Maths Week 2011 Events in St Patrick's College

                      

As part of Maths Week 2011, Javier Aramayona from the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics in NUI Galway gave a fascinating talk on The Shape of Space. There were two sessions held on 20 October: one from 10-11 am attended by 5th and 6th classes of St. Patrick's Boys National School.  This talk was very well received by the school pupils and teachers alike.  Equally well received was the second session from 1-2 pm, attended by SPD staff and students.

A question to which no scientist knows the answer is 'What is the shape of our universe?' Actually, maybe you never thought that there could be more than one possibility for its shape!! Javier took an insightful journey into the different shapes a universe can have, allowing us to explore playing pool on "weirdly shaped" tables, drawing triangles on Pringles, and constructing worlds in which there's no distinction between "left" and "right".

Javier is pictured above, and also below with Dr Maurice O'Reilly, Head of Mathematics, and Dr Madeeha Khalid of the Maths Department.

Other activities that were organised by the College for Maths Week 2011 included:

• Dub1in by numb3rs, a maths trail in the city centre (Monday October 17th), created by Dr. Maurice O Reilly (SPD), Dr. Dolores Corcoran (SPD) and Mary Mulvihill (Ingenious Ireland) (see link below).
• A daily puzzle competition, organised by Dr.  Sinead Breen.   Our congratulations to the proud  prize winners: Derek Brennan (Staff), Mícheál Brennan (BA3), John Buckley (Staff), Karen Dunne (BA1), Sarah Gill (BEd1),  Moira Goodwin (BA1), William Keavney (BEd2), Dearbhaile Kervick (BEd1), Senan Kilbride (BEd1), Stephen McNeilage (Staff).
• Maurice O Reilly gave a public talk "The Art of Maths" at the Dublin Contemporary 2011, on Friday October 21st (see link below).
• A short virtual tour of the exhibit, "Mathematics and Contemporary Art", was on display at  the Cregan Library.

Dublin by Numbers:

http://ingeniousireland.ie/podcast-audio-tours/dub1in-by-numb3rs-free/

The Art of Maths:

http://www.dublincontemporary.com/events/listing/2011/10/21

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Monday November 14 2011