ONE PER CENT
					Mathematics workshop for students of classes XI and XII
						    Friday 28th November 2014
						    	IMSc, Chennai

						    	TIMETABLE

			900 am Registration

			930am--1030am   Amritanshu Prasad
					
					Title: The Platonic Solids.
					Abstract: We will discuss the five Platonic solids,
					and show how to make origami models of some of them.
			
			1030am--1100am	Tea break (coffee/tea, snacks)
			
			1100am--noon	B V Rao
					
					Title: Fun Game: Balls in a Box.
					Abstract: We shall discuss the following game: there is a box with balls of
					two colours.  We pick a ball at random, change its colour and put it back.
					We do it again and again and again.  What happens in the long run?  What
					can we learn from this game? Why such simple games are difficult to analyse?

			noon--100pm     Arindama Singh

					Title: How Many ?
					Abstract: We will discuss how the precise language of Mathematics is
					built upon day to day speech.  It will lead to a discussion of the
					language of sets and how many objects there are in a set. We will also
					touch upon the notion of infinity.

			100pm--215pm	Lunch

			215pm--315pm    Kotyada Srinivas
					
					Title : Heuristics!
					Abstract: Tactics in problem-solving is called heuristics. A single problem
					usually admits several solutions, often employing quite different heuristics.
					We shall discuss some of them in this talk. 

			315pm--400pm	Quiz

			400pm--430pm	High tea

			430pm--500pm	Addresses by R. Balasubramanian (Director, IMSc) and
					R.L. Karandikar (Director, CMI)
					followed by distribution of prizes.