2020-2021 Festival Online: April 2021
Join us for the 2021 National Math Festival, with hands-on, interactive activities for youth of all ages, plenty of booths to stroll around and pick up resources for math play at home or in the classroom, and engaging films and lively math talks to round out the program. Enjoy!
Registration links coming in November 2020.
2021 Live Online National Math Festival Weekend
Friday, April 16 – Sunday, April 20
Schedule of events and registration information coming soon!
NMF Live Online: Fascinating Math Talks
“The End of Space and Time: The Mathematics of Black Holes and the Big Bang”
Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf (Institute for Advanced Study)
“Changing the ‘Face’ of Mathematics”
Dr. Erica Graham (Bryn Mawr College), Dr. Raegan Higgins (Texas Tech University), Dr. Candice Price (Smith College), and Dr. Shelby Wilson (Johns Hopkins University)
“Math Is Play!”
Dr. Emille Davie Lawrence (University of San Francisco)
“Numbers through Pictures: A Taste of the Geometry of Numbers”
Dr. Jesús De Loera (University of California, Davis)
“Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus”
Dr. Steven Strogatz (Cornell University)
“Math and the Movies”
Dr. Joseph Teran (University of California, Los Angeles)
NMF Live Online: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Screenings and Panels
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Room is your go-to for larger-than-life, math-inspired stories on the silver screen. You will also get to chat and dig deeper with panels and Q&As.
The Bit Player (2019)
Panel featuring Dr. Andrea Goldsmith, Dr. Mark Levinson, Dr. Ronald Rivest, Dr. David Tse
Hidden Figures (2016)
Panel featuring Dr. Erica Graham, Dr. Raegan Higgins, Dr. Candice Price, and Dr. Shelby Wilson
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)
Panel featuring Dr. Kathrin Bringmann, Dr. David Eisenbud, and Dr. Ken Ono
NOVA
Math film TBD
NSF “We Are Mathematics” Video Contest Winnershttps://dev.nationalmathfestival.org/people/national-science-foundation-nsf/people/national-science-foundation-nsf
Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (2020)
Panel featuring Dr. Hélène Barcelo, Dr. Roya Beheshti Zavareh, Dr. Marissa Loving, and Dr. Marie-Francoise Roy
NMF Live Online: Activity Presenters
Join some of the world’s savviest math organizations for a tour-de-force of online fun! Meet math superstars, find your own math star to steer by, and just plain relax and enjoy.
Come prepared to learn, engage, laugh, grow, play, and be part of an exciting math community for kids and adults of all ages.
Hands-on, interactive activities are the name of the game. You can also expect puzzles, demos, super-short talks, mathletic events, art-making, and more.
Parents and teachers, pick up resources for math play at home and in the classroom. Kids and grown-ups, roll up your sleeves and dive into easy-access, creative, open math activities for all.
