TechniGraphicS Lecture Series
IIT Bombay and TechniGraphicS Foundation invite you to the TechniGraphicS Lecture on Monday, August 27, 2012. The details of the lecture are as follows:
Topic
Creativity in Art, Technology, and Science
Speaker:
Dr. Julio M. Ottino Dean, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Northwestern University
Date
Monday, August 27, 2012
Time & Venue : 4.00 pm, Main Auditorium, Victor Menezes Convention Centre All are invited. Abstract : Creativity is essential in art, in science, and in technology. But in what ways is creativity in these three areas different, and in what ways is it similar? Technology is about invention, making and building, and science is about unveiling, revealing what may already be there. Philosophers, placing the emphasis on uniqueness, have declared that science is ephemeral and that art is permanent; they placed artistic creation on the highest plane. However, is this actually true? Where does mathematics fall in this spectrum? Or more pragmatically, are there creative processes and lessons that can be transferred across domains? How do the domains intersect and enrich each other? I will argue that artistic creativity reveals processes that hold lessons for scientific and technological creativity. About the Speaker : Dr. Julio M. Ottino is the dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University where he holds the titles of Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P . Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Ottinos research has been featured in articles and on the covers of Nature, Science, Scientific American, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and other publications, and has impacted fields as diverse as complex systems, fluid dynamics, granular dynamics, microfluidics, geophysical sciences. One of his books, The Kinematics of Mixing: Stretching, Transport and Chaos, Cambridge (published in 1989, and reprinted in 1997), has become a classic in the field. His most recent book, with R. Sturman and S. Wiggins, is the Mathematical Foundations of Mixing: The Linked Twist Map as a Paradigm in Applications Micro to Macro, Fluids to Solids, and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. Dr. Ottinos interests are at the intersection of art, science and technology. He is currently working on a book about the creative processes connecting these domains
About Technigraphics Lecture Series The Technigraphics Lecture Series is made possible by a generous donation from the TechniGraphicS Foundation. Deepak Vaidya (IITB Alumnus of 1970, Chemical Engineering) is one of the trustees of the foundation and also the founder and chairman of TechniGraphicS. Past Technigraphics Lectures: A case study of Basic Research and Core Technology by Prof. Robert Gallager, MIT, USA on September 29, 2008. Remembering Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha by Prof. Devendra Lal, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, San Diego, USA on 22nd January 2009. Scaling Limits of Large Systems by Prof. S.R.S. Varadhan, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA. on 11th February 2009. Leonhard Euler -- his life, personality, discoveries and their impact today by Prof. Dr. Rolf Jeltsch, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland on November 23, 2009. Modular Biocatalysis by Prof. Chaitan Khosla, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stanford University, USA on September 9, 2010. From Ape to Angel: A Neurological Perspective on Human Nature by Dr. V .S. Ramachandran, MD, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego and Salk Institute, on December 7, 2010. And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth by Prof. Moshe Y. Vardi, Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering, Rice University, USA and Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, on December 15, 2011 Project Prakash: Illuminating Lives; Illuminating Science by Prof. Pawan Sinha, Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA, on January 12, 2012
