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Mathematics Day in Landau: Students fight for trophies and prizes!
On April 8, 2025, the RPTU invites you to a Mathematics Day. Students can look forward to an exciting program with competitions and insights into mathematics. Registration required by March 18, 2025.
Mathematics Day in Landau: Students fight for trophies and prizes!
The one to come Mathematics Day on April 8, 2025 promises an exciting event for students in grades 9 to 12 as well as for mathematics teachers at the secondary level. The event takes place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the RPTU in Landau and offers a variety of program items that meet interest in mathematics.
Competitions in various age categories, including team, individual and speed rounds to solve mathematical problems, are on the program. Prizes in the form of trophies and non-cash prizes are offered, including a school prize for the best school in Rhineland-Palatinate, which is awarded by the Ministry of Education. Registrations are still possible until March 18, 2025, and those interested can register on the website tdm.nuw.rptu.de inform.
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Another future-oriented topic in the context of mathematics is the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on our society. For this purpose, Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok held a seminar entitled “Mathematics of Deep Neural Networks”. This seminar is about developing a mathematical foundation for deep learning, covering important research topics such as robustness, training algorithms and the explainability of AI decisions.
The seminar is aimed at students of mathematics, computer science and statistics and requires the use of a Moodle course to register. Participants have the opportunity to improve their presentation technique through rhetoric training and to deepen the content according to their previous knowledge and interests.
Integration of AI into teaching
At the conference “Education Digitalization” there was a workshop “Artificial intelligence in the classroom – how do students become AI competent?” discusses how teachers can use AI in the classroom. Sophie Plötz, the person responsible for schools at the AI Campus, showed how, for example, image recognition can be integrated into lessons as an AI application.
Thanks to privacy concerns were also on the agenda. Participants expressed concerns about the handling of student data. Plötz made it clear that many AI programs are data protection compliant and that there are safe alternatives. Ralph Müller-Eiselt from the Bertelsmann Foundation pointed out that data protection is important not only for AI, but also for analog data. These challenges must be addressed in order not to jeopardize the integration of AI in schools.
The variety and depth of the topics addressed at Mathematics Day as well as in the seminars and workshops on artificial intelligence illustrate the desire to combine mathematics and modern technologies. Creating trust in ed-tech offerings and cooperation with institutions are central elements.