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Girl Geek Dinner #7 • Ionica Smeets • Love and mathematics

21 August 2014

Date: Wednesday, 12 May, 2010
Time: 7-11 PM
Location: Flexbar (Pazzanistraat 1, Amsterdam)
Cost: 22.50 Euros (buffet dinner, excluding drinks)
Subscription possible until: Sunday, 9 May

The Flexbar is located on the Westergasfabriek terrain.

Abstract

Men want to know: Which gifts impress a woman? What is the best strategy for approaching a group of women in a pub? And women might wonder: How do you know if your partner is the right one? And is it possible to predict whether your relationship will last with the help of a formula? Love and mathematics hardly seem related but mathematician Ionica Smeets will answer these pressing matters of the heart with the help of some mathematics.

Speaker Bio

Ir. Ionica works for “Public Understanding of Science” (Leiden University). Half of the week she researches there – with Bas Haring – how science can best be explained to a general audience. The rest of the week she writes articles, gives lectures and presents science days. On June 16 2010 she will defend her thesis “On continued fraction algorithms”. Website: www.ionica.nl.

Photo by Arie Wapenaar, edited by Bert van Zutphen.

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