The next Monday day March 14, 2023we will celebrate a new edition of the special event dedicated to mathematics at the Bizkaia Aretoa (UPV/EHU) in Bilbao: BCAM NAUKAS, the day of Pi. This event takes place thanks to Basque Center for applied Mathematics and the Chair of Scientific Culture from the University of the Basque Country, and will feature some of the most interesting figures in popular mathematics in our country.
It will be a day full of activities, workshops and entertaining and interesting talks both in the morning and in the afternoon and will include math workshops, to bring mathematics closer to primary and secondary students in a playful and attractive way. In the afternoon, we will continue with the celebration of this day through 15-minute, dynamic and close scientific talks that will be given in the Mitxelena room in Bizkaia Aretoa, through which we will learn about the properties and applications of the number pi in daily life.
Program of BCAM Naukas 2023 – March 14th
9:30 – 14:00 MATHEMATICAL WORKSHOPS
Workshops for students in the last years of primary school and high school students. Its objective is to bring mathematics closer to the youngest in a playful and attractive way, trying to awaken their interest in this science.
| primary LH 5–6 | primary LH 5–6 | Secondary DBH 1-2 | Secondary DBH 1-2 | Secondary DBH 3–4 | Secondary DBH 3–4 | |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Hands to Matter: a fractal approach (Andrea Cali) -Basque- | papyrus (Jose Ignacio Royo) -Basque- | giant games (Pedro Alegría – Raúl Ibáñez) | Manipulative problems for Pi Day (Antonio Fernandez-Aliseda) | Math mystery box (Nerea Casas) -Basque- | The Möbius Strip and other twisted surfaces (Juan Miguel Ribera – Lucía Rotger) |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Hands to Matter: a fractal approach (Andrea Cali) -Basque- | papyrus (Jose Ignacio Royo) -Basque- | giant games (Pedro Alegría – Raúl Ibáñez) | Manipulative problems for Pi Day (Antonio Fernandez-Aliseda) | Math mystery box (Nerea Casas) -Basque- | The Möbius Strip and other twisted surfaces (Juan Miguel Ribera – Lucía Rotger) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Hands to Matter: a fractal approach (Andrea Cali) -Basque- | papyrus (Jose Ignacio Royo) -Basque- | giant games (Pedro Alegría – Raúl Ibáñez) | Manipulative problems for Pi Day (Antonio Fernandez-Aliseda) | Math mystery box (Nerea Casas) -Basque- | The Möbius Strip and other twisted surfaces (Juan Miguel Ribera – Lucía Rotger) |
The workshops are free and have a maximum capacity of 35 people. Only students will participate in each workshop and in order to accommodate a greater number of centers, each center may take part in a maximum of two workshops. Centers interested in participating must register by sending an email from February 22 to the address [email protected] with the following information:
- Name of the workshop in which they want to take part
- workshop hours
- Number of participants
- Teacher’s first and last name
- study center
- Telephone contact
18:30 – 20:20 BCAM NAUKAS 2023 – Short conferences
Short, 15-minute, dynamic and close conferences that will be given in the Mitxelena room in Bizkaia Aretoa. These talks aim to bring closer the fascinating nature of mathematics and to make known, among other things, the properties and applications of the number Pi in everyday life.
6:30 – 6:40 pm: Presentation of the BCAM-NAUKAS event
18:45 – 19:00: Irantzu Barrio (UPV/EHU): “Photography with a mathematical lens”.
19:00 – 19:15: Victor Garcia (Zaragoza’s University): “A walk through the firmament, hand in hand with Geometry”.
19:15 – 19:30: Veronica Alvarez (BCAM): “Can machines change their minds over time?
19:30 – 19:45: Anabel Strong (University of Valencia): “Defending Newton”.
19:45 – 20:00: Miguel Camarasa (BCAM): “How to calculate the number π to wafers”.
20:00 – 20:15: Laura Toribio (VILLAGE): “The simple mathematics of our universe.
Access to the BCAM NAUKAS conferences is free and free until full capacity is reached. Those who cannot attend in person will have the possibility of following all the conferences live and via streaming through the EiTB Kosmos channel.
Come celebrate Pi Day on March 14 in Bizkaia Aretoa and enjoy an unusual mathematical day!