Thursday, November 5
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Alice Fulton: The Measure Rolling On the Floor: Poetry, Math, Music, and Imagination
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7:00-8:15 p.m. |
Downtown Salt Lake City Library auditorium |
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Friday, November 6
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Panel - The Aim is Song: Music vs Words
This panel will explore some of the challenges of interacting with musical language. Are songs really just words set to music? Or are they music set to words? Are mathematicians uniquely gifted with insight into music because they can think without words?
Panelists:
- Steve Roens, Department of Music
- Jackie Osherow, Department of English
- Aaron Bertram, Department of Mathematics
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9:30-10:45 a.m. |
U of U Marriott Library 1120
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Moderated by Fred Adler
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Panel - The Rest is Noise: Language vs Communication
This panel will discuss how communication takes place through sound, but with the line between meaningful sound and noise often seeming blurred. What does sound actually communicate? Do birds really "speak" to each other? Does noise have a place in music, or in literature?
Panelists:
- Phillip Bimstein, Composer and Mayor
- Franz Goller, Department of Biology
- Jon Wilkins, Poet and Population Geneticist, Santa Fe Institute
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9:30-10:45 a.m. |
U of U Marriott Library 1170
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Moderated by Craig Dworkin |
Radio West: The Shape of Imagination.
During this panel, host Doug Fabrizio and members of the radio and live audiences will ask a mathematician, a poet, and a composer about how their chosen media shape both their imaginations and also the ways in which they express what they imagine.
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11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. |
U of U Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium |
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| Panelist lunch |
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. |
U of U Marriott Library |
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Panel - The Body Speaks: The Role of Gesture in Teaching, Art, and Dance
This panel will examine how physical gestures contribute to communication.
How do we think and communicate with our hands and bodies? Is the great teacher or artist really a dancer?
Panelists:
- Gordan Savin, Department of Mathematics
- Curtis LeBaron, BYU Marriott School of Management
- Alex Caldiero, Poet/Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University
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1:30-2:45 p.m. |
U of U Marriott Library 1120
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Moderated by Steve Roens |
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Panel - The Code Talkers
This panel will consider how codes function within language. Are poetry, mathematics and genetic really codes, or merely ways to communicate that some people are not privy to? Could we actually manage to communicate with aliens?
Panelists:
- Lynn Jorde, Department of Human Genetics
- Craig Dworkin, Department of English
- George Cassiday, Department of Physics
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1:30-2:45 p.m. |
U of U Marriott Library 1170
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Moderated by Monisha Pasupathi |
| Reception |
5:00-6:30 p.m. |
Downtown Salt Lake City Library downstairs |
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Barry Mazur: The Language of Explanation
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7:00-8:15 p.m. |
Downtown Salt Lake City Library auditorium |
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Saturday, November 7
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Fred Lerdahl: How Linguistics and Mathematics Have Influenced My Music
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10:00 a.m. |
Downtown Salt Lake City Library, Fourth Floor |
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| Roundtable |
11:00 a.m. |
Downtown Salt Lake City Library, Fourth Floor |
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