Matefest

Mathematics and computer science can seem complicated subjects, only within the reach of brains or people who do not raise their elbows from the study table. But ... what if we could discover its most playful part? Maybe then everything would change and we would find them unthinkable attractions. To this end, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Barcelona (UB) has been organizing Matefest for 20 years to show its multiple applications and explain them as they have never been explained.

The students themselves decide what topics are dealt with and what the various positions that are installed in the building's Pati de Ciències are dedicated throughout the day, from 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The events are open to the public in general and have a festive and informative purpose, especially designed for young people who can join this career. We can get closer and they will make us participate in various activities around the subjects dealt with.

The topics are very interesting. Among them we find Neotrie VR (which shows the possibilities of virtual reality to generate geometry in three dimensions), three logical paradoxes, probability or luck? (a proof that some issues that we believe depend on luck, actually are very justifiable knowing the rules of probability), strategy games, topology, fractals (a geometric structure that maintains its shape but varies the scale of observation) or free hacking (on computer security and the need to stimulate the use and creation of open codes).