[FOM] Final Call for Abstracts (deadline: 30th June 2017) ENABLING MATHEMATICAL CULTURES, University of Oxford, 5th-7th December 2017

[Fenner Tanswell]

(with apologies for cross-posting)


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (deadline: 30th June 2017)

ENABLING MATHEMATICAL CULTURES, University of Oxford, 5th-7th December 2017


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. 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 on 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.


*We hereby invite the submission of abstracts of up to 500 words for papers
to be presented in approximately 30 minutes (plus 10 minutes Q+A)*.
The Enabling
Mathematical Cultures workshop will have space on Days 2 and 3 of the
meeting for a number of accepted talks addressing the themes of social
machines of mathematics, mathematical collaboration, mathematical
practices, ethnographic or sociological studies of mathematics,
computer-assisted proving, and argumentation theory as applied in the
mathematical realm. Please send your abstracts to Fenner.Tanswell at Gmail.com
by the *deadline of the 30th June 2017*.


The event takes place in the Mathematical Institute of the University of
Oxford on  5th, 6th and 7th December 2017, with a dinner on 5th December
and an informal supper on 6th December.


The focus of Day 1 will be on success, failure and impact of foundational
research with an emphasis on history and long term development. Days 2 and
3 will focus on studies of contemporary and prospective mathematical
cultures from sociological, philosophical, educational and computational
perspectives.


Confirmed speakers include: Andrew Aberdein, Michael Barany, Alan Bundy,
Joe Corneli, Matthew Inglis, Lorenzo Lane, Ursula Martin, Dave Murray-Rust,
Alison Pease and Fenner Tanswell.

Organising Committee: Ursula Martin, Joe Corneli, Lorenzo Lane, Fenner
Tanswell, Sarah Baldwin, Brendan Larvor, Benedikt Loewe, Alison Pease


Further information will be added to the website at
https://enablingmaths.wordpress.com


Previous "Mathematical Cultures" events can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/mathematicalcultures/
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