Origami: Doing Math and Science without Scissors or Glue

Location

Pellegrene Auditorium, Saint John’s University

Event Website

https://www.csbsju.edu/mathematics/pi-mu-epsilon-conference/conference-details

Start Date

14-4-2023 8:30 PM

Description

Origami, the art of paper folding, has been practiced in Japan and all over the world for centuries. However, the past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in using origami for science. Applications in robotics, airbag design, deployment of space structures, and even medicine are appearing in the popular science press. Videos of origami robots folding themselves up and walking away or performing tasks have gone viral. What's more, the National Science Foundation has found origami valuable enough to fund millions of dollars towards studying engineering and science applications of origami art. But if the art of paper folding is so old, why has there been an increase in origami applications now? One answer is because of math. Advances in our understanding of how folding works has arisen due to success in modeling origami mathematically. In this presentation we will explore why origami lends itself to mathematical study and see how origami-math has inspired science applications as well as influenced origami as an artistic medium.

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Apr 14th, 8:30 PM

Origami: Doing Math and Science without Scissors or Glue

Pellegrene Auditorium, Saint John’s University

Origami, the art of paper folding, has been practiced in Japan and all over the world for centuries. However, the past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in using origami for science. Applications in robotics, airbag design, deployment of space structures, and even medicine are appearing in the popular science press. Videos of origami robots folding themselves up and walking away or performing tasks have gone viral. What's more, the National Science Foundation has found origami valuable enough to fund millions of dollars towards studying engineering and science applications of origami art. But if the art of paper folding is so old, why has there been an increase in origami applications now? One answer is because of math. Advances in our understanding of how folding works has arisen due to success in modeling origami mathematically. In this presentation we will explore why origami lends itself to mathematical study and see how origami-math has inspired science applications as well as influenced origami as an artistic medium.

https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/math_pi_mu_epsilon/2023/keynote/2