{"id":240,"date":"2024-10-01T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/?p=240"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:43:52","slug":"special-stammtisch-on-october-17th-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/special-stammtisch-on-october-17th-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Stammtisch on October 17th, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 17th at 17h30, in MED 0 1418 (Adrien Palaz) \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A semi-serious presentation by Bob Melville: IEEE Senior Member, inventor, amateur machinist, free thinker and collector of bad puns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will present a series of practical problems with somewhat surprising (and simple) solutions.&nbsp; Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Can you give an accurate estimate of the number of fish in a large lake without killing the fish or draining the lake?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you measure the area of a lake drawn on a map, even if the map is not available in digital form?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you deliver electrical power to a horizontal platform that is rotating continuously in one direction <em>without <\/em>the use of slip-rings?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The premise of his talk is that techniques for creative problem solving can &#8212; at least to some extent &#8212; be learned and taught. Examples will be taken from several domains: mechanical engineering, optics, mathematics, and magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 17th at 17h30, in MED 0 1418 (Adrien Palaz) \u2013 A semi-serious presentation by Bob Melville: IEEE Senior Member, inventor, amateur machinist, free thinker and collector of bad puns. He will present a series of practical problems with somewhat surprising (and simple) solutions.&nbsp; Examples: &nbsp;The premise of his talk is that techniques for creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-stammtisch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-epfl.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}