1) Visit website of Clay Mathematics Institute (cmi) http://www.Claymath.Org/poincare/index.Html
Read Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the Poincaré conjecture. Are you satisfied with the explanations? Why? Why not?
2) Watch John Tate's and Michael Atiyah's lectures on the Millennium Problems
http://claymath.msri.org/tate2000.mov given in 2000. Can you list the problems which still wait their resolution? What aim did CMI pursue selecting problems worth the Millennium Prize?
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4) Visit the website of the Nobel Prize committee and watch videos http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/ about the Nobel laureates of the science you’re interested in (physics, chemistry, medicine, or economic sciences). Prepare a brief report about it focusing on name of the laureate, branch of science, achievement and its description.
5) Prepare a Nobel Prize quiz for your partner! Create questions and at least three variants of answers using the information given on website http://nobelprize.org/. Fill in the gaps of the table given below for questions and answers you have created. Let your groupmate answer these questions and evaluate his/her correct answers.
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Now change your roles! Answer your groupmate’s questions and evaluate your knowledge of a Nobel Prize.
Nobel Prize in Physics
1) Read a short article about graphene, the invention that got Nobel Prize in 2010
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel's will, one part was dedicated to “the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics”. |
Two Russian scientists from the University of Manchester have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics following their pioneering research on Graphene, an exotic form of carbon that could revolutionise technology as we know it.
Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms that are packed in a honeycomb crystal structure which gives it its flexibility and its strength and has been hailed as the rockstar of the world of materials by some.
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has some interesting physical and electrical properties, like the
fact that it is a good conductor of electricity while being almost
transparent and being extremely strong.
Researchers expect graphene to be used in computer displays, solar panels, touch screens and even replace Silicon in the production of super fast transistors and integrated circuits.
IBM for example has been able to produce graphene transistors that could toggle between states at 100GHz, which is roughly 20 times faster than the current champion, the 5.2GHz IBM z196 processor.
Scientists however are looking for more economic ways of producing the material on an industrial scale with even less waste than current techniques.