2006-10-16 Update: 4OSME was a rousing success! Over 165 people attended some 70 talks. The 4OSME proceedings will be published by A K Peters, Ltd. Watch this space for more details.

Several media groups covered 4OSME. See photographs and a trailer from Green Fuse Films' upcoming documentary on origami (portions of which were filmed at 4OSME) here.

About our logo: the fractal logo image is a real origami shape designed and folded by Ushio Ikegami, who presented a talk on origami fractals at 4OSME. Lucas Garron, who also gave a talk, has created a nice animation of the logo here using the ray-tracing software POV-Ray.

During the last 20 years, there have been 3 highly successful international scientific conferences exploring the interactions between origami, mathematics, and science. Continuing this series, Origami USA, the American national origami society, is pleased to announce

The Fourth International Conference on Origami in
Science, Mathematics, and Education
(4OSME)

September 8-10, 2006

at the
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA.

In 1989, 1994, and 2001 the first three meetings devoted to origami research and applications in mathematics, science, and technology were held in Italy, Japan, and California, respectively. (Click here for information about 3OSME from 2001.) OrigamiUSA is proud to sponsor this fourth such meeting in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics and additional support from the Information Science and Technology Initiative at the California Institute of Technology.

Scope of the Conference

This interdisciplinary conference brings together artists, scientists, technologists, and educators who explore the relationships between folding, art, mathematics, technology, and education.

Features of the Program

• Two plenary sessions (55 minute presentations which will have nothing else concurrently scheduled) by notable speakers on origami mathematics, scientific applications of paperfolding, and the use of origami in education at all levels. Plenary speakers are:
  • Miri Golan, Director of the Israeli Origami Center
  • MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning Professor Erik Demaine, MIT
• Concurrent sessions (25 minute talks) on topics such as:
  • Mathematics and Computational Origami
  • Scientific and Technological Applications of Origami
  • Educational Uses of Origami
• An exhibition of origami structures and poster presentations.
• Opportunity to meet origami artists, scientists, mathematicians, researchers, and educators from around the world!

Schedule and Presentations

Some 70 contributed papers will be presented as 25-minute talks in concurrent sessions. The complete schedule and abstracts of the contributed papers may be found here.

Key Dates

Upcoming dates are as follows:

• Technical Program Available: June 30, 2006
• Registration Available: July 20, 2006
• Early Bird Registration due: August 15, 2006
• Conference: September 8-10, 2006

Exhibition and Poster Display

Participants are invited to bring origami works and/or informational posters on topics related to origami science, math, and education for display during the meeting. If you would like to have a display area reserved for you, please indicate this when you register.

Registration

Online registration for 4OSME is now closed.

Proceedings

In addition to the abstracts, selected extended papers of talks presented at 4OSME and other origami work in math, science, and education will be compiled in a proceedings book for the conference. This will be published after the meeting. Visit this web page in the future for more information. To see a list of contents of the proceedings of the 3rd OSME, see here. To purchase the proceedings of the 3rd OSME, click here (publisher) or here (OrigamiUSA).

Hotels and Accommodations

All activities will take place on the Caltech campus. We have reserved blocks of rooms in two area hotels, but you must make your own reservations. Click here for details.

Committees

Technical Committee

• Robert J. Lang, artist, engineer, and consultant
• Professor Thomas Hull, Merrimack College (USA)
• Dr. Ryda D. Rose, University of Pennsylvania (Emerita, USA)
• Professor Günter Rote, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
• Professor Toshikazu Kawasaki, Anan College of Technology (Japan)
• Professor Koichi Tateishi, Kobe College (Japan)

Organizing Committee

• Robert J. Lang, OrigamiUSA
• Jan Polish, OrigamiUSA
• V'Ann Cornelius, OrigamiUSA
• Vicky Mihara Avery, OrigamiUSA
• Boaz Shuval, OrigamiUSA
• Arnold Tubis, OrigamiUSA
• Thomas Hull, OrigamiUSA