Past Events by Erik Demaine

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Exhibitions

March 19-31, 2012 Central Library, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
Atlanta, Georgia
!AHA! Art Exhibition with a Magical Mathematical Twist
invitational
Martin Gardner
limited-edition print
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
February 4–
April 29, 2012
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, Massachusetts
Mens et Manus
juried
curated by Perry Price
Fuller Craft Series
paper sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
January 27–
March 2, 2012
Moreau Center for the Arts, Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, Indiana
Math+Art Collaborative
invitational
curated by Steven Broad
paper and glass sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
January 19–
March 3, 2012
Guided By Invoices
Chelsea, New York City
solo show
curated by Chris Byrne
opening: January 19, 2012 at 6:00-8:00pm
Curved Crease Sculptures
paper sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
January 4-7, 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Boston, Massachusetts
Exhibition of Mathematical Art
juried
curated by Robert Fathauer
Science/Art
limited-edition print
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
October 12–
November 4, 2011
Sarah Silberman Art Gallery, Montgomery College
Rockville, Maryland
Art and Science Exhibition
invitational
curated by Kay McCrohan and Percy North
paper and glass sculptures and video
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
July 27-31, 2011 Bridges 2011: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Coimbra, Portugal
Exhibition of Mathematical Art
juried
Zipper Unfoldings
joint work with Martin L. Demaine, Anna Lubiw, Arlo Shallit, and Jonah L. Shallit
February–
April, 2011
Central Booking
Brooklyn, New York
Measure for Measure
invitational
curated by Maddy Rosenberg
“The Circle” series
paper sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine

Yes/No
limited-edition print
joint work with Martin L. Demaine and Sarah Stengle

January 13-16, 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Francisco, California
Exhibition of Mathematical Art
juried
curated by Robert Fathauer
Natural Cycles
paper sculpture
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
November 2009–
January, 2010
Peel Gallery
Houston, Texas
paper: torn twisted & cut
invitational
curated by Steven Hempel
opening: November 6, 2009 at 6:30-9:00pm
Pushing Curves to the Limit
paper sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
March 8-15, 2009 Art Cézar
Rotselaar, Belgium
Papier, Vergankelijke materie, Blijvende indrukken (Paper, Transient matter, Lasting impressions)
invitational
curated by Isabel De Craene
opening: March 7, 2009 at 14:00-19:00
Waves
paper sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
November 28, 2008–
October 12, 2009
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York City
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
invitational
curated by Paola Antonelli
Computational Origami
paper sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
February 24–
May 12, 2008
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York City
Design and the Elastic Mind
invitational
curated by Paola Antonelli
Computational Origami
paper sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
February 22–
March 10, 2007
Andrew and Laura McCain Gallery
Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada
solo show
curated by Mandy Ginson
“Fluency”
glass sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
2006 MIT Museum
Cambridge, Massachusetts
invitational “Elephant goblets”
glass sculptures
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
February 15-18, 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Junkyard Art: The Art of Recycling
mixed-media sculpture, joint show with students
April–
June, 2004
Boston Public Library
Boston, Massachusetts
Building with Books: A Bibliophile's Bedroom
mixed-media sculpture, joint show with students
February–
March, 2004
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Building with Books: A Bibliophile's Bedroom
mixed-media sculpture, joint show with students

Film Showings

April 12-22, 2012 6th Annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
Buffalo, New York
Apr. 14 @ 3:00-5:00pm Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
February 16-19, 2012 7th Annual Macon Film Festival
Macon, Atlanta
Douglass Theater
Friday @ 11:30-1:20pm
Sunday @ 6:40-8:25pm
Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
December 1-31, 2011 Creative Arts Film Festival Screening Room Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
November 4-19, 2011 30th Three Rivers Film Festival
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Competitive Shorts Program
Nov. 18 @ 7:00pm
Nov. 19 @ 3:30pm
Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
November 3-6, 2011 7th River's Edge International Film Festival
Paducah, Kentucky
Nov. 4 @ 9:00pm
Nov. 6 @ 3:00pm
Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
May 27–
August 28, 2011
Hallwylska museet
Stockholm, Sweden
Samtida konstglas från Murano — ur Fondazione di Venezias samlingar Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
April 30, 2011 MIT150: Under the Dome
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
April 8, 2011 Mobilia Gallery Glass Quake Symposium
Boston, Massachusetts
Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
April 7-9, 2011 The Entertainment Gathering
Monterey, California
Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
March 25-27, 2011 CraftBoston
Boston, Massachusetts
Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine
February 19–
May 22, 2011
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavilli-Franchetti
Venice, Italy
Lino Tagliapietra, da Murano allo Studio Glass, opere 1954–2011 Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician
joint work with Martin L. Demaine

Talks

April 27, 2012 Cambridge Science Festival
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Big Ideas for Busy People “Origami from Science to Sculpture”
March 30-31, 2012 Kentucky Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Louisville, Kentucky
Pólya Lecture “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
March 29, 2012 Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
William Marshall Bullitt Lecture “Geometric Puzzles: Algorithms and Complexity”
March 28-April 1, 2012 Gathering for Gardner 10
Atlanta, Georgia
“Rubik's Cubes and Super Mario Bros.”
