IMAGINARY Conference 2016

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This was a conference on math communication in Berlin on 20 - 23 July 2016


Program

Wednesday, 20 July

Thursday, 21 July

  • Hermann Karcher. (3D -Xplor Math): More than 300 mathematical objects, all with animations and explanations.
  • Aubin Arroyo. Around Wild Knots.
  • Ana Cristina Oliveira. Atractor: Visualization of mathematics using 3D televisions and realistic virtual exhibits.
  • Gabriel Kelemen. The Algorithm of Fluid Geometries.
  • Enric Brasó and Rinus Roelofs. The self-sustaining domes by Leonardo (Dome building activity).
IMAGINARY around the world

exhibition in Korea and achievements they have made during the last 2 years.

  • Rosita Yocgo (IMAGINARY in Africa). Shared experience and challenges of IMAGINARY exhibitions in different parts of Africa and future perspectives.
  • Paul Igodt (IMAGINARY in Belgium). Based upon experience in the traveling IMAGINARY exhibition in Belgium.
  • Diego Armentano and Mariana Pereira (IMAGINARY in Uruguay). An overview of the first experience of

IMAGINARY expositions in Uruguay during 2015.

Friday, 22 July

  • Eugenia Cheng. How to Bake Pi.
  • Alessandro Cattaneo. Mathematics down to Earth: A game of cartography.
  • Diana White and Janine McIntosh. Mathematics Outreach International.
  • Marcos Bracco. Derivas Matematicas
  • Cindy Lawrence and Alice Peters (MoMath - Museum of Mathematics). Taking it to the Streets: The value of large public math demons trations & Math Made Real: it‘s not just for preschool anymore!
  • Henry Segerman (Segerman). Visualizing Mathematics wi th 3 D Printing: augmenting a traditional book with new media & Editing spherical video with Möbius and other transformations.
  • Jean-Paul Truc. QuadratureEvolution of the mathematical journal Quadrature (1989-2016).