Day three of Sigma Camp saw new friendships form and exciting opportunities present themselves. After breakfast, the campers were able to choose between several exciting lectures: Stony Brook professor Helmut Strey spoke about the "Maker revolution" and startups, Dima Kozakov from Boston University introduced the campers to protein structure, Nikita Nekrasov from the Simons Center at Stony Brook talked about mathematical models of reality and their significance, and, finally, Sasha Abanov from Stony Brook gave a lecture on the Quantum Hall effect.
Day three of Sigma Camp saw new friedships form and exciting opportunities present themselves. After breakfast, the campers were able to choose between several exciting lectures: Stony Brook professor Helmut Strey spoke about the "Maker revolution" and startups, Dima Kozakov from Boston University introduced the campers to protein structure, Nikita Nekrasov from the Simons Center at Stony Brook talked about mathematical models of reality and their significance, and, finally, Sasha Abanov from Stony Brook gave a lecture on the Quantum Hall effect.
Just for you, who are wondering at what exactly did Sigma Challenge involved, and what were your kids doing during the second part of the day. They did not cry for you. Sorry... We kept them too busy. And here is a gilmpse with exactly what:
Upon arriving at the Silver Lake Campsite, the campers had a few minutes to get to know each other and the counselors, and say hello to friends from previous years.
The first day of Sigma Camp has concluded! All campers settled in their rooms, met old friends and made new ones. As usual, the first day was quite full. Among the highlights:
We are getting ready for SigmaCamp!
Watch this space for news, and, announcements, and photos.
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Four choices of lectures this morning. Robotic surgery and origins of life captured most of the audience. This gave an opportunity to some interested parties to have intimate discussions on beautiful topics of how to listen to music and how to do geometry with a ruler and compass alone. In the meantime Gabe, the junior instructor, captured the attention of the youngest inhabitants of the camp with a talk about the digestive system. In the second part of the day junior instructor Mark brought the excitement of the chess to our youngsters.
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Out of three lectures, Alexey Tkachenko attracted the most public and held them captive through the whole presentation of his idea of a Drunken Sailor and other mathematical interpretations of these more or less random movements. Now we all know of why we move and where we are going.
Labs brought on new experiments and discoveries in the world of science according to our school age audience.