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TechniGraphicS Lecture Series

IIT Bombay and TechniGraphicS Foundation invite you to the TechniGraphicS Lecture onMonday, August 27, 2012.

The details of the lecture are as follows:

Topic :

Speaker:

Creativity in Art, Technology, and Science

Dr. Julio M. OttinoDean, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and

Applied Sciences

Northwestern University

Date : Monday, August 27, 2012

Time & Venue : 4.00 pm, Main Auditorium, Victor Menezes Convention Centre

All are invited.

Abstract : Creativity is essential in art, in science, and in technology. But in what ways iscreativity in these three areas different, and in what ways is it similar? Technology is aboutinvention, making and building, and science is about unveiling, revealing what may already bethere. Philosophers, placing the emphasis on uniqueness, have declared that science isephemeral and that art is permanent; they placed artistic creation on the highest plane.However, is this actually true? Where does mathematics fall in this spectrum? Or morepragmatically, are there creative processes and lessons that can be transferred across domains?How do the domains intersect and enrich each other? I will argue that artistic creativity revealsprocesses that hold lessons for scientific and technological creativity.

About the Speaker : Dr. Julio M. Ottino is the dean of the Robert R. McCormick School ofEngineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University where he holds the titles ofDistinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor ofChemical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Ottinos research has been featured in articles andon the covers of Nature, Science, Scientific American, the Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences of the USA and other publications, and has impacted fields as diverse ascomplex systems, fluid dynamics, granular dynamics, microfluidics, geophysical sciences. Oneof his books, The Kinematics of Mixing: Stretching, Transport and Chaos, Cambridge(published in 1989, and reprinted in 1997), has become a classic in the field. His most recentbook, with R. Sturman and S. Wiggins, is the Mathematical Foundations of Mixing: The LinkedTwist Map as a Paradigm in Applications Micro to Macro, Fluids to Solids, and was publishedby Cambridge University Press in 2006. Dr. Ottinos interests are at the intersection of art,science and technology. He is currently working on a book about the creative processesconnecting these domains

About Technigraphics Lecture Series

The Technigraphics Lecture Series is made possible by a generous donation from theTechniGraphicS Foundation. Deepak Vaidya (IITB Alumnus of 1970, Chemical

Engineering) is one of the trustees of the foundation and also the founder and chairman ofTechniGraphicS.

Past Technigraphics Lectures:

A case study of Basic Research and Core Technology by Prof. Robert Gallager, MIT, USA onSeptember 29, 2008.

Remembering Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha by Prof. Devendra Lal, Scripps Institute ofOceanography, San Diego, USA on 22ndJanuary 2009.

Scaling Limits of Large Systems byProf. S.R.S. Varadhan, Courant Institute of MathematicalSciences, New York, USA. on 11th February 2009.

Leonhard Euler -- his life, personality, discoveries and their impact todayby Prof. Dr. RolfJeltsch, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland on November 23, 2009.

Modular Biocatalysis by Prof. Chaitan Khosla, Departments of Chemical Engineering,Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stanford University, USA on September 9, 2010.

From Ape to Angel: A Neurological Perspective on Human Nature byDr. V.S.

Ramachandran, MD, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Brain andCognition, University of California San Diego and Salk Institute, on December 7, 2010.

And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth byProf. Moshe Y.Vardi, Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering, Rice University, USA andDirector, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, on December 15, 2011

Project Prakash: Illuminating Lives; Illuminating Scienceby Prof. Pawan Sinha, Professorof Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT,Cambridge, MA, on January 12, 2012