Counted Out shows us the power of math in our society, our economy, and our democracy.
In our current information economy, math is everywhere. The people we date, the news we see, the influence of our votes, the candidates who win elections, the education we have access to, the jobs we get — all of it is underwritten by an invisible layer of math that few of us understand, or even notice.
Watch the official trailer here => YouTube (3 minutes)
- Learn more about screenings across the nation HERE.
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Time: 5pm – 7:30pm (doors open @ 4:30pm)
- movie run time is 91 minutes
Location: Larrañaga Engineering Auditorium in Centennial Engineering
- UNM campus map – Centennial Engineering is building #112
- parking options = pay to park across University Blvd. NE @ the Central United Methodist Church, park 2 blocks west of campus and walk for free OR use your UNM parking pass & the UNM 3:45pm rule
Panel: There will be a 3 person Mathematics Q&A opportunity after the showing; approximately 30 minutes.
Facilitator: Dr. Vince Case – APS Sandia Mountain Natural History Center
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Theresa Ambrogi – Albuquerque Public Schools (APS), Mathematics support
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Ling Faith-Heuertz – Executive Director of NM MESA (Math, Engineering & Science Achievement)
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Ana Parra Lombard, MPA – University of New Mexico (UNM) Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Have questions, need help? E-mail Kim at kscheerer@nmmesa.org
musical interlude…
Shepherd’s Pi by Canton Becker
How Was Pi Used To Make This Music? A music generating algorithm was composed to produce music using the first one billion digits of pi (π). These digits supply the “turn signals” that determine every musical expression in the song. Each digit (3.1415…) is responsible for orchestrating approximately four seconds of music. The electronic instruments and sound samples were prepared by the composer in advance.
Because the numbers in pi never repeat, each of the million hours in each song are in fact unique. If you fast forward to an arbitrarily distant moment in a song, you are virtually guaranteed to find yourself listening to something that nobody else – including the composer himself – has ever heard before.
