5.19.2018

Navajo Math Circles will screen as part of the Missoula Urban Indian Health Center Indigenous Film Festival on May 19 at 10:30 a.m. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, with participants including mathematician Matt Roscoe of the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Montana, who will appear in person, and Navajo Math Circles professor, Dr. Henry Fowler, who will join via Skype.

The screening and discussion will take place at the Missoula Children's Theatre, 200 N. Adams Street, Missoula, MT 59802. Admission is $5 a day or bring canned goods to donate to the Food Bank. (Link to the entire festival schedule here.)

2.19.2018

Counting from Infinity will screen at the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Monday, February 19, at 6:40 p.m., as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival (February 15-25, 2018). Professor Ivan Todorov of the School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, will introduce the film. The screening venue is located at 20 University Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

12.13.2017

Navajo Math Circles screens at the Karlstorkino in Heidelberg, Germany, on December 13, one of eight science and mathematics films featured at the week-long (December 9-16) Mathematik Informatik Film Festival, organized by the distinguished Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

11.28.2017

Mathematician Matthias Kawski of Arizona State University presented Navajo Math Circles on November 28 at the Brazil Delta Conference in Gramado, Rio Grande del Sol. The Delta Conferences are a biannual series of Southern Hemisphere conferences on the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics and statistics that began in 1997.

11.7.2017

The New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California, will screen George Csicsery's film, The Thursday Club, on November 7, 2017, at 7 p.m. A look into the lives and stories of Oakland police officers who battled demonstrators and Black Panthers in the 1960s, The Thursday Club is being shown to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stop-the-Draft-Week demonstrations that rocked Oakland between October 16 and 20, 1967. Union leader Michael Smith, one of the organizers of Stop-the-Draft Week, and retired OPD officers featured in the film will be present for a discussion following the screening, along with producer/director George Csicsery.

This screening is co-sponsored by City of Oakland KTOP TV-10, which co-produced the film. Major funding for production of The Thursday Club was provided by Cal Humanities.

Read about The Thursday Club. Purchase advance tickets here.

11.1.2017

Navajo Math Circles is one of several films being featured on public television in celebration of Native American Heritage Month during November 2017. Watch the film at this PBS website during November. Check local listings for other broadcasts!

9.26.2017

Counting from Infinity screens at the Red River Theatres in Concord, New Hampshire, on September 26, 2017, at 6 p.m. The film will be shown once in the Stonyfield Culture Cinema, followed by a Science Cafe conversation with David Brooks, sci/tech reporter and writer of the Granite Geek column at the Concord Monitor, with Edward Hinson, associate professor of mathematics at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and former department chair, who worked with Yitang Zhang. The screening was made possible by the UNH Department of Mathematics & Statistics. Tickets are available here.

Read a Concord Monitor review of Counting from Infinity by David Brooks.

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