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<p class="MsoNormal">forwarded message<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>MIT
Museum Hosts a Free MoSAIC Math-Art Festival<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>December
11-12, 2015<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i>Celebrating
Math, Science, Art, Industry, & Culture (MoSAIC) <o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i>Travelling
exhibition, activities and talks at the MIT Museum <o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">CAMBRIDGE, MA –
December 3, 2015 – The MIT Museum will host the MoSAIC Math-Art
Festival celebrating the connections between mathematics and the
arts on Friday, December 11<sup>th</sup> from 10:00 a.m. – 8:00
p.m. and Saturday, December 12<sup>th</sup>, from 10:00 a.m. –
5:00 p.m. Admission to the MIT Museum and to this special
festival will be free on both days, and open to the public. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">MoSAIC - Mathematics
of Science, Art, Industry & Culture is a festival <em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">organized
by the</span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="http://bridgesmathart.org/home/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-style:normal">Bridges
Organization</span></a> </span></em><span
class="SubtitleChar"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%">and funded by the</span></span><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <a
href="http://www.msri.org/web/msri"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-style:normal">Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute</span></a> (MSRI), </span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">the</span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <a
href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-style:normal">Simons
Foundation</span></a>, </span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">and
the</span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="http://arts.mit.edu/welcome/camit/aboutcamit/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-style:normal">Council
for the Arts at MIT</span></a></span></em>. The purpose
of the MoSAIC project is to promote awareness and interest in
mathematics through its connection to the arts. The MoSAIC
Math-Art Festival includes a variety of hands-on workshops,
presentations, a mathematical art exhibit, and short math films
geared toward high school age students and older. Scheduled
activities include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><strong><i><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Friday,
December 11</span></u></i></strong><u><o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white">10:00
am - 8:00 pm: <a
href="http://bridgesmathart.org/mosaic/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Art exhibit</span></a>
open for viewing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white">10:00am
- 5:00 pm: Screening of math video shorts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white">5:00
pm - 8:00 pm: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/secondfridays.html"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Second
Fridays</span></a> program with conversations about the math
gender gap, challenging math activities, and presentations about
math in art and culture.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white"><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">5:10
pm - 6:10 pm: Professor </span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a
href="http://georgehart.com/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-style:normal">George
Hart</span></a></span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">
("From Math to Sculpture") and Professor David Reimann
("Mathematics of M.C.Escher's Art")</span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white"><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">6:15
pm - 7:00 pm: Dr. Rosalie Belanger-Rioux </span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(<a
href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/rbr/home"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-style:normal">Harvard
University</span></a>),</span></em><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">
Dr. Ken Fan (<a href="http://girlsangle.org/"><i><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Girl's
Angle</span></i></a>), and Meena Boppana (<a
href="http://harvardgiim.org/"><i><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Gender
Inclusivity in Mathematics</span></i></a>) on </span></em>the
gender gap in mathematics.<i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">7:00
pm - 8:00 pm: Slide rules demonstrations, Rubik's
Cube challenges, knot tying, and many more math activities.</span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><strong><i><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Saturday,
December 12</span></u></i></strong><u><o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white">10:00
am - 5:00 pm: Art exhibit open for viewing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white">10:00
am - 12:00 pm: Geometric Sculpture Assembly workshop with
<a href="http://georgehart.com/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">George Hart</span></a>
(limited to 30 participants; free pre-registration required)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white">10:00
am - 12:00 pm: Giant SOMA (cube-based puzzle) workshop
with Elisabeth Heathfield (limited to 30 participants; free
pre-registration required) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white">1:00
pm - 2:55 pm: Robert Lang's Four Intersecting
Triangles workshop with <a href="http://origamit.mit.edu/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">OrigaMIT</span></a>
(limited to 15 participants; free pre-registration required) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white">2:00
pm - 2:45 pm: Presentation & demonstration of math
"toys" by <a
href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/video/toys-in-applied-mathematics"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Tadashi
Tokieda</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white">3:05
pm - 4:30 pm: Creating Escher-like Tesselations
workshop with David Reimann (limited to 30 participants; free
pre-registration required)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white">3:05
pm - 4:30 pm: Mathematical Sculpture from Drinking
Straws workshop with <a href="http://zacharyabel.com/"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Zachary Abel</span></a>
(limited to 40 participants; free pre-registration required) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in;line-height:150%;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">“The MIT Museum is
thrilled to collaborate with the Bridges Organization and MSRI
to host the MoSAIC Festival,” said Brindha Muniappan, MIT Museum
Programs Director. “The festival will provide interesting math
connections for our community and will help people understand
the many ways in which mathematics is part of our everyday
lives,” said Muniappan. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">For more information
on the MoSAIC Math-Art Festival at the MIT Museum: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar/Math_fest.html"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar/Math_fest.html">http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar/Math_fest.html</a>.</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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