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Reflection und chaos - a light ray and circles
The Boy surface in 3D
News on IMAGINARY
(24.12.2011) The IMAGINARY team wishes you Merry Christmas and a challenging new year 2012! Attached a singular Christmas hat, an algebraic surface by Christian Stussak.
(20.12.2011) Grand Opening of the RSME IMAGINARY chapter in the Centre Cultural de La Nau de la Universidad de Valencia. It is open until Febrary 5th 2012. More info can be found here.
(18.11.2011) Inauguration of RSME-Imaginary in Sevilla in the Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla. Open until December 13, 2011. More information can be found here.
(17.10.2011) RSME-Imaginary/Madrid inaugurates in the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (c. Valverde, 22). It will be open until November 11, 2011.
(14.10.2011) IMAGINARY is partner of the initiative Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013". One of its projects is a competition for an open source exhibition of virtual modules.
(11.09.2011) RSME-Imaginary Zaragoza starts on the 14th of September. It also features a special exhibition of historical geometrical models of the Faculty of Sciences of UniZar.
(27.08.2011) An IMAGINARY installation is part of the Design- und Erfindermesse Innsbruck from September 8 to 9, organised by Mathe-Cool, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
(17.08.2011) IMAGINARY will be present at the Ideenexpo in Hannover from 27.8. - 4.9.2011 with the exhibit "Surfer makes maths visible" of the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (Exhibit: P501).
(08.08.2011) The Universidad del Norte organizes the first IMAGINARY exhibition in South America from August 17 to 19 in Barranquilla, Colombia.
(26.07.2011) On Thursday July 28th 2011 a permanent IMAGINARY installation will be inaugurated in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It is open to the public as of July 29th daily at the opening hours of the museum!
(07.07.2011) The SPEKTRALE2011 offers an interactive tour through the world of colours and light in the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz from 15.7. to 14.8.2011. IMAGINARY is part of it!
(01.07.2011) Today the sixth edition of RSME-IMAGINARY opens in Spain. It can be seen in the Laboral Centro de Arte in Gijón until 31.8.2011. Fotos can be found here.
(28.06.2011) A special IMAGINARY installation started today in the CosmoCaixa museum in Barcelona. It is open until November 2011. Fotos can be found here.
(16.6.2011) IMAGINARY is participating with a talk and a small exhibition and presentation at the Conference of the German Society for Geometry and Graphics from 16.6.-17.6. in Dresden. Fotos here.
(02.06.2011) The fifth edition of the Spanish IMAGINARY exhibition series by RSME started today in the building "El Sario" of UPNA, Pamplona. Fotos can be found here.
(02.06.2011) In parallel to the exhibition in Warsaw, IMAGINARY is presented in Krakow! The exhibition was inaugurated today in the Aula of the Pedagogical University. Photos here.
(30.05.2011) A special IMAGINARY exhibition with interactive stations was shown at the ITBA fundraising dinner in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photos can be found here.
(30.05.2011) IMAGINARY opens its doors today at the Aula of the Physics Institute of the Polytechnika in Warsaw. Photos can be found in our gallery.
(05.05.2011) Today a special IMAGINARY picture gallery will be inaugurated at the Mathematical Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, Germany.
(19.04.2011) IMAGINARY goes to Poland - from May 30 to June 10 in the main hall of the Physics Institute / Polytechnika in Warsaw and from June 2 to June 16 in the main hall of the Pedagogical University in Krakow!
(15.04.2011) IMAGINARY will be presented at the Traveling Exhibitions Session of the Annual Ecsite Conference in the Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland from May 24 - 28.
(10.04.2011) LPDJLQH D VHFUHW - a film of art and mathematics on elliptic curves and cryptography is now available at the CIM web site. Main parts of the film have been produced with SURFER and IMAGINARY support.
(04.04.2011) The picture Otoño by the school IES Ferrari, Valladolid (12 year old students!), won the SURFER picture competition organized by the IMAGINARY team in Valladolid.
(30.03.2011) The third RSME-IMAGINARY exhibition was opened today in Palma de Mallorca. It can be visited in the Edificio "Sa Riera", UIB, until the 27th of April.
(26.02.2011) A selection of pictures of the official opening ceremony of the permanent IMU secretariat in Berlin held on February 1st can be seen in this gallery.
(25.2.2011) The second batch of the RSME-IMAGINARY exhibition in Spain will be inaugurated today by the rector of the University of Valladolid in the Reina Sofía library. You can find pictures here.
(21.02.2011) The second RSME-Imaginary exhibition will inaugurate on the 25th of February at the library of Reina Sofía in Valladolid, Spain at noon.
(27.01.2011) The first RSME-IMAGINARY exhibition starts today in Salamanca! It features a new design and new texts. Pictures can be found here.
(20.01.2011) Inauguration of the IMAGINARY installation in the CosmoCaixa museum in Madrid-Alcobendas - open until June 6, 2011. Photos can be found here.
(05.01.2011) In the year 2011 IMAGINARY will celebrate the centenary of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME) - with 13 exhibitions and 2 museum installations all over Spain.
(25.12.2010) The IMAGINARY team wishes you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011! The algebraic Christmas tree was created by Valentina Galata with the SURFER programme.
(09.11.2010) Today the IMAGINARY exhibition in Paris will be inaugurated at the new Math library, Jussieu Campus. More details can be found here.
