Since October 2020 we have been organizing and holding virtual Celebrations of Mind Events.
Videos of most of them are linked below.
More are planned for 2022.
(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)
November 2021 – Present
Annalisa Crannell Drawing Three Impossible Figures Before Breakfast
Bob Bosch Connecting the Dots
Adam Atkinson Playing Almost the Same Word Game in Multiple Languages
Jessica K. Sklar Mathematical Art Inspirations, Instantiations, and Installations
Des MacHale The Humour of Mathematics
Mark Setteducati Remembering Tom Rodgers and the birth of the Gathering for Gardner
Louise Mabbs Re-Visioning Maths
Carlota Simões Mathematics of Jazz
Carlos Pereira dos Santos Planet Smullyan
David Cohen SCRABBLEGRAMS: A Delightful Combination of Wordplay, Puzzles, & Poetry
Pedro Freitas Dividing the circle, a problem for both mathematicians and artists
Edward Vogel Mining the Soma Cube for Gems: Isomorphic Subgraphs Reveal Equivalence Classes
Andrea Hawksley Fibonacci Lemonade
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!