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Monday, May 11, 2009
8:15 - 8:50 Breakfast and Registration
8:50 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks
[audio] [audio2] [video] [audio and slides]
Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University
Session 1 (CHAIR: Radmila Sazdanovic)
9:00 - 9:45 Theorems in Stone and Bronze [audio] [audio2] [video]
Heleman Ferguson, Helasculpt.com
9:45 - 10:15 Is Popularization of Polynomiography Possible? [slides][audio] [audio2] [video]
Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University
10:15 - 10:45 Architectural Fractals [slides][audio] [video] [video2]
Daniel Lordick, Technical University, Dresden, Germany
10:45 - 11:15 Tea/Coffee Break
Session 2 (CHAIR: Bahman Kalantari)
11:15 - 12:30 The Way Polynomiography Things Go
You real-eyes what you in habit [slides] [audio] [video]
Ruth Mateus-Berr, Petra Ilias, and Walter Lunzer,
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
Session 3 (CHAIR: Helaman Ferguson)
2:00 - 2:30 Dissecting and Folding Stacked Geometric Figures
[slides] [audio] [video]
Greg Frederickson, Purdue University
2:30 - 3:00 Corpuscle Geometry [audio] [video]
Eva Wohlleben, Artist
3:00 - 3:30 1001 Images of Mathematics [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Georg Glaeser, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
3:30 - 4:00 Tea/Coffee Break and Student Polynomiography Poster Session
Session 4 (CHAIR: Dirk Huylebrouck)
4:00 - 4:30 Polynomiography as a Visual Tool: Building Meaning from Images
[slides] [audio] [audio2][video] [video2][slides and audio]
Carolyn Maher, Rutgers University, and
Kevin Merges, Rutgers Preparatory School
4:30 - 5:00 Media for Play, Expression, Curiosity, and Learning: Mathematics through Polynomiography
[slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Iraj Kalantari, Western Illinois University
5:00 - 5:30 Algorithms through the eyes of an educator
[slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Jean-Marie Dendoncker, Ghent University, Belgium
5:30 - 6:30 Hands-on activities with Bahman Kalantari and Fedor
Andreev in the computer lab.
6:30 Banquet
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
Session 1 (CHAIR: Gunter Weiss)
9:00 - 9:30 Physics-Based Methods for Modeling Open Surface Fluid Phenomena and Soft Tissue Strains
[audio] [video]
Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University
9:30 - 10:00 The Fibonacci Series As An Algorithmic Organizing
Principle In The Composition Of Figurative Painting
[slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2] [audio and slides]
Christopher Bartlett, Towson University
10:00 - 10:30 Catenary or parabola, who will tell?
[slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2] [audio and slides]
Amadeo Monreal, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, and
Dirk Huylebrouck, Sint-Lucas School for Architecture, Brussels
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
Session 2 (CHAIR: Georg Glaeser)
11:00 - 11:30 Pseudo-randomness in procedural design [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Ken Perlin, New York University
11:30 - 12:00 Leonardo's Choice for the Model in Creating the Mystical Image on the Shroud of Turin
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Lillian Schwartz, Visiting Scholar, New York University
12:00 - 12:30 Poly-Plodes, Polyhedra that kinematic implode and explode
Ron Resch, Artist
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Hands-on activity with Greg Frederickson
Session 3 (CHAIR: Rinus Roelofs)
2:00 - 2:30 Illustrator sketches obtained from projecting from 4-space to 2-space
[slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
2:30 - 3:00 Many Spaces in the Same Space
[audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Tony Robbin, Artist, New York and Gilboa
3:00 - 3:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Session 4 (CHAIR: Jay Kappraff)
3:30 - 4:00 The "Kutachi" Project [media in preparation]
Ted Goranson, Earl Research
4:00 - 4:30 To cut or to knot [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Radmila Sazdanovic, The George Washington University
4:30 Excursion to Princeton
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
8:35 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
Session 1 (CHAIR: Doug Dunham)
9:00 - 9:30 Categories of Algorithmic Aesthetics: Obvious < Hidden < Secret < Geometric
[slides] [audio] [video]
Gunter Weiss, Technical University, Dresden, Germany
9:30 - 10:00 Contemporary Video Game Design: Challenges in Visualization, Interaction and Dynamic Simulation
[slides] [audio] [video]
Andrew Nealen, Rutgers University
10:00 - 10:30 From Continuous to Fractal: Exploring and Root Finding
[slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2] [audio and slides]
Fedor Andreev, Western Illinois University
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
Session 2 (CHAIR: Eva Wohlleben)
11:00 - 11:30 TSPortraits of Knots and Link [slides] [audio1] [audio2] [video]
Bob Bosch, Oberlin College
11:30 - 12:00 The Geometry of Music [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University
12:00 - 12:30 Making Explicit The Implicit Intersections of Art & Science
[audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Paul Burdick, New England Conservatory of Music, and
John Kiehl, Soundtrack Recording Studios, NYC
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Hands-on activity with Helaman Ferguson
Session 3 (CHAIR: Bob Bosch)
2:00 - 2:30 Sculptures
and Structures [web presentation][audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Rinus Roelofs, Sculptor, Hengelo, The Netherlands
2:30 - 3:00 Repeating Hyperbolic Pattern Algorithms - Special Cases [slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Doug Dunham, University of Minnesota Duluth
3:00 - 3:30 Aesthetic Explorations of Algorithmic Space [slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Nathan Selikoff, Artist
3:30 - 4:00 Tea/Coffee Break
Session 4 (CHAIR: Helaman Ferguson)
4:30 - 5:00 A New Course in the Mathematics of Design [slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Jay Kappraff, New Jersey Institute of Technology
5:00 - 5:30 Unusual Methods of Mathematical Visualisation
[slides] [audio] [audio2] [video] [video2]
Dirk Huylebrouck, Sint-Lucas School for Architecture
Brussels
afterward Closing Remarks [audio] [video]