Please join the Mathematics Department and guest Satyan Devadoss, Fletcher Jones Chair of Applied Math, University of San Diego for a discussion on the interactive sculpture titled "Unfolding Humanity" exhibited at Burning Man 2018. 

2 Apr
11:45 am
Add to Calendar 2019-04-02 11:45:00 2019-04-02 11:45:00 Unfolding Mathematics at Burning Man with Satyan Devadoss Please join the Mathematics Department and guest Satyan Devadoss, Fletcher Jones Chair of Applied Math, University of San Diego for a discussion on the interactive sculpture titled "Unfolding Humanity" exhibited at Burning Man 2018.  Fowler 202 Occidental College info@kwallcompany.com America/Los_Angeles public
Location: Fowler 202
Event Date: Apr. 2, 2019

A 2-ton interactive sculpture came to life at Burning Man 2018, the world’s most influential large-scale sculpture showcase.  Rising 12 feet tall with an 18-foot wingspan in the Nevada desert, the unfolding dodecahedron was illuminated by 16,000 LEDs, requiring 6500 person-hours and $40,000 in funds.  Its interior, large enough to hold 15 people, was fully lined with massive mirrors, alluding to a possible shape of our universe. The unfolding exterior points to the 500-year-old work of Albrecht Durer, and the tantalizing open problem of discovering a geometric unfolding for every convex polyhedron. We discuss the state-of-the-art, and consider higher-dimensional unfolding analogs, with elegant geometric and combinatorial relationships. 

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