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Illustration as a Mathematical Research Technique, Paris

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Amphitheater Darboux (IHP)

Amphitheater Darboux

IHP

11, Rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris
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Thematic trimester programme with short courses, seminars and workshops

January 5 to April 3, 2026 at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris

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Mathematical understanding is built in many ways. Among these, illustration has been a companion and tool to research for as long as research has taken place. We use the term illustration to encompass any of the many ways one might bring a mathematical idea into physical form or experience, including computer visualization, 3D printing, and virtual reality, among others.
 
With modern tools, illustration can even make mathematics an experimental science, so that computational results can drive the cycle of problem, conjecture, and proof. Today, modern technology for the first time places the production of far more complicated 3D models within the reach of many individual mathematicians. Moreover, the very process of illustration itself challenges our understanding of a mathematical topic and forces us to answer questions we may not have posed otherwise.
 
This trimester program will bring together mathematicians using illustration as a research tool with mathematicians newly learning these tools. The group will be comprised of members from various areas of mathematics. The main goals of the trimester are:
  • advancing research through the use of mathematical illustration;
  • disseminating the skills for the creation of mathematical illustration and its use in research;
  • furthering the theory of illustration as a tool.

 

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January 5th to 9th, 2026 — Introductory school: Illustration as a Mathematical research technique at CIRM (Marseille):

January 19 to 23 — Workshop 1: Rigorous Illustrations - Their creation and evaluation for mathematical research

February 16 to 20 — Workshop 2: Bridging visualisation and understanding in Geometry and Topology

March 10 — Clay Lecture by Ingrid Daubechies

March 23 to 27 — Workshop 3: Integrating Research and Illustration in Number Theory

Organising committee:

  • David Bachman (Pitzer College)
  • Rémi Coulon (CNRS / Université de Bourgogne)
  • Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins (St. Lawrence University)
  • Edmund Harriss (University of Arkansas)
  • Martin Skrodzki (TU Delft)
  • Katherine E. Stange (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Glen Whitney (Studio infinity)

Scientific committee:

  • Alexander Holroyd (University of Bristol)
  • Saul Schleimer (University of Warwick)
  • Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)
  • Laura Taalman (James Madison University)

 

Associated Exhibition - Creation: Between Art and Mathematics

As a continuation of the research program Illustration as a Mathematical Research Technique, the Maison Poincaré is proposing a group exhibition designed to offer museum visitors visibility to creations, works, prototypes and projects originating from the reflections of scientific participants, which may have started at this scientific meeting or, upstream, during encounters between scientists or with artists.

There remains a need and desire to present the ongoing process of discovery that takes place during this trimester. To that end, if you are participating in any way and (will) have objects or images you feel could be displayed to represent that activity, please contact one of the curators Rémi Coulon, Edmund Harriss, or Glen Whitney by 2026 February 20.
 
This exhibition will run from April 9 to July 25, 2026.
More details on this page.

 

 


     
     
     

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Programme coordinated by the Centre Emile Borel at IHP

 

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