Bridges Conference July 2004
Dick Fischbeck
Here is the schedule for the incoming Bridges Conference. Several
presentations are literally synergetic.
Peace
Dick
From:
http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/2004/2004%20Program.doc
http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/
Friday Morning, July 30
General Session (9:00-12:30)
Messenger Recital Hall,
Darbeth Fine Arts Center
Chair: Carlo H. Séquin
9:00 Registration
9:30
9:30 Greetings and Opening Remarks
10:00
Dick Merriman
President, Southwestern College, Kansas
Reza Sarhangi
Director, Bridges Conference
10:00 Mathematical Magic
10:45 Arthur T. Benjamin
11:00 Expressive Geometries of Curvature
11:45 Brent Collins
12:00 Mind, Music, and Mathematics
12:30 Corey Cerovsek
Friday Afternoon, July 30, 2004
Special Session I (2:30-5:15)
Room 103, Beech Science Center
Chair: Stephen Luecking
2:30 Experiential Morphology: The Generative Dynamics of Form and
Structure
3:00 Manuel A. Báez
3:15 Fractalled: The Interstitial Spaces And Frank Gehry
3:45 Amy Gilley
4:00 Supercircles: Expanding Buckminster Fuller's Foldable Circle
Models
4:30 Chris Fearnley and Jeannie Moberly
4:45 Pulling Ropes and Plumbing Lines: Geometry for the Neolithic
Engineer
5:15 Stephen Luecking
Friday Afternoon, July 30, 2004
Special Session II (2:30-5:15)
Room 104, Beech Science Center
Chair: B. Lynn Bodner
2:30 Anatomy of a Bud
3:00 Jay Kappraff
3:15 The Shape and History of The Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
3:45 Clark Kimberling
4:00 Islamic Art at Doris Duke's Shangri La Playing with Form and
Pattern
4:30 Carol Bier and David K. Masunaga
4:45 Star Polygon Designs of La Alhambra's Wooden Ceilings
5:15 B. Lynn Bodner
Friday Afternoon, July 30, 2004
Special Session III (2:30-5:15)
Room 105, Beech Science Center
Chair: L. Kerry Mitchell
2:30 From Hot Spots to High School Geometry and Calculus
3:00 Tiziana Giorgi and Robert Smits
3:15 An Introduction to the Tiling Properties of the Tangram and Their
3:45 Application in Two and Three dimensions
Stanley Spencer
4:00 Permuting Heaven and Earth: Painted Expressions of Burnside's
Theorem
4:30 James Mai and Daylene Zielinski
4:45 Fractal Tessellations from Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
5:15 L. Kerry Mitchell
Friday Afternoon, July 30, 2004
Special Session IV (2:30-5:15)
BRIDGES FOR TEACHERS, TEACHERS FOR BRIDGES
Room 109, Beech Science Center
Chair: Mara Alagic
2:30 "Slide-Together" Geometric Paper Constructions
3:45 George W. Hart
4:00 Fibonacci in the Nature
5:15 John Hutchinson
Saturday Morning, July 31
General Session (9:00-12:30)
Messenger Recital Hall,
Darbeth Fine Arts Center
Chair: Dan Daniel
9:00 Glide Reflection and other Combined Transformations
9:45 Rinus Roelofs
10:00 Hamiltonian Cycles on Symmetrical Graphs
10:45 Carlo H. Séquin
11:00 Synergy in Collaboration: New Domes for Old
11:45 Jay Bonner, Mac Pelletier, and Chris K. Palmer
12:00 Mind, Music, and Mathematics
12:30 Corey Cerovsek
Saturday Afternoon, July 31, 2004
Special Session I (2:30-5:15)
Room 103, Beech Science Center
Chair: Godfried T. Toussaint
2:30 Cognitive Models of Music and Painting
3:00 James Peterson and Linda Dzuris
3:15 Interaction of Color
3:45 Amina Allen
4:00 Asymmetric Rhythms, Tiling Canons, and Burnside's Lemma
4:30 Rachel W. Hall and Paul Klingsberg
4:45 El Compás Flamenco: A Phylogenetic Analysis
5:15 J. Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Giovanna Farigu, Francisco Gómez,
David Rappaport, Godfried T. Toussaint
Saturday Afternoon, July 31, 2004
Special Session II (2:30-5:15)
Room 104, Beech Science Center
Chair: Gary R. Greenfield
2:30 On the Topology of Celtic Knot Designs
3:00 Gwen Fisher and Blake Mellor
3:15 The Reflected Binary Gray Code Transform
3:45 Steve Whealton
4:00 Moorish Fretwork
4:30 Paul Tucker
4:45 Combining Abstract Images using Texture Transfer
