THE FIFTH ANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
BRIDGES:
IN ART, MUSIC, AND SCIENCE
Suggested Topics:
Mathematical Visualization,
Mathematics and Music, Computer Generated Art, Symmetry Structures, Mathematics
and Architecture, Tessellations and Tilings, Aesthetic Connections in
Mathematics and Humanities, Origami,
Geometric Art in Two and
Three Dimensions, Geometries in Quilting
The “Bridges: Mathematical Connections in
Visual Art” exhibit in conjunction with the Bridges Conference will be held at
Professor Christopher Bartlett,
For planning purposes, by March 1st, please
let Professor Bartlett know if you intend to show works, how many, the
approximate dimensions, as well as if you intend to ship them or hand deliver
them and whether or not you would like the exhibit to handle the return
shipping.
Works must arrive no later than Monday, July
8, if the artist wishes to participate in the entire exhibit. However, some
space will be available for Bridges participants to hand deliver their works on
July 27 if they wish to participate in the exhibit during the conference only.
For those participating for the full duration of the main exhibit (which will
be advertised and open to the public) artworks can be packed and shipped back
to the artists after the close of the art exhibit, provided the works are sent
in reusable, returnable containers that can be shipped by UPS. Please note that the overall budget for
return shipping is limited so you need to contact the
The “Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Visual Art” exhibit is co-curated by
Christopher Bartlett, Professor of
Illustration and Exhibit Design, Art Gallery Director, cbartlett@towson.edu
James Paulsen, Professor of Sculpture and Foundations Design, jpaulsen@towson.edu
The 2002
Bridges Conference will feature a poster session. The poster session
participants will present their materials such as diagrams, pictures, data, and
narrative text on poster boards (approximate size of a poster board is 24"´ 32"; however, there is not any size
requirement in this regard). During breaks, poster participants may informally
discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Poster presenters may submit an abstract (not
more than 1 page) if they wish, due by
Dr. Vladimir
Bulatov, Department of
Physics, Oregon State University, 301 Weniger Hall, Corvallis, Oregon, 97331,
bulatov@physcis.orst.edu
Dr. Bulatov is on leave from St.
Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg,
Current List of General Session
Speakers
Carol Bier, Research Associate and former Curator for Eastern Hemisphere
Collections at The Textile Museum, Washington; faculty, Maryland Institute
College of Art; author, The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg (Copenhagen,
1995); editor and contributing author of Woven from the Soul, Spun from
the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran (16th-19th Centuries)
(Washington, 1987); editor, The Textile Museum Journal. Her
award-winning on-line exhibition, "Symmetry & Pattern: The Art of
Oriental Carpets" http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/
is a collaborative project of The Math Forum at
Michael
Leyton, Professor in the Center for Discrete Mathematics and
Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University; President, International
Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics; widely exhibited painter
and sculptor; author of books, Symmetry, Causality, Mind (MIT
Press) and A Generative Theory of Shape (Springer-Verlag), which
elaborate a theory that geometry is the means of recording history. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mleyton
John Sharp, Watford, England, Technical Author and Recreational Mathematician;
has researched and taught Geometry and Art for over two decades in Adult
Continuing Education in and around London; illustrator of David Wells’ Penguin
Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry; author of Sliceforms
on modeling geometric surfaces, some of which are in the "Strange
Surfaces" exhibit in the Science Museum in London; adviser and contributor
to the United Kingdom Government's Educational Mathematics Resource site at www.Counton.org
Leonard Shlain, Chairman of Laparoscopic Surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco; Associate Professor of surgery at UCSF; author of two critically-acclaimed, award-winning national bestsellers: Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (Quill, William Morrow & Co.), http://www.artandphysics.com/, and The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image; Iron Sex: The Origins, Politics, and Economics of Human Sexuality (Viking, in press).
Corey Cerovsek,
Nat Friedman, Professor of Mathematics, State University of New York, Albany; mathematician and artist; Director, International Society of the Arts, Mathematics and Architecture ISAMA, http://www.isama.org/
Carlo Séquin, University of
The Conference publishes
refereed proceedings of presented papers.
Papers accepted for publication should follow the proceedings format and
be camera ready; however, for reviewing process they need not follow a set format.
Interested authors must submit five copies of their papers by
If a presenter is not able to
submit a paper for presentation, he/she may send an abstract (not more than 1
page) to be published in the Proceedings. There is no reviewing process for
abstracts. The deadline for abstracts is
Reza Sarhangi, Bridges Conference, Mathematics
Department, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252, (410)
704-4922, E-mail: rsarhangi@towson.edu
Authors may choose to present their papers as
oral talks and/or posters. For the
poster session they should contact Dr. Bulatov.
If an author chooses to only present a poster he/she should specify this
together with his/her final paper or abstract submission.
There is a registration fee of
$50.00 for each day or $130.00 for the entire conference plus $30.00 for the
Proceedings.
In addition to the three-day conference, a
one-day post-conference tour (specially arranged for Bridges participants) to
Baltimore and
For information about location, accommodations, registration, and paper guidelines you may visit:
http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/
The
1998-2001 Bridges Proceedings are available through the online store
For other information not available on the web page (or
if you want to add your e-mail address to the Bridges mailing list) you may
contact:
Professor Reza Sarhangi, Bridges, Mathematics Department,
You may also contact the following Bridges Advisory Board
members regarding the conference:
Professor Amir Assadi, Department of Mathematics,
Professor Dan Daniel, Integrative Studies Program,
Professor
Slavik Jablan, The Mathematical Institute, Kneza Mihaila 35, 11001
Professor
Michael Leyton, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer
Science,
Professor Nat Friedman, Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, University At
Professor Carlo Séquin, Computer Science Division, EECS
Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, E-mail: sequin@cs.berkeley.edu