2011 This weekend in Verona was held on Infinitely Festival: this year's event was centered on perfection, and the error difference. The program was very rich and very interesting: I had the power of ubiquity, I would not have missed a lecture or a show.
I'll tell you what I could hear.
The trip Saturday at 13.30, I went to Verona, from my house we bring you 20 minutes: free motorway, warm (12 ° C) Sun, Moleskine brand new ready to clipboard e. .. tick tick tick ... raindrops on me! After exiting the clouds blacks ... I said mmmm good! Arriving in town, I find an underground car park next generation (red and green lights to mark the places occupied and free) futuristic architecture and especially in the center of a two minute walk from the Arena.
reach the Palazzo della Gran Guardia, in Piazza Bra (In the photo the palace is right, you do not see why it is behind the trees). If you've never been, well worth a trip. Verona has much to offer tourists and then a city is so romantic!
go down in the auditorium and wait until the conference begins.
Michele Emmer, a professor of mathematics at the Sapienza University of Rome, speaks of
Soapdish.
Perfection lightness between mathematics and art
Mathematics studies on soap bubbles, which in time were investigated, all start from the Laws of Plateau. This scholar of 1800 was concerned the measure of angles formed when soapy surfaces are in contact: she measured angles of 120 ° but 109 ° 28 '. Later, in 1976, the researcher Jane Taylor proved the accuracy of the calculations on the Plateau and enunciated the theorem.
Arts Emmer told us, accompanied by numerous illustrations, the emergence of bubbles in the art.
In 1594 a Dutch press the bubbles are the symbol of vanity, then become a decoration for a tombstone in the Cathedral of Mallorca. The paintings found in a number of later centuries and as objects of study by scientists such as Newton and even a treaty of Marat, who became famous for his sad end in a bathtub.
The architecture is not far behind in the use of geometric shapes of the bubbles. Emmer said her recent graduate studies focused on minimal surfaces, which are nothing but bubbles. The research group is part of that time has among its members Ennio De Giorgi ( find here a video interview), great Italian mathematician.
Here is the architect Frei Otto develops and manufactures marquees which retain the lightness and charm of bubbles under sapone.Qui see the stadium in Monaco of Bavaria.
sure all remember the pool used at the Beijing Olympics. This structure was designed inspired by soap bubbles and what better place if not near water? 
If you want to know more, you can browse the website of prof. Michele Emmer http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/people/emmer/ A personal recommendation: the books are a well of resources for people who like me loves the links and applications of mathematics in various disciplines. pockets are not accessible to all, at least if one wanted to have the complete collection (especially the acts of Congress for 15 years organized in Venice and which I hope to talk next week, because maybe I can go). But I'm sure that if research in the libraries of your country, surely you will find, as I found (and eaten) I!
