Bridges Conference 2008

Stenden University Netherlands
Leeuwarden, the town where M.C. Escher was born

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Conference Flyer (revised)

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Read about it in Kunstzinnige Wiskunde
in the Dutch science magazine EOS

A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BY
Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
Municipality of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

July 24-28, 2008 (Excursion on Saturday July 26)
July 29 Mathematical Art Public Activity Day

Five days of Bridges Conference activities (July 24-28)
including an Escher Day on July 28,
are followed by a Family Math/Art Day (July 29).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
(a complete list will be announced later)

Chaim Goodman-Strauss, (University of Arkansas) mathematician, geometer and graphic artist, coauthor of The Symmetries of Things with John H. Conway and Heidi Burgiel.
Rinus Roelofs, mathematical sculptor, designer of real and virtual structures inspired by Leonardo da Vinci and M.C. Escher.
Doris Schattschneider, author of M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (Abrams), M.C. Escher Kaleidocycles (Pomegranate), and editor of M.C. Escher's Legacy (Springer).
Carlo H. Sequin, (U.C. Berkeley) designer of geometrical sculptures, mathematical models, toys, puzzles, buildings, and integrated circuits.
Dick Termes, internationally acclaimed painter who uses six-point perspective to bring the surrounding world to the surface of a "Termesphere".
Dmitri Tymoczko, (Princeton University) composer and music theorist. His article "The Geometry of Musical Chords" was the first music theory article ever published by Science.

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