http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/10/...
Tripping the Light Fantastic: Artists Paint With Light

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/10/31/stone-fac...
Stone-faced Birds Staring Out From Beyond the Grave

http://www.statejournal.com/story/23842147/west-virginia-science-an...
WV Science and Art Fair scheduled at West Virginia University Institute of Technology

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e05d547e-4146-11e3-9073-00144feabdc0.html...
‘Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World’, Seville
How light and geometry shaped the art and science of Islamic culture in the ninth century

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Visual+arts+Private+co...
Visual arts - the science of sleep show

http://www.telegram.com/article/20131103/NEWS/311029666/1116
Worcester minds sought for arts-sciences incubator
100 local people drawn from diverse areas in the arts and sciences will participate in a pioneering program seeking to show that art and science can combine to form new paths to creativity and innovation.

Worcester is one of three cities — with Chicago and San Diego — to share equally in a $2.6 million National Science Foundation "Art of Science Learning" grant, the largest of its kind ever given.

The Art of Science Learning project will implement and test a new curriculum of arts- and science-based problem-solving, apply it to a significant civic challenge and measure the impact of arts-based learning on innovation.

http://www.boston.com/ideas/2013/11/03/john-gurche-hominid-sculptor...
John Gurche, hominid sculptor
How one ‘paleo-artist’ turns skull fragments into a creature with a soul

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/ucsb_hybrid_researchers_working_at_...
UCSB ‘Hybrid’ Researchers Working at Intersection of Art and Science
Call them hybrids. Equal parts scientist, engineer and artist, they're using mathematics as a bridge between traditionally divergent disciplines, advancing all three by breaking new ground.

Meet UC Santa Barbara's Deutsch Foundation Fellows, a five-student and one-postdoc crop of just such new-school academics. They are pursing advanced degrees and research in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) graduate program, which was created to foster exactly the type of innovation for which the fellows are increasingly known. Blurring the lines between creative and scientific approaches, they are testing their theories — and paving the way toward new technologies — in UCSB's one-of-a-kind, immersive 3-D lab, the AlloSphere.

http://mainecampus.com/2013/11/04/artist-dudley-zopp-explores-geolo...
geology, painting, and language
the installation series “Sediments,” which engages with geologic phenomenon like slumps, used painted canvases as the base for her sculptures. Painted different colors, canvases were stacked on top of each other and allowed to shift and slump by natural inclination. A slump occurs when a sedimented, or consolidated, mass of earth shifts and slides down a slope.

Other sculptures, such as “Sediments 1” and “Biochemical Composition,” use stacked or arranged canvases to explore the nature of sedimentation and composition of the natural world. In these compositions, Zopp explores the “hidden landscapes and unseen tectonic forces that affect our lives.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-News+Local/189214/the-artists-universe...
‘The Artists’ Universe Mars’ to be featured at Center for Earth & Space Science Education
The kickoff event for a traveling exhibit of space-related art will be at 7 p.m. today at the Center for Earth and Space Science Education at Tyler Junior College. The event is open to science center members and memberships are available atwww.tjc.edu/cesse/membership . The exhibit entitled “T…

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/dos_pueblos_engineering_academy_mak...
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy’s Maker Faire, Where Art and Science Collide

SymbioticA related:
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S E N S O R Y / T R A P
Adelaide Cohalan
Opening night: November 11, 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition dates: November 11 - November 15 Gallery opening hours: Monday to Friday 11am - 4pm Art Laab Gallery, Old Masonic Hall, 6 Broadway Crawley, Western Australia

Sensory Trap is an artistic exploration of the subjective colour perception of the human and the European honeybee. This is done through attempts to communicate with honeybee workers using objects painted in ultraviolet, a colour that is imperceptible to the human eye. The approach to art making in this project takes on the performance of trapping, highlighting the perceptual traps that humans, and non-humans alike, fall into when communicating across species boundaries. The works are comprised of photographs, sketches and ultraviolet painted traps, which document the performance that took place in the bee yard. Overall this body of work forms a symbolic gesture that calls attention to the invisible worlds of non-human animals, leaving the human audience with a sense of limitation and inadequacy. The intention is to provoke thinking about the way in which we communicate with other species that we so heavily depend upon. This project has been facilitated by SymbioticA, the Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts, and CIBER, the Centre for Integrative Bee Research, at the University of Western Australia.

