G4G’s Celebration of Mind April 2021

14 thoughts on “G4G’s Celebration of Mind April 2021”

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   Hi, can we expect all of this week’s presentations to appear on the youtube channel at some point? If there are ones that won’t can you indicate that so we can be sure to catch them?

   More generally, it would be useful to have links from the event announcement pages to the videos themselves both those in the past and the future. Previous announcements seem to still include a zoom link which I would find quite marvelous if the application now includes the ability to go back in time.

   Thanks!
   Paul

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   Colm Mulcahy (G4G Chair) April 19, 2021Reply

   Thanks for your comments!

   The practice and policy is to get the videos up 2-3 months later (after post production) at https://www.youtube.com/c/G4GCelebration. There were problems with 2 of the video feeds from October, so we were unable to post those. The plan is to get all 21 of this week’s session videos up on YouTube by mid summer, starting in June. It’s a big job and it costs money.

   You are right, it would be nice to link to individual videos on YT from their listings on our site. We will try to get to it soon.

   We are a volunteer organization with limited resources. This new Celebration of Mind Zoom and video initiative (with 52 live sessions per year, concentrated in key weeks in October and April) is a way to keep the G4G community connected, as well as hopefully also attract new people who value creativity.

   We welcome donations at https://www.gathering4gardner.org/donate, and of course we’d love more volunteers too.

   The rest of the week’s session should be every bit as awesome as yesterday’s were, please try catch as many as you can!

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     If it’s web stuff I can help with that.

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   Colm Mulcahy (G4G Chair) April 24, 2021Reply

   We’re starting post production on a few of this week’s CoM videos (it takes time to do all 21) and within 2 weeks we hope to have these on YouTube:

   Mark Setteducati

   Ellie Baker

   Pete Winkler

   Catriona Agg

   (also Kate Jones’ presentation from March)

   Check the 2021 CoM playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_D5QQxvWKVtX4Vklvhsf5KTYZBLDSwO and you will find videos appearing gradually.

   The 2020 CoM videos are here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_D5QQxvWKWNk0EsLClgMN2cIsKTbhDw

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   These talks were delightful. Seeing presenters in their home environment was great! For example Robert Fathauer was able to show us ceramic items that would have been difficult to transport to a physical Gathering or Celebration. John Railing could turn around and instantly pull a book off his shelf that illustrated a popup point during his Q&A. What a treat! Same with Mark Setteducati and his game sets. Jorge Nuno Silva and Lisa Rougetet gave mind blowing historical accounts. I could go on! I got to hear Catriona’s British voice, which I had not imagined on Twitter .. now I can. Ed Pegg and James Tanton are from another planet, it seems, going places I where no mind has gone before, at least my mind. Wow! This was really a successful event. Kudos to all who presented and to the Organizers. (It’s strange that due to the pandemic, the presenters were their own A/V technicians. I’m impressed — I haven’t share my screen in Zoom yet!)

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   Thanks to all the presenters, I’ve seen a few of the talks live and plan on watching the rest afterward.
   It was at once, informative, entertaining and at times changing how I thought of some thing.
   Thanks to all the organisers, none of this takes place in a vacuum.

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   Great talk by Pete Winkler, a fascinating, deep theorem in elementary probability.

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   Thanks for a spectacular week of intellectual treats, a true Celebration of Mind with art and mathematics. Superb in every way, meeting outstanding individuals and sharing their passion of designing, creating, solving, research and discoveries. Well worth rearranging our personal programs to be there for every inspiring session, communicating with wonderful people all around the world. My appreciation to you and your team for making it happen. I’d like to think that somewhere in a parallel universe Martin Gardner is smiling. Applause, applause to all the presenters and organizers, and thanks that the Celebrations will continue monthly.

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   What a week this has been! We began the week with Mark Setteducati describing the process by which he creates magic, and ended the week with magic instruction and entertainment by magician Debbie Leifer. And there were so many other marvelous presentations in between!

   “I’m in awe at how wonderful this talk was!”, is the comment I posted immediately after Marjorie Senechal’s presentation. Her “Unwrapping a Gem” spanned centuries and tied together astronomer Johannes Kepler, Scottish zoologist D’Arcy W. Thompson, mathematician Dorothy Wrinch, Archimedean polyhedra, and the structure of proteins. Wow!

   And there were those little delightful moments, some off the beat. I laughed aloud when Debbie Leifer asked a nine-year-old participant where he was from, and his immediate reply was “Cyberspace.”

   I want to express by deep gratitude to the g4g board, the volunteers, and (of course) the presenters for such a wonderful CoM experience.

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   Thank you for organizing this. Being based in Europe I’ve only managed to see two out of three talks each day but I’ll make sure I see (most of?) the others when they appear on YouTube. I enjoyed the range of topics and I’ve done what I can to encourage various of my contacts to tune in to some of these. The Q&A after many talks was especially useful and interesting. I look forward to future monthly and semi-annual CoMs in a similar style.

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    A huge thank you to the organizers and hosts for this series of talks. I watched many of the talks live, but couldn’t catch them all — so I’m grateful I’ll be able to circle back and watch the ones I missed later on YouTube. As a presenter myself, I was initially worried about how it would go speaking to an audience I couldn’t see. And of course at this point in the pandemic we are all kind of burnt out on the virtual venue. But the experience was much richer and more rewarding than I expected. There was a palpable sense of community that built throughout the week. From mathematical artists, to puzzlers, to fascinating math history, to longstanding unsolved problems in mathematics, these presentations will continue to percolate in my mind and provide inspiration going forward. Much of what I was sad to have missed due to pandemic cancellations of conferences and other events was achieved here anyway — and in a manner that will persist and continue to benefit all of us. Truly a celebration of mind! Thank you again!

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    G4G14 has been postponed twice. Hopefully it will happen in the fall. In the mean time I have unfortunately failed to participate in the virtual CoM last year. Not this time! I was aware and I have participated. I have skipped only two presentations. The time of the last presentation each day was not optimal for me as it started at 2 AM in the morning.
    Of course I can still watch each presentation at a convenient time, but nothing beats being there when it happens.
    Seeing the comments come in the chat, but also observing the silence in the chat when every attendee is completely focused on the presentation. I will not say that each presentation was equallly good and /or interesting but that is pure personal. I would not want to have missed any of them. Thanks go to all presenters and organisers!

    The setting: a webinar in zoom is a bit surreal. I understand this from a technical standpoint, but it is strange not to know how many are attending and/or who is attending. Also inconvenient is that you cannot save the chat (copy-past is possible, but a bit primative). Looking forward to the next event.

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    A big thank you to the presenters, moderators, organizers and participants for a great April 2021 G4G Celebration of Mind! The variety of topics, expertise, and creativity was amazing. The Zoom format facilitated a gathering of presenters and participants from all over the world. It was a most remarkable gathering of exceptional individuals. I am looking forward to seeing the YouTube recordings of the presentations that I was not able to attend.

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    Many thanks for this exceptionally mind-enriching week! <3 <3 <3

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