The core of the SigmaNext academic program is the Semilabs, which combine theoretical (Seminar) and practical (Lab) parts in 90-minute sessions. Each student will attend one semilab twice a day for five days of the camp.
The goal of this semilab is to learn to think like an astrobiogeophysicist. Physical processes can be complicated and vary across vast length and...
From the 1850s to the 1930s, through the advent of quantum mechanics, our understanding of thermodynamics underwent a revolution. Central to this...
What could we reasonably call “a geometry”? What sort of structures emerge if we try to do geometry on different surfaces, with different axioms,...
What unites prisoners, hockey goalies, and piles of stones? The answer is Game Theory! Game Theory is a branch of math that tells us the best way...
Mathematics is often motivated by and tries to model patterns that appear in real life. In this course, we will study the patterns that so often...
In this semilab, we will see how far we can get in solving a single problem: If we want to determine the age distribution of a city (i.e., the...
Instead of writing a rulebook for a robot, what if you could build a “brain” that learns on its own? This is the promise of Reinforcement Learning...
During this semilab, we will reproduce the famous Urey–Miller experiment, which demonstrated the possible formation of amino acids—the building...
We will study the underbelly of nervous systems: from worms and roaches to humans. Using the electric nature of nerve impulses we will detect...
"Mitochondria are the powerhouse of a cell" – we all know this notorious expression from school, but what does it actually mean? In this semilab,...