Full Program and Useful Information
The full program brochure, including all useful information for delegates, can be downloaded here. This version (1.8) was prepared on 30th August, 2018. We may have to update it but the overall timetable is unlikely to change very much.
In addition, you can also download all abstracts here. Each abstract has a unique number, which is shown in the full program.
All participants must follow the code of conduct of 7OSME, which can be downloaded here. Please email us at 7osme.oxford@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Plenary Keynote Speakers
The 7OSME will have four captivating presentations by world leading experts who work in their respective fields related to origami and its applications.
Sergio Pellegrino
is the Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aeronautics and Civil
Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, JPL Senior
Research Scientist and co-director of the Space Solar Power Project. He
received a Laurea in Civil Engineering from the University of Naples in
1982 and a PhD in Structural Mechanics from the University of Cambridge
in 1986. From 1983 to 2007, he was on the faculty of the Department of
Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he founded the
Deployable Structures Laboratory.
Pellegrino’s general area of research is the mechanics of lightweight
structures, focusing on packaging, deployment, shape control and
stability. With his students and collaborators, he is currently working
on novel concepts for future space telescopes, spacecraft antennas, and
space-based solar power systems. Pellegrino’s publications have been
selected for several awards, including the ICE James Watt Medal; AIAA
Gossamer Spacecraft Forum Best Paper Award; IASS Tsuboi Award;
ASME/Boeing Best Paper Award and ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee
Best Paper Award. He received a Pioneers’ Award in 2002 from the Space
Structures Research Centre, University of Surrey, and NASA Robert H.
Goddard Exceptional Achievement Team Awards in 2009 and 2016 for his
contribution to the superpressure balloon development.
Pellegrino is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of
AIAA and a Chartered Structural Engineer. He is currently President of
the IASS and has been the founding chair of the AIAA Spacecraft
Structures Technical Committee. Pellegrino has authored over 300
technical publications.
Tadashi Tokieda
is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University; previously he
was the Director of Studies in Mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was
born in Japan and educated in France as a classical philologist. He taught himself
basic mathematics from Russian collections of problems. He was a 1989 classics
graduate from Jochi University in Tokyo and obtained his bachelor's degree from
Oxford in mathematics. He completed his PhD at Princeton under the supervision
of William Browder.
Tokieda was the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2013-2014,
and the Poincaré Distinguished Visiting Professor at Stanford in 2015-2016. He was
a recipient of Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Award.
Tokieda works
on mathematical physics problems. He is also very active in inventing, collecting,
and studying toys that uniquely reveal and explore real-world surprises of mathematics
and physics.
Tomohiro Tachi
is an associate professor in Graphic and Computer Sciences at the
University of Tokyo. He studied architecture and received his PhD in Engineering
from the University of Tokyo.
Tachi's research interests include origami, structural
morphology, computational design, and digital fabrication. He has been designing origami
from 2002 and keeps exploring three-dimensional
and kinematic origami through computation. He developed a number of well-known origami
software tools including "rigid origami simulator", "origamizer", and "freeform origami",
which are available from his website. Tachi was the one of the keynote speakers at
the ASME IDETC 2016.
Emma Frigerio
had taught mathematics at the University of Milano, Italy, until 2015. She has been interested in origami since she was a teenager,
and became a member of the Italian origami association, Centro Diffusione Origami, in 1986. Shortly afterwards she became
interested in exploring the connections between origami and mathematics with a view to using origami in math classes
at all levels.
Frigerio developed and taught workshops on using origami to teach and explain mathematics and for teacher training programs
at two universities in Milano. She also developed, together with Maria Luisa Spreafico, a program of hands-on mathematical
activities using origami for primary school students.
Frigerio spoke at the first International Meeting of Origami Science and Technology in Ferrara, Italy in 1989, which was the forerunner
of what was to become OSME. She has since attended and played an active part in the OSME meetings.