Since October 2020 we have been organizing and holding virtual Celebrations of Mind Events.
Videos of most of them are linked below.
(see future listings for the G4G’s Virtual events, here, or follow our Event callendar for CoMs from everyone, here)
“The energy you have put into doing these monthly and then semiannual things is amazing. They are fantastic. The videos online will have lasting impact.” – (CY, Sep 2021)
2025
Rany Goodman Slight of Mind
Peter Renz Mathematical Games: Works in Progress
Colin Wright The Algebraic Pentagon
Tatyana Khodorovskiy and David Plaxco Twists and Turns: Enumerating the topological classes of knots/links on a 9x9x9 Rubik’s cube
Gwen Fisher Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch
Margaret Kepner Magic Squares: Crowdsourcing the Magic
Alda Carvalho Squid Bang Theory
Jeannine Mosely Tessellations in Cloth and Paper: Smocking and Origami
Tracy Drinkwater Intersections: Math, Art, Truth, Humanity
Scott Vorthmann Algebra and Serendipity: The Beautiful Mathematics of vZome
Chaim Goodman-Strauss Dodecafoam 2025
2024
Peter Winkler The Math Puzzle that Spawned 100 Philosophy Papers
Raymond Edward Hall Physics is the Real Magic: The use of Social Media as a Museum of Science and Math in the Spirit of Gardner
Stan Isaacs The Martin Gardner Papers at Stanford
Aaron Williams Next Steps for Sequential Puzzles: Ziggu Mazes and Grey Codes
Bruce Torrence A New Kind of Play for A-Puzzle-A-Day
T. Arthur Terlep We begin with a toddler and some Tinker Toys …
Klara Mundilova Art-Inspired Curved Crease Origami Research
Scott Kim How to read Gödel, Escher Bach
Eve Torrence Beading and Folding and Sewing, Oh My! An Adventure in the Marvelous Land of Map Coloring
Doris Schattschneider Marjorie Rice’s pursuit of convex pentagon tilers
Pádraig MacCarron Mythematics – Using complex networks to analyse myths, epics & legends
Tom Rokicki Twenty Moves Suffice for Rubik’s Cube
2023
Peter Lynch Counting Sets with Surreals
Peter Rowlett The maths of simple two-player games
Peter Renz Martin Gardner & Scientific American: Columns, Books, Legacy
Sarah Hart The beguiling cycloid
Érika Roldán Games, Gamers, and Mathematics
Tom Edgar From Bourbaki to “Look-and-See”
Ian Short Frieze patterns and Farey graphs
Carla Cardoso Cardano, the Physician and Mathematician, in His Role as a Gambler in the 16th Century
Matt Prichard Designing Deceptions
Katherine Stange The Illustrated Field Diary of a Mathematical Naturalist
Philipp Legner Fantastic Folds – The Mathematical Secrets of Origami
Vincent Matsko Algorithmic Puzzle Design
November 2021 – December 2022
October 2021
May 2021 – September 2021
Frank Morgan Optimal Pentagonal Tilings
Erika Roldán Shuffling Polyominoes
Amina Buhler-Allen The Magic of Polytopes–Mandalas
Cindy Lawrence Playing with Math: Squares and Cubes
Karl Schaffer Kinesthetic Conundrums
April 2021
Mark Setteducati The Magic of Inventing
Brona Butler Math Glass
Mark Mitton (video pending)
Jorge N Silva Tratado da Pratica D’Arismetyca (1519) by Gaspar Nycolas
Tim & Tanya Chartier Mime-matics
James Tanton Pile Splitting
Katie Steckles Puzzles with Bridges
Ellie Baker Crafts, Math, and the Joy of Turning Things Inside Out
John Railing Magic of Movable Books: History of Pop-up Books & Paper Engineering
Lisa Rougetet The Role of Mathematical Recreations in the 17th and 19th Centuries
Laura Taalman 3D printed Hinged Dissections and Foldable Polyhedra
Pete Winkler Drawing from Urns
Robert Fathauer Tessellations: Mathematics, Art, and Recreation
Catriona Agg Generating Geometric Puzzles
Ed Pegg New Substitution Tilings
Jerry Farrell Puzzles and Games for the Blind
Craig Kaplan Parquet Deformations: the tiles, they are a-changin
Alissa Crans Twisty Mazes
Marjorie Senechal Unwrapping a Gem
Colin Wright Colours Can Compute
Debbie Leifer MathMagical Mysteries
November 2020 – March 2021
Ken Knowlton Live Interview with Ken Knowlton
Nathaniel Segal Performing Magic on the Virtual Stage
Susan Goldstine Maps of Strange Worlds: Beyond the Four-Color Theorem
Steve Trettel Computer Graphics in Curved Space
Kate Jones A Periodic Table of Polyform Puzzles
October 2020
Carolyn Yackel How Orbifolds Inform Shibori Dyeing
Jeanette Shakalli Toothpick Puzzles
Steve Butler Math and Juggling
Scott Kim Musical Illusions
Gord Hamilton Mini Mathematical-Universes (no video available)
Laurel Lawson, Lindsay Giedle, Laura Briggs Mathematics in Motion: Mathematical Themes in Dance and Choreography (no video available)
Robert Crease Flood Control: The Pandemic and Science Denial
Jim Propp Believe It, Then Don’t
Diana Davis Cut and Fold a Spinner
Jeannine Mosely Counter Productivity in Minimalist Origami
Eddy and Lyn Goldfarb Eddy’s World
Sydney Weaver The Rubik’s Cube and Math
Ann Schwartz Down the Rabbit Hole with Flexagons
James Gardner The Whimsical and Serious Sides of Martin Gardner
Joe M. Turner Dice Dice Baby!
Dana Richards Algorithmic Puzzles and Martin Gardner
George Hart Little Zonohedral Library
Evans Harrell et al Math Court – Alice in Königsberg
Delicia Kamins Philosophy of Fractals
Bud Brown Puzzles and Wonders from Elwyn, Richard, John, Ron, and Martin
Yossi Elran All you need is paper!