History of Mathematics & Teaching of Mathematics

First Announcement and Call for Papers

on

History of Mathematics

and Teaching of Mathematics

Sárospatak
2012. May 23-27.

Mathematics - a common language for Europe for a thousand years.


Preliminary programme NEW


The aim of the conference is to present aspects of the History of Mathematics, including its impact on the Teaching of Mathematics, to provide a forum to meet each other, and to give an opportunity for young researchers to present their results on the history of mathematics. We invite our colleagues, students, graduate students and other researchers to take part in the meeting.

The meeting will be hosted by the Comenius Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Miskolc in Sárospatak, Hungary, the city where the famous educator Comenius Amos János has founded the Natural Science education of the Calvinist College of Sárospatak.

The scientific programme of the conference will be scheduled on 24th, 25th and 26th May 2012.


Cooperating partners

  • School of Mathematics of the University of St Andrews,
  • Department of Analysis of the University of Miskolc,
  • Department of Mathematics, Teacher Training College of the Eötvös University Budapest,
  • Institute of Mathematics, and Institute of Informatics of the University of Debrecen,
  • Comenius Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Miskolc
  • János Bolyai Mathematical Society, Hungary,
  • Junior Mathematical Society Miskolc.

Organizing Committee

Chairman: Edmund F. Robertson (efr(at)st-and.ac.uk)

Members

Advisory Board

The programme of the conference is planned to include talks and posters.

Invited Speakers

The organizers are pleased to announce the names of the invited speakers (to be completed):

  • Edmund ROBERTSON,
  • John O’CONNOR,
  • Christa BINDER
  • Ciarán Mac an BHAIRD
  • Tünde KÁNTOR,
  • Ágnes TUSKA,
  • Katalin MUNKÁCSY.

Contributions

Each participant will be given the possibility of presenting his/her contribution as a short (15 minutes) talk or a poster. Refereed papers will be published in the conference volume.

Call for papers

  • Authors are invited to submit an abstract to the Organisers
  • The abstract must be written in English.
  • Begin a new line for each author: author’s full name (SURNAME in capital letters) followed by affiliation, city, country, and e-mail address.
  • Begin text on a new line.
  • The length of the text should be between 100 and 350 words.
  • Please use the Easy Chair Conference System (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hmtm12), beside the on-line registration form for sending the abstract.

Deadline for submission extended to: 20 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 30 March, 2012
(for early registrations within 30 days)

Registration

Please use the on-line registration form available on the conference web page, where you can fill in the date of your arrival and departure, your option for accommodation.
Alternatively please register by e-mail, sending a message to Péter Körtesi (matkp(at)uni-miskolc.hu) or any member of the organizing committee. Please do the same if submitting your abstract after registering or to communicating any other problem.

Abstracts and full papers are expected to be submitted via the Easy Chair Conference System (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hmtm12), at the event HMTM-12

Registration fees

Early registration (Before 31st March, 2012) 100 EUR
Later and on spot registrations: 130 EUR
Accompanying person and students 80 EUR

Due to the support of the JMSM a very limited number of reduced fees will be available upon request addressed to the organizers for those participants from Hungary, who register before March 31, with at least one paper.

Refund

- 80% minus bank charges, if cancelled before March 31.
- 40% minus bank charges, if cancelled before May 1.

Bank details for the transfer of your registration fee

The registration fees should be transferred to the:
Account holder: Miskolci Ifjúsági Matematikai Egyesület
Account No: 54500112-10016013-00000000
IBAN: HU96 5450 0112 1001 6013 0000 0000
SWIFT code: TAKBHUHB
Bank: Felsőzsolca és Vidéke Takarékszövetkezet, 3561 Felsőzsolca, Kassai út 28.
Remark: HMTM-2012-NAME, SURNAME

When transferring your registration fee, please indicate your Name, SURNAME and add the following Hungarian language remark for identifying your transfer:
„MATEMATIKATÖRTÉNET KONFERENCIA - 2012”

Please NOTE that your registration becomes valid when your registration fee is received.

The registration fee for participants includes

  • guided tour of the city on the pre-conference day,
  • get-together party (Wednesday, May 23.),
  • conference materials,
  • coffee breaks,
  • welcome party (Thursday. May 24.),
  • conference dinner (Friday, May 25.),
  • trip (Saturday, May 26.)

The registration fee for accompanying persons includes

  • guided tour of the city on the pre-conference day
  • get-together party (Wednesday, May 23.),
  • welcome party (Thursday. May 24.)
  • conference dinner (Friday, May 25.)
  • trip (Saturday, May 26.)


Preliminary programme

Wednesday, 23 May
Arrivals, registration, guided city tour, get-together party
Thursday, 24 May
Opening - 10 a.m., Lectures 10.30-12, and 14-18 , welcome party
Friday, 25 May
Lectures: 9-12, 14-18, conference dinner
Saturday, 26 May
Lectures: 9-12, Closing Ceremony
Trip: 14-18
Exploring the city
Sunday, 27 May
Departures

The list of registered participants, list of abstracts, programme details, last minute information

The list of registered participants will appear on the conference site. Please check your data.
Upon acceptance the submitted abstract will be included in the list of abstracts.
Programme details and last minute information will appear in due time on the conference site, and any change will be communicated to you by e-mail.

Accommodation

Participants may book accommodation using the registration form.
When booking please indicate the date of your arrival and departure, and special info: eg. Non-smoking, vegetarian meals etc.

We offer several type accommodation, ranging from the best hotel to pensions and guest houses (see the details when registering on-line):

For registered participants we will book accommodation according to the registration details. Participants will pay their own accommodation on arrival.
If you have other plans please let us know and we will be pleased to assist you in finding accommodation elsewhere.

Conference materials

  • Program booklet
  • Abstracts
  • Booklet with the invited lectures

Conference volume

The refereed contributed papers will be published in a conference volume. The authors of accepted contributions are requested to send in 2 copies (an editable Word or tex version, and a pdf format version) before the end of April 2012.
The conference CD is planned to be ready for the meeting.
The conference CD will be available for 20 EUR.

 

More information

Péter Körtesi
H 3515 POB.10.,
University of Miskolc
Hungary.
phone/fax: 00-36-4656146, or 00-36-20-9826766 or 00-36-70-3326885
matkp(at)uni-miskolc.hu, pkortesi(at)gmail.com