The Webinar on Music, Dance and Mathematics took place on Thursday, December 9th, 2021 from 2 pm until 3 pm, with Dr. Leslie Jimenez, Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Chile, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker started the virtual event by explaining the musical notes and the octaves. Leslie Jimenez then described how the chromatic scale is related to clock arithmetic. The speaker also presented on the musicality of the swing dance, which is her favorite, and shared the structure of the swing music and its connection to mathematics.
