2013 Speakers / Coordinators
Sir Harold Walter Kroto
- Awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, a molecule made up of 60 carbon atoms occupying the vertices of a truncated icosahedron.
- The Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University, USA.
Jarke J. van Wijk
- Professor of Visualization
- Dept. Math. & CS, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Contributed to Infodecodata, exhibition Graphic Design Museum, 2010
- Received IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award 2007
Carlo H. Séquin
- Professor of Computer Science and Geometric Sculptor
- EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Fellow, IEEE and ACM; Member, Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
George W. Hart
- Former Computer Science Professor at Stony Brook University and Columbia University
- A sculptor and a pioneer in using computer technology and solid freeform fabrication in the design and fabrication of sculpture
- Founding content director of The Museum of Mathematics, New York, USA
- Former Computer Scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT Energy Laboratory
Dmitri Tymoczko
- Composer and Music Theorist
- His article "The Geometry of Musical Chords" was the first music theory article ever published by Science
- Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, Charles Ives Scholarship, Hugh F. MacColl Prize from Harvard University, and the Eisner & Delorenzo Prize from the UC, Berkeley
- Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Craig S. Kaplan
- Mathematical Art Software Developer in Maze Design, Star Patterns, Escherization, Patterns on surfaces, TSP Art, Metamorphoses and Deformations
- Associate Editor of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
- Computer Science Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
Robert Fathauer
- Curator of Annual Art Exhibitions at Bridges and the Joint Mathematics Meetings
- Former Research Scientist and Technical Group Leader (PhD in EE, Cornell) of the Advanced Materials Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
- Founder and owner of the Tessellations Company
- Artist, Puzzle Designer, and Author concentrating on Tiling, Fractals, and Knots
Kristóf Fenyvesi
- Coordinator of Community Events of the Bridges Organization
- Curator of the Experience Bridges Traveling Exhibit - a growing collection of international math-art
- Curator in Chief of Ars Geometrica International Conferences which hosted the Bridges World Conference in 2010
- Leader of the Experience Workshop: the Experience-Centered Math-Art Movement
- Researcher at Art and Culture Studies, Jyväskylä University, Finland
Nathan Selikoff
- Award-winning artist who has exhibited in galleries and venues throughout the United States and around the world
- Graphic and web designer and developer from Orlando, Florida
- Bridges Webmaster and Co-editor of the Art Exhibition Catalog
Steve Abbott
- Professor of Mathematics, Middlebury College
- Co-editor of Math Horizons
- Author of Understanding Analysis, Springer UTM series
- Currently researching the intersections of Mathematics and Theater
Sarah Glaz
- Professor of Mathematics and poet, University of Connecticut
- Author of the book “Commutative Coherent Rings”, Springer,1989 (reprinted in 2007)
- Coeditor of the volumes: “Non-Noetherian Commutative Ring Theory” (Springer - Kluwer, 2000), “Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra” (Springer, 2006), and “Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics” (CRC Press - A K Peters, 2008)
- Editorial board member of: International Electronic Journal of Algebra (IEJA), and Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (JMA)
- University Teaching Fellow
Paul Hildebrandt
- President and Chief Visionary Officer, Zometool Inc., Longmont, Colorado USA.
Reza Sarhangi
- Mathematics Professor, Towson University, Maryland, USA
- President of the Bridges Organization
Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science