4OSME Program

Program Schedule

Friday, September 8
3:00 - 7:00	Registration
7:00 - 7:30	Welcoming Remarks
7:30 - 9:00	Reception and Poster Session
Saturday, September 9
9:00 - 12:00	Technology 1	Curved Folds	Mathematical Design
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (box lunches available)
1:00 - 3:30	Flat Foldability	Flexible Foldability	Connections with Math and Art
3:30 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 5:00	Plenary 1: Miri Golan, Israeli Origami Center
5:00 - 6:00	Plenary 2: Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6:00 - 7:00	Break
7:00 - 9:00	Banquet
Sunday, September 10
9:00 - 12:00	Technology 2	Algorithms	Education 1
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (box lunches available)
1:00 - 4:30	Number Theory and Algebra	Computer Tools	Education 2
4:30 - 6:30	Break
6:30 - 10:30	Reception at Al Seckel's in Malibu

Sessions and Papers

Technology 1 (Saturday morning A)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
9:00 - 9:25	Koryo Miura	University of Tokyo	Science of Miura-ori - A Review
9:30 - 9:55	Galen Pickett	California State University, Long Beach	DNA-Origami Applications in Polymer Model Materials
10:00 - 10:25	Annabellee V. Fernandez	--	Use of origami modular models to illustrate viral architectural structures
10:30 - 10:55	Paul Rothemund	California Institute of Technology Depts. of Computer Science and Computation & Neural Systems	Creating arbitrary nanoscale shapes and patterns with scaffolded DNA origami
11:00 - 11:25	Paul Haeberli	Lamina Design	Building Free-Form Structures From Sheet Material
11:30 - 11:55	Devin Balkom	Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College	Robotic Origami Folding

Curved Folds (Saturday morning B)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
9:00 - 9:25	Arle Lommel	Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University, Bloomington	Curvilinear Folds and the Nautilus: Creating a Three-dimensional Representation of a Natural Spiral
9:30 - 9:55	Jeannine Mosely	--	Surface Transitions in Curved Origami
10:00 - 10:25	Robert Geretschlaeger	BRG Kepler, Graz, Austria	Folding Curves
10:30 - 10:55	Saadya Sternberg	--	CURVES and FLATS
11:00 - 11:25	Jun Maekawa	--	Geometrical Tree of Fortune Cookies
11:30 - 11:55	Break

Mathematical Design (Saturday morning C)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
9:00 - 9:25	Chris K. Palmer	Illinois Institute of Technology	Recursive folding from Flower Towers to Whirl Spools
9:30 - 9:55	Tomoko Fuse	--	Tower Spirals
10:00 - 10:25	Miyuki Kawamura	--	The Celes Family
10:30 - 10:55	Ushio Ikegami	Tokyo Metropolitan University	Fractal Crease Patterns
11:00 - 11:25	(1) sarah-marie belcastro and (2) Tamara Veenstra	(1) Smith College, (2) University of Redlands	Generalizing Twist Boxes
11:30 - 11:55	Break

Flat Foldability (Saturday afternoon A)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
1:00 - 1:25	Jien Kato, Hiroshi Shimanuki, and Toyohide Watanabe	Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University	Understanding and Reconstruction of Folding Process Explained by Illustrations of Origami Drill Books
1:30 - 1:55	Koichi Tateishi	Kobe College, Kobe, Japan	Redundancies of Verbal Instructions in Origami Diagrams
2:00 - 2:25	Hideaki Azuma	--	On the Fish Base Diagram and its Flatly Foldable Property
2:30 - 2:55	(1) Toshikazu Kawasaki and (2) Hidefumi Kawasaki	(1) Anan National College of Technology, Japan, (2) Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Japan	Orizuru deformation theory for unbounded quadrilaterals
3:00 - 3:25	Toshikazu Kawasaki	Anan National College of Technology, Japan	A crystal map of the orizuru world

