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V SCM IDM Conference – 2025

  • Saturday, March 15
  • Institute of Catalan Studies

We invite you to the V SCM IDM Conference, on Saturday, March 15, to celebrate International Day of Mathematics 2025 at the IEC.

The 1st and 2nd editions were held online. The 3rd was in person at the UdL Igualada campus and the 4th at the UAB Bellaterra campus. This year it will be held at the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC).

The conference is aimed at young people, teachers, and researchers from the mathematical community, as well as the general public with an interest in mathematics. Special guests include the boys and girls from the 2025 «Crazy about Mathematics» course and previous groups.

All those who wish to participate must fill out the registration form, which will be published soon. Participation in the activities will be free. The workshop has limited spaces.

REGISTRATION OPEN! Fill out the form

Limited spaces in the workshop!

 

  • REGISTRATION

Aimed at young people, teachers, members of the Catalan mathematical community, and the general public.

Registration for the conference is free, but it is necessary to fill out this form.

registration form

Open until 03/12/2025.
The young people from the 2025 Crazy about Mathematics course are already registered and do not need to fill out the form. Their family members must register to attend the lecture.

 

ACTIVITIES

  • Workshop "Turning the mathematics of the oloid around"

10:00  IDM Workshop
Workshop led by Juan Miguel Ribera and Lucia Rotger, professors at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB)

Workshop especially aimed at young people, also of interest to teachers.
(Limited spaces, on a first-come, first-served basis)

Included in the program of the «Crazy about Mathematics 2025» course as a celebration of International Day of Mathematics.

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  • Exhibition "Mathematics, Art and Creativity"

11:45, at the IEC cloister

Exhibition of materials relating mathematics to art and creativity, the theme of International Day of Mathematics.

Open to members of the mathematical community and the general public.

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  • Lecture: "Impossible figures, tessellations and paradoxes: a journey through Escher's geometry"

12:15 Prat de la Riba Room, IEC
Lecture led by Juan Miguel Ribera and Lucia Rotger, professors at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB)

Open to young people, members of the mathematical community and the general public, as a celebration of IDM.

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PROGRAM

Saturday, March 15

  9:45 Reception of participants
10:00 Opening of the conference
10:15 Workshop  «Turning the mathematics of the oloid around» led by Juan Miguel Ribera and Lucia Rotger
11:45 Exhibition «Mathematics, Art and Creativity»
12:30 Lecture «Impossible figures, tessellations and paradoxes: a journey through Escher's geometry»,  led by Juan Miguel Ribera and Lucia Rotger
13:30 Closing of the conference