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On May 15, ETH Zurich will honor particularly innovative teaching projects with the KITE Award for the fifth time. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final.
The 2023 Paul Bernays Lectures on mathematics and the computer
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Large language models like ChatGPT can do all sorts of things – including writing correct computer code. But how good are they at mathematics? This is one of the questions that will be explained by mathematician Kevin Buzzard from Imperial College, London at the Paul Bernays Lectures on 28, 29 and 30 August 2023.
Teaching mathematics in Ashesi
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ETH mathematician Georg Anegg spent three weeks at Ashesi University in Ghana, which offers a joint master's program in Mechatronics Engineering with ETH Zurich. In an interview published by the D-MATH News, he talks about what it's like to teach in Ashesi and what motivated him to participate in the project.
100 girls visit ETH on the Kangaroo goes Science event
The 100 best girls from the Kangaroo mathematics competition were given the opportunity to visit ETH on 9 June. Former ski racer and physicist Dominique Gisin accompanied the girls as a mentor. ETH female researchers gave an insight into their research work.
The lessons of remote teaching in Mathematics
The Department of Mathematics is responsible for mathematics tuition in all of the degree programmes that ETH offers. It has used the corona-related emergency operation to switch to remote teaching. Four students and lecturers tell of their experiences.
Honorary lecture by Fields Medal winner Alessio Figalli
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At the start of August, Alessio Figalli was awarded the Fields Medal. This distinction is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for mathematicians and is a cause for major celebration. ETH Zurich is to mark this special occasion with a honorary lecture on 22 October 2018. The lecture will also be broadcast via live streaming.
When Richard Dedekind ‘invented’ real numbers at ETH Zurich
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What is the nature and meaning of numbers? Mathematician Richard Dedekind asked these questions 159 years ago at ETH Zurich, and became the first person to define real numbers. To mark this occasion, the Israeli science historian Leo Corry will give a public lecture on the unity of Dedekind’s number theoretic concepts.
Standing on the shoulders of a giant
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Three public lectures mark the inauguration of the Turing Centre Zurich's teaching and research activities.
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ETH Zurich bids farewell to Computer Science professor Ji?í Matou?ek. A leading light in discrete and algorithmic geometry, he died on 9 March 2015, a day before his 52nd birthday.