March 9-10, 2012 Southeastern Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Atlanta, Georgia
Pólya Lecture “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
March 2-3, 2012 Louisiana/Mississippi Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Pólya Lecture and Anderson Distinguished Lecture “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
February 27-March 2, 2012 American Physical Society March Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts
Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Origami, Creasing, and Folding “Extreme Folding”
February 5, 2012 Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, Massachusetts
opening event for exhibit “Mens et Manus: Folded Paper of MIT” “Folding Paper: Visual Art Meets Mathematics”
January 12, 2012 Carnegie Institution for Science
Washington, DC
Carnegie Capital Science Evenings “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
January 11, 2012 National Security Agency
Washington, DC
Mathematics Colloquium “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
January 4-7, 2012 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Boston, Massachusetts
SIAM Minisymposium on Vistas in Applied, Computational, and Discrete Mathematics “Recent Results in Computational Geometry”
January 4-7, 2012 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Boston, Massachusetts
Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture “Geometric Puzzles: Algorithms and Complexity”
November 19, 2011 OrigaMIT Convention
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Computational Origami from Science to Sculpture”
November 7, 2011 University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Computer Science Colloquium Series “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
October 21, 2011 2nd Annual Martin Gardner Celebration of Mind
Boston, Massachusetts
“Algorithms for Solving Rubik's Cube”
October 17-21, 2011 18th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
Pisa, Italy
“Constructing Strings at the Nano Scale via Staged Self-Assembly”
October 14, 2011 Fields Institute
Toronto, Canada
Distinguished Lecture Series “Geometric Puzzles: Algorithms and Complexity”
October 13, 2011 Fields Institute
Toronto, Canada
Distinguished Lecture Series “Linkage Folding: From Erdős to Proteins”
October 12, 2011 Fields Institute
Toronto, Canada
Distinguished Lecture Series “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
July 12, 2011 Women's Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
June 27-30, 2011 14th Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry: In honor of Ferran Hurtado's 60th Birthday
Alcalá de Henares, Spain
“Geometric Puzzles: Algorithms and Complexity”
May 6-7, 2011 Michigan Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Pólya Lecture “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
April 29-30, 2011 79th Annual Wisconsin Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Menonomie, Wisconsin
Pólya Lecture “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
April 1-2, 2011 Missouri Section Spring Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Columbia, Missouri
Pólya Lecture “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
March 24, 2011 Central Booking
Brooklyn, New York
panel discussion
“Developments in Mathematical Art”
with George Hart, Martin Demaine, Susan Happersett, and Sarah Stengle (moderator)
March 3-4, 2011 Museum of Mathematics
New York, New York
Math Encounters “The Geometry of Origami, from Science to Sculpture”
February 26, 2011 Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Santa Rosa, California
Pólya Lecture “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
January 20, 2011 University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Distinguished Lecture Series “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
November 19-20, 2010 55th Annual Fall Sectional Meeting, Northeastern Section, Mathematical Association of America
Providence, Rhode Island
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
November 3-6, 2010 China-Japan Joint Conference on Computational Geometry, Graphs and Applications
Dalian, China
“Geometric Puzzles: Algorithms and Complexity”
October 29-30, 2010 20th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry
Stony Brook, New York
“Origami Transformers and Star Trek Replicators”
October 28, 2010 Renaissance Technologies
East Setauket, New York
Renaissance colloquium “Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
September 16, 2010 University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
Richard and Louise Guy Lecture “Magic, Origami and Puzzles: The Art of Mathematics”
July 29-30, 2010 NanoGagliato
Gagliato, Italy
“On Re-writing the Order and Border of Biomedicine: The Nano-Looking Glass”
July 29-30, 2010 NanoGagliato
Gagliato, Italy
“On Mathematical Nanomedicine”
July 13, 2010 Huamin Primary School
Singapore
“Computational Origami from Science to Sculpture”
July 13-17, 2010 5th International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education
Singapore
“Computational Origami from Science to Sculpture”
July 12, 2010 Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Singapore
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
July 2, 2010 Women's Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
June 28-30, 2010 36th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