Rethinking life through art
Theatrette Room
State Library of Victoria
14 Nov 2013 time: 6:00pm
Speaker: Oron Catts

The cultural understandings of what life is and what we are doing in it are lagging behind the actualities of scientific and engineering processes. Our uncertainties about what 'life' is exacerbates the crisis in both humanities and sciences and we now face an urgent need to scrutinise and rethink both the crisis of sustainability and our treatment of the (nonhuman) other. This lecture will discuss how artists are helping us to rethink what life is and methods employed to deal with life as both a raw material and an ever contestable subject of manipulation. Looking at all levels of life from the molecular to the ecological, Oron Catts will address the need to develop a new cultural language when words seem to be no longer appropriate. http://bit.ly/HxqZ0R

Grow Your Own
Until 19 Jan 2014
Science Gallery Dublin
http://bit.ly/19x2BH0

SymbioticA related:

GROW YOUR OWN... is a new exhibition created by Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin that invites you to consider some of the potentially ground-breaking applications and uncertain implications of synthetic life. Tackling the provocative questions that designing life raises, GROW YOUR OWN... gives you the opportunity to help shape future discussions around synthetic biology - an emerging approach to genetic engineering, bringing together engineers, scientists, designers, artists and biohackers to design 'living machines'. The exhibition is curated by artist and designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art), Paul Freemont (Imperial College), Cathal Garvey (bio-hacker) and Michael John Gorman (Science Gallery). Featuring THE MECHANISM OF LIFE - AFTER STÉPHANE LEDUC by Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr & Corrie van Sice.
http://bit.ly/185ztTq

My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process November 16, 2013, through March 30, 2014 Cranbrook Art Museum Bloomfield Hills Michigan USA

This Exhibition brings together twenty-two artists and makers from regions as widespread as the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and South Africa to redefine the notion of drawing as thinking process in the arts and the sciences alike. Exploring the contemporaneity of drawing in visual art and design practices beyond the traditional interaction of pencil and paper, the exhibition connects aesthetic fields as varied as philosophy and mathematics, diagrammatic reasoning and rock carvings, performance and basketball, social networking and music, microorganisms and furniture design, eco-art and skateboarding. Featuring The Mechanism of Life After Stephane Leduc (Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, Corrie Van Sice) and new works in progress by Benjamin Forster: 1. Towards taxonomy 2. a) Tracing (Aspect A : Surveillance) b) Tracing (Aspect B : Wifi) c) Tracing (Aspect C : Cab Charges).

Field Notes - Report From Deep Time
Date: 22 November 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speakers: Tarsh Bates, Oron Catts, Perdita Phillips

Field_Notes - Deep Time is a weeklong art and science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, together with a team of five, came together in 2013 test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the Deep Time theme. Field_Notes - Deep Time is in search of artistic and scientific responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and comprehension, and the time of biological, environmental, and geological processes in which we are embedded. The local sub-Arctic nature, ecology, and geology, as well as the scientific environment and infrastructure of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station act as a catalyst for the work carried out. Catts together with participants Tarsh Bates and Perdita Phillips will share some of their insights into this trip.

Tarsh Bates is currently a candidate for a PhD (Biological Arts) at SymbioticA where her current research is concerned with gentleness, the aesthetics of interspecies relationships and the human as a multispecies ecology. She is particularly enamoured with Candida albicans.

Dr Perdita Phillips is a Western Australian contemporary artist interested in ecosystemic thinking and our interactions with non-human worlds. Phillips is a former SymbioticA resident researcher.

