| Oct 17, 2011 11:00 AM |
Hidden Secrets from the World of Dr Maths
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Dr Steve Humble, also known as “Dr Maths”, will give workshops to primary and secondary school audiences at NUI Galway. Dr Humble is one of the topUKmaths p... |
NUI Galway |
| Oct 17, 2011 01:00 PM |
'George Gabriel Stokes - Shedding light on the quiet man from Screen' by Dr Norman MacMillan
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The life and work of George Gabriel Stokes |
Sligo IT Room A 0006 |
| Oct 17, 2011 06:00 PM |
'Project Maths' by Owen Mc Conway
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What maths can third level expect students to know? |
Sligo IT Room A 0006 |
| Oct 17, 2011 07:00 PM |
'Not just a number:students experiences of maths'by Dr Etain Kiely and David Doyle
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The recent media coverage of maths has focused heavily on student performance such as only 16 per cent of Leaving Certificate (2011) students completed maths at... |
Sligo IT Room A 0006 |
| Oct 18, 2011 01:00 PM |
'A Bluffer's Guide to π'
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Why do we use π? What secrets might π hold? A brief history of π. The symbol for π. The personality of π. Can the circle be squared? Memorizing π. How an ... |
Sligo IT Room A 0005 |
| Oct 18, 2011 01:30 PM |
'Fermat's Last Theorem' by Fergal Gallagher
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The story of a maths problem that confounded mathematicians for over 350 years |
Sligo IT Room A0005 |
| Oct 19, 2011 01:00 PM |
'History of Numbers' by Liam Winters
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Looking at how the concept of number developed and how mankind started to count.
One of the earliest questions was "How many?"
Humans have been answering this... |
Sligo IT Room A 0005 |
| Oct 19, 2011 01:30 PM |
'Trigonometry in twenty minutes' by John Sheehy
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The lecture ‘Trigonometry in 20 minutes’ is my attempt to explain, to those who could never understand or never remember, how trigonometry works.
If we fi... |
Sligo IT Room A 0005 |
| Oct 20, 2011 11:15 AM |
'The Magic of Maths;how maths helps us win' by Andrew Jeffrey
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This is a motivational show demonstrating to students how the human mind (i.e. theirs) can be trained to perform extraordinary mental feats such as lightning ca... |
Summerhill College,Sligo |
| Oct 20, 2011 01:00 PM |
'The Magic of Maths;how maths helps us win 'by Andrew Jeffrey
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Magic Maths Show |
Sligo IT Room A 0004 |
| Oct 20, 2011 03:00 PM |
'The Magic of Maths;how maths helps us win' by Andrew Jeffrey
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Magical Maths show |
Sligo IT Room A 0006 |
| Oct 20, 2011 09:00 PM |
Table Quiz
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The second annual maths table quiz. Teams of 4 cost 10 euro.
Proceed to charity. Mostly maths related trivia with some Sligo Rovers questions thrown in to thw... |
Harp Tavern, Sligo |
| Oct 21, 2011 01:00 PM |
'The Hermes Project:analysing driver behaviour to make roads safer' by Calum Cawley
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The Hermes project won first prize in the lead category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals in 2011.The project team designed a device that plugs into a c... |
Sligo IT Room A 0006 |
| Oct 21, 2011 01:30 PM |
'Maths and Economics' by Cillian O'Murchu
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Cillian will explore the role of maths in the financial world & making use of some of the issues of the credit crunch in explaining some of these ideas
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Sligo IT A0006 |
