Preliminary Program

 

 

Monday September 11

 

09.00-10.00    Registration

 

10.00                Opening of the workshop by Mrs. Martje Kruk, manager of the Lorentz Center, and the organizers.

 

10.30-11.15    Two workshops in parallel sessions

 

11.30-12.15    Two workshops in parallel sessions.

 

Workshop 1:    Huseyin Sen and Wilfred de Graaf (Utrecht, NL), 'Escher and Islamic tilings'

 

Workshop 2:    Mark Roelands, Daan van Well (Leiden, NL), Behrooz Zabihian (Tehran, Iran), 'Penrose-tilings'

 

12.15                Lunch.

 

14.00-15.00    Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh, UK), 'The role of geometry in Islamic art and architecture'

 

15.15-16.15    Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Silvia Harmsen (Heidelberg, Germany), 'Muqarnas, Cultural Heritage and Mathematical Challenge'

 

16.30                Official opening of the exhibition on tilings by Mr. Ata Mesbah, Minister Counsellor of the Embassy of the I.R. Iran in the Netherlands.

 

                          Brief introductions of the artists: Elviera Wersche (Nuenen, NL), Coskun Celik (Esch, NL), Behrooz Zabihian (Tehran, Iran), Farnoosh Mortazavi (Tehran, Iran), Nina Mortazavi (Tehran, Iran), Sogol Nayeri (Tehran, Iran).

 

17.00                Get-together with tea, soft drinks and sweets.

 

 

Tuesday, September 12

 

09.15-10.00    Luit Mols (Den Haag, NL), 'Star Patterns on Mamluk metalwork found in Cairo: form and context'

 

10.00-10.45    Eric Broug (Saltburn-by-the-Sea, UK), 'Geometrical design from the Late Mamluk Period in Cairo: Some Observations'

 

10.45-11.15    coffee & tea brek

 

11.15-12:00    Ali Rejali (Isfahan, Iran): 'The House of Mathematics in Isfahan, and its activities in history of mathematics and art'

 

12.00                Lunch.

 

14.30-15.00    Behnaz Hashemipour (Isfahan, Iran), 'Pentagons in the Islamic Art of Isfahan'

 

15.00-15.30    coffee & tea break

 

15.30-16.30    Frans Oort (Utrecht, NL), 'All Penrose tilings'

 

16.30                departure to boat

 

17.00-21.00    Boat trip for registered participants of the workshop.

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 13

 

09.15-10.00    Carol Bier (Berkeley, USA): 'Geometry and Algorithms in Islamic Textiles and Carpets'

 

10.00-10.45    Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood (Leiden, NL), 'Geometric Cut and Design of Saudi Arabian dresses'

 

10.45-11.15    coffee & tea break

 

11.15-12.00    Arnoud Vrolijk (Leiden, NL): 'Geometric Patterns on Islamic Bookbindings'

 

12.00                Lunch

 

14.00-14.45    Jeanine Daems (Leiden, NL) 'Group theory and Islamic tilings'

 

14.45-15.05    coffee & tea break

 

15.05-16.20    Mahmud Maheronnaqsh (Tehran) Workshop: 'Designing and execution of patterns in Persian tilings'

 

19.00                Special Iranian Reception for invited participants

 

 

 

Thursday September 14

 

09.15-10.00    Ahmed Montazer (Isfahan, Iran), 'Geometrical Drawing of Shahgere (knot in knot)'

 

10:00-11:00    Jay Bonner (Santa Fe, NM, USA), Three Traditions of Self-Similarity in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Islamic Geometric Ornament

 

11.00-11.30    coffee & tea break

 

11.30-12.00    Akbar Zamani (Isfahan, Iran), 'Using mosaic Patterns in Mathematics Education'

 

12.00                Lunch

 

14.30-15.15    J. Lennart Berggren (Burnaby, B.C., Canada), 'Artistic Problems in Islamic Geometry: Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani and his treatise on geometry for the artisan'

 

15.15-15.45    coffee & tea break

 

15.45-16.30    Lynn Bodner (West Long Branch, NJ, USA), 'Constructing Remarkable Pentagonal Star Polygon Designs'

 

Evening:           Possibility to attend three lectures in the inner city of Leiden on mathematics and Indian poetry and music

 

 

 

Friday September 15

 

09.30-10.30    Jay Bonner (Santa Fe, NM, USA), The Polygonal Technique: An exposition of the primary historic method of constructing Islamic Geometric Patterns

 

10.30-11.00    coffee & tea break

 

11.00-12.00    Aldine Aaten (Leiden, NL), Jasper Lukkezen (Leiden, NL), Jeanine Daems (Leiden, NL), workshop on non-periodic patterns with sevenfold and ninefold rotational symmetry.

 

12.00                Lunch

 

14.00-15.00    t.b.a.

 

15.15-16.15    Conclusion and discussion on the follow-up conference in Isfahan in August 2007.