Fourth Symposium: December 15 and 16, 2025
This free Symposium brings together botanists, biologists, technologists, physicists, applied mathematicians and geometers
The contributions span a wide range of subjects, but the common themes are:
1) Cutting edge research on Form and Shape in Geometry and in the Natural Sciences,
2) Transcending Boundaries
The target audience of this Symposium: those who wish to learn.
Geometree comes from a wonderful book - The poetry of the Universe – by Robert Osserman: “We may picture the product of three thousand years of geometric inventiveness in the form of a tree – the “Geometree” - whose roots go back even further and whose branches represent the outcome of centuries of discovery and creation. With or without application, the branches and fruits of this tree are worth contemplating as a remarkable product of human imagination. The Geometree is healthy, vigorous and in full foliage, older than any redwood, and fully as majestic”.
Square bamboos opened the door to a uniform and unified mathematical description of natural shapes. In 1993 superellipses were first used describe the shape of square bamboos (Chimonobambusa species) and other square shapes in botany. Starfish and all that followed soon, through the generalization of Lamé curves to Gielis Transformations, as a uniform description of natural shapes and phenomena.