AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 22, 2008 00:20:42

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2008 Spring Eastern Meeting
New York, NY, March 15-16, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1036

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Special Session on Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and Mathematics

• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and Mathematics, I
  Room 802, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher J. Fearnley, Synergetics Collaborative cjf@cjfearnley.com
  Joe Clinton, Synergetics Collaborative jclinton@kennett.net
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Participants Introductions/Moderated Q&A on Buckminster Fuller's Mathematics, I
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Break
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Participants Introductions/Moderated Q&A on Buckminster Fuller's Mathematics, II
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Explorations to define a Theory of Foldable Great Circle Origami.
    CJ Fearnley*, Synergetics Collaborative
    (1036-51-30)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Structural Skew Topology (SST): geometric topology. three-dimensional linkages and knots, a new paradigm for the meaning and interpretation of structure and fields.
    Charles Donald Briddell*, Independent researcher, member of Synergetic Collaborative (SNEC), fieldstructure.org, Mt. Airy, MD
    (1036-54-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The structure of particles as explained by the Structural Skew Topology of Field Structure Theory producing a Particle Hierarchy Chart.
    Charles Donald Briddell*, Independent researcher, member of Synergetic Collaborative (SNEC), fieldstructure.org, Mt. Airy, MD
    (1036-70-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Synergetic structures of topological knots and links as physical models of point surfaces in 3D space.
    Dmitri Kozlov*, Research institute of the theory and history of architecture, Russian Academy of the Architecture and Building Sciences
    (1036-54-23)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and Mathematics, II
  Room 802, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher J. Fearnley, Synergetics Collaborative cjf@cjfearnley.com
  Joe Clinton, Synergetics Collaborative jclinton@kennett.net
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    R. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetic 'Jitterbug:' its fascination and some challenges.
    Joseph D. Clinton*, West Chester, PA
    (1036-00-35)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal Tensegrity Systems.
    R E Skelton*, UCSD
    (1036-06-38)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Tensegrities.
    Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
    (1036-52-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some Geometric Invariants of a Class of Tensile-Integrity Structures.
    Roger S. Tobie*, Princeton, NJ
    (1036-51-33)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Scientific Storytelling: How to Increase Pattern Recognition of the Primordial Units of Structural Integrity.
    Thomas Miller*, Manhattan, NY
    (1036-51-137)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Prototyping of forms in structural morphology.
    Romuald Tarczewski*, Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
    Waldemar Bober, Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
    (1036-52-34)

Inquiries:  meet@ams.org

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