Conference Programme
Day 2: Tuesday, August 11
Registration & Coffee
09:00–09:30
Dirk Baecker
Dresden
Oh, Fortuna
Ever since Claude E. Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication, there is an element of stochastics in every theory of communication. Source, channel, noise, and even destination are measured with respect to their entropy. And every message is a product of both relational and conditional entropy. Shannon's theory and George Spencer-Brown's Calculus of Indications share an understanding of the relational and conditional nature of messages or indications. For Shannon, every message is »a message selected from a set of possible messages«. And for Spencer-Brown, every indication is one distinguished from an unmarked state. What kind of distinction is drawn by a Shannon message? And how would Spencer-Brown account for the stochastic nature of a communication process? Is the indeterminacy produced by the re-entry of a distinction into the form of the distinction a key to possible answers to these questions? There is no chance, Spencer-Brown maintained in his book on »Probability and Scientific Inference« (1957). How would Shannon answer to this? And how would Gregroy Bateson deal with this – who is among the very few who, in his book on »Mind and Nature« (1979) worked with Shannon's notion of stochastic processes? This paper tries to pick up some of these questions referring to a sociological understanding of chance, random, luck, and hazard as ways to both indicate and explore spaces of indeterminacy.
Born 1955 in Karlsruhe, Germany, schools in Offenbach and Cologne, studies of sociology and economics at Cologne University and Université Paris-IX (Dauphine), PhD and Habilitation at Bielefeld University, chairs for sociology, culture theory and management at Witten/Herdecke University and Zeppelin University, retired 2025, recent publications: Katjekte. Erweiterte Fassung (Merve, 2024), Digitalisierung (Suhrkamp, 2026).
More info: dirkbaecker.de
Ever since Claude E. Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication, there is an element of stochastics in every theory of communication. Source, channel, noise, and even destination are measured with respect to their entropy. And every message is a product of both relational and conditional entropy. Shannon's theory and George Spencer-Brown's Calculus of Indications share an understanding of the relational and conditional nature of messages or indications. For Shannon, every message is »a message selected from a set of possible messages«. And for Spencer-Brown, every indication is one distinguished from an unmarked state. What kind of distinction is drawn by a Shannon message? And how would Spencer-Brown account for the stochastic nature of a communication process? Is the indeterminacy produced by the re-entry of a distinction into the form of the distinction a key to possible answers to these questions? There is no chance, Spencer-Brown maintained in his book on »Probability and Scientific Inference« (1957). How would Shannon answer to this? And how would Gregroy Bateson deal with this – who is among the very few who, in his book on »Mind and Nature« (1979) worked with Shannon's notion of stochastic processes? This paper tries to pick up some of these questions referring to a sociological understanding of chance, random, luck, and hazard as ways to both indicate and explore spaces of indeterminacy.
Born 1955 in Karlsruhe, Germany, schools in Offenbach and Cologne, studies of sociology and economics at Cologne University and Université Paris-IX (Dauphine), PhD and Habilitation at Bielefeld University, chairs for sociology, culture theory and management at Witten/Herdecke University and Zeppelin University, retired 2025, recent publications: Katjekte. Erweiterte Fassung (Merve, 2024), Digitalisierung (Suhrkamp, 2026).
More info: dirkbaecker.de
09:30–10:00
Richard A.W. Bradford
Distinction as the Creative Boundary
Spencer Brown invites us to draw a distinction. In doing so the most obvious effect at first glance is to cleave the world in two; in effect to create two things.
But, as many have observed – not least Spencer Brown himself – actually you create three things. The geometrical visualisation of this process leads to three things: the two things which are distinguished, visualised as the inside and the outside, plus the boundary between them.
Here, I explore the thesis that the creative element in the drawing of a distinction is the boundary, understood as the most immediate manifestation, or reification, of the distinction.
The boundary, a thing, is the reification of the drawing of a distinction, which is an action.
The boundary separates the two things distinguished. But the boundary also unites the two things distinguished. The tension between the simultaneous separating and uniting gives the boundary a remarkable creative facility.
These musings will be familiar to students of Laws of Form. This paper consists of a number of examples where boundaries, the products of distinction, prove highly fecund. Examples are drawn from physics, mathematics, logic, biology, perception and metaphysics.
