London Heilbronn Colloquium 2023: Tadashi Tokieda
15 May 2023, by in Sponsored eventsThursday 1 June 2023 at 12:30
Department of Mathematics, University College London, UK
The London Heilbronn Colloquia are a series of triannunal lectures by distinguished mathematicians and theoretical physicists at the forefront of current research. They are aimed at a general mathematical audience and informal interaction with the speaker.
Organiser: Yiannis Petridis (UCL)
A World from a Sheet of Paper
Tadashi Tokieda, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University, USA
Starting from just a sheet of paper, by folding, stacking, crumpling, sometimes tearing, we shall explore a diversity of phenomena, from magic tricks and geometry through elasticity and the traditional Japanese art of origami to medical devices and an ‘h-principle’. Much of the show consists of table-top demonstrations, which you can try later with friends and family.
So, take a sheet of paper. . .
About the Speaker: Tadashi Tokieda is a professor of mathematics at Stanford. He grew up as a painter in Japan, became a classical philologist (not to be confused with philosopher) in France and, having earned a PhD in pure mathematics from Princeton, has been an applied mathematician in England and the US; all in all he has lived in 8 countries so far. He is also active in outreach, especially via the youtube channel Numberphile and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Information on past and future colloquia is available here
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