Richard James - Atomistically inspired origami
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The World population is growing at about 80 million per year. As time goes by, there is necessarily less space per person. Perhaps this is why the scientific community seems to be obsessed with folding things. In this lecture Dick James presents a mathematical approach to “rigid folding” inspired by the way atomistic structures form naturally – their features at a molecular level imply desirable features for macroscopic structures as well, especially 4D structures. Origami structures even suggest an unusual way to look at the Periodic Table.

Richard D. James is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota.

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Date: 26 June 2018, 18:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Speaker: Richard James (University of Minnesota)
Organising department: Mathematical Institute
Organiser: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: lumbard@maths.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
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Cost: n/a
Audience: Public
Editor: Dyrol Lumbard