Friday News Aug 08: Weekly Socials, Virtual CoMs

G4G Weekly Socials
Our weekly Socials are held on Saturday at 1 pm Atlanta time (check the time for you here).
We are using the Zoom Meeting platform here (not Zoom Webinar as we do for our monthly CoM presentations on the 21st). So for these Saturday socials we will all be able to see each other.
Upcoming Sessions:
Sat 09 Aug – “What would Martin Gardner Do?”
Sat 16 Aug – Dana Richards with “Martin Gardner and summer camps: Mishiwaka and Chautaqua.”
Sat 23 Aug – TBD
Sat 30 Aug – TBD
We welcome theme suggestions for the G4G Weekend Socials. Would you like to lead such a social, perhaps with a fresh look at a favorite Martin Gardner column (or book)? A piece on critical thinking? A miscellaneous theme? Please contact us.
All information can be found here.

Virtual Celebration of Mind
We continue our series of online seminars, Virtual Celebration of Mind, that started in 2020. The sessions are at 12 noon Atlanta time (check your time here) held on zoom webinar, here.

Thursday, August 21, at 12 noon ET, Atlanta Local Time, we return for another Virtual Celebration of mind. The title of this month’s presentation is “Twists and Turns: Enumerating the topological classes of knots/links on a 9x9x9 Rubik’s cube” by Tatyana Khodorovskiy and David Plaxco. This presentation will happen on Zoom Webinar. We’ll also meet in another Zoom Room, where everyone will be able to see each other, right after this presentation.
Our upcoming speakers for the Virtual Celebration of Mind Webinars happening on the 21st of every month is:
– Aug 21, Tatyana Khodorovskiy and David Plaxco

G4G15 Videos
As for past G4Gn videos of the flash talks presented at the Gathering will be shared publicly on the web. We are uploading new videos weekly to our YouTube channel. You can find the latest videos here.

G4G Tributes
It is with sadness that G4G notes the passing of long time G4G community member Adam Atkinson on Dec 8, 2024.
We continue to update and maintain multiple tribute pages. In this we hope to honour and remember the many who have made the G4G community the remarkable group it is. As well as to inspire and connect those who build on the shoulders of these giants. We welcome and encourage any contribution to these tributes. To share your memories or anecdotes, please email us, support@g4gfoundation.org