{"id":208711,"date":"2025-04-17T15:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/?p=208711"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:51:32","slug":"report-on-laser-math-art-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/2025\/04\/17\/report-on-laser-math-art-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on LASER &#8211; Math &amp; Art Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event was attended by 26 high school students (freshman, sophomores and juniors) from various parts of NJ (Paterson, Parsippany, Clifton, Montville, Kearney, Kinnelon, Hackettstown, Â鶹´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, North Bergen) . The program was conducted by two faculty members (Bogdan Nita and Ashwin Vaidya) and assisted by several math ambassadors (Annabella Ganun, Ryan Avalon, Preston Pietruzewski, RJ Chandler, Jacquelyn Franqui and Vlad Nita).<\/p>\n<p>The visiting students were put in teams of four or five and our student assistants served as team leaders, helping and guiding them through various exercises. We also had our faculty Dr. Eliza Leszynski and adjunct faculty Sarah Acquiviva, participate in the session. Sarah will be teaching our new SEEDS course MATH 105-Math &amp; Movies and was in attendance to get more ideas for the course.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-photo-gallery\"><p class=\"a11y-label\">Click on an image below to enlarge photo.<\/p><div class=\"previous-button\"><a href=\"javascript: ;\">Previous<\/a><\/div><div class=\"next-button\"><a href=\"javascript: ;\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><div class=\"gallery-item\"><div class=\"photo-holder\" style=\"background-image: 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alt=\"students attending Math and Art Day 2025\"\/><\/div><div class='caption'><\/div><div class='close-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Close<\/a><\/div><div class='open-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Zoom In<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!-- cached result -->\n<p>The theme of the event was Math in the Movies and over the course of the day, we use different kinds of math to analyze scenes and clips from different movies for their correctness or exaggerations.<\/p>\n<p>The session started at 10am with breakfast and introductions, after which Dr. Nita led them through a session on the various correct and incorrect uses of the Pythagorean theorem in movies. The students were also guided through a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem using paper cutouts of right triangles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/pythagoras-proof.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/pythagoras-proof.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"pythagorean theorm animation\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/math-art-day-students-working.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/math-art-day-students-working.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"students working on problems at Math and Art Day 2025\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/math-art-day-nita-group.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/math-art-day-nita-group.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Bogdan Nita working with students at Math and Art Day 2025\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The session lasted about 90 minutes and ended with a discussion of Fermat\u2019s Last Theorem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\"><\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_208714\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/homer-simpson-fermats.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/homer-simpson-fermats.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Homer Simpson solving Fermet&apos;s last equation\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homer Simpson disproving Fermat\u2019s Last Theorem. We checked Homer\u2019s equation and found that on regular handheld calculators it checks out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Students broke for lunch from around noon to 12.45pm, after which Dr. Vaidya held a session on a similar theme, discussing movies such as Interstellar, Inception and Good Will Hunting for their mathematical content. Through the session, students were asked to collaborate, discuss, compute and share their thinking with each other and the entire class. Students received certificates of participation and the event ended by 3pm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_208713\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/penrose-stairs-inception.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/penrose-stairs-inception.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"penrose stairs from Inception\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Impossible Stairwell: A scene from Inception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_208712\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/avengers-endgame-mobius-strip.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/avengers-endgame-mobius-strip.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"scene from Avengers: Endgame with Tony Stark working with a mobius strip\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene from Avengers Endgame: Iron Man uses the Mobius Strip to solve a problem. We explored non-Euclidean geometry, created a Mobius strip and examined its properties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_208715\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/lambeau-good-will-hunting.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/lambeau-good-will-hunting.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Lambeau in Good Will Hunting\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Lambeau poses a problem which took MIT professors two years to solve in the movie Good Will Hunting. Students worked in groups to solve part of the problem in 30 minutes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_208727\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/interstellar-murph-aging.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2025\/04\/interstellar-murph-aging.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Murph&apos;s aging in Interstellar\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aging of character Murph in the movie Interstellar, while the space travelling dad barely ages. We examined the concept of time-dilation from Special relativity and performed calculations to see if the movie was correct in the portrayal of the characters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third installment of Math &amp; Art Day was held on campus on Saturday, April 12th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":208723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-and-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208711"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208742,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208711\/revisions\/208742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}