Crete, Greece
“Algorithmic Graph Minors and Bidimensionality”
June 14-17, 2010 16th International Meeting on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming
Hong Kong, China
“Staged Assembly Algorithms”
April 17, 2010 17th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
Keene, New Hampshire
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
April 6-9, 2010 26th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science
Edinburgh, Scotland
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
March 24-28, 2010 Gathering for Gardner 9
Atlanta, Georgia
“Puzzling Ciphers: Origami Mazes & Elastic Letters”
March 1-5, 2010 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Data Structures “New Models of Computation”
February 22-26, 2010 Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Oberwolfach-Walke, Germany
Graph Theory Meeting “Bidimensionality”
January 21-23, 2010 The Entertainment Gathering
Monterey, California
Mathematics Is Art: Art Is Mathematics
with Martin L. Demaine
January 20, 2010 Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, Texas
“Folding Matter”
January 13-18, 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America
San Francisco, California
MAA Invited Paper Session on The Mathematics of Origami “Computational Origami from Science to Sculpture”
January 13-18, 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America
San Francisco, California
MAA Session on Arts and Mathematics, I “Mathematics Is Art”
January 6, 2010 Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
December 14-17, 2009 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Parameterized Complexity and Approximation Algorithms “Overview of Bidimensionality”
November 11-13, 2009 7th Japan Conference on Computational Geometry and Graphs
Kanazawa, Japan
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
September 7-9, 2009 17th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
Copenhagen, Denmark
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
September 6, 2009 British Science Festival
Guildford, England
Session on “From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami” “Computational Origami from Science to Sculpture”
September 5, 2009 British Origami Society Autumn Convention
Winchester, England
“Computational Origami from Science to Sculpture”
August 21-23, 2009 11th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium
Banff, Canada
“Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
August 19, 2009 5th International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication “The Theory and Practice of Origami”
July 26-30, 2009 12th Annual Conference of BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
Banff, Canada
“Mathematics Is Art”
July 15, 2009 Women's Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
July 10-11, 2009 5th International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks
Rhodes, Greece
“Actuator Nets: Folding, Reconfiguring, and Deploying Sensors”
May 11, 2009 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, New York
“Between the Folds: The Art and Science of Origami”
April 28, 2009 MIT Club of Belgium Gala Honoring Ferdinand Dierkens
Brussels, Belgium
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
March 5, 2009 Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux
Gembloux, Belgium
International Francqui Chair Lectures “Linkage Folding: From Erdős to Proteins”
February 19, 2009 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium
International Francqui Chair Lectures “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Geometric Folding Algorithms”
February 12-16, 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science
Chicago, Illinois
Mathematics of Origami: From the Joys of Recreation to the Frontiers of Research “Discussant”
December 2, 2008 Université Catholique de Louvain
Louvain, Belgium
International Francqui Chair Lectures “(Theoretical) Computer Science is Everywhere”
November 19, 2008 Université Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium
International Francqui Chair Lectures “Mathematics meets Art, Puzzles, and Magic: Fun with Algorithms”
October 15-17, 2008 DARPA InfoChemistry meeting
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Folding Matter”
September 22, 2008 Microsoft Research New England
Cambridge, Massachusetts
(Theoretical) Computer Science is Everywhere
August 2, 2008 MathFest 2008
Madison, Wisconsin
Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture Series “Fun with Algorithms and Folding III: Transformers: Reconfigurable Robots and Hinged Dissections”
August 1, 2008 MathFest 2008
Madison, Wisconsin
Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture Series “Fun with Algorithms and Folding II: Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Geometric Folding Algorithms”
July 31, 2008 MathFest 2008
Madison, Wisconsin
Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture Series “Fun with Algorithms and Folding I: Mathematics Meets Art, Puzzles, and Magic”
July 9, 2008 Women's Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
May 23, 2008 Tokyo University of Technology
Tokyo, Japan
Katayanagi Prize Lecture “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
May 14-16, 2008 3rd International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation
Victoria, Canada
