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Gravity and the Human Migration

Submitted by Rafael Prieto Curiel on

Human migration is a topic that has commanded numerous column inches and news time in the past few years, and will probably continue to do so for some years to come.  However, it is also a subject that suffers from misrepresentation and sensationalism: our perception of migration is heavily skewed by stereotypes that, aided by media reporting, have come to dominate our opinions at the expense of reliable data and statistics.

Chalkdust, a magazine for the mathematically curious (www. chalkdustmagazine.com), therefore developed an exhibit partly to challenge some of these perceptions and partly to show the application of mathematics in the social sciences and highlight the links between different fields of mathematics, thereby hopefully furthering the magazine’s goal of raising awareness of the beauty and importance of maths.

In particular, the exhibit shows how Newton’s discovery of gravity in 1687 has recently been applied to model migration, as well as other social behaviours such as trade.

Interactive Traffic Simulation

Traffic and congestion phenomena belong to our everyday experience. In our simulation, you have the possibility to control traffic and create your own traffic jam. Find out how to trigger a traffic breakdown and how to resolve it. Observe how traffic jams can be seen as collective phenomena with waves propagating backwards from the bottleneck.

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A Trip in Italy

Submitted by mario di fonza on

 ”A trip in Italy” is a short video created by the students for the other students, for the purpose to arouse on environmental issues like: global warming,renewable energy,clean cities,public green and so on. The idea was born to arouse awareness to save the environment. The Comic does not go away from the scientific data and shows it with data and calculates the reason for the conclusion to which it comes.                                   

The Penrose-Riemann Connection

Submitted by Ulrich Seidel on

The film is about discretization of patterns, colours and shapes. The animation illustrates that a 2D periodic pattern can be mapped seemless to a torus. Riemann surfaces are more suitable to display aperiodic patterns in three dimensions. Hence the Penrose tiling consisting of birds is shown on a helicoid.

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Submitted by Torsten Stier on

A sculpture visualising the relation between visible matter and the “dark forces” in modern physics.

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