Monday, 10 May 2021, 11:16 am
Chaos theory and crochet collide in Christchurch this
month. University of Canterbury mathematicians are playfully
promoting the art and craft of mathematics through a free
public event on Sunday, 23 May. The Christchurch Maths Craft
Day is free and open to everyone: experts and amateurs,
maths-fans and maths-phobes, the crafty and the
curious.
“Maths is often overlooked as a subject of
beauty and imagination,” says Senior Lecturer and Maths
Craft co-creator Dr
Jeanette McLeod of the University of Canterbury (UC)
School of Mathematics
and Statistics.
A pure mathematician and a
Principal Investigator of Te Pūnaha Matatini, Dr McLeod has
Date Time
Getting crafty about sharing joy of maths
Chaos theory and crochet collide in Christchurch this month. University of Canterbury mathematicians are playfully promoting the art and craft of mathematics through a free public event on Sunday, 23 May. The Christchurch Maths Craft Day is free and open to everyone: experts and amateurs, maths-fans and maths-phobes, the crafty and the curious.
University of Canterbury mathematicians are playfully promoting the art and craft of mathematics through a free public event on Sunday 23 May.
“Maths is often overlooked as a subject of beauty and imagination,” says Senior Lecturer and Maths Craft co-creator Dr Jeanette McLeod of the University of Canterbury (UC) School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 2:11 pm
Explore the nooks and crannies of Jack, James, Ernest,
Beatrice and parts of the original city campus including the
new ‘Old Chemistry’, as the 147-year-old University of
Canterbury (UC) opens its architecturally designed doors for
Open Christchurch weekend, 15-16 May.
Open
Christchurch is a one-weekend-only festival of exceptional
architecture. It’s for everyone to experience great
building design from the inside, for free.
Jack Erskine
building (UC Ilam campus)
ARCHITECT:
Architectus, Cook Hitchcock Sargeson & Perry Royal,
1994
This refined, cellular structure is a
contemporary salute to modernist architectural history. It
was designed to house the University of Canterbury’s
8 major cultural trophies the USSR took home after WWII Public domain; Raphael/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts The triumphant return of Soviet troops in 1945 was accompanied by large amounts of captured paintings, sculptures, books and gold - items of the world’s cultural heritage that had survived the flames of war. Later, many of these unique works of art were returned to Germany, but some stayed in the Soviet Union.
1. The collection of the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden
Raphael.Sistine Madonna Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery in Dresden)
In February 1945, Allied forces - British and American - launched a massive aerial bombardment of Dresden, one of the most beautiful German cities, and it seemed the treasures of the famous picture gallery had perished in the terrible fire - the collection of the Electors of Saxony included paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giorgione and Vermeer, Bott
The Send Your Name to Mars Campaign attracted 11 million respondents from around the world. Their names were stencilled by electronic beam onto 15 millimetre-sized silicon chips, along with 155 finalists’ essays from the Name the Rover contest. The chips were then attached to a metal plate becoming part of the actual space vehicle. Fagg has been fascinated with the universe and beyond since he was a child and can’t wait to see the landing. His enthusiasm for the project is because it is the first purpose built, car size, rover to look for ancient microbial signs of life and take samples from the surface, which will be brought back to earth through a future project, he said.