In celebration of Dalhousie's 200th Anniversary, Dal alumnus, artist and MIT Professor Erik Demaine (BSc'95) returns to campus March 8 to deliver a special lecture titled Folding Paper: Visual Art Meets Mathematics.

Please RSVP here. Seating is limited and tickets are required for entrance.

Identified as a child prodigy at 7 years old, Erik graduated from Dal with an honours degree at the age of 14 and later became the youngest professor ever hired at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at Dal, Erik studied mathematics and computer science, and even applied some of his knowledge working in an oceanography lab.

Erik is now a Professor in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests range throughout algorithms, from data structures for improving web searches to the geometry of understanding how proteins fold, to the computational difficulty of playing games.

Erik applies mathematics to create beautiful works of folded art, some of which are featured in New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.