Meeting and Conference Calendar
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The British Society for the History of Mathematics annual meeting
March 1, 2008, Oxford, England
This meeting is on "Research in Progress" in the history of mathematics.
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The
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics
March 13, 2008. Villanova University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
"The Acknowledged National Standard": Charles Davies, A.
S. Barnes, and Textbooks as Teaching Tools..
Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings, University of Maryland
University College.
This talk explores the evolution of the textbook into a
commercialized teaching tool by concentrating on how the partnership of Charles
Davies (1798-1876) and Alfred Smith Barnes (1817-1888) shaped mathematics
instruction in the United States.
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Arithmos XXVII - Cauchy's Cours d'analyse
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 2:00 pm - Sunday, March 30, 12:30.
Location: Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
Contact: Ed Sandifer, esandifer@earthlink.net
Readings: Selections from Cauchy's Cours d'analyse. Translations of the sections we will be reading will be available at this site a few weeks prior to the meeting.
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Deadline for submissions to the HOM-SIGMAA Student Paper Contest in the History of Mathematics
March 31, 2008
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The Americas Section of the International Study Group on Relations between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics
April 9-12, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah
Will meet during the NCTM Annual Meeting.
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The Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics
April 10, 2008, Villanova University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Babak Ashrafi, Executive Director, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science.
"Using the Ether to Save Quantum Mechanics."
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Joint meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Gresham College
April 25, 2008, London, England
History of Financial Mathematics in London, England. This meeting is free, but reservations are required.
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The Fourth Annual Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Conference on the
History of Mathematics (SMURCHOM IV), 26 April 2008
http://paws.wcu.edu/despeaux/4smurchom.html
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Joint meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Oxford University Department
May 31-June 1, 2008, Oxford, England
Continuing Education on the The Mechanisation of Mathematics.
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The Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM) 2008 Annual Meeting.
June 1-3, 2008
This year' s meeting is held in conjunction with the Learneds (CFHSS) at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Online registration for the 2008 Annual Meeting is now available on the CFHSS Congress 2008 website. You will also find complete details about rooms on campus or hotels in downtown Vancouver on the Accomodations page of the website.
The special session of the meeting will be on "Trigonometry and its Applications."
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Nexus 2008: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics
Point Loma Nazarene University
San Diego, CA
June 23-26, 2008
http://www.nexusjournal.com/2008/index.html
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The British Society for the History of Mathematics
July 8-10, 2008, Gregynog, Wales
This meeting is on "Robert Recorde, his life and times" in recognition of the 450th anniversary since his death.
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HPM 2008, the seventh quadrennial meeting of the International Study Group
July 14-18, 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
This meeting is on the Relations between the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 31, 2007.
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MathFest 2008, the summer meeting of the MAA
July 31-August 2, 2008, Madison, Wisconsin
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The
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics
"Minority Mathematicians."
September 18, 2008.Patricia Kenschaft,
Montclair State University.
Abstract: A summary of some of the known facts about minority participation in the mathematical community, including some biographies, some statistical information, and a report of a survey of black mathematicians of New Jersey twenty years ago.
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The
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics
"Cayley Documents in Lehigh's Possession"
October 16, 2008. Steven Weintraub, Lehigh University/
Abstract: The Lehigh University Library has acquired a set of letters and an unpublished manuscript by Arthur Cayley. I will report on this collection and its background, both mathematical and historical.
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Future MAA meetings
Save these dates for future MAA meetings!
| Summer 2008 | Madison, WI | July 31-Aug. 2 |
| Winter 2009 | Washington, DC | January 7-10 |
| Summer 2009 | Portland, OR | August 6-8 |
| Winter 2010 | San Francisco, CA | January 6-9 |
| Summer 2010 | Pittsburgh, PA | August 5-7 |
| Winter 2011 | New Orleans, LA | January 5-8 |
| Winter 2012 | Boston, MA | January 4-7 |
| Winter 2013 | San Diego, CA | January 9-12 |
| Winter 2014 | Baltimore, MD | January 15-18 |
| Summer 2015 | Washington, DC | August 5-8 |
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