'Filkina' Medal Award (Филькина премия), Dec 5, 2021
We are pleased to invite you to our homemade version of the Ig Nobel prize held by the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok. As the Ig Nobel prize is awarded for trivial research achievements, the 'Filkina' medal is given for presenting the most unscientific application of a scientific work — yours or somebody else's.
Overview & Program
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Contacts
The event is a gathering of mathheads limited to
— 100% offline;
— 7-10 minute talks;
— a lot of English.

Program
16:5017:00
Conference opening
17:00−17:10
How to escape from police
Daria Lytkina, MCA ROCK STAR and NSU PROFESSOR
Since ancient times, mathematicians have been looking for a universal way to avoid justice. It seemed for a while that the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise would provide such an opportunity. But our continuous reality requires new, more sophisticated solutions.
17:10−17:20
How to keep a child extremely busy with crayons and paper
Marta Fiori Carones, one of top four MCA postdocs
Given a graph, is it possible to colour it with a certain number of colours so that adjacent vertices do not receive the same colour? The graph colourability problem has many applications in daily life. Maybe one further application has been overlooked so far.
17:20−17:30
Cats (not CATS) algorithmic complexity
Sergey Ospichev, cat enthusiast
Recent studies have shown that cats can perform arithmetic operations if they choose to do so. We generalize this result and prove that cats can perform any task available to a modern PC.
17:30−17:40
How to tear off rabbit's ears using differential geometry
Yuri Efremenko, master's student at NSU (beware of fakes, he's a twin!)
While doing my research on computational geometry, I have met the same bunny many-many times in various papers. By the time I got the main result, I has been so tired of this bunny that I decided to put it into the algorithm and see if its ears would be torn off...
17:40−17:50
Flakes: a gate towards other realities?
Alexandre Senninger, PhD student at NSU
Magic does exist, and even can be written by mathematics. Between poetry and philosophy, welcome to the topic which will open new dimensions.
17:50−18:00
Most complicated Lock Pattern
SERGEI SHARKOV, NSU ENGINEERING SCHOOL STUDENT
Many people use Lock Patterns to secure their devices. In this talk we will discuss if the most complicated pattern exists and find all of them.
18:00−18:20
Tea-break
18:20−18:30
Statistical hype at the end of the 20th century
Evgeny Prokopenko, very DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN
We will discuss how to predict the future, to write several books, to become rich and even be invited to the Oprah Winfrey Show.
18:30−18:40
Fractals on my plate
Emiliano Sequeira Manzino, ONE OF TOP FOUR MCA POSTDOCS
Many of us have heard the idea of a fractal related to objects in everyday life, such as some vegetables. In this talk we will see what concepts of metric geometry help us to understand the structure that makes these examples so attractive.
18:40−18:50
On optimal gossiping (literally)
Vsevolod Afanasev, NSU STUDENT, 2021 FILKINA MEDAL AWARD WINNER
For most of us, gossiping is a very frequently performed activity through which we delve into the underworld of interesting things not many would dare say in public. But do we do so in an optimal way?
We will try to bring rigour into gossiping by discussing potential problems a gossiper may encounter and review some ways to solve them.
18:50−19:00
Random walk
Andrey lukYanov, NSU engineering school student, Neo of Probability
The main goal of the talk is presenting the most useful application of probability theory. We research an important modern problem, that is the drunk NSU student problem.
19:00−19:10
How to distribute introverts on Earth?
STEPAN FADEEV, THE LONGER THE DOORBELL RINGS, THE MORE I'M NOT AT HOME
Between 25% and 40% of the world's population are introverts. Introverts feel uncomfortable in the company of people, but they can't survive on their own. What can we do?
19:10−19:20
GPA prediction
Igor Uchanov, NSU ENGINEERING SCHOOL STUDENT, BEER DATA ENJOYER
Have you ever heard about the influence of preferences in alcohol and croaking on grade point average? During the report it will be discussed and not only that.
19:30-19:40
Awarding of the medal and other prizes
Kristina Nasybullova
Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok
Phone: +7983 321 5507
Telegram: https://t.me/nasybullova
Email: k.nasybullova@gmail.com
The event is supported by the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok under the agreement No. 075-15-2019-1675 with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.