Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 16, 2016 03:30:11
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
January 6-9, 2016 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1116
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on Current Areas of Interest in the Mathematical Sciences of Medieval Islam
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Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Current Areas of Interest in the Mathematical Sciences of Medieval Islam, I
Skagit 3, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
Organizers:
Mohammad K. Azarian, University of Evansville
Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
Emelie A. Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Generating the symmetries of medieval Islamic ornaments.
B. Grunbaum*, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
(1116-52-1213) -
9:30 a.m.
Intersecting Polygons/Exploring Space in Medieval Islamic Architecture.
Carol Bier*, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA
(1116-01-609) -
10:00 a.m.
Nizām al-Dīn `Abd al-`Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Husain al-Bīrjandī, a 16th Century Polymath Genius.
Mohammad K. Azarian*, University of Evansville
(1116-01-779) -
10:30 a.m.
Intersecting Squares: Geometric Compositions of Square Kufic Calligraphy in Bibi Khanum Mosque, Samarkand.
Mamoun Sakkal*, Principal, Sakkal Design
(1116-51-398) -
11:00 a.m.
Al-Kashi's Two Methods for Finding $\sin 1^{\circ}$.
Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
(1116-01-782)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Current Areas of Interest in the Mathematical Sciences of Medieval Islam, II
Skagit 3, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
Organizers:
Mohammad K. Azarian, University of Evansville
Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
Emelie A. Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Geometric Techniques in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture: From Strapwork Ornamentation to Quasicrystal Constructions.
Raymond Tennant*, Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
(1116-01-1223) -
1:30 p.m.
TALK CANCELLED: Creating Medieval Islamic Ornamentation.
B Lynn Bodner*, Mathematics Department Monmouth University
(1116-01-1993) -
2:00 p.m.
The Legacy of Al-Kashi: Why does it matter in the 21st century?
Nuh Aydin*, Kenyon College
Lakhdar Hammoudi, Ohio University-Chillicothe
(1116-01-375) -
2:30 p.m.
Mathematics in the Medieval Islamic West: Its Relationship to Hebrew and Latin Mathematics.
Victor J. Katz*, University of the District of Columbia
(1116-01-1327) -
3:00 p.m.
Modern math in medieval islamic architectural tilings.
Peter J Lu*, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(1116-01-1677) -
4:00 p.m.
The Arabic redaction of Euclid's Elements by al-\d{T}ūsī.
Gregg De Young*, The American University in Cairo
(1116-01-318)
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1:00 p.m.