Oron Catts is an artist, researcher and curator and is the Director of SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics
Istanbul June 26-28 2014
The Third Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference at the intersections of art, science and culture seeks papers that explore the theme of the cloud and molecular aesthetics. Clouding occurs when information becomes veiled, foggy, fuzzy, obscure or secretive, or when it condenses, blooms and accretes into atmospheres of chaotic turbulence and pressure vectors, into tidal flows and storms. The cloud also is a new formation of data as a global and seemingly immaterial distribution of storage and means of retrieval. This data cloud exists everywhere and yet is nowhere in particular. As with the protocols of bit torrent files, the cloud provides a new concept of sound and image "assembly", distinct from and beyond the materialist machinic diagrams and the practices of re-mixing or remediation that became characteristic of late twentieth-century and millennial aesthetics. The cloud is not an object but an experience and its particles are the very building blocks of a molecular aesthetic in which we live and act.
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/
Deadline for abstracts is Dec 14th 2013

WORKSHOP: EXPLORING COLLABORATION & INTERDISCIPLINARITY Friday 22 November until Saturday 30 November Wellington Forest, Western Australia This residential workshop tackles the rather broad topic of collaboration, particularly collaboration between people not from the same disciplines. The facilitator, Michelle Outram, is skilled in shaping emergent group processes and will propose a framework for the week which will be discussed and modified by the group throughout the workshop (or discarded altogether). This framework includes learning about each other through each of us developing and facilitating a workshop followed by a feedback session. This enables a reflexive understanding of each other's work and processes.
For further information: http://www.michelleoutram.com/western-australia-2013.html

Collaborative Art + Bio Workshop
ISLAND LIFE: Tropical Field Studies of Art+Nature in Puerto Rico Dates of travel: January 10-17, 2014 Escape the cold winter to the Caribbean in this one-of-a-kind, art+nature immersion experience in Puerto Rico! Join us for an artistic exploration of the diverse tropical wildlife from rainforest, mountain, beach and coastal environments. Through hands-on observation, artistic interpretation and various biological methods, we will learn to utilize the natural habitat as a studio/lab to make informed art about tropical plants, animals, and nature.
http://www.artbiocollaborative.com/island-life

Life, in Theory
The 8th Meeting of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts June 3-6, 2014 Turin, Italy The VIII European Meeting of the Society for the Study of Literature, Science, and the Arts aims to continue the conversation between science and the humanities on the implications for our projected futures of the manipulation, administration, and governance of life forms. The concept of life today no longer provides sufficient ontological ground to distinguish among different forms of life and to guide ethical, political, legal, or medical actions. Thus, a discussion across disciplinary forms of knowledge and theories of life, and the practices they authorize, is literally to confront issues of life and death.
http://litsciarts.eu/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/larissa-sansour_n_4221142....
Exploring The Fate Of The Palestinian Territories With Science Fiction

"Space Exodus," one of of two video projects on view, the artist ventures to the moon as an astronaut, planting the Palestinian flag on the lunar surface. The victorious moment is brief, as Sansour is quickly unable to get in touch with her command station in Jerusalem to convey the news. "Jerusalem, we have a problem," she utters. A hopeful moment clashes with the realization that relations between Israel and the Palestine territories are still dismal, even in this parallel universe where a Palestinian astronaut conquers the moon.

"Read in a direct way, it's about saying it's easier to reach the moon than reach Jerusalem,

http://artradarjournal.com/2013/11/01/science-technology-and-visual...
Science, technology and visual art: Artists in a hybrid world
A Taiwanese exhibition features art forged in the spaces where art and science converge.

“TEA/Super Connect–2013 International Techno Art Exhibition”, which showed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) from 10 August to 27 October 2013, brought together work by artists that explore the fields of biology, medicine, computer science and robotics.
For the 2013 exhibition, Curator Shu-Min Lin selected art that reflects on identity, culture and interspecies relationships in today’s “super connected” global society. The 26 international and local artists in “TEA/Super Connect” make work using everything from organ transplant technology to computer algorithms, pig hearts to video games and homeless robots to cult movies. ”A diversity of new relations are formed through the recombination of the three basic components: digit, gene and atom,” Lin says in his curatorial statement. “The backbone of the exhibition, digital media art, itself embodies a super connection between art and science, and a convergence of various expressive modes and specific demands to integrate knowledge and expertise.”

http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/art-and-science-mingle-next-nightlife
Art and Science Mingle at the Next NightLife!
Next week, the highly talented people from the California College of the Arts present NightLife at the Academy of Sciences dedicated to the convergence of science and art.