“Algorithmic Graph Minors and Bidimensionality”
April 10, 2008 Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Katayanagi Prize Lecture “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
April 4, 2008 MIND'08: The Design and the Elastic Mind Symposium
New York, New York
“Computational Origami”
March 27-30, 2008 Gathering for Gardner 8
Atlanta, Georgia
“Hinged Dissections and Coin-Flipping Magic”
December 21, 2007 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Ishikawa, Japan
“Permuting Polygons”
with Stefan Langerman
October 4, 2007 IDEAS Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
“Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra”
June 29, 2007 Women's Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
April 13, 2007 University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Cantrell Lecture Series “Linkage Folding: From Erdős to Proteins”
April 12, 2007 University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Cantrell Lecture Series “Mathematics Meets Art, Puzzles, and Magic: Fun with Algorithms”
April 11, 2007 University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Cantrell Lecture Series “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
March 19-21, 2007 23rd European Workshop on Computational Geometry
Graz, Austria
“Computational Geometry through the Information Lens”
January 18, 2007 Denison University
Granville, Ohio
Anderson Science Lecture “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
November 16, 2006 Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
Gerhard Herzberg Lecture “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
September 11-15, 2006 14th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
Zürich, Switzerland
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
September 8-10, 2006 4th International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics, and Education
Pasadena, California
“The Mathemagic of Origami”
August 14-16, 2006 18th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Paul Erdős Memorial Lecture “Linkage Folding: From Erdős to Proteins”
July 27-30, 2006 International Puzzle Party 2006
Boston, Massachusetts
“Folding Puzzles: Origami, Mathematics, and Algorithms”
July 13, 2006 Women's Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
July 2-8, 2006 Analysis of Algorithms 2006
Alden Biesen, Belgium
“Adaptive Analysis of Algorithms: Sets and Curves”
June 18-22, 2006 Discrete and Computational Geometry—Twenty Years Later
Snowbird, Utah
AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference “Linkage Folding: From Steam Engines to Proteins”
May 2, 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Theory Colloquium “Linkage Folding: From Steam Engines to Proteins”
April 14, 2006 Université Catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
“Origami, Polyhedra, and Linkages: Folding with Algorithms”
June 29, 2005 Women's Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
June 19, 2005 BIRS Combinatorial Game Theory Workshop
Banff, Canada
“Solving Puzzles with Algorithms: Coins, Telescopes, and Tetris”
May 7, 2005 The Time Traveler Convention
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Algorithmic Time Travel”
May 7, 2005 Museum of Science
Boston, Massachusetts
MIT-CSAIL Speaker Series “Computational Origami”
April 21, 2005 Defense Science Research Council Spring Review
Washington, DC
“Origami as the Shape of Things to Come”
March 11, 2005 Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University
Brooklyn, New York
Departmental Seminar Series “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
February 19, 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science
Washington, DC
“Mathematics Meets Origami, Art, Puzzles, and Magic: Fun with Algorithms”
January 2005 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America
Atlanta, Georgia
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
January 21, 2005 ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Seminar der Theoretischen Informatik “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
December 2004 15th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
Hong Kong, China
“Puzzles, Art, and Magic with Algorithms”
October 2004 12th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
Harlem, New York
“Fast Algorithms for Hard Graph Problems: Bidimensionality, Minors, and Local Treewidth”
October 2004 University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada
Computer Science Invitational Lecture Series “Puzzles, Art, and Magic with Algorithms”
August 25, 2004 Microsoft Research
Redmond, Washington
“Approximation Algorithms for Embedding with Extra Information and Ordinal Relaxation”
July 2004 Oakland University Summer Mathematics Institute
Rochester, Michigan
Distinguished Colloquium Speaker “Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
May 2004 3rd International Conference on FUN with Algorithms
Isola d'Elba, Italy
“Puzzles, Art, and Magic with Algorithms”
April 2004 Gathering for Gardner VI
Atlanta, Georgia
“Picture-Hanging and Jigsaw Puzzles”
April 2004 INFORMS Conference on OR/MS Practice
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Session on New Trends/Emerging Ideas “How to Mow Your Lawn or Find a Bridge along a River: Algorithms for Geometric Optimization”
April 2004 Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
