2. FRIDAY AUGUST 1ST
EVENING SESSION 6PM—9PM
Stuart Firestein: The Unreasonable Success of Science: How ignorance, failure, doubt and
uncertainty keep science going.
Oakes Twins: Twin artists will discuss their process and their discoveries relating to a new
method of perspective drawing.
Mitchell Feigenbaum: A professor at Rockefeller University, Feigenbaum was awarded the
Wolf Prize in Physics "for his pioneering theoretical studies demonstrating the universal character
of non-linear systems, which has made possible the systematic study of chaos.” Join Mitchell to
hear about his latest work in this field.
SATURDAY AUGUST 2ND
AFTERNOON SESSION 3PM—6PM
An afternoon of science, art, and entertainment.
EVENING SESSION 6PM—9PM
Diana Reiss: What mirrors tell us about dolphin and elephant minds.
Jürgen Schmidhuber: The renowned Artificial Intelligence researcher will discuss the
explorations of the roots of creativity and low complexity art.
Oakes Twins: Our favorite twin artists join us again to display and discuss their mathematical
art concerning negative curvature, made from pipe cleaners.
SUNDAY AUGUST 3RD
AFTERNOON SESSION 3PM—6PM
An afternoon of science, art, and entertainment
EVENING SESSION 6PM—9PM
“Particle Fever” Night
Steve Miller: The storied artist will exhibit and discuss the art he has created from his
photographs of the Large Hadron Collider.
Mark Levinson: "Particle Fever" screening followed by a discussion led by the director on the
film and the physics of the Higgs particle.
THURSDAY AUGUST 7TH
EVENING SESSION 6PM—9PM
Helen Fisher: The renowned anthropologist and behaviorist explains the brain systems (using
fMRI) for lust, romantic love, attachment, happiness and personality, ‘big data’ in regards to
singles in America, and the future of women, men, and love.
Lee Silver: A leading geneticist explains how we can eliminate fatal diseases of infancy.
FRIDAY AUGUST 8TH
EVENING SESSION 6PM—9PM
Science Magic Night
Hyperion Knight: Science and Immortal Music: Discussion on the mathematical evolution of
musical temperament
Mark Mitton: Join the magician for an enchanting performance of illusion.
SATURDAY AUGUST 9TH
AFTERNOON SESSION 3PM—6PM
An afternoon of science, art, and entertainment.
EVENING SESSION 6PM—9PM
Gavin Schmidt: The Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies discusses our
constantly changing climate.
Summer Ash: Join the astronomer for a discussion on the mysteries of the universe.
Along with those listed above, special guest speakers, artists, and performers will be joining us throughout the event.
3. MITCHELL FEIGENBAUM
Mitchell Feigenbaum is a pioneer in the science of
“chaos,” the mathematics of erratic dynamical sys-
tems and objects with unpredictable behavior and
attendant “fractal” geometry. Dr. Feigenbaum’s labo-
which seeks the understanding of such phenomena.
SUMMER ASH
Summer Ash is the Director of Outreach for the De-
partment of Astronomy. Her doctorate research was
on the evolution of radio galaxies and active galactic
nuclei (just a fancy phrase for supermassive black
holes).
STUART FIRESTEIN
Stuart Firestein is the former Chair of Columbia Univer-
sity’s Department of Biological Sciences where his col-
leagues and he study the vertebrate olfactory system,
possibly the best chemical detector on the face of the
planet. His laboratory seeks to answer that fundamen-
tal human question: How do I smell?
HELEN FISHER
Helen Fisher is a biological anthropologist and a mem-
ber of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in
the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University.
dating site Match.com.
MARK MITTON
Mark Mitton creates customized magical presenta-
tions that make corporate and private events mean-
ingful and memorable. Having trained with the greatest
masters of magic and comedy and worked around the
world for over 25 years, he knows how to get a crowd
going, and how to provide the perfect magical touch
in the right place at the right time.
STEVE MILLER
Steve Miller is a multi-media artist, who makes paint-
ings, screenprints, artist books, and sculptures.
and technology on modern culture.
THE OAKES TWINS
Ryan and Trevor Oakes are twin brothers and visu-
al artists who have been engaged in a conversation
about the nuances of perception since they were
children. Since graduating in 2004, they’ve continued
their dialogue through a body of jointly built art pieces
that address human vision, light, perception, and the
experience of space and depth in the particular way
that they have come to understand it.
GAVIN SCHMIDT
Gavin Schmidt is a climatologist, climate modeler,
and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies (GISS) in New York. He has worked on the
variability of the ocean circulation and climate, utilizing
general circulation models.
DIANA REISS
Diana Reiss is a professor of psychology at Hunter
College. Her research has focused on understanding
cognition and communication in dolphins and other
cetaceans. She has done work in mirror self-recogni-
tion of such animals, as well as in elephants.
JÜRGEN SCHMIDHUBER
Jürgen Schmidhuber is a computer scientist and artist
-
and low-complexity art. His contributions also include
generalizations of Kolmogorov complexity and the
Speed Prior. Since 1995 he has been co-director of
the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA in Lugano,
LEE SILVER
Lee Silver is an internationally renowned molecular bi-
ologist and expert on biomedical ethics, legal issues,
and the societal challenges posed by advances in bio-
technology.
HYPERION KNIGHT
Hyperion Knight is a pianist who embraces the scien-
repertoire and his application of mathematics to “mu-
sical architecture.”
MARK LEVINSON
Mark Levinson is an American physicist turned
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the University of California, Berkeley. Thereafter, he
4. About SciHampton
SciHampton is a summertime collaborative retreat that fosters a convivial commingling of scientists,
artists, musicians, writers, explorers, and the curious. Participants attend salons, presentations,
workshops, concerts, and screenings.
Our mission is to provide an exciting environment for a vigorous exchange of ideas.
Organizing Committee
Helen Matsos, Founder
Thomas Campbell Jackson
Gayil Nalls
Gerry Ohrstrom
Paul Roossin
John Steele
Event Planning
Trisha Siegelstein
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