6/9: Big Data to Big Insights: Mathematics Revealing Art

In the Washington, DC area? Join us June 9th from 4-6pm for Big Data to Big Insights: Mathematics Revealing Art! Bass Connections Information, Society, and Culture and the Information Initiative at Duke (iiD) brings multidisciplinary teams together to make sense of “big data” - sources of information characterized by massive size, tremendous variety and rapid change – and make that data matter.  Duke faculty and student efforts to harness massive data sets to help address challenges ranging from the precise detection of explosives to early diagnosis of autism to the identification of counterfeit art. 

By collaborating with artists, art historians, and museum conservators, scientists at iiD are learning to ask questions of big data that provide a new way of illuminating the research frontier in the mathematical sciences.  In turn, the answers to these questions increase our understanding of the fine arts in unexpected ways. 

Please join us for a lively conversation to learn more about what can happen when the arts and sciences join forces. RSVP Here.