Public Lecture Abstract

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Dan Rockmore Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College with an expertise in Signal and Imaging Processing. He is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Director of the SFI Complex Systems Summer School. He is the author of Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis and co-author of Music and Computers: A Theoretical and Historical Approach. He has also co-produced two documentaries: "The Math Life," and "Mind in the Machine-The Discovery of Artificial Intelligence" and his new documentary on math in the life sciences, "The Extra Sense" will be completed this fall.

Stylish Mathematics

Discussant: D. Eric Smith, Professor, Santa Fe Institute

All too often we see mathematics and the arts as two different sides of the science/humanities coin. In this talk Rockmore explores a place where the two come naturally together through new research. In today's world in which almost all aspects of life are brought to the common medium of the computer, it is now possible to quantify and extract the style of an artist via computation. Examples are gleaned from the literary, visual, and dance arts, and include applications to the problem of authentication.