Search Research Symposium Abstracts

Modeling the artistic experience: how applied mathematics can help us harness the power of art therapy to heal our bodies and minds

Aesthetic experiences—that is, the creation, consumption, and appreciation of art and aesthetic stimuli—are as fundamental to our human existence as eating, sleeping, and breathing. Moreover, they are intrinsically linked to our physical and mental health, with art-based therapies and interventions demonstrating a significant capacity to ameliorate a [Read More...]

Presenter: Stephanie Lewkiewicz, Temple University
Authors: Stephanie Lewkiewicz
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Women, Art, and Mathematics (WAAM)
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 8:50 am

Tess-celestial: immersive science approach to mathematics

This talk focuses on mathematics behind Tess-celestial that build on open and immersive science concepts. Tess-celestial is an exhibit that features tessellations of the hyperbolic plane, also available at https://immersive-scholar.github.io/tess-celestial/. It explores the interplay of art, nature, culture, shape, perspective, and mathematics in everyday [Read More...]

Presenter: Radmila Sazdanovic, NC State University
Authors: Radmila Sazdanovic
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Women, Art, and Mathematics (WAAM)
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 9:15 am

A Toplogical Jounal of the Plague Year*

In this dance piece to be presented, five salient experiences and events of the first year of the COVID 19 pandemic – the shutdown and social distancing, the course of COVID infections, the events around the death of George Floyd, the so-called New Normal everyday life, and the vaccines and mutations – are matched with metaphors from basic point-set [Read More...]

Presenter: Claudia Maria Schmidt, California State University at Los Angeles
Authors: Claudia Maria Schmidt
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Women, Art, and Mathematics (WAAM)
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 9:20 am

Literary Incarnations of Perfectoid Diamonds*

In this talk, we present our exciting literary incarnations of perfectoid diamonds, in the sense of Scholze, appearing in our newest fantastical mathematical-fiction novel, Artemis Blu II: Infinity Diamonds in Infinity Diapsalmata. The first incarnation is a new idea of a perfectoid-diamond hourglass, which measures emergent time as a Carrollian [Read More...]

Presenter: Shanna Dobson, University of California, Riverside
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Women, Art, and Mathematics (WAAM)
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 10:05 am

Mathematics and Emotions*

In this 15 minutes expository talk, I will explore how emotions play a vital role in a person’s mathematical journey through a collection of personal stories. Considered as the most logical subject, mathematics is usually completely separated from emotions in our conscious practice. As a consequence, the emotional aspect of one’s mathematical experiences [Read More...]

Presenter: Maiko Serizawa,
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Women, Art, and Mathematics (WAAM)
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 10:30 am