2004 Arnold Dresden Lectures “Paper, Polyhedra, and Linkages: Folding with Algorithms” and “Linkages: From Steam Engines to Protein Folding”
March 2004 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Data Structures “Logarithmic Lower Bounds in the Cell-Probe Model”
March 8, 2004 Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
Geometry-Algebra-Singulaties-Combinatorics Seminar “Paper, Polyhedra, and Linkages: Folding with Algorithms”
January 14, 2004 Workshop on Dynamic Algorithms and Applications
New Orleans, Louisiana
“Retroactive data structures”
December 4, 2003 University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
VIGRE Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium “Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
November 10, 2003 Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey
Theoretical Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar “Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
October 2003 Eindhoven-Carleton Workshop on Computational Geometry
Hilversum, Netherlands
“Open problems in cache-oblivious geometric data structures”
August 2003 MSRI Introductory Workshop in Discrete and Computational Geometry
Berkeley, California
“Folding and Unfolding: Linkage Folding” and “Folding and Unfolding: Computational Origami”
May 2003 DIMACS Workshop on Geometric Optimization
Piscataway, New Jersey
“Online Searching with Turn Cost”
May 3, 2003 National Science Bowl Science Day
Chevy Chase, Maryland
“Origami, linkages, and polyhedra: Folding with algorithms”
March 2003 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Computational Geometry “Instance-optimal algorithms for black-box curve manipulation”
February 19, 2003 Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Computer Science Colloquium “Frequency Estimation of Internet Packet Streams with Limited Space”
January 16, 2003 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America
Baltimore, Maryland
Special Session on Discrete Models “Algorithms for Estimating Trends in a Stream of Network Packets Using Little Memory”
December 13, 2002 IBM/NYU/Columbia Theory Day
New York, New York
“Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
October 2002 AMS Fall Central Section Meeting
Madison, Wisconsin
Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces “An Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding”
September 2002 University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy
Dipartimento di Informatica “How Small Can You Make an Index of the Web?”
August 2002 Conference on Discrete, Combinatorial and Computational Geometry
Beijing, China
“Infinitesimally Locked Linkages with Applications to Locked Trees”
June 2002 Facility Location Optimization Workshop
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Competitive Facility Location: The Voronoi Game”
April 2002 Gathering for Gardner V
Atlanta, Georgia
“Folding and Cutting Paper”
April 2002 Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia
College of Computing “Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
April 2002 Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
EECS Colloquium “Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
February 2002 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory “PushPush is PSPACE-complete”
February 2002 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Data Structures “Cache-Oblivious Traversal of a Dynamic List”
February 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science
Boston, Massachusetts
Mathematics and Science of Origami: Visualize the Possibilities “Recent Results in Computational Origami”
February 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science
Boston, Massachusetts
Symposium on Robot Arm Manipulation: Geometric Challenges “Locked and Unlocked Polygonal Chains”
December 2001 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting
Toronto, Canada
Special Session on History of Mathematics “History of Geometric Constructions by Paper Folding”
December 2001 University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Department of Computer Science “Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
December 13, 2001 Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
EAS Computer Science Colloquium Series “Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
October 2001 Massachussets Institute of Technology Combinatorics Seminar “Playing Games with Algorithms: Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory”
October 2001 Massachussetts Institute of Technology Applied Mathematics Colloquium “Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry”
August 2001 26th Symposium on Mathematical Foundations in Computer Science
Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic
“Playing Games with Algorithms: Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory”
June 2001 University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Student Conference
Waterloo, Canada
“Playing Games with Algorithms”
April 2001 AMS Spring Western Section Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Unknotting “Infinitesimally Locked Linkages with Applications to Locked Trees”
April 2001 Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
“Folding and Unfolding Linkages, Paper, and Polyhedra”
March 2001 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Computational Geometry “When Can You Fold a Map?”
