Second ESMA Conference

Date: 09/18/2013 - 09/20/2013
Location: University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
URL: http://www.math-art.eu

Description:

The main themes of the Conference are:

- Mathematical tools and software for the creation of artistic scientific visualizations
- Analysis of artistic works from the mathematical point of view
- Pedagogical uses of scientific artistic works.

Program:

Please find here the program established by Renzo Caddeo (University of Cagliari), the list of participants and the poster of the conference..

18-09-2013

08.30-9.30	Registration
09.30-10.10	Claude Bruter	The pedagogical virtues of math and art exhibitions
10.10-10.50	George Hart	Colossal Cardboard Constructions
11.10-12.00	Dmitri Kozlov	Resilient Cyclic Knots for Studying of Form-Finding Methods
12.00-12.40	Francesco De Comite	Experimental Mathematics
15.00-15.40	Daniela Velichova	Minkowski Operators in Shape Modelling
15.40-16.20	Francesca Mereu	Point cloud library for 3D visualizations. Practice with visions project K.1 3D device.
16.20-17.00	Patrice Jeener	La gravure et les modèles mathématiques
18.30-19.30	Short play*	Frigoriferi dell'altro mondo
19.30-20.30	Welcome drink*

* Auditorium Comunale, Piazza Dettori 8
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorium_Comunale_di_Cagliari

19-09-2013

9.00-9.40	François Apéry	Joseph Caron et les modèles en bois de l'IHP
9.40-10.20	Renzo Caddeo, Gregorio Franzoni and Paola Piu	Inverting Beauty
10.40-11.20	Douglas Dunham	Angels and Devils on Triply Periodic Polyhedra
11.20-12.00	Livia Giacardi	Models in mathematics teaching in Italy (1850-1950)
15.00-15.40	Richard Denner	Polyhedral eversions of the sphere: first handmade models and JavaView applets
15.40-16.20	Andreas Daniel Matt	Challenges in the implementation and design of math art and math exhibition software
16.40-17.10	Claude Bruter	Mathematics for the working Artist Part II An introduction to the qualitative theory of cones
17.30-19.30	ESMA meeting

20-09-2013

9.00-9.40	Marcella G. Lorenzi Francaviglia	“Painting with Light”: from digital photography to futurism revisited The Möbius strip in art and architeture: From Romans to XX Century
9.40-10.20	Vincenzo Iorfida	Fractal Aesthetics by Algebraic Surfaces
10.40-11.20	Massimo Ferri	Mathematics and image retrieval
11.20-12.00	Renato Colucci	Some Ideas on Nonlinear Musical Analysis
	Exhibitions

First pictures of the conference:

Special summary of our talks made by our Italian colleague Gianluca Bande:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcf3fpcrphdjqed/doiyVCPlAN (cf: Newsletter December 2013 issue).

Preliminary List of Speakers:

• F. Apéry (Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse): "Joseph Caron et les modèles en bois de l'IHP"
  
• Claude Bruter (ex-Université Paris 12) (1: "Mathematical tools for working artists, Part II", 2: " The pedagogical virtues of the contents of Math & Art exhibitions")
  • An introduction to the qualitative theory of cones
• Francesco De Comite (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)
  
• Dmitri Kozlov (Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences, Moscow)
  
• Andreas Daniel Matt (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach)
  
• Renato Colucci, Gerardo R. Chacon and Sebastian Leguizamon C (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 No. 43-82 Bogota, Colombia) "Some Ideas on Nonlinear Musical Analysis"
  
• Denise Demaret-Pranville
  
• Richard Denner "Polyhedral eversions of the sphere : first handmade models and JavaView applets"
  
• Douglas DUNHAM "Angels and Devils on Triply Periodic Polyhedra"
• Michele Emmer (Roma La Sapienza)
  
• Massimo Ferri (Univ. Bologna ) "Mathematics and image retrieval"
• Gregorio Franzoni (Università di Cagliari)
  
• Livia Giacardi (Università degli Studi di Torino)
  
• Maritza Beatriz Granados Manjarres
• George Hart (Mathematical Sculptor, New York) "Giant Cardboard Constructions"
  
• Patrice Jeener "La gravure et les modèles mathématiques"
  
• Andreas Daniel Matt (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach) "Challenges in the implementation and design of math art and math exhibition software"
• Richard Palais (University of California at Irvine)
  
• Philippe Rips
  
• Alexei Sossinsky (Independent University of Moscow) "Normal Forms, Minimization, Beauty in Mathematics and Nature"
  
• Daniela Velichova (KM Sjf STU, Bratislava)

Organizers:

European Society for Mathematics and the Arts (ESMA)

Local Committee

• Gianluca Bande
  
• Renzo Caddeo
  
• Beniamino Cappelletti-Montano
  
• Gregorio Franzoni
  
• Andrea Loi
  
• Stefano Montaldo
  
• Monica Musio
  
• Paola Piu
  

Scientific Committee

François Apéry

Claude Bruter

Renzo Caddeo

Anatoly Fomenko

Michael Field

Dmitri Kozlov

Andreas Daniel Matt

Richard Palais

Location:

- Conference venue: Aula Magna Matematica, Palazzo delle Scienze, via Ospedale 72, 09124 Cagliari

- Exhibition venue: Cittadella dei Musei, Piazza Arsenale 8, 09124 Cagliari

Registration:

There are no registration fees. To register send an e-mail to Gianluca Bande (gbande@unica.it) with the following informations:
Name
Surname
Institution
E-mail
Arrival date
Departure date

Please write "ESMA registration" in the e-mail subject.