Rick Bradford is a semi-retired engineer and physicist with degrees from Cambridge and UCL. He has published extensively on these subjects. Books include The Unweirding, Five Square Roots and The Classical Electromagnetic Field.
More info: rickbradford.co.uk
Spencer Brown invites us to draw a distinction. In doing so the most obvious effect at first glance is to cleave the world in two; in effect to create two things.
But, as many have observed – not least Spencer Brown himself – actually you create three things. The geometrical visualisation of this process leads to three things: the two things which are distinguished, visualised as the inside and the outside, plus the boundary between them.
Here, I explore the thesis that the creative element in the drawing of a distinction is the boundary, understood as the most immediate manifestation, or reification, of the distinction.
The boundary, a thing, is the reification of the drawing of a distinction, which is an action.
The boundary separates the two things distinguished. But the boundary also unites the two things distinguished. The tension between the simultaneous separating and uniting gives the boundary a remarkable creative facility.
These musings will be familiar to students of Laws of Form. This paper consists of a number of examples where boundaries, the products of distinction, prove highly fecund. Examples are drawn from physics, mathematics, logic, biology, perception and metaphysics.
Rick Bradford is a semi-retired engineer and physicist with degrees from Cambridge and UCL. He has published extensively on these subjects. Books include The Unweirding, Five Square Roots and The Classical Electromagnetic Field.
More info: rickbradford.co.uk
10:00–10:30
Xavier Aranda Arredondo
Universidad de Guanajuato, México
The Logic of the Absolute:
Overcoming the Subject–Object Distinction
What is the Absolute? The dichotomy between the real world and the world as we know it implies two distinct standards for objectivity: knowledge from the side of the knowing subject, which must be objective insofar as it grasps the world; and the world itself, which presents itself as fully objective yet remains unknown. The standard of objectivity must ultimately be shared. The Absolute thus appears as the root of objective constitution, preceding the distinction between world and knowledge, a distinction established through perception as the separation between subject and object.
In Laws of Form, Spencer-Brown, much like Hegel in the Science of Logic, seeks to reconstruct logic from a point without presuppositions or distinctions. Hegel refers to this zero point as immediacy, which admits two readings: an unfruitful one, from which no formal knowledge can be obtained; and a fruitful one, which explains the movement from the immediate to the mediated. This talk explores the commonalities between both projects, tracing a path toward understanding the Absolute.
Xavier Aranda Arredondo is a philosopher at the Universidad de Guanajuato (México), where he teaches and researches in the areas of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and German Idealism, with a particular focus on Hegel. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the same institution. He is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNII).
His recent publications include work on the possibility of a contemporary Hegelian philosophy of nature (Ethics in Progress, 2024), a chapter on Hegel and contemporary philosophy of mind (FILORED, 2025), and an article examining Large Language Models through the lens of Sellars, Kant, and Hegel (Characteristica Universalis Journal, 2024). He has presented at international venues including the University of Tokyo and the 22nd International Congress of Philosophy.
His current research addresses the problem of fundamentality and its extensions into metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary philosophy of mathematics.
More info: https://philpeople.org/profiles/xavier-aranda-arredondo
Overcoming the Subject–Object Distinction
What is the Absolute? The dichotomy between the real world and the world as we know it implies two distinct standards for objectivity: knowledge from the side of the knowing subject, which must be objective insofar as it grasps the world; and the world itself, which presents itself as fully objective yet remains unknown. The standard of objectivity must ultimately be shared. The Absolute thus appears as the root of objective constitution, preceding the distinction between world and knowledge, a distinction established through perception as the separation between subject and object.
In Laws of Form, Spencer-Brown, much like Hegel in the Science of Logic, seeks to reconstruct logic from a point without presuppositions or distinctions. Hegel refers to this zero point as immediacy, which admits two readings: an unfruitful one, from which no formal knowledge can be obtained; and a fruitful one, which explains the movement from the immediate to the mediated. This talk explores the commonalities between both projects, tracing a path toward understanding the Absolute.
Xavier Aranda Arredondo is a philosopher at the Universidad de Guanajuato (México), where he teaches and researches in the areas of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and German Idealism, with a particular focus on Hegel. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the same institution. He is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNII).
