Fernando Rodriguez Villegas

movie and pizza night

For the last few years, with Nancy Lamm, we have organized a movie and pizza night for graduate students every Fall. Since 2004 we also included some kind of contest with a couple of relevant books as a prize.

2007
"A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon" The Story of Sonya Kovalevskaya. (a Swedish movie )
Movie Introduction by Natasha Pavolic.
Crossword puzzle: "What's in a Name?"
Winners:
First Place: Adriana Salerno, Elizabeth Thoren, Brandy Guntel, Pippa Charters and Brian Katz.
Second Place: Andrew Gillette and Sal Butt.
2006
"Proof" with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Hopkins.
Crossword puzzle
Winners: Todd Geldon, Adriana Salerno and Katja Mallmann.
Essay
Winner: Paul Larsen. Check the essay out!
2005
"Paul Erdos - N is for Number", documentary.
Introduction by J. Vaaler.
Contest: scavenger hunt to find four puzzle pieces, then solve the mathematical problem.
Winners: Todd Geldon and Abe Yarbrough.
2004
"Breaking the Code", NOVA Special on the Enigma Machine.
Contest: mathematical crossword puzzle.
Winners: Kyle Schalm, Gonzalo Tornaria and Katja Mallmann.
2003
"The Proof" NOVA special on Fermat's Last Theorem and Andrew Wiles's proof.
No contest.

movie and pizza night

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003