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spotlight: join the fold: origami master visits MIT | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Origami master Robert J. Lang is MIT artist-in-residence November 11-17 |
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Master origami artist Robert J. Lang will present his art and the mathematics behind it in a series of lectures and hands-on workshops at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, Lang will also visit classes, tour labs, and share meals with faculty, staff, and students including members of MIT's Origami Club. Events Thursday, Nov. 11, 7 pm, room 32-123 (Stata Center, 32 Vassar St) Robert Lang will present an overview of his origami work, both artistic and mathematical, in this lecture for a general audience. Saturday, Nov. 13, 2-4 pm This workshop for novice folders will teach folding techniques, and is for anyone with at least a small amount of experience with origami (extensive knowledge or ability is not required). To learn the location, register by sending email to edemaine@mit.edu. Monday, Nov. 15, 11 am-12:30 pm, room 4-231 Lang will present a technical lecture on the mathematics and algorithms behind his designs. Familiarity with mathematics and algorithms will be assumed. Tuesday, Nov. 16, 4 pm, Quantum Books Dr. Lang will be signing his latest book, Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Models for an Ancient Art at Quantum Books. Tuesday, Nov. 16, 7-9 pm This workshop is an advanced origami design workshop for a small number of experienced folders who are either looking to start designing their own models or are looking to refine their design skill. To learn the location, register by sending email to edemaine@mit.edu. About Robert Lang Robert Lang has been an avid student of origami for over thirty years and is now recognized as one of the world's leading masters of the art, with over 400 designs catalogued and diagrammed. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created. His work combines aspects of the Western school of mathematical origami design with the Eastern emphasis upon line and form to yield models that are at once distinctive, elegant, and challenging to fold. A pioneer of the cross disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics, Lang has presented several refereed technical papers on 'origami-math' at mathematical and computer science professional meetings. He has consulted on the applications of origami to engineering problems ranging from air-bag design to expandable space telescopes. Robert Lang has been one of the few Western columnists for Origami Tanteidan Magazine, the journal of the Japan Origami Academic Society. Additonally, he was the first Westerner invited to address the Nippon (Japan) Origami Association's annual meeting (in 1992) and has been an invited guest at international origami conventions around the world. His work has been shown in exhibitions in Paris, New York, Boston, San Diego, and Tokyo, among others. After a successful career as a physicist and engineer, during which he authored or co-authored over 80 technical publications and 40 patents on semiconductor lasers, optics and integrated optoelectronics, Lang is now a full-time origami artist and author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles on origami. He resides in Alamo, California. This residency is hosted by MacArthur Award winning Professor Erik Demaine in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, whose love of origami came out of his interest in the mathematics of folding. He now studies folds in proteins and believes that computational origami could eventually lead to the design of custom proteins that fight disease. For more information about Dr. Lang's work, visit his website: http://www.langorigami.com For more information about origami at MIT, contact OrigaMIT, the origami club at MIT. |
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