Stony Brook University professor and artist George Hart to unveil

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Stony Brook University professor and artist George Hart to unveil

sculpture at Macalester on March 22

St Paul, Minn – Stony Brook University professor, artist and

Momath co-founder George Hart (http://www.georgehart.com

/sculpture/sculpture.html) will be unveiling and installing one

of his sculptures designed especially for Macalester later this

month Macalester Mathematics, Statistics and Computer

Science and Art students will assemble and install

(http://www.georgehart.com/Aalto/aalto.html) the five-foot

diameter sculpture with Hart on March 22 from 1 - 4 p.m in

Olin Rice, Smail Gallery where it will hang

Hart will give a talk in John B Davis Lecture Hall, in the Ruth

Stricker Dayton Campus Center, at 4:40 p.m The talk is free

and open to the public

Hart will be at Macalester as part of the college’s Mathematics

and Society Speaker Series, established in 2001 and made

possible through the generous financial support of a Macalester

alumnus The purpose of the series, sponsored by the

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Department, is

to enhance classroom learning in mathematics or computer

science through lectures by people prominent in these fields

Hart is a research professor at the State University of New

York at Stony Brook in Materials Science and Engineering He

is the co-founder of North America’s only Museum of

Mathematics, Momath (http://momath.org/), in New York City

Hart received his PhD and BS from MIT and his MA from Indiana University

In addition to sculptures, Hart’s artistic work includes toys, computer images and puzzles

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March 15 2016

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