Registrations are invited for Numbers Are They Normal: Kaapi with Kuriosity Public Lecture by Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru. It is open to all.
About the Planetarium
The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) is administered by Bangalore Association for Science Education (BASE). The BASE is devoted to science popularisation and non formal science education.
Started in 1989, the JNP has emerged as a premier institution devoted to science popularization and non formal science education in India. It attracts over 3 lakh visitors annually, majority of whom are students. It is equipped with a large 15 M dome and a state of the art hybrid projection system installed and commissioned in 2017. The JNP organizes several interesting programmes aimed at school students and general public. These are: monthly star gazing, science club activities, science movies, Sky-theatre shows every day, viewing of astronomical events etc.
Program Details
Kaapi with Kuriosity is a monthly public lecture series organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), in collaboration with the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium and other educational institutions in Bengaluru.
The aim of the talks in this series is to stimulate the curiosity of the public towards the myriad aspects of science. The setting for these talks will be informal with a lot of scope for open discussions. The scientific background assumed will not be beyond the school level. As such, they are easily accessible to school/college students, families and working professionals interested in science.
They say the only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. What about numbers? Which ones are normal, and how well do we know them? The notion of normality of a number is related to the occurrence of different digits in that number. Roughly speaking, a normal number is one in which every block of digits appears with the same limiting frequency. For example, 0.12345678910111213… is normal in base 10, but 0.1212121212… is not.
The normality of numbers is connected to many areas of mathematics, like diophantine approximation, ergodic theory, geometric measure theory, analysis, and computer science. We will discuss some interesting facts about normal numbers and connect them to a few seemingly unrelated areas of mathematical sciences.
About the Speaker
Malabika Pramanik is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, and the scientific director of Banff International Research Station. An alumnus of the Indian Statistical Institute, she received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. Before joining UBC in 2006, Dr. Pramanik held positions at the universities of Wisconsin and Rochester and the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Pramanik’s research interests cover harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and complex variables.
Time and Date
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Thursday, 19 December, 2024.
Venue
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru.
How to Register?
Interested participants can register themselves online via this link.
Contact
Email: info[at]icts[dot]res[dot]in