Delve into over a dozen industrial, interaction, illustration, fashion, furniture and graphic designers from CCA as they showcase a transformative portfolio of work that highlights new technologies and innovative ideas that explore the concept of metamorphosis.

http://www.newtimesslo.com/art/10226/science-after-dark-presents-sa...
The Science After Dark presentation will outline what the experts have achieved in the past decade, as well as the plans for the sarcophagus’s future. The dedicated team has determined, for example, the exact Greek quarry from which the original sarcophagus hails. Since this marble object was painted, Dr. Jones was able to determine the pigments using detailed chemical analysis of flecks of the original paint. For two years, the team studied the weather around the sarcophagus to understand the weathering that impacted the object. Finally, they moved the stone into the conservation site, where Barov and Faber worked their magic. As the two are internationally renowned conservationists who previously worked at the Getty Museum, the sarcophagus was in safe hands. They created an entirely new back out of synthetic materials; poly foam was used to mimic the original surface of the marble. The new back is lighter and will stand up to weathering better than did the original marble. The team is now working with engineers at Cal Poly to attach the back.

The presentation—happening Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St.—will feature pictures and samples and will outline the meticulous process of restoring the sarcophagus. A $5 cover charge supports CCSTEM. For more information on CCSTEM and Science After Dark, visit ccstem.org or facebook.com/ScienceAfterDarkSLO.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/11/unesco_honors_artist_for_sculp....
UNESCO honors artist for sculpture that captures Huntsville's space history
A Seattle-based artist was honored this morning with an UNESCO award for "Inspiring Peace and Humanity through Art & Science" for a sculpture he created to capture Huntsville's involvement in space exploration. Ulrich Pakker received the award in a ceremony at the Redstone Gateway office park development, where the sculpture "Breaking Earth's Bond" is located.

"It's a beautiful art form and represents the collective science and technical minds that create the future," Dr. Sheree Wen, a U.S. National Commissioner for UNESCO, said after the awards ceremony. UNESCO is short for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

http://chippewa.com/dunnconnect/variety/art-physics-professors-to-p...
Art, physics professors to present at TED talks

http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/visual-arts/eclosion-1488234/
Art.Science.Gallery: Eclosion
This is a juried group show of insect-inspired art, held in conjunction with the 61st annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, and featuring 57 works (by 44 artists) chosen by Dr. Mark Moffett (National Geographic), Dr. Walter Tschinkel (University of Florida), Dr. David Maddison (Oregon State University) and Dr. Diane Ullman (University of California at Davis).

http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Be-Like-Leonardo-da-Vi...
Be Like Leonardo da Vinci: Keep a Notebook

ARS BIOARCTICA 2014

The Finnish Society of Bioart residency programme with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland. The residency has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. Deadline 15 December 2013

Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics

26-28 June 2014, Istanbul

The Third Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference at the intersections of art, science and culture seeks papers that explore the theme of the cloud and molecular aesthetics. Deadline 14 December 2013

http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=171675
CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS ITS SECOND ANNUAL ARTS LEARNING CONFERENCE “REACHING FOR THE STARS” ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, FROM 11:00 A.M. TO 7:00 P.M. AT ZELLERBACH HALL
11 November 2013

This year’s focus is Turning STEM to STEAM—

Enlivening Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics through Arts Integration

Cal Performances’ second annual arts learning conference invites educators, scientists, artists, and policymakers to sustained dialogue about Turning STEM to STEAM—Enlivening Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics through Arts Integration. Conference goers will explore the commonalities between scientific and artistic thinking and delve into arts-based approaches to academic subjects on Wednesday, November 13 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall.

http://www.austin360.com/news/entertainment/arts-theater/east-austi...
East Austin Studio Tour: Why you should check out insect-related art and artists hives this weekend and next

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/large-hadron-collider-exh...

