Workshops 2014
Arina Nikitina Math games and winning strategies
Jacob Hobbie The Higgs-Boson
Igor Zaliznyak The Bernoulli Principle (experimenting with air and water flow)
Igor Zaliznyak, Alex Zaliznyak, Tatiana Tcherevik Make Your Own Boomerang (and learn some of the science behind it)
Borya Kuznetsov Printing black and white photos
Mark Lukin Glass blowing (a.k.a. test tube flowers and beyond)
Boris Podobedov Rockets & Propulsion
Kostya Khrapko Silicate gardens
Kostya Khrapko Butterfly collection
Kostya Khrapko Your own cells under microscope
Alex Treyer Building a Sound Synth
Kip Guja, Prajna Shanbhogue X-crystallography: introduction to solving protein structures at atomic resolution
Kip Guja, Prajna Shanbhogue "Super cool" demonstrations with liquid nitrogen
Cristina Mata Mystery Circuit
Tatiana Zaliznyak From dough to dessert: the science of pastry
Victoria Breshadsky Plato's Cave
Victoria Breshadsky Build a camera obscura and try to draw with it
Alex Zaliznyak From the Beginning of Time to Wristwatch Origami Sundials
Alex Zaliznyak Mind over Mango: Newton, Descartes, and Ice Cream
Chelsea Maresca Einstein's Nobel Idea: The Photoelectric Effect and Solar Energy
Oksana Ivashkevych Digital electronics zoo
Jenny Nitishinskaya Sly mathematical solutions, including alternative uses for a chessboard
Natasha Zaliznyak and Julia Kharzeev The Science of the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
Andrey Khesin The Mandelbrot Set: Exploring Fractals and Why England's Coastline is Infinite
Julia Kharzeev and Natasha Zaliznyak Forestry
Vyacheslav Yurchenko Green leaves: chlorophyll and beyond
Josh Lam The Geometry of Soap Bubbles and Films
Marc Doucette Juggling: Theory and Practice
Alan Rozet Perception and Sensation: the way we take in the world
Dima Kozakov Modeling of protein structure
Tatiana Pyatina Breaking Geodes
Sasha Abanov The Art of Knot-Tying
Jessica Li What You Didn't Know about Astronomical Observations
Anzhelina Shtenger Four Color Theorem, Binary Finger Counting, and other good math stuff
Danya Lukin The transistor: It's past and its future
Helmut Strey Bayes theorem and its application in medicine
Shmuel Kfia How to Think Logically
Yuri Salkinder World Cup Of Everything Else: what if World Cup finalist countries competed in things other than soccer, like economic geography indicators
Junior Instructor’s workshops:
Grishka Barboy, Andrew Gritsevskiy Nitinol: Metal with Memory?
Harrison Ku, Phil Chen Making a Motor
Harrison Ku, Phil Chen Black Holes
Phillip Kadaev Numismatics
Ilya Yurchenko, Andrew Mata Science of Soccer
Christopher Hayes, Nestor Tkachenko Making a Dye Sensitized Solar Cell