CONFERENCE ON �4-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS�

February 25-26, 2005

Sponsored by the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and the
Center for Decision Analysis

Social Science Plaza A2112

Friday, February 25 - (SCIENCE)

1:30-2:20
Davide Cervone
Union College, Dept. of Mathematics
"Decomposing the Four-Dimensional Hypercube and Hypersphere"
2-30-3:20 Ron Stern
UCI Department of Mathematics
"How Mathematicians View Dimension Four"
3:30-3:50 BREAK in SSPA 2142  
3:50-4:40
Richard Palais
UCI Department of Mathematics
"Time as an Extra Dimension in
Mathematical Visualization"

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Friday Evening, February 25
Tom Banchoff, Brown University, Dept. of Mathematics
"Four-dimensional Worlds: From 'Flatland' to Interactive Hypergraphics"
SSPA 1100 - 6:30-7:30
p.m.
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Saturday, February 26 - (ART & LITERATURE)

9:00-9:50
Linda Henderson
Univ. of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Art History

"The Spatial Fourth Dimension Comes Back in Art and Culture, 1950s-2000"

10-00-10:50
Tony Robbin
Mathematician, Artist, Author
"Artistic Strategies for Depicting Four-Dimensional Worlds"
11:00-11:20 BREAK in SSPA 2142  
11-20-12:10
William Lindgren
Slippery Rock Univ. Dept. of Mathematics
 "Some Newly Discovered Dimensions of Flatland"
12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK  


Saturday, February 26 - (VISUALIZATION)

2:00-2:50
George Francis
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dept. of Mathematics
"Why some things remain difficult to do in 4D"

3:00-3:50

Mike D'Zmura
UC Irvine, Dept. of Cognitive Science
"Navigation in 4-D Virtual Environments"
4:00-4:20
BREAK in SSPA 2142
 
4:20-5:10
Andy Hanson
Univ. of Indiana, Dept. of Computer Science
"Touching the Fourth Dimension"

 

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