(25.10.2010) From 26th to 30th of October, IMAGINARY will be presented at a workshop on math museum exhibits organized by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education in Mumbai, India.
(21.09.2010) Today IMAGINARY will be inaugurated in the main hall of the ETH centre in Zurich. Prof. Jürgen Richter-Gebert will talk about symmetry and proportion in art and music at 18:15. More here.
(06.09.2010) The new SURFER picture competition starts today. It is held in co-operation with ETH Zuerich and the Tagesanzeiger. More info on the competition page.
(28.06.2010) How to construct the Moebius strip or the trefoil knot using the programme SURFER? Find two new background articles in the Maths section.
(24.06.2010) IMAGINARY presents a unique workshop combining maths and music at the KinderuniKunst from 6th to 8th July 2010 in Vienna. More details can be found here.
(16.05.2010) The new IMAGINARY competition starts today in Greece, organized by the newspaper "ToVima" with main sponsor Sony. Details can be found here (in Greek).
(04.05.2010) A selection of IMAGINARY pictures is shown from June 7th to July 25th 2010 at the "Exposition Mathematique et Art" in the Institut Henri Poincaré, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
(30.04.2010) IMAGINARY is on Facebook! You can find latest news and info around IMAGINARY and also add comments and your own pictures. Details: IMAGINARY-Facebook-Page.
(27.04.2010) We present the winners of the Cambridge-SURFER-competition in this gallery. Congratulation to Dan Mitchell for his winner picture "Klein Lily".
(08.03.2010) For the first time IMAGINARY is shown in the UK and in English! Today the exhibition opens in the Issac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. More info here.
(03.02.2010) Due to its huge success the Hannover exhibition will be extended for two weeks until February 26. More info can be found here.
(02.02.2010) MiMa, the new minerals and mathematics museum in Oberwolfach opened its doors on the 30th of January 2010. It hosts part of IMAGINARY on a permanent basis. More Info here.
(13.01.2010) (13.01.2010) On the 19th of January 2010 IMAGINARY will be inaugurated at the University Hannover, Welfengarten 1. You are cordially invited! More info here.
(25.12.2009) In the name of the IMAGINARY team we wish you merry Christmas and a happy new year 2010!
(30.10.2009) The Museum for Russian Art in Kiew, Ukraine, shows a special IMAGINARY exhibition from 5th to 15th of November 2009. More details can be found here.
(01.10.2009) IMAGINARY was inaugurated in Münster on the 29th of September 2009. The exhibition will be open for the public until the 20th of October in the "Glashalle" of the Stadthaus III. Pictures of the opening can be found here.
(18.09.2009) After a summer break IMAGINARY is back on tour! At the Aktionstag Mathematik in Bonn on the 26th of September IMAGINARY installations are shown. From the 30th of September the full exhibition is presented for 3 weeks in Münster. More Info here.
(07.09.2009) In the "European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009" SURFER is shown at the festival BE CREATIVE! from 9th to 10th of October 2009 in the MQ in Vienna. More Info on the flyer or at the website of the festival.
(31.08.2009) On the 24th of September 2009 a SURFER-Workshop will be offered at the SchÃŒlerinnen-Tag of the TU Kaiserslautern. You can register here.
(05.06.2009) IMAGINARY in the AIDS-prevention campaign "Herz erobern" of the German Government. Algebraic Geometry becomes a standard accessoire of a German student room - the Year of Mathematics 2008 made it possible. More info here.
(01.05.2009) The winners of the Vienna SURFER competition are announced. The best algebraic surfaces are displayed here.
(24.04.2009) A small exhibition of selected pictures of IMAGINARY is organized at Stanford University from the 27th of April to the 1st of May 2009.
(24.04.2009) A talk on IMAGINARY is given today at LUMS University in Lahore. On Monday an IMAGINARY teachers training workshop is organized at Lahore Grammar School.
(11.04.2009) We proudly present the IMAGINARY exhibition catalogue! You can order it now online for a special price, see Order Details.
(10.04.2009) IMAGINARY in Asia: On the 12th of April, Andreas Matt gives a talk on IMAGINARY in the cultural center Lahore Chitrkar in Lahore, Pakistan. More details here.
(26.03.2009) Since 24.3.2009 a selection of the best pictures of IMAGINARY has been shown at the MSRI in Berkeley, USA. Photos can be found in our gallery.
(25.03.2009) IMAGINARY was inaugurated yesterday evening at the Forschungszentrum Dresden Rossendorf as part of the annual celebration and opening of a new building. Pictures can be found here.
(11.03.2009) IMAGINARY and the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach were awarded with the "Selected Landmark of the Land of Ideas" prize among more than 2000 applicants. In 2009, 365 landmarks are presented in the Land of Ideas.
(03.03.2009) The first IMAGINARY exhibition outside Germany was inaugurated yesterday in Vienna. See our gallery for pictures.
(03.02.2009) The English version of IMAGINARY is online! Please enjoy our interactive programs and forward it to all interested persons.
(02.02.2009) A collection of news regarding IMAGINARY in the year of mathematics 2009 with all events and happenings can be found here (only in German).
Background information
(09.02.2009) A link to a background article on "Dynamic Flow and Knots" by Etienne Ghys and Jos Leys has been posted in the Mathematics section of the IMAGINARY page.
(02.02.2009) A video of IMAGINARY has been submitted at Youtube. Watch it here. (German language only).
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