Large Hadron Collider exhibition review: Art and science collide with spectacular results at the Science Museum

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/6177...
Marrying art with scientific inquiry opened new windows on the world
Cornelius Varley was an inventor, tinkerer, artist, and scientist
Consistent with his ties to art and science, Varley was involved in the founding of the Society of Painters in Watercolors (1804) and the Microscopal Society of London (1839). As a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, he worked to advance useful inventions, discoveries and improvements, a purpose not so different from that of the APS

http://www.palatinate.org.uk/?p=42936
Is great science great science fiction?
The ever-shifting boundaries between art and science continue to provide an inexhaustible source for discussion. Durham Book Festival recently found itself hosting a lively debate along these lines in the rather grand setting of Castle’s Great Hall. Proposing the motion ‘this house believes that great science is great science fiction’, Professor Pat Waugh, and Professor Tom Macleish were intellectually invigorating, encouraging us to examine the dichotomy more closely.

http://thepenn.org/2013/11/12/communications-professor-wins-award-f...
Communications professor wins award for documentary, ‘Intersecting Sparks’: Q & A with Dr. Mary Beth Leidman
In October, a communications media professor received a silver Davey Award for education from the International Academy of Visual Arts for her work of several years, a documentary titled “Intersecting Sparks.”

The name of the award derives from the tale of David and Goliath, according to the award’s webpage. The recipients, including Dr. Mary Beth Leidman, are essentially “Creative Davids” who have big ideas but not big budgets.

The film follows the life of Michael Lazar, a geophysicist and sculptor who lives in Israel. Leidman’s film can be found in the collegiate libraries of several schools such as the Rhode Island Institute of Design and University of Maryland.

“Intersecting Sparks: Art & Science, Research & Exploration” was screened Nov. 4, in Weyandt Hall.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/13/artist-88-nonillion-artw...
Artist Creates 88 Nonillion Imaginary Artworks For The Tate
An artist has created an incomprehensibly large number of imaginary artworks for the Tate using a computer algorithm.

The artist behind 'Shardcore', a website exploring "the interface between art and science" created the works using a massive dataset of artistic descriptions released by the museum.

Released on Github, the Tate's data included information on 70,000 artworks that it owns or owns jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland, as well as 3,500 associated artists

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/610934784/crochet-coral-reef-th...!
Crochet Coral Reef: The Book

http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/dance/dance-for-scie...
Dance for science
It was the coming together of science and art, thus the brain becoming basis for choreography. The performance by noted Bharatanatyam artiste Rajeswari Sainath and her team, with scientific inputs provided by neurosurgeon Dr. I. Dinakar alternately, last week at Ravindra Bharati was under the aegis of Hyderabad’s North Branch of Indian Medical Association and Rajeswari’s Srutilaya Kendra Natarajalaya.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260055886/diysect-filming-bioti...!
DIYsect: Filming Biotinkering for the Web

http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/art-and-theatre/art-is-margi...
Art is marginalized by science, says Padma Bhushan dancer
adma Bhushan Alarmel Valli, who is one of the leading Bharatnatyam dancers in India, stressed on the need to give arts and humanities equal importance in the country.

"Arts and humanities is so marginalised in today`s world, particularly in India where the focus is so much on science and technology. The work of institutions like the Bhavan is invaluable in that context," said Valli, as part of her M P Birla Memorial Lecture titled `Past Forward: My Journey Through Dance` at the Bhavan Centre in London

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/11/15/ge_healthcare_s_2013_cel...
GE Healthcare's 2013 Cell Imaging Competition - voting opens to celebrate art, science and discovery; Life scientists encouraged to share their cell images as an insight into their work.

https://promo.gelifesciences.com/na/K12301/

https://promo.gelifesciences.com/na/K12301/vote.asp

http://www.demingheadlight.com/deming-news/ci_24526231/faculty-mixe...
It might seem that agriculture and art are polar opposites; one belongs to the analytical and scientific, and the other to the creative and instinctive. However, a number of professors in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences not only can see the kinship between the two, but also personally demonstrate how science can inspire works of art.

