Professor Marcus du Sautoy on The Art of Mathematics and the Mathematics of Art Throughout the centuries, the mathematician’s palette of shapes, patterns and numbers has proved a powerful inspiration.  As composers, painters, writers and choreographers hunt interesting new ways to frame their creative processes, they can be subconsciously drawn to the same structures that…

Flaunting it on Facebook Associate Professor Antonia Lyons speaks in Hamilton | 7pm Thursday 9 October | Waikato Musuem Young adults regularly engage in heavy drinking episodes, use social networking technologies frequently, and appear to be obsessed with image and celebrity. Recent research has shown the meanings, risks and pleasures of these practices vary considerably…

Dame Anne Salmond: Experiments across Worlds Renowned author, academic, environmentalist and winner of the 2013 Rutherford Medal, will present four lectures exploring different areas of our national life – The Sea (Tauranga), The Land (Christchurch), People and Power (Wellington), and Rivers (Whanganui).  She will explore how exchanges between different ways of being, particularly Maori and…

Event notice: The New Zealand Federation of Historical Societies is hosting a seminar presented by Jeremy Salmond on ‘The effects of World War One on the way people lived and how social change is reflected in the houses at that time.’ Date: Thursday 9th October Time: 1:30-3:30pm Venue: Saint Ninian’s Church, 17 Saint Georges Road,…

Exhibition notice: From 15 September – 4 October the Papatoetoe Historical Society & NZ Society of Genealogists are hosting an exhibition commemorating Papatoetoe’s Military history and displaying war memorabilia. “They went with songs to battle, they were young ….” Free entry Venue: Papatoetoe & District RSA, Monday – Saturday 11am-4pm Contact details on the attached…

Spread the word … There are two Ten by Ten talks coming up in September. Professor Colin Green: Healing wounds Wanaka | 6pm Thursday 25 September | Presbyterian Church Hall Professor Colin Green (University of Auckland) tells the story of the development of Nexagon™ – a clear gel that is dripped onto wounds such as…