04/07/2022

IMPA and FAPERJ promote a series of lectures with scientists.

The most fascinating and surprising aspects of mathematics will be unveiled during the "Lecture Series with Scientists and Young Scientists from Our State," which features presentations broadcast on IMPA's YouTube channel , always at 10 am, during the months of July and August. With accessible language, the initiative aims to facilitate access for the general public to the topics studied by the institute's researchers who are fellows of the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation (FAPERJ).

Entitled “Guess a number”, the first lesson in the series will be presented by IMPA researcher Roberto Imbuzeiro, this Tuesday (5). Imbuzeiro stated that it is a challenge to take cutting-edge mathematics and explain it in a way that anyone can understand. “This time, I will talk about a universal subject, which is lying! Or rather: how can you guess the number your friend is thinking of, by asking him questions, if he has the right to lie sometimes? Incredibly, this game has to do with important communication problems,” commented the researcher.

In the next lecture, it is Oliver Lorscheid's turn, also a researcher at IMPA, to talk about "Fun with prime numbers", on Thursday (7). Following that, researchers from the institute will also present: Mikhail Verbitskiy; MiKhail Solodov; Marcelo Viana; José Espinar; Felipe Linares; Jorge Vitorio Pereira; Hubert Lacoin; Hossein Movasati; Eduardo Esteves; Carlos Gustavo Moreira; Aloísio Araújo and Alfredo Iusem.

Researcher Jorge Vitorio states that the FAPERJ initiative allows for a closer relationship between academia and basic education students. "In my lecture, I will try to show that mathematics transcends formulas and connects with mundane issues, such as making a soccer ball, but also with fundamental questions, such as the orbits of the planets," he said.

See the full list of lectures below:

July 5th – "Guess a Number", with Roberto Imbuzeiro

July 7th – "Fun with prime numbers", with Oliver Lorscheid

July 12 – "Hilbert's Dream", with Mikhail Verbitskiy

July 14 – "Energy Optimization: the challenge of intermittent technologies", with Mikhail Solodov

July 19th – "The Wars of the Cubic Equation", with Marcelo Viana

July 21 – "Bubbles and soap films: a child's game", with José Espinar

July 26 – "Pororoca", with Felipe Linares

July 28 – "Vertices, Edges and Faces", with Jorge Vitorio Pereira

August 2nd – "Markov Chains: The Mathematics of Scramble," with Hubert Lacoin

August 4th – "Hometopia for Children", with Hossein Movasati

August 9th – "Schubert Calculus", with Eduardo Esteves

August 11 – "Continued Fractions and Approximations of Real Numbers by Rational Numbers", with Carlos Gustavo Moreira

August 16 – "Mathematical Methods in Economics: General Equilibrium, Reforms, Causality, and Early Childhood Education," with Aloísio Araújo

August 18 – "What is Optimization?", with Alfredo Iusem