Experience the 2017 Festival through these photo galleries and recorded presentations by some of the mathematicians who presented on April 22 in Washington, D.C., as well as pictures from related events around the U.S.!
Presentation Videos
Dr. Stephon Alexander – The Jazz of Physics
American Mathematical Society – Who Wants to Be a Mathematician
Dr. Alissa S. Crans – A Surreptitious Sequence: The Catalan Numbers
Dr. Alissa Crans – Patterns + Women = Figures in Mathematics
Dr. Emille Davie Lawrence – How Does Google Do It? The Pagerank Algorithm
Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf – The End of Space and Time: The Mathematics of Black Holes and the Big Bang
Dr. Maria Droujkova: A Better Story of Math: Calculus for 5-Year-Olds, Grief, and Natural Math Adventures
Dr. Marcus du Sautoy – The Math of Art and Art of Math
Dr. Herbert Ginsburg – How to Find Good Math Storybooks and Read Them with Your Children
Dr. Rebecca Goldin – Do Video Games Cause Violence? Exploring the Mind with Statistics
Dr. George Hart – Making Math Visible
Dr. Marc Lipsitch – Measure, Understand, Control: Applications of Mathematics to Zika Virus Disease
Dr. Talea L. Mayo – When Will I Ever Use This: How Scientists Use Math to Model and Understand Hurricane Storm Surges
Dr. Talea L. Mayo – Not Your Average Mathematician
Dr. Stephanie Palmer – Great Vision from Crummy Optics: How Do Your Eyes Do It?
Andrea Razzaghi – Math: Charting NASA’s Journey in Space
Dr. Raj Shah – Exploding Dots: A Preview to Global Math Week 2017
Dr. Mariel Vazquez – Connections and Reconnections: A Link Between Mathematics, Physics, and DNA
Dr. Talitha Washington – The Mathematics of the ‘Hidden Figures’
Dr. Mary Lou Zeeman – Math, Tipping Points, and Planet Earth
2017 Festival Photo Galleries
A First Look at the Festival
2017 Festival Presentations
Wonder-ful Math with MoMath
Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival presents Celebration of Mind
Hands-On Geometry Festival
What’s the Meaning of Life? with the Association for Women in Mathematics
Bridges Organization: Platonic Paper Folding and Math Art Gallery
Cash Prizes for Everyone
Climate, Math, Ice Cores, and You: Hands-On Data from Planet Earth