The university community is invited to hear from Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University, about the mathematics underlying the patterns of medieval Islamic art.
His lecture is titled “Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings and Beyond.”
Co-sponsored by the departments of art history and physics and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Prior to Lu’s lecture, a reception will be held in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Lu. The reception will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at Kelvin Smith Library.
The exhibition runs through Dec. 8.