

 

Residencia Olarain Alberto Iglesias Hall and Dining Hall
Friday Night, July 27, 2007
 

7:00 – 830

 

The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts Reception

 

Supported by Taylor and Francis 

 

 

8:30 – 10:00

 

Music Night

Francisco Gómez

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

 

10:00 – 11:00

 

Dinner at the Dorm Dining Hall

Please note that lunches and dinners should be booked and paid in advance (one day prior) at the Olarain reception desk before 8:00 pm.

 


 

Friday Afternoon, July 27, 2007
Special Session VI
Room 1
Chair (3:30 – 4:50): Douglas Dunham
Chair (5:20 – 6:40): Douglas G. Burkholder
 

3:30 –  3:50

 

Modular Kirigami

 

George W. Hart

Stony Brook University, New York, USA

3:50 –  4:10

 

The Automorphism of Amalgamation Polytopes and Tessellation

 

Lin Hsin Hsin

INFOTECH Research & Consultancy, USA

 

4:10 –  4:30

 

Images of the Ammann-Beenker Tiling

 

Edmund Harriss

Imperial College London, UK

 

4:30 –  4:50

 

A “Circle Limit III” Calculation

 

Douglas Dunham

University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA

 

 

30 Minutes Break

 

 

5:20 –  5:40

 

Hyperbolic Semi-Regular Tilings and their Symmetry Properties

 

Ma. Louise Antonette N. De Las Peñas, Glenn R. Laigo, and Eden Delight B. Provido

Ateneo de Manila University

 

Loyola Heights, Quezon City Philippines

 

5:40 –  6:00

 

Patterned Polyhedra: Tiling the Platonic Solids

 

B.G. Thomas and M.A. Hann

School of Design, University of Leeds, UK

 

6:00 –  6:20

 

Some Monohedral Tilings Derived from Regular Polygons

 

Paul Gailiunas

Newcastle, England

 

6:20 –  6:40

 

Sculptures which Stellarize Non-Planar Hexagons

 

Douglas G. Burkholder

Lenoir-Rhyne College

Hickory, North Carolina, USA

 

 



Friday Afternoon, July 27, 2007
Special Session VII
Room 2
Chair (3:30 – 4:50): Samuel Verbiese
Chair (5:20 – 6:40): Douglas McKenna
 

3:30 –  3:50

 

A Proposal for the Classification of Mathematical Sculpture

 

Ricardo Zalaya Báez

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

 

3:50 –  4:10

 

Anticlastic Form – Manifesting Fields of Tension

 

Benjamin Storch

Wales,UK

 

4:10 –  4:30

 

Planar Symmetry with Turtles

 

James Dean Palmer

Northern Arizona University, USA

 

4:30 –  4:50

 

Amazing Labyrinths

 

 

Samuel Verbiese

Overijse, Belgium

 

 

30 Minutes Break

 

 

5:20 –  5:40

 

The Spirograph and Beyond

 

Susan McBurney

Western Springs, Illinois, USA

 

5:40 –  6:00

 

Golden Fractal Trees

 

T. D. Taylor

St. Francis Xavier University

 

6:00 –  6:20

 

Spiral Developable Sculptures of Ilhan Koman

 

 

 

Tevfik Akgün and Irfan Kaya

Yildiz Technical University

Istanbul, Turkey

 

Ahmet Koman

Bõgaziçi University

Istanbul, Turkey

 

Ergun Akleman

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas, USA

 

6:20 –  6:40

 

The 7 Curve, Carpets, Quilts, and Other Asymmetric, Square-Filling, Threaded Tile Designs

 

Douglas McKenna

Mathemæsthetics, Inc.

Boulder, Colorado, USA