To celebrate International Mathematics Day, the SCM has organized a morning session on March 13 with the motto ‘Mathematics for a better world’.
Registration is free via the form: SCM-idm314cat session. The activity will be certified by the teacher training programs GTAF and GCICE (with support from the Institute of Education Sciences of the UPC).
The session will consist of 4 lectures and a round table. Below is a summary of the session, but you can find more information here and at the SCM session program, IDM2021.
Program
9:00 AM: Opening of the session by Dolors Herbera, president of the SCM, and Joandomènec Ros, president of the Institute of Catalan Studies. VIDEO
9:30 — 10:00 AM: Maria Bras, Information coding. SUMMARY, PRESENTATION, VIDEO
10:15 — 10:45 AM: Isabel Serra, Extreme values in complex systems. SUMMARY, PRESENTATION, VIDEO
11:00 — 11:30 AM: Mikel Álvarez, Power measures in voting. SUMMARY, PRESENTATION, VIDEO
11:45 — 12:15 PM: Gemma Huguet, Mathematics to understand the brain. SUMMARY, PRESENTATION, VIDEO
12:30 — 1:45 PM: Round table, Mathematics for a better world, withthe participation of Bartomeu Coll (University of the Balearic Islands), Rosa Donat (University of Valencia), Marta Sanz-Solé (University of Barcelona), Carme Torras (IRI, CSIC-Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Toni Pou (science journalist), moderator. VIDEO
2:00 PM: Closing with Dolors Herbera, president of the SCM, and Alícia Casals, president of the Science and Technology Section of the IEC. VIDEO