Science at the Museum
National Science Week 2025: Decoding the Universe – Exploring the unknown with nature’s hidden language Saturday August 16 from 12 – 4pmSunday August 17 from 12 – 4 pm To […]
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‘Is Dijkstra’s Algorithm Optimal?’ – A Basser-SMRI Joint Seminar by Robert Tarjan
Dijkstra’s algorithm is a classic algorithm for doing route planning. Given a starting location it finds shortest paths from to all other reachable locations using the greedy method. Not only […]
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‘Irrational ways of manufacturing numbers’ – A special International Day of Mathematics Colloquium (1/2) by Tadashi Tokieda
This is meant to be light mathematical entertainment, exploring simple yet unusual phenomena involving rational, irrational, transcendental numbers. We will also glean a few open problems. This event is part of a series […]
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‘A world from a sheet of paper’ International Day of Mathematics Public Lecture by Tadashi Tokieda
Starting from just a sheet of paper, by folding, stacking, crumpling, tearing, we shall explore a rich variety of phenomena, from magic tricks and geometry through elasticity and the traditional […]
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Maths at the Museum, including ‘A magic show’ by Tadashi Tokieda
International Day of Mathematics 2026: Mathematics and Hope Saturday March 14 from 12 – 4pmSunday March 15 from 12 – 4 pm To celebrate International Day of Mathematics, SMRI presents our Maths […]
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‘Pure mathematics as applied physics’ – A special International Day of Mathematics Colloquium (2/2) by Tadashi Tokieda
Humans tend to be better at physics than at mathematics. When an apple falls from a tree, there are more people who can catch it — they sense physically how the apple moves — than people who can compute […]