An evening of lectures on everything from ice crystals to self-driving cars, with lecturers Per Ljung, Annika Lang, Jan Gundelach, Konstantinos Konstantinou and Henrik Imberg.
Overview
- Date:Starts 20 April 2023, 17:00Ends 20 April 2023, 20:00
- Location:Lecture hall pascal, Chalmers tvärgata 3
- Language:Swedish and English
17.15-17.45 Per Ljung: Sockerkaka eller gräddtårta? (Sponge cake or cream cake?)
In Swedish, abstract on Swedish page
17.45-18.15 Annika Lang: Att skapa iskristaller och celler med matematik och dator (Creating ice crystals and cells with mathematics and computers)
In Swedish, abstract on Swedish page
18.15- 18.45 Jan Gundelach: The beauty of proofs
Natural sciences rely on experiments to justify their claims. As a result, all their models are designed to be falsifiable. Mathematicians, however, have a different approach. They only accept a proof as a validation. In this talk, I want to advertise this mindset and take you on a short trip from the history of mathematical proofs towards the exciting feeling of doing the first one on your own.
18.45-19.15 Konstantinos Konstantinou: Mathematical modeling of nerve mortality caused by diabetes
Diabetic neuropathy is a disorder characterized by nerves malfunctioning. The number of skin nerve fibers in the skin decreases and the arrangement of the nerves becomes more clustered as the neuropathy gets worse. These observations suggest that the changes in the nerve structure are guided by some type of a thinning process. Through collecting data from both healthy and patients suffering from diabetic neuropathy we have developed mathematical models to understand how the nerves die.
19.15-20.00 Henrik Imberg: Hur säker är din framtida självkörande bil? (How safe is your future self-driving car?)
In Swedish, abstract on Swedish page
