Join us for the Physics Department Colloquium at 4:15 p.m.
Title:Folds, cuts and isometries: art and science
For millennia, origami and kirigami artists have used folds and cuts to create beautiful shapes from a simple sheet of paper. I will describe our recent scientific attempts to catch up with these remarkably imaginative arts phrased as inverse problems in physical geometry that aim to control the shape and rigidity of a thin surface. Using discrete operations that vary the number, size, orientation and coordination of folds and cuts, I will show how to create piecewise isometric kirigami and origami tessellations and control their local and global morphology and mechanical response, mixing experimental, computational and theoretical approaches.
Zoom:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91913653366?pwd=akI1eitySHJ5YWsvNmoxYXNrNERhQT09
Meeting ID: 919 1365 3366
Passcode: 403651
Location: 1 Physics North & Zoom
Speaker: L Mahadevan
Affiliation: Harvard University