Jaclyn Avidon

Thursday January 30th 2014  7 – 8 pm

Does Infinity Have a Size?

If you talk to mathematicians, they'll tell you infinity, in fact, comes in more than one size. And you don't have to be a mathematical wizard to see why. I will discuss what the concept of infinity means in mathematics, and how we can show that there are multiple types of infinity.  As long as you know how to count, you can see that just as infinity has many representations in art, it also has many representations in mathematics.
Read article basis for this talk HERE

Jaclyn Avidon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, a member of the Association’s Education Committee, the Chair of the Association’s School Outreach Committee, and an instructor for the Association’s classes.  Jaclyn graduated with honors from Lafayette College with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and a minor in Mathematics.  She spent over two years researching the subsurface conditions of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, including a summer spent at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Jaclyn is a frequently invited guest speaker at astronomy seminars and currently works in educational technology.