Flexible Foldability (Saturday afternoon B)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
1:00 - 1:25	Cheong Chew Min	University of Tokyo and Universiti Malaysia Sabah	Origamic Architecture in the Cartesian Coordinate System
1:30 - 1:55	Naohiko Watanabe	--	The Method for Judging Rigid Foldability
2:00 - 2:25	Matthew Gardiner	--	Oribotics: a brief history of oribotic technology
2:30 - 2:55	Fernando Sierra	Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia	Yoshimura Pattern as a Tensegrity System
3:00 - 3:25	Tomohiro Tachi	University of Tokyo	Simulation of Rigid Origami

Connections to Art & Math (Saturday afternoon C)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
1:00 - 1:25	Ludmila Zamiatina	--	Graphics Transformation of Origami Models
1:30 - 1:55	Jeannine Mosely	--	Counter Productivity in Minimalist Origami
2:00 - 2:25	Greg N. Frederickson	Purdue University	Folding Dissections: Geometric cousins of Origami
2:30 - 2:55	Karl Schaffer	Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble and DeAnza College	One-Dimensional Origami: Polyhedral Skeletons in Dance
3:00 - 3:25	Emma Frigerio	Universita di Milano Dipartimento di Matematica	Origami, Isometries and Multiple Tangram

Plenary Talks

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
4:00 - 4:55	Miri Golan	Israeli Origami Center	Origametria - Using Origami as a Learning Tool to Teach Geometry
5:00 - 5:55	Erik Demaine	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Mathemagic of Origami

Technology 2 (Sunday morning A)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
9:00 - 9:25	Zhong You(1) and Kaori Kuribayashi(2)	(1) Deparment of Engineering Science, Oxford University; (2) Center for International Research on Micromechatronics, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo	Expandable Tubes with Negative Poisson's Ratio and Their Application in Medicine
9:30 - 9:55	Elias Halloran	University of California, Santa Cruz	Approximation of Surfaces by Origami
10:00 - 10:25	Erik D. Demaine(1), Martin L. Demaine(1), John A. Ochsendorf(2), Zhong You(3)	(1) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT; (2) School of Architecture, MIT; (3) Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University	Folding Shopping Bags
10:30 -10:55	Cristoffer Cromvik	Chalmers University of Technology	Airbag Folding based on Origami Mathematics
11:00 -11:25	Marshall Bern and Barry Hayes	(1) Xerox PARC, (2) Google	Flat-Folding Polyhedra
11:30 - 11:55	Galen Pickett	California State University, Long Beach	Self-Folding Membranes

Algorithms (Sunday morning B)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
9:00 - 9:25	Nihal J. Mehta, Ph.D.	--	Generating Folding Sequence from a Crease Pattern
9:30 - 9:55	(1) Robert J. Lang and (2) Erik D. Demaine	(1) N/A, (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Facet Stacking and Polygon Packing: Advances in the Theory of Origami Base Design
10:00 - 10:25	D. Burago, Svetlana Krat, and A. Petrunin	Georgia Institute of Technology	Approximating Short Maps by PL-Isometries and Arnold's "Can you make your dollar bigger?" Problem
10:30 - 10:55	Goran Konjevod	Arizona State University	Integer Programming for Flat Origami
11:00 - 11:25	Lucas Garron	Northgate High School	Origami-Constructing a Waterbomb Molecule
11:30 - 11:55	Hiroshi Shimanuki, Jien Kato, and Toyohide Watanabe	Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University	Construction of 3-D Virtual Origami Models from Sketches

