MoviesMath for the Movies is a talk originally put together for the Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) in New York, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park. The talk highlights math which is not especially difficult, but is obscure, much of which many advanced high-school students could learn. We’ll look at imagery from various films, Jurassic Park included, and some of the math that goes into creating them.

BIOGRAPHYJohn Schlag, founder of Infinovation Film, is a screenwriter / filmmaker whose visual effects experience includes Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Star Trek Generations, and The Matrix Reloaded. John majored in electrical engineering at UD and Carnegie-Mellon, and spent decades at the intersection of the arts and technology at Industrial Light and Magic, Google, Adobe, Sony, Nvidia, Esc and elsewhere. He is the recipient of an Academy Sci-Tech Award for Viewpaint, 3-D painting software developed over a long series of films at ILM. John appears in the documentary Jurassic Punk as himself.

Please come out for a great discussion and lunch!

Location: iSuite

12:00 PM - Lunch

12:10PM - Speaker

This event is open to undergraduate students in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department only.