The twentieth Virtual Encounter with Outstanding Mathematicians took place on Friday, March 12th, 2021 from 12 pm until 1 pm. was our invited speaker. Dr. Gadea Mata, Professor of the University of La Rioja in Spain, This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
On this twentieth Encounter, Dr. Gadea Mata shared anecdotes of her personal life and her professional journey as a female mathematician, pointing out that thanks to mathematics, she has been able to travel to many countries. The speaker also presented on “The Mathematics of Images: Analyzing Cells,” in which she shared what a digital image is and how we can obtain them. Then Dr. Gadea Mata described how to analyze biomedical images and explained some of the techniques that she uses like histogram, contrast, threshold and filters.
