Higgins Hall 230D
Telephone: 617-552-3582
Email: andrzej.herczynski@bc.edu
Mathematical modeling in fluid dynamics – perturbation methods for compressible flows, thermal processes under reduced gravity, similarity solutions in hydrodynamics.
Physics and art – scaling properties and fluid-dynamical effects in Jackson Pollock’s poured abstractions.
My interest in the connections between physics, mathematics, and the visual arts originated in a collaboration with art historian Claude Cernuschi, a leading expert on Jackson Pollock. In the fall of 2007, we co-organized an exhibition Pollock Matters at the òòò½Ö±²¥ Museum of Art at Boston College curated by Ellen Landau. We contributed two essays to the catalogue and wrote two more papers on Pollock later. In 2017, Roberto Zenit and I ran a workshop on Form in Art, Toys, and Games as a part of the research program on Growth, From, and Self-Organization at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge, UK, for which I served as the principal organizer. The program was accompanied by an art exhibition Form in Art: Art of Form, co-organized with Barry Phipps, Curator of Art at Churchill College. In March 2020, a roundtable discussion on Opportunities at the Intersection of Science and Art was hosted by INI and Churchill College, co-organized with David Abrahams, INI Director, and Barry Phipps, and sponsored by the NSF. The links below provide more details on these and related actives.
Exhibitions & Workshops
Workshop Form in Art, Toys, and GamesÌý (Nov. 28 – Dec.1,2017)
Exhibition Form in Art: Art of Form(Nov. 22 – Dec. 22,2017)
Exhibition Pollock MattersÌý(Sept. 1 – Dec. 7, 2007)Ìý
Papers & Essays
A. Herczynski, , Bulletin of Am. Phys. Soc., 64 No 13, (2020)
A. Herczyński, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, , Parity, March 2013, 26-34 [in Japanese, translation of the article from Physics Today]
A. Herczyński, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, , Physics Today, 64(11), 9 (2011).
A. Herczynski, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, , Physics Today, 64(6), 31-36 (2011).
A. HerczyÅ„ski, , in Collegium – College – Kolegium:Ìý College and the Academic Community in the European and the American Tradition, M. O’Connor and P. Wilczek Eds., Warsaw Univ. 2011.
C. Cernuschi and A. Herczynski, , The Art Bulletin, XC, No 4, 616-639 (2008).
C. Cernuschi and A. Herczynski, – in Pollock Matters, Ellen G. Landau and Claude Cernuschi editors, òòò½Ö±²¥ Museum, August 2007.
C. Cernuschi, A. Herczynski, and D. Martin, – in Pollock Matters, Ellen G. Landau and Claude Cernuschi editors, òòò½Ö±²¥ Museum, August 2007.
Recorded Talks
Paul Klee Notebooks: Form and Mathematics, Nov. 28, 2017 (INI, Cambridge)
Growth, Form, and Self-Organisation Programme, Aug.-Dec., 2017 (INI Cambridge)
Pollockian Mechanics: Painting with Viscous Jets, August 9, 2012 (INI Cambridge)
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