Join the McDonald Center for Student Well-Being for Spin the Conversation: Truth or Stigma. Bust myths and get creative with us. Spin the wheel to tie-dye a purple "I ❤️ ND" shirt to show your support for Recovery Awareness Week. Shirts are available while supplies last, so don't miss out! Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.

The Chicago-based intermedia percussion ensemble Beyond This Point will lead a hands-on workshop showcasing the innovative and unconventional performance technologies used in their work. Participants will explore how these technologies shape musical expression—ranging from controlling lighting and sensor-driven cues to interacting with electronic elements and unconventional instruments. The workshop will showcase how such technologies can enhance theatricality and audience engagement, transforming traditional composition and performance spaces into rich, multi-sensory experiences.Bio:Beyond This Point is a Chicago-based collaborative music ensemble dedicated to the advancement of experimental and contemporary culture. This multifaceted collective of musicians, performers, and arts practitioners builds experimental projects that engage with written music, sound art, lighting, installation, improvisation, and live electronics. From the intimate to the monumental, BTP is known for producing unique performances that offer captivating and exhilarating experiences. Most recently, BTP has presented its community-oriented multimedia production Reclaimed Timber; immersive sound+light concert LIT; and thought-provoking theatrical performance Musician Minus Instrument.This workshop is part of the lecture series "Sonifying the Body: Embodied Technologies in Electronic Music Performance," sponsored by the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, the Department of Music, and the Technology & Digital Studies Program.   Originally published at music.nd.edu.

James A. Maynard, Ph.D., is a professor of number theory at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford University in Oxford, England. He is being recognized with the Carrier Medal for transformative discoveries in analytical number theory and the structure of prime numbers, advancing both foundational science and practical application. He will accept the Rev. Carrier Medal on September 15, 2025.   Maynard won the Fields Medal, a prestigious honor awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union, which chooses two to four medalists during each award cycle for outstanding advancements in mathematics. His early work was on sieve methods, a technique used to estimate the size of a set of numbers by "sifting out" numbers that are divisible by specific primes. He settled an established conjecture by Paul Erdös — a prolific mathematician who spent a year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame during the 1950s — on large gaps between prime numbers.   Recently, Maynard has improved upon previous work on questions about the Diophantine approximation, the process of finding successively better rational approximations to irrational numbers. In 2024 he and Larry Guth, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed a new proof that better estimates how many primes exist in short intervals on the number line. The proof also provides more insights into the behavior of prime numbers.  Read more about James MaynardOriginally published at science.nd.edu.