The Pirelli Relativity Challenge awarding ceremony took place in Venice today. The prize was won by a Canadian interactive animation, explaining the complex theory of special relativity. More than 250 multimedia submissions coming from 40 different countries participated
Venice, 1 December 2005- The awarding ceremony of Pirelli Relativity Challenge, the international contest organised by the Pirelli Group for the World Year of Physics, was held in Venice today at the “Telecom Italia Future Centre”. This prize was reserved to multimedia works explaining Albert Einstein’s special relativity theory in a simple way and in up to 5 minutes.
Among others, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, mathematician, writer and scientific communicator, Riccardo Perissich, representing
the Pirelli Group, Carlo Massarini, tv presenter and journalist specialised in new technologies, attended this ceremony.
The “challenge” of Pirelli was taken by about 250 participants from more than 40 countries, that made their best, to explain the centenary theory of the German physicist, helped by digital technologies. After a century, these works proved how, the scientific legacy of Albert Einstein, is still alive throughout the world. More than 40 among prestigious international universities and Physics institutes participated. Finalists were evaluated by a jury made up by Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Konrad Osterwalder, Director of Zurich Technological University, Fabio Pistella, President of CNR (Italian National Research Council), the sociologist of science Massimiano Bucchi and by the student Maria Nicolaci.
The prize worth 25,000 euros was given to the Canadian contestant Kiran Sachdev, for his work
