附中「藝數創課」

跟師大附中合作的「化數為藝」特色課程，星期三做了第三次的教師增能工作坊，題目為「奈米無機世界的構築藝術-從數學串珠到分子桁架結構」。 海報與幾張照片：

A few photos from the NTU Chemistry Camp

I gave a workshop for the summer chemistry camp of the chemistry department at the National Taiwan University early this month. This is a summer camp for the local high school students. There are about 60 participants this year. Here a few photos from the workshop:

The title and the first slide of my workshop for the chemistry summer camp:

Workshop at Bar-Ilan University

Tel Aviv, Israel (以色列特拉維夫)，2014/11/18

Workshop for visitors from Waseda university

(日本早稲田大學師生, 2015/5/7)

Four bead models for the Bridges 2014 Seoul

The very first day of Bridges 2014 for setting up the mathart exhibit:

Horibe, Chia-Chin and I are going to have workshop, From Sangaku Problems to Mathematical Beading: A Hands-on Workshop..., for this meeting this afternoon.

Workshop at BCCE, Grand Valley State Univ.

I will give one more workshop in the 2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education which is hosted by the Grand Valley State Univ, Michigan next week. My workshop is arranged in the afternoon (2:00-5:00PM) of Aug. 4.

It is free. Hopefully, I brought enough beads with me for every participant.

Workshop for the NTU CampCamp

The first few slides and a few photos from the workshop I had for the NTU ChemCamp this afternoon in the Chemistry Building of National Taiwan University:

First slides for my talk in Center for Synchrotron Radiation and workshop for the Chemcamp

I have two opportunities to talk about the mathematical beading this month. The first one was given to people working at the Center of Synchrotron Radiation on Jul. 1. The first slide of the talk is given here:

Tomorrow I will give a 40-min talk before the hands-on workshop for about 30 high-school students who participate the Chemcamp these few days. The first slide of the talk is given as follows.

Another two workshops in this summer

In addition to the workshop in Seoul, Korea for the Bridges conference, I will give two more workshops in this summer: the first one is for the Chemistry Camp in the chemistry building (積學館) of the National Taiwan University this Thursday (1:30PM-5:00PM, Jul. 10, 2014) and another one for the 2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE, Aug. 3-7, 2014) which will be held in the Grand Valley State University (Michigan, USA). My workshop in BCCE is on Aug. 4, 2014.

2014 NTU Summer Chemcamp (臺大暑期化學營)

These few days, there is a chemistry camp at the Chemistry Department of National Taiwan University (NTU). I was asked to give a workshop on the last day (Jul. 10, 2014) of this activity for these high-school kids coming from around the whole Taiwan and the Penhu islands (or the Pescadores Islands). The camp started yesterday afternoon, I had an opportunity to introduce them briefly about my beadworks in front of two display cases. Here are two photos from the event:

The first few pages of the handout for this chemcamp.

Workshop in Seoul

Mr. Horibe and I will give a workshop for the Bridges conference this coming August. Basically, we will follow the format we had in our joint workshop given in Taiwan this March. Horibe-San will first give a half-hour talk on the Sangaku in general and a special Sangaku problem in particular. And he will further describe the math about this Sangaku problem, particularly its connection to the continued fraction and then proceed to the construction of a physical model of this Sangaku problem before all participants make their own models that consist of 30 small wooden balls and a central large Ping-Pong ball.

Here are two photos of Mr. Horibe from workshop held in the math department of Academia Sinica (in the NTU main campus, Taipei) on Mar. 15.

The workshop paper, From Sangaku Problems to Mathematical Beading: A Hands-on Workshop for Designing Molecular Sculptures with Beads, can be found here (pdf file).

A few photos from workshop in the Nagoya City University

During my visit to Japan this May, Prof. Sonoda and Horibe kindly arranged a special workshop in the Nagoya City University on May 10, 2014. Here are a few photos from the workshop which connecting the Sangaku problems and mathematica beading.

In addition to this workshop, Horibe and I will also give a similar workshop in the Bridges meeting (Seoul) this year.

A pleasure to greet two friends from afar

Takaaki Sonoda and Kazunori Horibe visited me for the last few days. I arranged a few workshops for them in two local high schools, Taipei First Girls High School and Chian-Kuo High School, and a meeting on the mathematical art and games. A few photos from these activities:

Taipei First Girls High School

Chien-Kuo High School

Little Mama Bear (bead store)

Math department, Academia Sinica

Inside the cubic Kaleidoscopes

I made a Kaleidocycle and a stella octangula for them as gifts:

Unfortunately, Takaaki didn't know that they are fragile and broke the stella octangula the first day. So I made one more Kaleidocycle for him.

The opening of the Analects by Confucius and thus the first phrase of Chapter I after which the Chinese title of this book is named 學而.

學而時習之、不亦說乎。有朋自遠方來、不亦樂乎。人不知而不慍、不亦君子乎。

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

Workshop for 大阪府千里高等學校 (Dec. 27, 2013)

I gave a workshop for 大阪府千里高等學校 last Friday.