What is the common ground between art and science?
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/17/art-science-ian-mcew...

GROW YOUR OWN: TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN
Grow Your Own is now on view at the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin and will run until 19 January 2014.The exhibition invites attendees to consider some of the potentially ground-breaking applications and uncertain implications of synthetic life. By tackling the questions that the concept and reality of designing life raise, Grow Your Own hopes to get ?under the hood? of synthetic biology, explore some of the techniques and research behind it and provide an opportunity to help shape future discussions. This exhibition includes work by artists, designers, scientists and engineers that evoke the themes of living versus non-living, human versus nature and design versus evolution.

http://rohnertpark.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2013/11/news/soundscape-...
Soundscape Project to blur lines between art and science

http://news.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk/2013/11/19/can-photographer...
“The Intersection of Art and Science: What the Photographer Can Learn from Leonardo.”

http://www.theaggie.org/2013/11/21/laser-event-to-bring-fusion-of-a...

LASER event to bring fusion of art, science to Davis

Artists, scientists to address contemporary issues

http://theconversation.com/makers-bridge-the-gap-between-science-an...
Makers bridge the gap between science and art

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/2013/11/22/art-s...
Art, Science and Soma

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/The-art-of-making...
The art of making Maths simpler

Tackling Mathematics may be a nightmare for some students but an exhibition at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum here on Friday, proved the subject could be made interesting and easy to understand if treated well. A happy blend of art and Maths ensured knotty theories were presented in a visually attractive and conceptually simpler way at the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE-2013). The exhibition was organized by the International Centre for Theoretical Science ( ICTS)-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics.

The physical models were designed and conceptualized by students of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. For instance, the concept of network was explained through the spread of the epidemic, SARS, from China to the rest of the world. The details were so well captured that it showed the number of people affected in each country and the country from where it was contracted in a model made up of glass, threads and lights.

"Teaching Maths is a challenge. Introducing the concepts in the subject to students is something we battle with everyday. The fusion of art and science will bring a new dimension to it," said Mythily Ramaswamy, dean, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics.

From tensile strength to oscillation, the students presented complex mathematical concepts using puzzles, brain teasers and interactive models. "There were no existing designs to explain this concept on sine wave. So I had to start from the scratch and think of ways to explain it to a layman," said Aditya Shankar, a second year student from Srishti.

"The exhibition is not about a pedagogy but about kindling interest and excitement in the public about Maths concepts. MPE-2013 is a worldwide initiative to formulate the most urgent planetary problems that mathematics can address, to bring together world-class researchers to find solutions to these problems, and to engage the public in a dialogue about the significance of these problems," explained Amit Apte, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics.

The exhibition, inaugurated by renowned scientist Roddam Narasimha, will be on till December 1.

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/education/uae-public-school-students-...
UAE public school students will not have to choose between arts and science, FNC hears

ABU DHABI // The Ministry of Education’s move to merge arts and science streams in public schools will give pupils more time to make career decisions and boost Emiratisation, academics say.

Humaid Al Qattami, Minister of Education, announced the decision to end the need for young students to make early career decisions at the most recent session of the Federal National Council.

“We are changing the arts and science tracks and merging them to one track,” Mr Al Qattami said. “This is very important.”

He said the Government was working towards ensuring university majors had the skills required to satisfy industry demands in line with Vision 2030.

The decades-old two-track system left hundreds of thousands making their career decisions as young as 15. Many later regret their choice but can do nothing about it.

Under the new plan, career paths will be chosen later in the pupils’ academic careers and university students will have the option to change majors.

The announcement came after FNC member Dr Amal Al Qubaisi called for a resolution of the problems associated with the two-track curriculum.

She said the current system has led to more pupils studying arts and too few opting for science subjects at school and later at university.