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Cambridge Science Festival 2007
The Cambridge Science Festival runs from Wednesday 14 March to Sunday 25 March 2007.
The following maths-related events are running during the Festival. All events are free, and no tickets are required for any of the talks or events listed below. Please note the venues carefully as these events take place in a number of different locations. We hope to see you there!
Wednesday 14 March, 7.30pm
The Importance of Being Peripheral
Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
Professor
John Barrow looks at how surfaces and boundaries shape structures and strategies
in nature. Superficiality matters. Sometimes it pays to minimise your surface
while at other times it pays to maximise it. How this is done is revealed
by some simple mathematics. The insights take us across a diverse range
of situations, from shoaling
fish to fractals, the weightlifting world records, naval convoys, and black
holes.
(No booking required. Ages 14 - adult)
Saturday 17 March, 10am - 4pm
Hands On Maths Fair
Venue: Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge
Games and puzzles for all ages. Pit your wits against the SOMA cube, Tangrams, Auntie’s Tea Cups or giant dominoes, and sharpen your strategic reasoning and skill!
(No booking required - drop in throughout the day. Ages 5+)
Saturday 24th March, 11am – 12noon
How the Stalactite Got its Shape
Venue: Isaac Newton Institute, Clarkson Road, Cambridge
Professor Raymond Goldstein, the new Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, will discuss some of his recent work, which ranges from stalactites to evolutionary biology.
(No booking required. Ages 14 - adult)
Saturday 24th March, 12noon – 4pm
Maths Open Day
Venue: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge
Cambridge mathematicians work on everything from from gravity and black holes to climate change and how bacteria swim. Hands-on demonstrations and displays share some of the wonders of mathematics and theoretical physics.
(No booking required - drop in throughout the day. Ages 8 - adult)
Saturday 24th March, 12.15pm – 1.15pm
Curved Surfaces
Venue: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge
Every point of an orange can be in contact with a table top; why is the same not true of a banana? Why is it more difficult to wrap a football in paper than it is to wrap a box in paper? How do we represent the curved surface of the earth on a flat piece of paper? How do we navigate around the surface of the earth? Professor Alan Beardon examines these questions in this accessible talk.
(No booking required. Ages 14 - adult)
Saturday 24th March, 2pm – 3pm
Avalanche!
Venue: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge
More than a million avalanches happen throughout the world every year. Most fall harmlessly, but the largest can destroy whole towns and kill thousands. This non-technical multimedia talk by Dr Jim McElwaine describes one mathematician’s efforts to understand snow avalanches, from investigating disasters in the Japanese mountains to dropping half a million ping-pong balls down a ski jump.
(No booking required. Ages 14 - adult)
Saturday 24th March, 12noon – 4pm
Hands On Maths Fair 2
Venue: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge
Games and puzzles for all ages. Pit your wits against the SOMA cube, Tangrams, Auntie’s Tea Cups or giant dominoes, and sharpen your strategic reasoning and skill!
(No booking required - drop in throughout the afternoon. Ages 5+)
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