His recent publications include work on the possibility of a contemporary Hegelian philosophy of nature (Ethics in Progress, 2024), a chapter on Hegel and contemporary philosophy of mind (FILORED, 2025), and an article examining Large Language Models through the lens of Sellars, Kant, and Hegel (Characteristica Universalis Journal, 2024). He has presented at international venues including the University of Tokyo and the 22nd International Congress of Philosophy.
His current research addresses the problem of fundamentality and its extensions into metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary philosophy of mathematics.
More info: https://philpeople.org/profiles/xavier-aranda-arredondo
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–11:30
Adam Blazejczak
Drawing the Mark In Physics, Western Magical Traditions, Stories and Politics:
Five Explorations in Laws of Form
This presentation offers an interdisciplinary tour through five active research threads, each applying George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form — and its BF and Quaternionic extensions — to distinct domains.
1. Bell’s Inequality and Imaginary Forms.
I reformulate Bell’s inequality, a key Quantum Mechanical Theorem, within the Laws of Form framework, exploring the meaning of the act of measurement as a distinction. Imaginary forms are then introduced to probe configurations that approach or violate the classical bound, offering hints toward potential new reformulations of quantum non-locality and a possible path toward formally breaking Bell’s inequality.
2. Analytic BF Calculus: Distinction, Entropy, and Equivalence.
I present an analytic representation of imaginary forms in BF calculus, examining the entropy cost of introducing a new form into an expression, average entropy differentials across computational runs, and a proposed
notion of equivalence of form — with hinting implications for how consciousness might carve its environment into distinctions.
3. Laws of Form, the Western Magical Tradition, and Meaning Making.
I explore the structural resonance between LoF, BF calculus, and quaternionic extensions and the operative logic of Hermeticism and Western magical practice, arguing that the act of marking and crossing maps naturally onto classical ritual and intentional structures. This is further extrapolated into notions like “Quadrant Analysis”, a new view at the “Relativistic Political Compass” and how blind spots may be identified within each.
4. Leon Conrad’s Story Structure Work in BF Formalism (Imaginary Extension to LoF Calculus).
We show how narrative arcs can be expressed as BF values and environmental operands, capturing how environmental change drives story transformation, how both forces of serendipity and expectation may be formalised within the calculus, and the possible implications for meaning-making and narrative design.
5. Two Can Play Tarati: An Online Multiplayer App & Strategy Guide.
I present my work into GSB’s Tarati game: an online multiplayer version of the game, accompanied by a strategy guide distilled from a million high-level AI games, including a survey of principal openings and strategic themes.
Adam Blazejczak holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s in Physics (2025), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in physics at Ghent University. With seven years of experience as a data scientist and data architect consultant, and three years running BLVCK Studios — specialising in app design and enterprise architecture for small and medium businesses — he brings a rare combination of technical rigour and creative vision to his work. He is the creator of QQuill, a story-structure-based self-inquiry application, and several other tools oriented toward consciousness exploration. His independent research into Laws of Form, BF calculus, and their extensions spans physics, consciousness studies, spirituality, and game design, reflecting a sustained commitment to applying Spencer-Brown’s Calculus of Indications as a universal lens for understanding distinction and form.
More info: https://blvckstudios.com/
Five Explorations in Laws of Form
This presentation offers an interdisciplinary tour through five active research threads, each applying George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form — and its BF and Quaternionic extensions — to distinct domains.
1. Bell’s Inequality and Imaginary Forms.
I reformulate Bell’s inequality, a key Quantum Mechanical Theorem, within the Laws of Form framework, exploring the meaning of the act of measurement as a distinction. Imaginary forms are then introduced to probe configurations that approach or violate the classical bound, offering hints toward potential new reformulations of quantum non-locality and a possible path toward formally breaking Bell’s inequality.
2. Analytic BF Calculus: Distinction, Entropy, and Equivalence.
I present an analytic representation of imaginary forms in BF calculus, examining the entropy cost of introducing a new form into an expression, average entropy differentials across computational runs, and a proposed
notion of equivalence of form — with hinting implications for how consciousness might carve its environment into distinctions.