Education 1 (Sunday Morning C)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
9:00 - 9:25	Norma Boakes, Ed. D.	Richard Stockton College of New Jersey	The effects of Origami lessons on students' spatial visualization abilities and mathematics achievement in a seventh-grade mathematics classroom
9:30 - 9:55	Michael Wilson, Robin Flanagan, Rona Gurkewitz, and Laura Skrip	Western Connecticut State University	Understanding the Effect of Origami Practice, Cognition, and Language on Spatial Reasoning
10:00 - 10:25	Marilyn Lewis	--	The effectiveness of origami as a tool to enhance verbal expression
10:30 - 10:55	Peg Cagle	Lawrence Gifted Magnet, Los Angeles Unified School District	Modular Origami in the Secondary Geometry Classroom
11:00 - 11:25	Krystyna Burczyk	--	Origami in mathematics education. Notes on mathematical language in model folding
11:30 - 11:55	(1) Arnold Tubis and (2) Crystal Mills	(1) Department of Physics, Purdue University, and Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, at La Jolla, (2) California Mathematics Council ComMuniCator Editorial Panel	Teaching Mathematics with the Traditional Masu and its Many Generalizations

Number Theory and Algebra (Sunday Afternoon A)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
1:00 - 1:25	Robert J. Lang	--	Alignments and Axioms: Extending Huzita-Hatori to Two-Fold Operations
1:30 - 1:55	Roger Alperin	San Jose State University	New Aspects of Mathematical Origami
2:00 - 2:25	Charles H. Jones	--	A Look at the Origami Rank of Creases and Points
2:30 - 2:55	(1) Timothy Y. Chow and (2) C. Kenneth Fan	(1) Center for Communications Research, Princeton, NJ	The Power of Multifolds: Folding the algebraic closure of the rational numbers
3:00 - 3:25	Tamara Veenstra	University of Redlands, Redlands CA	A Number Theory Application to the Fujimoto Approximation Technique
3:30 - 3:55	Charlene Morrow	Mount Holyoke College	15,408 Ways to Color the Edges of an Origami Cube
4:00 - 4:25	Thomas C. Hull	Merrimack College	More results on counting flat vertex folds

Computer Tools (Sunday Afternoon B)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
1:00 - 1:25	Alexander C. Huang	Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas	SHORTCUT! - Exploration of Straight-Skeleton Construction for the Single-Cut Conjecture in Origami Using Topological Analysis and Computational Geometry Programming with Excel
1:30 - 1:55	Tung Ken Lam	St Martin's College, Lancaster, UK; British Origami Society	Computer origami simulation and the production of origami instructions
2:00 - 2:25	Jun Mitani	University of Tsukuba, Department of Computer Science	Recognition, modeling and rendering method for Origami using 2D bar codes
2:30 - 2:55	Tomohiro Tachi	The University of Tokyo	3D Origami Design based on Tucking Molecule
3:00 - 3:25	Jack Fastag	--	eGami: Virtual Paperfolding and Diagramming Software
3:30 - 3:55	Tetsuo Ida, Hidekazu Takahashi, Mircea Marin, Asem Kasem, and Fadoua Ghourabi	University of Tsukuba, Department of Computer Science	Computational Origami System Eos
4:00 - 4:25	Break

Education 2 (Sunday Afternoon C)

Time	Author	Affiliation	Title
1:00 - 1:25	(1) V'Ann Cornelius and (2) Arnold Tubis	(1) Origami USA and Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA, (2) Department of Physics, Purdue University, and Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego	On the Effective Use of Origami in the Mathematics Classroom
1:30 - 1:55	Pete Edwards	Sage Valley School	Integrating Origami in Math/Science Teaching
2:00 - 2:25	(1) Jonathan Baxter, (2) Hugh Gribben, (2) Greg Oates, and (2) Judy Paterson	(1) Origami New Zealand, (2) University of Auckland	The Great Origami Maths and Science Show: What's up in Origami and Mathematics Down-under?
2:00 - 2:25	Alan Russell	Elon University	Triangle Centers and Origami
3:00 - 3:25	James Morrow	Mount Holyoke College	Investigating Mathematical Ways of Reasoning and Knowing with Paperfolding
3:00 - 3:25	Galen Pickett	California State University, Long Beach	A Six Week Origami Physics Course
4:00 - 4:25	Break