October 16th Bridges Lecture

Wed Oct 7 11:27:57 EDT 2015

Sorry, seems that the previous email did not contain the date of the lecture, next Friday October 16th.  My mistake. - Benoit

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Please join our moderator  Stephen Watt, Dean of the UW Faculty of Mathematics, at the first Bridges Lecture Series event of the 2015-2016 year: Deep Surfaces: geometrical challenges in digital design

This free lecture will being given by Benjamin Dillenburger (Architecture, University of Toronto) and Daniel Hambleton (Mathematics, MESH Consultants Inc.). It will take place in Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome’s University, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo starting at 7:30pm on Friday October 16th, with a reception to follow.

Central to the delivery of architecture is the digital representation and analysis of surfaces. Digital designers seek to imbue otherwise pure geometry with real world significance to develop a model that “survives” the transition from design intent to constructed object. During this transition, fundamental properties of differential geometry and topology interact with more real world considerations such as materiality, constructability, and cost. This lecture explores how recent developments in computation design enable the analysis and design of highly articulated, discrete surfaces and how these new forms are realized using novel digital fabrication methods. Through a series of examples, we conclude that the surfaces that underlie much of the current design process are becoming increasingly enriched with information to facilitate their transition to build objects.

For further information please follow the links: sju.ca/bridges<http://sju.ca/bridges> .

Register for our mailing list<http://www.sju.ca/contactus> if you would like to be included on further communications regarding the Bridges Lecture Series.

Please mark our upcoming lectures in your calendars:
November 27, 2015:  Thinking Machines
by Fiona Coll (English, SUNY Oswego) and E. Bruce Pitman (Math, SUNY Buffalo)
February 26, 2016: The Harmonograph
by Anita Chowdry (Visual Art, London, UK) and John Baez (Math, UC Riverside)
March 11, 2016: Mathematics, Music, and Visual Art
by Nathan Selikoff (Visual Art, Orlando, FL) and Dmitri Tymoczko (Math and Music, Princeton)

Contact Information:
Benoit Charbonneau 
Pure Mathematics 
519-888-4567 x37336 
benoit.charbonneau at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:benoit.charbonneau at uwaterloo.ca>

Alysia Kolentsis 
St Jerome's University 
519-884-8110 x28280 
amkolentsis at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:amkolentsis at uwaterloo.ca>
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