Summer Math Group
| June 5, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 12, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 19, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 26, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Math Circle is back. Why don’t you join us?
No knowledge of math at any level necessary! The group is about starting from nothing (or not much) and exploring strange and beautiful ideas with noting more than markers and board. Think of it as build-it-yourself math. Sometimes we will start with a game-or play a game the whole session. Or learn how to see the world like a Flatlander from the second dimension would. Tie ourselves up in knots, perhaps. Read more
GUTS Club at sfX
| December 5, 2008 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Project GUTS — Growing Up Thinking Scientifically — has added Santa Fe Complex as a host for its after-school science, technology, engineering and math programs. Beginning Friday, December 5, the youth education program will meet at the complex from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.
GUTS is a summer and after-school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) project for middle school students based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and serving northern New Mexico. Growing up thinking scientifically means learning to look at the world and ask questions, develop answers to the questions through scientific inquiry, and design solutions to their problems. Read more
Music Theory & Mathematics
Mathematician Jack Douthett and music theorist John Clough wrote the book on music theory and mathematics, so to speak, in their 2008 publication titled, curiously enough, Music Theory and mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations. Douthett visits Santa Fe Complex on Thursday night, August 14 at 6:00 to review the theory of maximally even sets, an algebraic structure initially designed to model musical scales and chords, with an emphasis on visualization.
Friday Fractals in Santa Fe
Jonathan Wolfe, executive director of the Fractal Foundation and inspiration behind the wildly popular First Fractals at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, journeys north to demonstrate the power and beauty of his electronic images. Read more
Industrial Strength Networks
Image: Datasets published in the Linking Open Data community project, from Richard Cyganiak.
UPDATE: Emil Eifrem will offer a TechTalk at 1:00 at the complex on Neo, a high-performance graph database he has developed. The talk will dive into the Neo4j graph database from a software developer’s perspective while looking at some of the pros/cons of working with graph databases in enterprise software development. Admission is free. More information is available in the full article.
The information revolution can seem more like an algal bloom of data overwhelming us as we try to make sense of it all. We’re told it’s all part of a network, as though that makes the millions of web pages and trillions of data points understandable. The word has become part of popular culture, as we network in our jobs and social lives or join virtual communities like MySpace and LinkedIn to expand our physical networks exponentially. What is a network, really? And how do modern networks make sense of the bits of information flowing through them? This industrial strength blender will present an eclectic mix of speakers who will discuss their application of the network data model for various problems in academia and industry. Read more
Numbers and Metaphor
Morphology, Metaphor and Category
Ralph Chapman, Tiha von Ghyczy, Thomas P. Caudell,
Steve Smith
Wednesday, June 18, 6-8 PM
Blenders are a Wednesday night feature at Santa Fe Complex, located at 632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served; donations to defray their costs are welcome.
Numbers are metaphor: they describe the world in an abstract manner that implies their object. They can tell us how much something weighs, how tall its is or how fast it is going. Or, they can delve deeper into their objects and help us understand them in an almost intuitive way. Read more
Math Circle: Everything you think you know about math is wrong!
Introducing the Santa Fe Math Circle
Wed June 11, 6p-8
What is a math circle and why should you join us?
No knowledge of math at any level necessary! Circle math is about starting from nothing (or not much) and exploring strange and beautiful ideas with noting more than marker and board. Think of it as build-it-yourself math. Sometimes we will start with a game–or play a game the whole session. Or learn how to see the world a flatlander from the second dimension would.
Math circles are a place for spirited play with the patterns of math and games of ideas. Math circles are absolutely nothing like the rigid lockstep of a school curriculum’s drill through technique after technique. Everyone, grades 5-12 are welcome.
Ben Lichtner, Valedictorian
sfX intern Ben Lichtner, half of the dynamic Bens duo with Ben Goldsmith, earned valedictory honors for the class of 2008 at Santa Fe Prep. The two Bens worked on the sandtable project, developing software to sense the terrain in the sandtable and display topological relief shading on it. They also worked on the fire model, which allows the user to set fire on the terrain and control its intensity with a wind vector and strength. Read more
Ben Goldsmith: Intern Extraordinaire
Ben Goldsmith, half of the dynamic Bens duo with Ben Lichtner, was profiled in a Santa Fe New Mexican article on May 24, 2008. From video games to computer simulations, the then 16-year-old math whiz talks about his move to accepting his self-described nerdness and his coming trip to Stanford, two years ahead of schedule for most kids. Read more about Ben here.
