Dan Rockmore, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
June 13, 2007

All too often we see mathematics and the arts as two different sides of the science/humanities coin. In this talk Rockmore explores a place where the two come naturally together through new research. In today's world in which almost all aspects of life are brought to the common medium of the computer, it is now possible to quantify and extract the style of an artist via computation. Examples are gleaned from the literary, visual, and dance arts, and include applications to the problem of authentication.

A short movie inspired on Escher's works and a free vision on how it could be his workplace.
Go to etereaestudios.com for more information: “inspirations” behind the movie both from the Arts and Maths, stills and more.
Music “Lost Song” by Ólafur Arnalds from the album “Found Songs” - olafurarnalds.com

Françoise Chatelin is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole and head of the Qualitative Computing group at the Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formulation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (Cerfacs) in Toulouse, France. Her expertise ranges from spectral theory for linear operations in Banach spaces to finite precision computation of very large eigenproblems. She currently investigates the mathematical ways by which the human mind builds its image of the world.

Changing Perceptions of Math by Teaching Students to Teach Themselves

Sean
After growing up in Europe and completing his undergraduate education at Southern Methodist University, Sean accepted an offer from Teach For America (TFA) to be a High School Math teacher in Hawai'i. After finishing
his two-year commitment to TFA and his master's degree
at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, his passion convinced him to stay on at Waipahu High School despite other opportunities. This passion continues to inspire him as he teams up with Dan Nash to reshape the very perceptions of how people learn.

"Why Using Mathematics To Predict The Future Is Futile, And Why We Should Do It Anyway" Dr. Tony Fisher, Acting Principal and former Mathematics Department Chair at Hunter College High School. His mathematics research at the University of Chicago focused on finite group theory. He has taught everything from Algebra I to Calculus, as well as elective courses in statistics and "alternative geometries." Most recently, he led students in weekly seminars on unsolved problems in number theory, plane geometry and modern algebra.

Lawrence Krauss interviewed by Steve Omohundro and Adam A. Ford after the Singularity Summit Australia 2011 http://summit2011.singinst.org.au

It looks impossible to avoid [singularity] - if you can cool things down quite a lot. It is amusing the idea that the universe gives a limit in to intelligence in our human timescale.
Mathmatical complexity is not as much of a constraint to thinking about physics as it used to be (thanks to things like Mathematica).
Will AIs in the future have different understandings of quantum processes?

Pawel Golik -- geneticist and molecular biologist. Heads the Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology at the University of Warsaw. Works on genetics and evolution of mitochondria, RNA processing and mitochondrial diseases. Pawel talked about how the Human Genome Project changed our views on genetics.

"The Theory That Would Not Die" How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy"

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.

Evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak and author Roger Highfield explain how cooperation and altruism fit into the larger evolutionary puzzle. Chaired by Jonathan Rowson.

From rockets to stock markets, math powers many of humanity's most thrilling creations. So why do kids lose interest? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.