FEIS presents its annual Archimedes Day celebration!
Archimedes Day is used to celebrate the contribution of mathematics to science and engineering through a combination of lectures, competitions and fun events.
The day’s proceedings will take place at Swinburne University's Hawthorn Campus in August.
As a National Science Week event, everyone is welcome to attend this event.
Expected Program
| Time | Session Name | Location | |
| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Archimedes Lecture Computational Fluid Dynamics—for fun and profit |
EN 515 | |
| 12:00 noon |
Public Demonstration of the Archimedes Principle
|
EN Courtyard (Outside Haddons) |
|
| 1:00pm |
Documentary Infinite Secrets - The Genius of Archimedes |
AR104 Virtual Reality Theatre |
Other events will be advised closer to Archimedes Day
Archimedes LectureEN515 10:30am
- Title:
- An exiting topic to be Advised
- Presenter:
- Following the lecture, there will be an award for the top HMS111 student from semester one
Public Demonstration of the Archimedes’ Principle
Outside EN Building 12:30pm
- What's On :
- Win $100 to spend at the Bookstore!
- How? :
- By proving your ability to calculate based on one of Archimedes many discoveries
- Prognosticator:
- Professor Geoff Brooks, Head of Mathematics
- See toga-clad Professor Geoff Brooks brave the elements and or rampant Romans to demonstrate one of Archimedes famous principles
Closest guess takes home the prize.
Infinite Secrets – The Genius of Archimedes
Virtual Reality Theatre (AR104) 1:00pm
- What's On :
- NOVA takes a look at the Greek mathematician Archimedes
- The Greek mathematician Archimedes, a man who is considered the Albert Einstein of his time and place, and whose ideas were centuries ahead.
Though many of his works did not survive the passage of time, at an auction in 1991 there was found a small Medieval prayer book in which was found some of Archimedes' original writings, an exciting find for many scholars.
The Virtual Reality theatre is located on the ground floor of the AR building in room AR104, go through the door to the left of Haddons Cafe.
