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Mathematics,
the Arts, and Other Surprising Connections:
October
26-28, 2006
Connecticut Valley Mathematics Colloquium
Mirela Ciperjani, speaker. Tea at 4:30 p.m. Talk at 5 p.m.
Mathematics Forum, Burton Hall third floor
Lecture "Aperiodic Penrose Alpha,"
by Helaman Ferguson, sculptor, mathematician. 8 p.m., Neilson
Browsing Room
Workshop "The Mathematics in Delicious
Rivers." 2:30 p.m., Mathematics Forum, Burton Hall
third floor
Lecture “Religious Heresy and Mathematical
Creativity in Russia," by Loren Graham, professor of
the history of science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
4:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room
Workshop "The Mathematics in Delicious
Rivers." 10:30 a.m., Mathematics Forum, Burton Hall
third floor
Lunch open to all festival attendees. Noon,
Neilson Browsing Room
Panel discussion "The Puzzle of Creativity."
Panelists: Helaman Ferguson; Ellen Maddow, theatre; Paul Zimet,
theatre; Pau Atela, mathematics and statistics; Andrea Hairston,
theatre. 1:30 p.m., Kahn Institute conference room, Neilson
Library third floor
Workshop "The Mathematics in Delicious
Rivers." 4 p.m., Mathematics Forum, Burton Hall
third floor
Workshop "The Mathematics in Delicious
Rivers." 2 p.m., Mathematics Forum, Burton Hall
third floor
Delicious RiversBy
Ellen Maddow, OBIE Award-winning writer and composer, in collaboration
with Marjorie Senechal, professor of mathematics and the history
of science. Directed by Paul Zimet, associate professor of
theater.
Set in a New York City post office, the play follows the intertwining
lives of four postal workers and three neighborhood apartment
dwellers and the variety of surprising twists and turns they
experience. Hallie
Flanagan Studio Theatre, Mendenhall Center for the Performing
Arts
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