Theatre play ‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’ and round-table discussion

24 January, 2025

To commemorate 8 March, International Women’s Day, and 14 March, International Mathematics Day, the ICMAT and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are organising a performance of the play ‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’, followed by a round table discussion on a pioneering mathematician, Ada Lovelace, which will be the starting point for reflecting on the evolution of the situation of women in this discipline.

Date and time: 5 March 2025, 18:00.

Free admission until full capacity is reached. You can book your tickets for free  here

Place: Auditorio Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Campus de Leganés (C. de Butarque, 15, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain).

 

 

 

 

Programme:

  • 18:00 – 18:10. Presentation. Javier Aramayona, Director of the ICMAT and Eva María Blázquez Agudo, Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations, Culture and Equality of UC3M.
  • 18:10 – 19:50. ‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’. La Westia Producciones.
  • 20:00 – 20:45. Round table ‘Ada Lovelace and women in mathematics’.

Participants:

    • César Alonso, author of the work ‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’ and professor at the University of Oviedo.
    • Celeste Campo Vázquez, lecturer at UC3M, Deputy Vice-Rector for Promotion at the Vice-Rectorate for Students and coordinator of the STEM4GirlsUC3M project.
    • María Isabel González Vasco, Professor of Mathematics at UC3M.
    • David Martín de Diego, CSIC scientific researcher at the ICMAT, scientific director of the Mathematical Culture Unit and member of the ICMAT Equality Commission.
    • Noa López Fernádez, 2nd year student of the Degree in Computer Engineering at UC3M.

Moderator: Ágata Timón García-Longoria (ICMAT).

‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’is a play produced by the Asturian theatre company La Westia Producciones, premiered in September 2023 at the Teatro Jovellanos in Gijón and winner of the Jovellanos Award for Stage Production 2023. The play, written by César Alonso, professor at the University of Oviedo, combines artistic quality with scientific rigour and depth. It focuses on the mathematician Ada Lovelace, considered the first programmer in history and referred to by many as ‘the mother of modern-day computing’. This woman, a visionary and ahead of her time, lived in the first half of the 19th century and her research, forgotten for years, has been decisive in the emergence of the transversal discipline that permeates all aspects of life today: computer science.

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