3. Laws of Form, the Western Magical Tradition, and Meaning Making.
I explore the structural resonance between LoF, BF calculus, and quaternionic extensions and the operative logic of Hermeticism and Western magical practice, arguing that the act of marking and crossing maps naturally onto classical ritual and intentional structures. This is further extrapolated into notions like “Quadrant Analysis”, a new view at the “Relativistic Political Compass” and how blind spots may be identified within each.
4. Leon Conrad’s Story Structure Work in BF Formalism (Imaginary Extension to LoF Calculus).
We show how narrative arcs can be expressed as BF values and environmental operands, capturing how environmental change drives story transformation, how both forces of serendipity and expectation may be formalised within the calculus, and the possible implications for meaning-making and narrative design.
5. Two Can Play Tarati: An Online Multiplayer App & Strategy Guide.
I present my work into GSB’s Tarati game: an online multiplayer version of the game, accompanied by a strategy guide distilled from a million high-level AI games, including a survey of principal openings and strategic themes.
Adam Blazejczak holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s in Physics (2025), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in physics at Ghent University. With seven years of experience as a data scientist and data architect consultant, and three years running BLVCK Studios — specialising in app design and enterprise architecture for small and medium businesses — he brings a rare combination of technical rigour and creative vision to his work. He is the creator of QQuill, a story-structure-based self-inquiry application, and several other tools oriented toward consciousness exploration. His independent research into Laws of Form, BF calculus, and their extensions spans physics, consciousness studies, spirituality, and game design, reflecting a sustained commitment to applying Spencer-Brown’s Calculus of Indications as a universal lens for understanding distinction and form.
More info: https://blvckstudios.com/
11:30–12:00
Marcus J. Carney
University of Vienna (AT); Masaryk University, Brno (CZ)
Towards the Boundaries of Understanding
There are two photographs depicting G. Spencer-Brown and Gordon Pask in good spirits (courtesy of P. Pangaro, 1992.) Credible accounts speak of Spencer-Brown writing Laws of Form while excessively occupying Gordon’s family’s bathtub.
While “drawing a distinction” comes with “its” logical aspects, Paskian conversations emerge — reminiscent of “I through Thou” in Buberian dialogue — by [possibly distributed] “mechanical” M-individuals hosting [likely distributed] “psychological” P-individuals.
Structural constellations practice is a group modelling methodology, utilising the phenomenon of representational perception. Logician-practitioner M. Varga von Kibéd, et al found how any concept or notion can be modelled by client-modellers “constellating” person representors, with representational perception to emerge. Representational perception can be understood as “what P-Individuals perceive”, sensorily, cognitively, emotionally.
Navigating such conversational process entails treating every client-modeller’s and representor’s utterance as if occurring on the surface of an evolving model topology, necessitating syntactic over semantic facilitation. We shall relate assumptions re understanding from “drawing a distinction”, to “negating the Tetralemma”, to Varga’s recent “Pentadik” [five-related Verfuegtheiten] and what to do with them conversationally, when “words [concepts] may or may not [yet] have given out” and we’re left with [“purely“] relational information traversing the fractal landscape “between” saying & showing.
U.S.-Austrian lecturer, researcher, archivist, facilitator, filmmaker; with particular interest in epistemological implications and practical consequences of what currently is called “representational perception”.
More info:
There are two photographs depicting G. Spencer-Brown and Gordon Pask in good spirits (courtesy of P. Pangaro, 1992.) Credible accounts speak of Spencer-Brown writing Laws of Form while excessively occupying Gordon’s family’s bathtub.
While “drawing a distinction” comes with “its” logical aspects, Paskian conversations emerge — reminiscent of “I through Thou” in Buberian dialogue — by [possibly distributed] “mechanical” M-individuals hosting [likely distributed] “psychological” P-individuals.
Structural constellations practice is a group modelling methodology, utilising the phenomenon of representational perception. Logician-practitioner M. Varga von Kibéd, et al found how any concept or notion can be modelled by client-modellers “constellating” person representors, with representational perception to emerge. Representational perception can be understood as “what P-Individuals perceive”, sensorily, cognitively, emotionally.
