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Maths & Music on
the Aegean islands
Festum-pi festival and conference
MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE
MUSIC FESTIVAL
MUSICOLOGY CONFERENCE
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS (AI)
Summer School and Research Conference
When Mathematics Meets Music.
Festum π Returns to the Aegean.
Chania, Crete | 26 July - 2 August 2026.
Sun 02 Aug
Sat 01 Aug- Fri 31 Jul
Fri 31 Jul
Thu 30 Jul"Poetry": Cédric Villani, Improvisations by Bruno Mantovani / Speach: Yiorgos Moschidis /Cultural Centre Of Chania30 Jul 2026, 20:30 – 22:30Cultural Centre Of Chania, Andrea Papandreou 70, Chania 731 34, Greece"Poetry": Cédric Villani recites poems by Paul Éluard, accompanied by improvisations by Bruno Mantovani. The evening continues with a talk by mathematician Yiorgos Moschidis on the poetry of the theory of relativity.
Thu 30 Jul
Wed 29 JulConcert: Festum π Quartet / New Cretan Quartet, Varduhi Yeritsyan, Bruno Mantovani /Venizelio Conservatory (Odeio)29 Jul 2026, 20:30 – 22:30Venizelio Conservatory (Odeio), Nikiforou Foka 5, Chania 731 32, GreeceFestum π Quartet / New Cretan Quartet Felix Mendelssohn Octet Varduhi Yeritsyan, piano Solo works by Bruno Mantovani Festum π Quartet and Varduhi Yeritsyan, piano Bruno Mantovani Blue Girl with Red Wagon
Tue 28 JulConcert: New Cretan Quartet / Bruno Mantovani, Maurice Ravel, Anton Webern /Venizelio Conservatory (Odeio)
Mon 27 JulDiscussion: Marie E. Rognes & Vangelis Harmandaris / Piano: Maximos Georgogiannakis Ogbunigwe /Venizelio Conservatory of Chania (Odeio)
Sun 26 Jul
Sat 25 Jul
Fri 24 Jul
Mon 20 Apr
LIVE: Cedric Villani, Poetries. Bruno Mantovani, piano. Giorgos Moschidis
Poems: Cédric Villani recites poems by Paul Valery, accompanied by improvisations by Bruno Mantovani. The evening continues with a talk by mathematician Giorgos Moschidis on the poetry of the Theory of Relativity. LIVE STREAMING
LIVE: Marie E. Rognes & Βαγγέλης Χαρμανδάρης
LIVE streaming tonight at 20:30 https://www.youtube.com/live/JwWgosqCWpg?si=bZG9Qj5fhEBGgqoL Ομιλία Marie E. Rognes Τα δέλτα του εγκεφάλου: Μαθηματικά, υπερυπολογιστές και οι ρυθμοί της ζωής Θα ακολουθήσει συζήτηση με τον Βαγγέλη Χαρμανδάρη. Μουσικό διάλειμμα Μάξιμος Γεωργογιαννάκης Ogbunigwe, πιάνο
LIVE: Cédric Villani and Konstantinos Daskalakis
LIVE streaming tonight at 20:30 Two of the most important figures in modern science, Konstantinos Daskalakis (MIT) and Cédric Villani (Fields Medalist, Lyon I), meet in an open discussion that inaugurates this year's event at the Chania Cultural Center. The evening will be accompanied by a musical interlude with the young pianist Maximos Georgianniakis Ogbunigwe, a Festum π fellow at the Sorbonne University. The opening event of the festival will begin with Cretan traditional
Festum π Live Streaming
All our events will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@festumpiproject/videos
Festum pi featured in "TO VIMA" newspaper!
Festum p on the front page and in a seven-page tribute in the newspaper "TO VIMA"! Science, mathematics, music and artificial intelligence meet again in Chania. Tribute curated by: Angelos Alexopoulos Sketches: Nikos Tsouknidas To read the full article, download the file below.
Minorities enrich humanity and have played such an important role in musical and scientific creation.
Festum π cherishes them.
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Festum Pi 2025 Highlights
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