On 14 March, different activities can be enjoyed at the Bizkaia Aretoa
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics – BCAM and the UPV/EHU’s Chair of Scientific Culture are once again organising BCAM-Naukas, which will take place on 14 March at the UPV/EHU’s Bizkaia Aretoa. In addition, there will also be an exhibition of mathematical photography, Natural Geometry, which will be open to the public from 7 to 14 March.
The day will begin with mathematical workshops for primary and secondary school students, where the aim is to bring mathematics closer to them in a fun and attractive way. In the afternoon, the celebration will continue with 15-minute scientific talks, dynamic and accessible, which will be given in the Mitxelena hall of Bizkaia Aretoa with the aim of bringing the fascinating nature of mathematics closer to them and to make known, among other things, the properties and applications of the number Pi in everyday life.
The exhibition is made up of 12 photographs by members of the mathematical photography group Geometric Focus. The aim of the exhibition is to discover that mathematics is present everywhere, including in nature.
This edition also counts with the participation of BCAM members for the talks and we can find María Ángeles García-Ferrero, Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow and Nicolás Moreno, María-Curie Postdoctoral fellow. Below, you can find the programme:
– 18:30 – 18:40: Presentation of the BCAM-NAUKAS event.
– 18:45 – 19:00: Pablo Rodríguez (Netherlands eScience Center): “With mathematics in our eyes”.
– 19:00 – 19:15: Carmen Quinteiro (University of Vigo): “Sowing squares, harvesting trees”.
– 19:15 – 19:30: Adolfo Quirós (Autonomous University of Madrid): “The number pi and the wall of Carthage”.
– 19:30 – 19:45: María Ángeles García-Ferrero (BCAM): “Mathematical images”.
– 19:45 – 20:00: Nicolás Moreno (BCAM): “Tell me who you are and I’ll tell you how you move (A story based on viral facts, any resemblance to reality is pure science)”.
– 20:00 – 20:15: Almudena M. Castro (Grupo MásMóvil, science communicator): “Bach’s last puzzle”.
Access to the BCAM-NAUKAS conferences is free of charge until full capacity is reached. Those who cannot attend in person will be able to follow all the conferences live and via streaming on the Kosmos channel of EiTB.
This is the programme for the mathematical workshops:
| Primaria EP/LH 5 – 6 | Primaria EP/LH 5 – 6 | Secundaria ESO/DBH 1 – 2 | Primaria ESO/DBH 1 – 2 | Secundaria ESO/DBH 3 – 4 | Secundaria ESO/DBH 3 – 4 |
9:30 – 10:30 | Plantas con matemáticas (Esaú de León) | Papiroflexia (Jose Ignacio Royo) (euskaraz) | Juegos Gigantes (Pedro Alegría – Raúl Ibáñez) | Math mystery box (Nerea Casas) (euskaraz) | La descarada Banda de Möbius (Juan Miguel Ribera) | A vueltas con el Oloide (Lucía Rotger) |
11:00 – 12:00 | Plantas con matemáticas (Esaú de León) | Papiroflexia (Jose Ignacio Royo) (euskaraz) | Juegos Gigantes (Pedro Alegría – Raúl Ibañez) | Math mystery box (Nerea Casas) (euskaraz) | La descarada Banda de Möbius Juan Miguel Ribera) | A vueltas con el Oloide (Lucía Rotger) |
12:30 – 13:30 | Plantas con matemáticas (Esaú de León) | Papiroflexia (Jose Ignacio Royo) (euskaraz) | Juegos Gigantes (Pedro Alegría – Raúl Ibáñez) | Math mystery box (Nerea Casas) (euskaraz) | La descarada Banda de Möbius (Juan Miguel Ribera) | A vueltas con el Oloide (Lucía Rotger) |
The workshops are free of charge and have a maximum capacity of 35 people. Only students from the same school will take part in each workshop. For this reason, in order to accommodate a larger number of schools, each school can take part in a maximum of two workshops. Schools interested in participating should send an e-mail to kzk.ehu@gmail.com with the following information:
Pi Day
This international event was the brainchild of the American physicist Larry Shaw, who in 1988 launched the proposal to celebrate this date. The way March 14 is written in English and Basque coincides with the first three digits of the famous mathematical constant: 3-14 martxoaren 14 in Basque / 3-14 March, 14th in English. In recent years, the commemoration of Pi Day has become so widespread that on 26 November 2019 UNESCO proclaimed 14 March International Mathematics Day.