{"id":26,"date":"2005-11-02T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-11-02T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T01:20:00","slug":"or-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/or-exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"OR Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from Washington, where a friend of ours, a scientific illustrator, had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/releases\/2005\/1101klinglerIntro.shtml\">opening for his work<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">AAAS<\/a>. It is a very impressive show, with a mix of illustrations of insects, plants, dinosaurs, and extinct mammals. The attendees of the opening were a real mix. Some had a scientific background, but most were enthusiastic amateurs.<\/p>\n<p>It is too bad that OR doesn&#8217;t lend itself to this sort of amateur interest.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Gardner\">Martin Gardner<\/a>&#8216;s Mathematical Games column (and some of his successors) did appeal to the nonprofessional, and often had a strong OR flavor (that&#8217;s how I got my start). But having an exhibit, attracting a mix of people, seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>The closest we come to this is some of the optimization art done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oberlin.edu\/math\/faculty\/bosch.html\">Robert Bosch<\/a> of Oberlin (I am sure there are others, and I would like to hear about them). Bob works in dominoes, traveling salesman tours, and many other media to create art through optimization. See, in particular, his site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominoartwork.com\/\">dominoartwork.com<\/a> for samples of what he does.<\/p>\n<p>OK, that makes two things I want to do since I started this blog: solve world hunger through improved logistics and have an opening at a prestigious museum. Looks like this blog is going to cause more problems than it solves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from Washington, where a friend of ours, a scientific illustrator, had an opening for his work at the AAAS. It is a very impressive show, with a mix of illustrations of insects, plants, dinosaurs, and extinct mammals. The attendees of the opening were a real mix. Some had a scientific background, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/or-exhibits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OR Exhibits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}