IMAGINARY in Tomsk
Submitted by Andreas Gebert on
Monday to Friday: 10 am – 6 pm










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Submitted by Andreas Gebert on
Monday to Friday: 10 am – 6 pm










The generator writes encoded information about the existing symmetries in the jpg image file generated. Then the classifier reads and interprets this coded information, which allows it (according to the level of aid chosen) to give information about how the classification process is going, preventing wrong choices, or only indicating at the end whether the classification is correct and, if not, indicating the first mistake.
GeCla also includes a competition option that can be used via the Internet. In it, each player generates a pre-agreed number of images and then both exchange images and each classifies the other’s images. All steps are managed by the program, which in the end provides a report on eventual mistakes.
GeGla was developed by the portuguese association Atractor, after its previous DVD-program “Symmetry - the dynamical way”. GeCla was designed attempting to be attractive and accessible to students of various levels of education. GeCla is available in Portuguese, English, Italian, German and Spanish.

















Submitted by Hannes Grimm-Strele on
Teams of high school students from three schools in Ho Chi Minh City together with guides from IMAGINARY developed science exhibits, which will be presented after the workshop in their schools. The workshop was organized by the Goetheinstitut of Vietnam and took place in the Vietnamese German University (VGU).













Submitted by Johanna Marschall on
Mathina is an interactive story with many chapters introducing children and young people to mathematical ideas in a playful way. At the side of fictional characters, they experience adventures, solve puzzles and play games - at the same time, mathematical concepts are learned and applied intuitively:
- Logi-City (logical and abstract reasoning)
- Buccaneers’ island (cryptography)
- Symmetry fair (symmetries)
- The land of the firebirds (spatial visualization)
In this one-hour workshop, we introduce selected chapters to test how students receive the material. We hope for feedback and suggestions for improvement before we publish Mathina.
9 am

Submitted by Rolf Möhring on
The 2005 timetable for this network was computed by Matheon, at the Institute of Mathematics at TU Berlin. The key were state-of-the-art combinatorial optimization techniques. The public transport of Berlin is modeled as a graph with vertices at the stations, edges between them, and constraints of different types. The optimal solution for its functioning (minimizing the waiting time at stations and the number of trains required) is hidden somewhere in the set of all possible solutions respecting the constraints. But this set is much too large to be explored as a whole, even with the most powerful computers. Clever mathematical techniques produce powerful algorithms allowing to eliminate large portions of this set and, to concentrate the search in smaller subregions where the optimum lies.
The film is available in German and English, to download it please click on the «download link» button on the right.

Submitted by IMAGINARY on
The talk will primarily treat of IMAGINARY and the philosophy behind the project.
The Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gesellschaft e. V. and the German embassy are supporting the event.

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Submitted by Arkadius Kalka on
This exhibition is part of a project funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research under the brandname Research in Germany. This is the second of two IMAGINARY exhibitions in Israel in 2015/2016. The first exhibition was at the Clore Garden of Science at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot until mid of December.
The exhibition is open Sunday to Friday, from Thursday the 24th of December until Friday the 29th of January. During that period the exhibition is closed on two days - on Sunday Dec 27 and on Thursday Dec 31 (due to other events in the center).The entrance is free of charge.
There is a cafeteria inside the venue so that visitors have the opportunity to sit down and buy refreshments.
Big groups have to coordinate with Arkadius Kalka.
The exhibition is accompanied by a SURFER competition for Israel which continues until 12 April 2016:
Go to the event site or directly to the competition site.
Sunday - Thursday: 9:30 - 17:30
Fridays: 9:30 - 12:30







Submitted by IMAGINARY on
This Friday, April 5, a special IMAGINARY exhibition featuring sculptures and images will be shown for the first time in Denmark, at the Steno Science Museum in Aarhus, see here for the event info. It will be open until August 31, 2013. Then the exhibition series in Russia will find its continuation in a one week exhibition at Pushchino, a small town south of Moscow. It is the fifth exhibition in Russia, coordinated in collaboration with the German Embassy in Moscow (and some more are in the planning pipeline). In May IMAGINARY will be honoured to travel to Norway - also a first-timer - to be shown after the celebrations of the Abel prize ceremony in Oslo. It will be presented in a science museum in Trondheim - more detailscon be found here.
And if you are in Spain (and up for the Camino de Santiago), don’t forget to stop by the University Church next to Santiago de Compostela’s cathedral to see the ongoing RSME-IMAGINARY there - open until May 16, 2013.
