ICMAT MATHEMATICAL TREASURE TRAIL TALK: "CHAOS and MATHEMATICS" and TALK: "CAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN COLOURS BE MEASURED?"
Venue: Centro Cultural Pablo Iglesias (Paseo de la Chopera, 59, 28100, Alcobendas, Madrid) e IES Cardenal Cisneros (Calle de los Reyes, 4, 28015, Madrid)
Datess: November 7th, 8th and 10th.
Time: 12:00.
Participating researchers: Ángela Capel (UAM-ICMAT), Jesús Ocáriz (UAM-ICMAT), Florentino Borondo (UAM-ICMAT), Tania Pernas (CSIC-ICMAT), Víctor Arnaiz (CSIC-ICMAT), Juan José Marín (CSIC-ICMAT), Eric Latorre (CSIC-ICMAT), Rodrigo Sato (CSIC-ICMAT), Diego Alonso (UAM-ICMAT), Mª Ángeles García (CSIC-ICMAT), Javier García (UAM-ICMAT) and Marco Castrillón (UCM-ICMAT).
The ICMAT will participate once again this year in the Science and Technology Week (SCT), which will take place between November 7th – 20th. The Institute will organize various activities on November 7th, 8th and 10th in Madrid and Alcobendas. These activities will be held as part of the CSIC and the Community of Madrid SCT programme, in collaboration with the CSIC Vicepresidency of Scientific Culture and the Alcobendas City Hall.
ICMAT MATHEMATICAL TREASURE TRAIL
Persons in charge: Tania Pernas Castaño (CSIC-ICMAT) and Víctor Arnaiz Solórzano (CSIC-ICMAT).
Collaborators: Juan José Marín (CSIC-ICMAT), Eric Latorre (CSIC-ICMAT), Rodrigo Sato (CSIC-ICMAT), Diego Alonso (UAM-ICMAT), Javier García (UAM-ICMAT).
Venue: Centro Cultural Pablo Iglesias (Paseo de la Chopera, 59, 28100, Alcobendas, Madrid).
Date: November 7th, 2016
Time: From 12.00 to 13.30
Educational level: 4th year Secondary School
In collaboration with the Alcobendas City Hall
Summary:
A treasure trail is a game in which the participants (normally organized in groups) have to overcome different challenges, many of which are linked together, by following a series of clues or indications. The winning team is the one that manages to overcome all the challenges first. In this particular case, the challenges are of a mathematical nature. Specifically, they will consist of recreational mathematical problems that must be solved en route (topological games, puzzles, cryptography, riddles, etc.) designed to enable pupils to have fun with mathematics as a tool for solving problems. The aim of this activity is to encourage teamwork, comradeship and cooperation.
Tania Pernas Castaño has been a PhD studentat the ICMAT since December, 2012. She is doing her thesis in the field of Fluid Mechanics under the supervision of Diego Córdoba (CSIC-ICMAT).
Her hobbies are drawing, cinema, and above all Latin dance, especially Salsa.
Víctor Arnaiz Solórzano has been a PhD student at the ICMAT since October, 2014. His research work under the supervision of Fabricio Macià (UPM) and Keith Rogers (CSIC-ICMAT) is focused on mathematical physics; in particular, the study of the properties of oscillation and concentration of solutions to the Schrödinger equation on manifolds. He enjoys the relation between rigour, formalism and intuition that is established between mathematics and physics, especially in quantum physics.
Outside of work, he loves music and the theatre, to which he goes whenever he gets the chance. He says that he had a frustrated vocation as an actor.
TALK ON "CHAOS AND MATHEMATICS"
Speaker: Florentino Borondo (UAM-ICMAT)
Venue: IES Cardenal Cisneros (Calle de los Reyes, 4, 28015, Madrid)
Date: November 7th, 2016
Time: From 12.00 to 13.30
Education level: Baccalaureate
In collaboration with IES Cardenal Casañas Secondary School.
Florentino Borondo is a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a member of the ICMAT. He is a specialist in the study of dynamical systems.
ICMAT MATHEMATICAL TREASURE TRAIL
Persons in charge: Ángela Capel (UAM-ICMAT) and Jesús Ocáriz(UAM-ICMAT).
Collaborator: Mª Ángeles García (CSIC-ICMAT).
Venue: Centro Cultural Pablo Iglesias (Paseo de la Chopera, 59, 28100, Alcobendas, Madrid).
Date: November 8th, 2016
Time: From 12.00 to 13.30
Educational level: 4th year Secondary School
In collaboration with the Alcobendas City Hall
Summary:
A treasure trail is a game in which the participants (normally organized in groups) have to overcome different challenges, many of which are linked together, by following a series of clues or indications. The winning team is the one that manages to overcome all the challenges first. In this particular case, the challenges are of a mathematical nature. Specifically, they will consist of recreational mathematical problems that must be solved en route (topological games, puzzles, cryptography, riddles, etc.) designed to enable pupils to have fun with mathematics as a tool for solving problems. The aim of this activity is to encourage teamwork, comradeship and cooperation.
Ángela Capel has been a PhD student at the ICMAT since September, 2015. She is completing her thesis in the field of quantum information, specifically the world of dissipative evolutions of quantum many-body systems, under the supervision of David Pèrez-García (UCM-ICMAT).
Besides her research work, she enjoys learning languages and engaging in activities to do with music and dance. She also likes going to the cinema, reading science fiction and detective novels, and above all travelling.
Jesús Ocáriz is a predoctoral researcher at the UAM Department of Mathematics and at the ICMAT, were he is currently doing his PhD in theoretical mathematics under the supervision of Antonio Córdoba (UAM-ICMAT).
In his free time he likes board games, especially chess, which he has been playing since he was a young boy. He also enjoys strategy games.
TALK: "CAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN COLOURS BE MEASURED?"
Speaker: Marco Castrillón (UCM-ICMAT)
Venue: IES Cardenal Cisneros (Calle de los Reyes, 4, 28015 Madrid)
Date: November 10th, 2016
Time: From 12.00 to 13.30
Educational level: 4th year Secondary School
In collaboration with the IES Cardenal Cisneros
Summary:
The perception of colour is subjective, but it also involves a lot of mathematics. The role played by Algebra and Geometry in the definition of what colour really is will be explained in this talk, and practical measurements will be taken of the distances between colours on the chromatic scale.
Marco Castrillón is a lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid and a member of the ICMAT. His research lines are the geometric calculus of variations, differential geometry, field theory and homogeneous Riemannian structures. He also belongs to the organizational body of the Mathematical Olympiad and the State Programme for the Stimulation of Mathematical Talent.
