MIT Museum Hosts Free MoSAIC Math-Art Festival - December 11-12

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

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*MIT Museum Hosts a Free MoSAIC Math-Art Festival*

*December 11-12, 2015*

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*/Celebrating Math, Science, Art, Industry, & Culture (MoSAIC) /*

*/Travelling exhibition, activities and talks at the MIT Museum /*

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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^th from 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. and 
Saturday, December 12^th , 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.

MoSAIC - Mathematics of Science, Art, Industry & Culture is a festival 
/organized by the//Bridges Organization 
<http://bridgesmathart.org/home/> /and funded by the/Mathematical 
Sciences Research Institute <http://www.msri.org/web/msri> (MSRI), 
//the//Simons Foundation <https://www.simonsfoundation.org/>, //and 
the//Council for the Arts at MIT 
<http://arts.mit.edu/welcome/camit/aboutcamit/>/. 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:

*/_Friday, December 11_/*__

10:00 am - 8:00 pm: Art exhibit <http://bridgesmathart.org/mosaic/> open 
for viewing

10:00am - 5:00 pm:          Screening of math video shorts

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Second Fridays 
<http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/secondfridays.html> program with 
conversations about the math gender gap, challenging math activities, 
and presentations about math in art and culture.

/5:10 pm - 6:10 pm:           Professor //George Hart 
<http://georgehart.com/>//("From Math to Sculpture") and Professor David 
Reimann ("Mathematics of M.C.Escher's Art")///

/6:15 pm - 7:00 pm:           Dr. Rosalie Belanger-Rioux //(Harvard 
University <http://scholar.harvard.edu/rbr/home>),//Dr. Ken Fan (/Girl's 
Angle/ <http://girlsangle.org/>), and Meena Boppana (/Gender Inclusivity 
in Mathematics/ <http://harvardgiim.org/>) on /the gender gap in 
mathematics.//

/7:00 pm - 8:00 pm:           Slide rules demonstrations, Rubik's Cube 
challenges, knot tying, and many more math activities.///

*/_Saturday, December 12_/*__

10:00 am - 5:00 pm:         Art exhibit open for viewing

10:00 am - 12:00 pm:       Geometric Sculpture Assembly workshop with 
George Hart <http://georgehart.com/> (limited to 30 participants; free 
pre-registration required)

10:00 am - 12:00 pm:       Giant SOMA (cube-based puzzle) workshop with 
Elisabeth Heathfield (limited to 30 participants; free pre-registration 
required)

1:00 pm - 2:55 pm:           Robert Lang's Four Intersecting Triangles 
workshop with OrigaMIT <http://origamit.mit.edu/> (limited to 15 
participants; free pre-registration required)

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm:           Presentation & demonstration of math "toys" 
by Tadashi Tokieda 
<http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/video/toys-in-applied-mathematics>

3:05 pm - 4:30 pm:           Creating Escher-like Tesselations workshop 
with David Reimann (limited to 30 participants; free pre-registration 
required)

3:05 pm - 4:30 pm:           Mathematical Sculpture from Drinking Straws 
workshop with Zachary Abel <http://zacharyabel.com/> (limited to 40 
participants; free pre-registration required)

“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.

For more information on the MoSAIC Math-Art Festival at the MIT Museum: 
http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar/Math_fest.html. 
<http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar/Math_fest.html>

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