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** PLEASE CIRCULATE ** ALL WELCOME ** Please note: There will be NO seminar in January. The next seminar will be: ART, AESTHETICS, GESTALT THEORY OF PERCEPTION AND THE COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF IMAGES An LKL Maths-Art seminar by Simon Morgan Thursday 10 February 2011, 6.00 - 7.30pm When we see shapes we make sense of them, capturing the essence amid the details, seeing the wood not just the trees. This relates to the notion of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts and Gestalt psychology dating from the pre-computer era. It also places the consideration of visual aesthetics into the context of objects or images as a whole. A drawing or painting will capture an essence of the subject without reproducing every detail. With a view to generating more questions than answers, we shall explore connections between ideas of Gestalt psychology theories of perception to the way computers now use mathematical functions to analyze and process images. This will take place against a backdrop of considering how art and aesthetics could fit into the discussion. BIOGRAPHY: Since he was a graduate student, SIMON MORGAN has been a frequent contributor to the Bridges Conference on connections between art and mathematics, as part of an educational geometry project. After graduating with a PhD in mathematics, he taught mathematics at the University of Minnesota and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on image analysis. He currently works in London, and remains actively involved with the educational geometry project in Britain and the United States. DATE: Thursday 10th February TIME: 6.00 to 7.30pm PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS [Travel information & maps at: http://bit.ly/LKL-MathsArt-venue ] FUTURE SEMINARS: March 10, Mary Harris, 'Some mathematics within? What actually goes on in some traditional textiles crafts?'; April 14, Nick Sayers; May 12, Daniel White; June 9, special origami/maths-art meeting co-organised with the British Origami Society. MATHFUTURE ONLINE EVENT, SATURDAY 15 JANUARY AT 7.00 PM (UK time): A live discussion with John Sharp. He will be talking about some of his work on geometry and art, and how the LKL Maths-art seminars developed from the 2006 Bridges conference held in London. To take part, or watch the live session go to http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/John+Sharp LKL Maths-Art seminars are free to attend, and All are welcome. No reservation is required, but an email to [log in to unmask] is appreciated for planning purposes ----------------------------------- *Visit the website and seminar archive: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/events/maths-art *Join the email list for future seminar announcements: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lkl-maths-art ++++++ Dr Phillip Kent, Visiting Fellow, London Knowledge Lab [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] www.phillipkent.net m: 07950 952034 ++++++ -- ++++++ Dr Phillip Kent, London, UK mathematics education technology research [log in to unmask] mobile: 07950 952034 www.phillipkent.net ++++++ "Anything can happen in the next half-hour" ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptible Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************