2018 Event Schedule - Sneak Preview
All events take place inside MSRI's building at 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley (above Lawrence Hall of Science). More events may be added, and a final schedule will be emailed the week of the event to all registrants!
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Hands-On Math Activities and Displays
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California Mathematics Festival: Join us for a hands-on problem-solving fair, California Mathematics Festival style! Everybody in your family from grandma to little brother can experience a dozen exciting math activities. You don’t have to watch; you’ll find problems you can do! Come have fun doing math with your whole family.
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Elwyn and Jennifer Berlekamp Foundation: Try to trap your opponent in the Game of Amazons and learn the trick of winning at perennial favorite Dots and Boxes!
- Glen Whitney: Join National Museum of Mathematics co-founder and mathematical artist Glen Whitney for a giant group sculpture build of a dual helix that with your help will grow to be three stories tall!
- Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival: Speed Rubik's Cube Demo: Meet Sydney Weaver, a speedcuber from South Carolina who averages 10 seconds to solve the standard Rubik's Cube! Sydney's amazing speed demonstrations include being able to solve the cube using only her feet - don't miss the chance to learn from one of the best!
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Dr. Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley): "Soap Films Suspended on Knots" Models & Demonstrations
Following Dr. Sequin's stage talk of the same title (see below), he will share a display of various interlinked loops and knots in the form of plastic models made on inexpensive 3D-printers, with the challenge to identify the knots that were used to form these surfaces.
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Dr. Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University): Mathematical 3D Printed Objects to Explore
Following Dr. Segerman's stage talk on hyperbolic honeycombs, you can join him to explore his mathematical 3D-printed objects. Dr. Segerman has been regularly featured on Numberphile and his mathematical objects are fun for all ages!
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MSRI: MSRI staff will host hands-on math activities for ages 8 to adult around Chern Hall, including a Zometool bubble station and mathematical coloring corner!
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Mathical Reading Nook: Curl up with a good book in the Hearst Library and explore 50+ titles that have won the Mathical Book Prize for ages 2-18!
STAGE SHOWS IN SIMONS AUDITORIUM
These short presentations will knock your socks off!
VISUALIZING HYPERBOLIC HONEYCOMBS
Dr. Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)
We can describe any of the five platonic solids with only two numbers: the number, p, of sides on each face, and the number, q, of those faces that meet at each vertex. The pair {p,q} is called the Schläfli symbol for the polyhedron. By changing p and q, we can also describe regular tilings of the euclidean and hyperbolic planes, and by extending to three numbers, {p,q,r}, we can describe regular tilings of three-dimensional spaces. I'll talk about a project Roice Nelson and I worked on, trying to draw some sort of picture of every length-three Schläfli symbol, from {3,3,3} to {∞,∞,∞}.
WELCOME TO NUMBERPHILE
Brady Haran (Journalist and Filmmaker)
Meet Brady Haran of YouTube's Numberphile channel!
SOAP FILMS SUSPENDED ON KNOTS
Dr. Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley)
Suppose you dip a wire model of a mathematical knot, such as a trefoil of a Figure-8 knot, into a soap solution – what kind of surface would the soap film form? Results will be shown for various interlinked loops and knots in the form of plastic models made on inexpensive 3D-printers. The talk will be followed by a display of many such models, with the challenge to identify the knots that were used to form these surfaces.
MATH & MAGIC (Interactive Presentation)
Mark Mitton
Mark Mitton is a professional magician who is fascinated by using magic to better understand how we see the world. In addition to performing at private and corporate events all over the world, and creating magic for film, television, the Broadway stage, and Cirque du Soleil, Mitton tirelessly explores the theme of ‘Misdirection’ from an interdisciplinary standpoint. He regularly presents on ‘Perception’ at universities and conferences in North America and Europe, including the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and has lectured with the late Nobel laureate Dr. Gerald Edelman of The Neurosciences Institute. Mitton has performed at festivals in Europe and Asia; at the Olympic Games; in war-torn Liberia; in hospital wards around New York City; and in a Mexican orphanage. His magical hands are featured in a They Might Be Giants video.
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