January 2001 Shannon Laboratory, AT&T Labs Research
Florham Park, New Jersey
“Cache-Oblivious Search Trees”
January 2001 Department of Computer Science, State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York
“Flipping Polygons”
December 2000 Department of Information Science, University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
“Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs”
December 2000 Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong, China
“Straightening Polygonal Arcs and Convexifying Polygonal Cycles”
November 2000 Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry 2000
Tokyo, Japan
“Folding and Unfolding Linkages, Paper, and Polyhedra”
October 2000 Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Discrete Geometry and Graph Theory Seminar “Folding and Unfolding Linkages, Paper, and Polyhedra”
October 2000 Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York
“Cutting Polygons with a Circular Saw”
September 2000 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Experimental Algorithmics “Experience with Adaptive Set Intersection”
September 2000 AMS Fall Central Section Meeting
Toronto, Canada
Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry “Minimum-Turn Milling”
August 2000 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming
Atlanta, Georgia
Session on Geometric Instances of Graph Optimization Problems “Minimum-Turn Milling”
June 2000 10th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minisymposium on Computational Geometry: Folding “Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs”
June 2000 University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Student Conference
Waterloo, Canada
“Research is Fun: A Brief Look at Some Work in Algorithms”
May 2000 Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Oberwolfach-Walke, Germany
Discrete Geometry Meeting “Folding and Unfolding Linkages, Paper, and Polyhedra”
April 2000 2000 AMS Spring Eastern Section Meeting #952
Lowell, Massachusetts
Special Session on Discrete Geometry “Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs”
April 2000 Department of Computer Science, University at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
Algorithms seminar “Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs”
March 2000 Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Mittagsseminars “Matchings in Cubic Planar Graphs”
March 2000 Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Informatik-Kolloquiums “Folding and Unfolding Polyhedra”
March 2000 Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada
Tutte Colloquium “Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs”
March 2000 Department of Computer Science, Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts
Computational Geometry Lecture “Folding and Cutting Paper”
March 2000 Department of Computer Science, Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts
Research Seminar “PushPush is NP-hard in 2D”
February 2000 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Seminar on Data Structures “Adaptive Set Intersections, Unions, and Differences”
January 2000 Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
New York, New York
Geometry Seminar “Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs”
December 1999 4th Geometry Festival
Budapest, Hungary
“Collapsing Polyhedra”
December 1999 Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Algorithmic Discrete Mathematics Graduate Program “Folding and Cutting Paper”
October 1999 Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
“Folding and Unfolding Polyhedra”
October 1999 School of Computer Science, Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
“Straightening Chains and Convexifying Polygons”
June 1999 Monte Verite Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry
Ascona, Switzerland
“Straightening Chains and Convexifying Polygons”
April 1999 Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada
Algorithms and Complexity Seminar “Straightening Chains and Convexifying Polygons”
April 1999 Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Theory Seminar “Straightening Chains and Convexifying Polygons”
March 1999 Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York
“Straightening Chains and Convexifying Polygons”
March 1999 School of Computer Science, McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Algorithms Seminar “Straightening Chains and Convexifying Polygons”
November 1998 Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada
Tutte Colloquium “Efficient Algorithms for Petersen's Matching Theorem”
November 1998 Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York
“Folding and Cutting Paper”
October 1998 School of Computer Science, McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Algorithms Seminar “Folding and Cutting Paper”
May 1998 University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, Canada
“Higher-Order Concurrency in Java”
March 1998 Schloss Dagstuhl
Wadern, Germany
Data Structures Seminar “Efficient Algorithms for Petersen's Matching Theorem”
January 1998 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America
Baltimore, Maryland
Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding “Folding and Cutting Paper”
September 1997 Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
Colloquia Series “Higher-Order Concurrency in Java”

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Last updated April 11, 2012 by Erik Demaine.