Program

2012-10-15 · última modificação 2013-03-30 16:03

Wednesday, 3rd April

8:30– Welcome and registration

9:15 – Opening Session

9:30 – Writing systems and games: a curious marriage in the western Pacific (BGS+RM)
_          Alex Voogt, American Museum of Natural History

10:30 – Counting with counters: Gerbert's abacus (BGS+RM)
_             Jorge Nuno Silva, University of Lisbon

11:00 – Coffee-Break

11:30 – An update to the multilated chessboard (BGS+RM)
_            Colin Wright, Liverpool Mathematical Society (Invited Speaker)

12:30 – Quadratum (BGS+RM)
_             Helena Melo, University of Azores & CMATI

13:00 – Break for lunch

14:30 – Marbles-a Roman game reexamined
_             Ulrich Schädler, The Swiss Museum of Games

15:30 – A game of moral precepts
_ Tiago Santos, University of Lisbon

16:00 – Coffee-Break

16:30 – Games in space: Distributional patterns of games in bronze age Cyprus
_ Walter Crist, Arizona State University

17:00 – The story of Harm van Veen and his game TRANSET
_ Fred Horn, Games Inventor

17:30 – From Pachisi to Poleana:
_ brief ethnographic study in relation to cultural diffusion of gameso
_ Alfonso Atala Layún

18:00 – The Roman games of an elite?
_             Board game objects in late imperial graves of the barbaricum
_             Anne Widura, Ruhr-University Bochum

19:00 – 20:00 Welcome Cocktail

Thursday, 4th April

9:30 – Piet Hein & the murder of NIM (BGS+RM)
_          Thane Plambeck (Invited Speaker)

10:30 – What is a «good» board game? (BGS+RM)
_            Carlos Pereira dos Santos, ISEC

11:00 – Coffee-Break

11:30 – Three new math-games for experiencing the interplay between algebra,
_             geometry, and symmetry (BGS+RM)
_             Oliver Labs, Universität des Saarlandes (Invited Speaker)

12:30 – Ancient egyptian boardgames: an historical account (BGS+RM)
_             Joaquim Eurico Nogueira, New University of Lisbon

13:00 – Break for lunch

15:00 - Social

Friday, 5th April

09:00 – Order in the ranks (BGS+RM)
_ Pedro J. Freitas, University of Lisbon (Invited Speaker)

10:00 – Coffee-Break

10:30 – Mathematical Circus (Open to All)
_ Ludus Association

11:10 – Presentation of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (Open to All)
_ Carlota Simões, University of Coimbra, Ana Paula Garrão, University of Azores

11:20 – Presentation of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (Open to All)
_ Jorge Nuno Silva, José Francisco Rodrigues, University of Lisbon

11:40 – Presentation of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (Open to All)
_ Ricardo Teixeira, University of Azores

12:00 – Magic Show (Open to All)
_ Lennart Green, World Champion close-up/card Magician (Invited)

13:00 – Break for lunch

14:30 – Miniature silver draughts and merels boards
_ in 17th. and 18th. century doll’s houses
_ Wim van Mourik, Royal Dutch Draughts Association

15:00 – Gamebords incized in temple floors
_ Ute Rettberg

15:30 –  Ludus Latrunculorum's boards in the far west of the Roman Empire:
_             the ancient castle of Lousa
_             Lídia Fernandes, Museu da Cidade

16:00 – Coffee-Break

16:30 – Playing cards. The state of the art and the publications
_            Fernanda Frazão, Apenas Livros

17:00 – Boards games in the Indian peoples natives of the Patagonia Argentina
_            Ferrarese Capettini, Ethnic Toys Museum “Allel Kuzen”

17:30 – A Lewis Carroll game played by Portuguese students
_            Dores Ferreira, University of Minho

18:00 – Gaming pieces in the graves: playing in the underworld?
_ The diffusion of knucklebones in Greek funerary contexts
_ Barbara Carè, University of Turin

18:30 – Interesting Announcements
_ Jorge Nuno SIlva, Carlos Santos, Ludus Association

19:30 – Conference Dinner

Saturday, 6th April

09:30 – Game profiling (BGS+RM)
_ Richard Nowakowski, Dalhaousie University (Invited Speaker)

10:30 – "Zermelo's Theorem" is called "Zermelo's Theorem" ? (BGS+RM)
_            Lisa Rougetet, University of Science and Technology of Lille

11:00 – Coffee-Break

11:30 – Vanishing area puzzles (BGS+RM)
_            David Singmaster, Retired of London South Bank University (Invited Speaker)

12:30 – Lasker and mathematics (BGS+RM)
_            Jurgen Stigter, TWA

13:00 – Break for lunch

14:30 – The Portuguese edition of Alfonso's Book of Games
_             Jorge Nuno Silva, University of Lisbon

15:00 – Chess, backgammon and other board games in pre-Islamic Java
_ Jiri Jakl, University of Queensland

15:30 – Problem solving situations in the game of traffic lights solved by
_ visual impaired students
_ Carlota Dias, ES Matias Ayres

16:30 – Closing Session

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