Navigating such conversational process entails treating every client-modeller’s and representor’s utterance as if occurring on the surface of an evolving model topology, necessitating syntactic over semantic facilitation. We shall relate assumptions re understanding from “drawing a distinction”, to “negating the Tetralemma”, to Varga’s recent “Pentadik” [five-related Verfuegtheiten] and what to do with them conversationally, when “words [concepts] may or may not [yet] have given out” and we’re left with [“purely“] relational information traversing the fractal landscape “between” saying & showing.
U.S.-Austrian lecturer, researcher, archivist, facilitator, filmmaker; with particular interest in epistemological implications and practical consequences of what currently is called “representational perception”.
More info:
12:00–12:30
Graham Ellsbury
Chair, The Spencer-Brown Society
The Genesis of Laws of Form
Graham will discuss the notational and philosophical antecedents of the Calculus of Indications, the discovery of the Calculus, the evolution of Spencer-Brown's thinking, and his connection with Bertrand Russell, culminating in the Calculus’s publication in Laws of Form in 1969. The discussion will include recollections from Graham's thirty-three year friendship with Spencer-Brown, and recollections of Harry Frost and Jeff Miller, both of whom assisted the development of Laws of Form and are acknowledged in the Preface to the first edition.
Graham was George Spencer-Brown’s closest friend and confidant from 1983 to his death in 2016 and is the leading authority on the primary algebra presented in Laws of Form, GSB's pioneering work in the foundations of mathematics. Graham is compiling more than four decades of his research in formal algebras into book form. Graham chairs the Spencer-Brown Society which organizes the Laws of Form series of conferences.
Graham will discuss the notational and philosophical antecedents of the Calculus of Indications, the discovery of the Calculus, the evolution of Spencer-Brown's thinking, and his connection with Bertrand Russell, culminating in the Calculus’s publication in Laws of Form in 1969. The discussion will include recollections from Graham's thirty-three year friendship with Spencer-Brown, and recollections of Harry Frost and Jeff Miller, both of whom assisted the development of Laws of Form and are acknowledged in the Preface to the first edition.
Graham was George Spencer-Brown’s closest friend and confidant from 1983 to his death in 2016 and is the leading authority on the primary algebra presented in Laws of Form, GSB's pioneering work in the foundations of mathematics. Graham is compiling more than four decades of his research in formal algebras into book form. Graham chairs the Spencer-Brown Society which organizes the Laws of Form series of conferences.
12:30–13:00
Lunch Break
13:00–14:30
Kerry E Koitzsch
Image As Big Data Systems, LLC
damarys.2026:
A Software Workstation built on George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form, William Bricken's LOSP language, and modal logic programming
The paper describes a new hardware and software architecture called damarys.2026, an integrated workstation environment using George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form, William Bricken's LOSP programming language, and the principles found in Hughes and Cresswell's development of Modal Logic. This experimental workstation is designed to address current strategic problems in general-purpose software development, allowing a novel and flexible methodology to evolve; this is reminiscent of earlier 'single-user workstation' designs of yesteryear. damarys.2026 makes use of standardized hardware components as core components of the workstation: the hardware architecture is inspired by the Lisp Machine workstation and Connection Machine architectures of the Early AI Era. Development and implementation of damarys.2026 is described, with an overview of how Laws of Form, LOSP, William Bricken's Iconic Mathematics, and other architectural software concepts have been approached to construct a new logic programming language. The programming language damarys, in turn, defines and implements the operating system for the workstation prototype. Working examples and applications of the damarys.2026 prototype are described, indicating the benefits of the Laws of Form paradigm towards software project development, even at a very complex level of sophistication: we present three use cases with examples of how damarys.2026 may be used at all levels of the software project, from knowledge acquisition to app building and deployment. Finally, we compare and contrast the damarys.2026 design with other approaches to "artificial intelligence", particularly the "generative AI" approaches such as ChatGPT, Grok, and others, pointing out significant advantages to the "neurosymbolic" approach used in damarys.2026 to "ChatGPT-style" systems: advantages include accuracy, repeatability, consistency, security, and explain-ability. The conclusion of the paper details the current status of the damarys.2026 project, lessons learned, and the prospectus for the next year of research and development.
Kerry Koitzsch is a software engineer and author of three published books and many chapter-length publications on a variety of subjects, including computer science and the history of science. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Sacred Letters from Mellen University for studies and translations of Johann Reuchlin and other Renaissance philosophers. Kerry Koitzsch is a recipient of the Adele Mellen Prize for a Contribution to Scholarship, and is a recipient of the United States Army Achievement Medal.
