Invitation: Enabling Mathematical Cultures Workshop, University of Oxford, 5th-7th December 2017

[Joe Corneli]

Dear Colleagues,

We wish to inform you about our up-coming workshop on "Enabling mathematical cultures", which will take place on 5th-7th December 2017 at the University of Oxford. Our workshop builds on the successes of Brendan Larvor’s and Benedikt Löwe’s “Mathematical Cultures” workshop series. We aim to bring together a diverse range of scholars to discuss the socio-cultural, historical, technological and philosophical aspects of mathematical practice. We encourage you to visit our workshop’s website for further details on registration, abstracts for contributed talks, and the workshop's schedule: https://enablingmaths.wordpress.com/

Some highlights are copied below.

We warmly invite your attendance and look forward to your participation in December,

Kind regards,

Sarah Baldwin, Joe Corneli, Lorenzo Lane, Ursula Martin and Fenner Tanswell

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Enabling Mathematical cultures Workshop 5th-7th December, University of Oxford

Date and Location: 5th-7th December 2017, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building,

Workshop website: https://enablingmaths.wordpress.com/

Registration fee: £40

Description:

This workshop celebrates the completion of the EPSRC-funded project “Social Machines of Mathematics”, led by Professor Ursula Martin at the University of Oxford. We will present research arising from the project, and bring together interested researchers who want to build upon and complement our work. We invite interested researchers from a broad range of fields, including: Computer Science, Philosophy, Sociology, History of Mathematics and Science, Argumentation theory, and Mathematics Education. Through such a diverse mix of disciplines we aim to foster new insights, perspectives and conversations around the theme of Enabling Mathematical Cultures.

Our intention is to build upon previous events in the “Mathematical Cultures” series organised by Brendan Larvor and Benedikt Löwe. These conferences explored diverse topics concerning the socio-cultural, historical and philosophical aspects of mathematics. Our workshop will, likewise, explore the social nature of mathematical knowledge production, through analysis of historical and contemporary examples of mathematical practice. Our specific focus will be around how social, technological and conceptual tools are developed and transmitted, so as to enable participation in mathematics, as well as the sharing and construction of group knowledge in mathematics. In particular, we are interested in the way online mathematics, such as exhibited by the Polymath Projects, MathOverflow and the ArXiv, enable and affect the mathematical interactions and cultures.

Confirmed Speakers

Ursula Martin – University of Oxford
Chris Sangwin & Henri Maurer – School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
András Máté – Department of Logic, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Michael Barany – Dartmouth College
Lorenzo Lane – University of Oxford
Marcos Cramer – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Henrik Kragh Sørensen, Line Edslev Andersen & Mikkel Willum Johansen – Copenhagen University / Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Keith Weber – Graduate School of Education, Rutgers
Colin J. Rittberg – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Fenner Tanswell – University of St Andrews
Dave Murray–Rust – Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Matt Inglis – Loughborough University
Andrew Aberdein – Florida Institute of Technology
Alan Bundy – School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Slava Gerovitch, Julia Braverman & Anna Mirny – MIT
Nick de Hoog – University of Konstanz
Gila Hanna – Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Joe Corneli – University of Edinburgh
Alison Pease – University of Dundee

Organisers
Sarah Baldwin, Joe Corneli, Lorenzo Lane, Ursula Martin and Fenner Tanswell