Philip Ording
www.math.columbia.edu
Philip Ording is completing a PhD in mathematics at Columbia University. With support from the National Science Foundation, the American Institute of Mathematics and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, he has pursued and presented his research in knot theory at UC Berkely, Osaka University, University of Geneva and Gakushuin University, Tokyo. He is also actively working at the intersection of mathematics, design and the arts. Since 2003 he has been a geometry consultant to Richard Serra and in architecture studios at Columbia University GSAPP, UPenn School of Design and Pratt. In Spring 2006 he and choreographer Elizabeth Higgins will lead a workshop in geometry and movement at Marymount Manhattan College where he is currently an instructor of mathematics.
