This lecture series captures the increasingly trans-disciplinary nature of scientific, academic, artistic and cultural practices and, in particular, focuses on the complex cross-disciplinary settings for art’s production in contemporary life.
Tatiana Lyubetskaya briefly introduces the major concepts that form the basis of scientific thinking such as data, model, assumption and proof before examining specific cases of interdisciplinary scientific investigations in the fields of geology, geochemistry and geophysics illuminate. The common ground between these subjects is found in the principles of mathematical analysis, which allow processing and manipulating different kinds of information in order to construct theoretical models describing the behavior of complex systems.
Lyubetskaya was awarded the William Ebenezer Ford prize for research in mineralogy in 2008 and the Elias Loomis Prize for Excellence in Studies of Physics of the Earth in 2009; her papers are published in American Journal of Science, Journal of Geophysical Research and Journal of Petrology.
New York City, NY; NYC