More info: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kerry-Koitzsch
A Software Workstation built on George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form, William Bricken's LOSP language, and modal logic programming
The paper describes a new hardware and software architecture called damarys.2026, an integrated workstation environment using George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form, William Bricken's LOSP programming language, and the principles found in Hughes and Cresswell's development of Modal Logic. This experimental workstation is designed to address current strategic problems in general-purpose software development, allowing a novel and flexible methodology to evolve; this is reminiscent of earlier 'single-user workstation' designs of yesteryear. damarys.2026 makes use of standardized hardware components as core components of the workstation: the hardware architecture is inspired by the Lisp Machine workstation and Connection Machine architectures of the Early AI Era. Development and implementation of damarys.2026 is described, with an overview of how Laws of Form, LOSP, William Bricken's Iconic Mathematics, and other architectural software concepts have been approached to construct a new logic programming language. The programming language damarys, in turn, defines and implements the operating system for the workstation prototype. Working examples and applications of the damarys.2026 prototype are described, indicating the benefits of the Laws of Form paradigm towards software project development, even at a very complex level of sophistication: we present three use cases with examples of how damarys.2026 may be used at all levels of the software project, from knowledge acquisition to app building and deployment. Finally, we compare and contrast the damarys.2026 design with other approaches to "artificial intelligence", particularly the "generative AI" approaches such as ChatGPT, Grok, and others, pointing out significant advantages to the "neurosymbolic" approach used in damarys.2026 to "ChatGPT-style" systems: advantages include accuracy, repeatability, consistency, security, and explain-ability. The conclusion of the paper details the current status of the damarys.2026 project, lessons learned, and the prospectus for the next year of research and development.
Kerry Koitzsch is a software engineer and author of three published books and many chapter-length publications on a variety of subjects, including computer science and the history of science. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Sacred Letters from Mellen University for studies and translations of Johann Reuchlin and other Renaissance philosophers. Kerry Koitzsch is a recipient of the Adele Mellen Prize for a Contribution to Scholarship, and is a recipient of the United States Army Achievement Medal.
More info: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kerry-Koitzsch
14:30–15:00
Panel Discussion in Memory of Jim Flagg
15:00–15:30
Louis H. Kauffman
Divyamaan Sahoo
Divyamaan Sahoo
Asynchronous Modulators and Imaginary Values
Research on Appendices 7, 8, and 9 of Laws of Form
Awaiting final abstract
Louis Kauffman has a BS from MIT and PhD from Princeton in Mathematics. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research is in knot theory and its ramifications in other areas of mathematics and science. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Recipient of the Warren McCulloch and Norbert Wiener awards of the American Society for Cybernetics, the Bertalanfy Award for Complex Systems, and an ANPA Award of the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association. He works on the mathematics of form and laws of form and writes a column on Virtual Logic for the Journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing, and he is the Editor of the World Scientific Book Series On Knots and Everything.
More info: homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman
Divyamaan Sahoo from Kolkata, India, is a mathematician, puppeteer, and sound artist, deeply influenced by anima, the soul or essence of living things, in the alchemy of puppets and instruments.
More info: www.linkedin.com/in/divyamaan-sahoo/
Research on Appendices 7, 8, and 9 of Laws of Form
Awaiting final abstract
Louis Kauffman has a BS from MIT and PhD from Princeton in Mathematics. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research is in knot theory and its ramifications in other areas of mathematics and science. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Recipient of the Warren McCulloch and Norbert Wiener awards of the American Society for Cybernetics, the Bertalanfy Award for Complex Systems, and an ANPA Award of the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association. He works on the mathematics of form and laws of form and writes a column on Virtual Logic for the Journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing, and he is the Editor of the World Scientific Book Series On Knots and Everything.
More info: homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman
Divyamaan Sahoo from Kolkata, India, is a mathematician, puppeteer, and sound artist, deeply influenced by anima, the soul or essence of living things, in the alchemy of puppets and instruments.
More info: www.linkedin.com/in/divyamaan-sahoo/
15:30–17:00
