Math Festival NY 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Mathematics Festival 2009, Creations and recreations

 

Rome, March 19 thru 22 (information: www.auditorium.com )

New York, March 10-11

Mathematics Festival 2009, Creations and Recreations

8 Nobel Prize Winners and 3 Fields Medal Holders

 

Tuesday, March 10

11 am at Italian Academy - Columbia University

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

Keynote lecture by  the Nobel Laureate for Physics Sheldon Glashow.

2 pm at Italian Academy - Columbia University

The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

Kenyote lecture by Benoit Mandelbrot

5 pm at IIC

Press Conference

 

6 pm at IIC

Imaginary Interview with Galileo Galilei

Reading by Claudio Bartocci and Piergiorgio Odifreddi

RSVP 212 879 4242 ext. 363

Wednesday 11

9 am at Italian Academy - Columbia University

Statistical Thinking Is Hard, Casual Thinking Is Easy

Keynote lecture by Nobel Laureate for Economics  Daniel Kahneman.

11 am at Italian Academy - Columbia University

The Early Days of Game Theory in Princeton

Lecture – interview with the Nobel Laureate for Economics John Nash and Harold Kuhn – coordinated by Piergiorgio Odifreddi

2 pm at Italian Academy - Columbia University

The Elegant Mathematical Universe

Lecture-interview with Brian Greene (coordinated by Piergiorgio Odifreddi)

 

6 pm at IIC

Flatland, the Movie, with commentary by Thomas Banchoff and Achille Varzi.

RSVP 212 879 4242 ext. 364

Info

Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Hours: Cf single event

Venue: Roma - New York

Organized by: Musica per Roma, Italian Cultural Institute of New York

In collaboration with: Provincia di Roma, Italian Academy at Columbia