George Hart

Rank/Position Title:

Research Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~george

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

January 2002

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Bridges, Kansas, July 2004
• Interdisciplinary Conference of the International Society of The Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture, Chicago , 2004
• Gathering for Gardner, Atlanta, GA, March 2004
• Bridges/ISAMA, Granada, Spain, July 2003
• MathFest, Boulder, Colorado, August 2003

Other related computing experience:

• Artist-in-residence, MIT dept Computer Science, Oct-Nov 2003
• Visiting lecturer, Canada/USA, MathCamp, summers, 1999-2004

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Undergraduate recruitment committee
• JETT (Java Engagement for Teacher Training program for H.S. teachers)

Principal publications of the last five years.

• G. Hart, "`Slide-Together' Geometric Paper Constructions", Teachers' workshop at Bridges 2004.
• G. Hart, "A Reconstructible Geometric Sculpture", Proceedings of ISAMA CTI 2004, DePaul University, June 17-19, 2004, Stephen Luecking ed., pp. 141-143.
• G. Hart, "A Salamander Sculpture Barn Raising", Proceedings of Bridges 2004: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas, July 2004, and in Visual Mathematics 7, no. 1, 2005.
• G. Hart, "Conference Report: Bridges/ISAMA 2003", Nexus Network Journal, vol. 5 no. 2 (Autumn 2003).
• G. Hart, "Sculpture from Symmetrically Arranged Planar Components", in Meeting Alhambra, (Proceedings of ISAMA-Bridges 2003, Granada, Spain), Javier Barrallo et al editors, Univ. of Granada, 2003, pp. 315-322.
• G. Hart, "Mathematics Takes Shape," Math Horizons, April 2003, pp. 17-21.
• Contributor to: CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 31st edition, Daniel Zwillinger editor, Chapman & Hall, 2003.
• G. Hart, "In the Palm of Leonardo's Hand," Nexus Network Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 2002; reprinted in Symmetry: Culture and Science, vol. 11, 2000 (appeared in 2003), pp. 17-25.
• G. Hart, "A Color-Matching Dissection of the Rhombic Enneacontahedron", in Symmetry: Culture and Science, vol. 11, 2000 (printed in 2003), pp. 183-199.
• G. Hart, "Loopy," Humanistic Mathematics, June 2002, pp. 3-5.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

IEEE

Honors and awards:

New York State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Award

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising:

• Co-supervised one high school Intel student project in 2003
• Currently supervising one high school Intel student project and one Stony Brook honors student project
• Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

Geometry algorithms for the design of sculpture