10-12 September 2012
10 September
11:30–12:00 Brendan Larvor (opening remarks)
12:00—13:00 Karine Chemla
13:00—14:00 Lunch
14:00—15:00 Ursula Martin
15.15—15:50 Slava Gerovitch. Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at Moscow University
15:50—16:25 Jean-Michel Kantor. The Russian tradition of mathematics: Philosophical, religious and cultural roots of the Moscow school of mathematics through the last century.
16:25—16:50 Tea
16:50—17:25 Silvia De Toffoli and Valeria Giardino. Low-dimensional Topology as Visual Mathematics
11 September
9:30 – 10:30 Christian Greiffenhagen
10:30—11:00 Coffee
11.00—11:35 Anouk Barberousse, Rossana Tazzioli and Emma Sallent Del Colombo. A story about vectors and tensors – Notation, aesthetic values, and mathematical cultures
11:35—12.10 Rogério Siqueira. Mathematical practices in three engineering schools in the Brazilian First Republic (1889-1930)
12:25—13:00 Stav Kaufman. Two Dualities: an Anthropology of a Mathematical Result
13:00—14:00 Lunch
14:00—15:00 Norbert Schappacher
15.15—15:50 Albrecht Heeffer. The Abbaco mathematical culture (1300 – 1500)
15:50—16:25 Henrik Kragh Sørensen. ‘The End of Proof’? The integration of different mathematical cultures as experimental mathematics comes of age
16:25—16:50 Tea
16:50—17:25 Katalin Gosztonyi. Mathematical Culture and Mathematics Education in Hungary in the XXth Century
12 September
9:30 – 10:30 Alexandre Borovik. Specialist mathematics schools
10:30—10.45 Coffee
10.45—11.45: Snezana Lawrence
12.00 – 13:00 Paul Andrews
13:00—14:00 Lunch
14:00—15:30 Plenary session and final remarks
Practicalities
The conference fee is £15 per person per day. Please indicate when you register which days you wish to attend, and specify any dietary needs. There are funds available to support postgraduates–please enquire by e-mail.