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Lecture

Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture

Date:
Time:
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Avery Hall
1144 T St
 Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: AVH
Contact:
Steven Cohn, (402) 472-7223, scohn1@math.unl.edu
Speaker: Michael Dorff
Affiliation: Brigham Young University
Local Host: Daniel Toundykov
Title: How mathematics is making Hollywood movies better

Additional Public Info:
What’s your favorite recent movie? Frozen? The Avengers? Avatar? Transformers? What do these and all the highest earning Hollywood movies since 2000 have in common? Mathematics! You probably didn’t think about it while watching these movies, but math was used to help make them. In this presentation, we will discuss how math is being used to create better and more realistic movies. Along the way we will discuss some specific movies and the mathematics behind them. We will include examples from Disney’s 2013 movie Frozen (how to use math to create realistic looking snow) to Pixar’s 2004 movie The Incredibles (how to use math to make an animated character move faster). Come and join us and get a better appreciation of mathematics and movies.

Refreshments will be served in 348 Avery 3:30-3:55. The talk is free and open to the public.

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