A series of week-long workshops led by Gabriel Catren, introducing central themes of modern mathematics and physics to adults without a university education in science.
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• Deeply Organized Chaos
07.2022
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Introducing non-linear dynamics and chaos theory. I gave one class on difference and differential equations and another exploring the concept of fractal dimension.
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• Mobilis in Mobili
09.2019
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Introducing the history of the relationship between physics and geometry. I delivered a class† on Euclidean and Cartesian geometry, and a workshop in which participants were guided collaboratively to invent Gaussian curvature and discover the Theorema Egregium.
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• Categories for the Hard-Working Non-Mathematician
06.2018
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Introducing key concepts of category theory. I gave three classes: on sets, equivalence relations and groupoids; on categories and functors; and on algebraic methods in topology.
The Institute of Physical Sociality
An interdisciplinary research group interested in mathematics and physics, ethics, gender and race, initiated by Arika.
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• Online working group
05.2021–11.2022
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Led by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Susanne Winterling.
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• Week-long meeting at Skowhegan Gallery and New York University
02.2018
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Led by Karen Barad, Gabriel Catren, Fred Moten and Fernando Zalamea.
Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf
Two seminar series, led by Julian Rohrhuber, for masters students of Music Informatics and Media Theory with an interest in category theory. At each seminar I led two three-hour discussions around universal properties, diagrams and limits.
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• ‘Leap and Limit’ seminar
05.2019
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• ‘Form and Formalism’ seminar
11.2018
