Science from a Sheet of Paper

By curling, folding, crumpling, sometimes tearing paper, we will explore a variety of unexpected phenomena- from geometry and the traditional art of origami, to magic tricks and engineering of materials.  So, take a sheet of paper...

Tadashi Tokieda is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. He is active in outreach through the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.  Before his math PhD from Princeton he used to work as a philologist, after being a painter.

You can find more information about speaker Tadeshi Tokieda at https://mathematics.stanford.edu/people/tadashi-tokieda