5:15 Gary R. Greenfield
Saturday Afternoon, July 31, 2004
Special Session III (2:30-5:15)
Room 105, Beech Science Center
Chair: Chris K. Palmer
2:30 MultiCam: A System for Interactive Rendering of Abstract Digital
Images
3:00 Jeffrey Smith and Ergun Akleman
3:15 An Introduction to The Randome
3:45 Richard Fischbeck and Oscar Tuazon
4:00 Modularity in Medieval Persian Mosaics: Textual, Empirical,
Analytical,
4:30 and Theoretical Considerations Reza Sarhangi, Slavik
Jablan, and Radmila Sazdanovic
4:45 Applications for the Study of Tilings (Tile Composer - FonTiler -
GridTiler)
5:15 Using Combinatorics to Build Tiles Sets
Chris K. Palmer, Slavik Jablan, and Reza Sarhangi
Saturday Afternoon, July 31, 2004
Special Session IV (2:30-5:15)
BRIDGES FOR TEACHERS, TEACHERS FOR BRIDGES
Room 109, Beech Science Center
Chair: Mara Alagic
2:30 Facilitating Students' Understanding of Properties and
Relationships of Geometric
3:00 Figures: ZometoolTM
Betty Blundon, Diana Palenz, Wendy Appelhans
3:15 Mathematics, Music, and Visualization
3:45 Thomas Engdahl
4:00 Lego Design and Computer-based Drafting: Geometric Similarity
4:30 Nora Rayl
4:45 Fostering Understanding of Mathematical Visualization
5:15 Mara Alagic
Sunday Morning, August 1
General Session (9:00-12:30)
Messenger Recital Hall,
Darbeth Fine Arts Center
Chair: Carol Bier
9:00 The Triumph of the One
9:45 Benjamin Wells
10:00 Tony Bomford's Hyperbolic Hooked Rugs
10:45 Douglas Dunham
11:00 Fractal Art - A Comparison of Styles
11:45 Janet Parke
12:00 Mind, Music, and Mathematics
12:30 Corey Cerovsek
Sunday Afternoon, August 1, 2004
Special Session I (2:30-5:15)
Room 103, Beech Science Center
Chair: Nico Schüler
2:30 Hunting Additional Pixels in Digitally Amplified Art: Looking for
Clues in
3:00 Music, with Inspiration from Mathematics
Mark Nelson
3:15 The Mathematics of Jazz
3:45 W. Douglas Maurer
4:00 Measuring the Musical Vocabulary of the Traditional Nzakara
Harpists
4:30 Barbra Gregory
4:45 The Influence of Incipit Length on the Results of
5:15 Statistical and Information-Theoretical Melody Analysis
Nico Schüler
Sunday Afternoon, August 1, 2004
Special Session II (2:30-5:15)
Room 104, Beech Science Center
Chair: Paul Gailiunas
2:30 Turning a Snowball Inside Out: Mathematical Visualization at the
12-foot Scale
3:00 Alex Kozlowski, Dan Schwalbe, Carlo H. Séquin, John M. Sullivan,
Stan Wagon
3:15 A Salamander Sculpture Barn Raising
3:45 George W. Hart
4:00 A Search in Progress: Polyhedra from Intersecting Cylinders
4:30 Joseph D. Clinton
4:45 Twisted Domes
5:15 Paul Gailiunas
Sunday Afternoon, August 1, 2004
Special Session III (2:30-5:15)
Room 105, Beech Science Center
Chair: Gwen L. Fisher
2:30 Fractal Patterns and Pseudo-tilings Based on Spirals
3:00 Robert W. Fathauer
3:15 Exploring Hyperobjects: A Metaphor of Higher Dimensions
3:45 Michael Mahan
4:00 Symmetry to Assembly
4:30 Mary Candace Williams
4:45 Inspired by Snowflakes: Constructing, Folding and Cutting Regular
Paper
5:15 Polygons to Create Art with Dihedral Symmetry Gwen L. Fisher
and Nicole Silkton
Sunday Afternoon, August 1, 2004
Special Session IV (2:30-5:15)
Room 109, Beech Science Center
Chair: Ergun Akleman
2:30 Folding the Circle as Both Whole and Part
3:00 Bradford Hansen-Smith
3:15 Using Fractal Program to Model Vortical Flows
3:45 L. Kerry Mitchell and Janet Parke
4:00 Modular Origami in the Mathematics Classroom
4:30 Brock Wenciker and Patrick Flynn
4:45 A Generalized Vertex Truncation Scheme to Construct Intriguing
Polyhedral
5:15 Shapes
Ergun Akleman, Paul Edmundson, and Ozan Ozener
Sunday Afternoon, August 1, 2004
Special Session V (2:30-5:15)
BRIDGES FOR TEACHERS, TEACHERS FOR BRIDGES
Room 12, Christy Administration Building
Chair: Mara Alagic
2:30 Introduction to Artistic Programming
3:45 Robert Krawczyk
4:00 The Art and Mathematics of Tessellation
5:15 Reza Sarhangi