Program
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 – Solving dotty problems – an introduction to graph theory
_ Robin Wilson, Open University (Invited Speaker)
15:30 – Mathematics of soccer
_ Alda Carvalho, ISEL & CEMAPRE/ISEG
16:00 – Coffee-Break
16:30 – The Humble-Ehrhends triangle mistery
_ Jorge Buescu, University of Lisbon
17:00 – Symmetry groups: identifying patterns in Azorean heritage
_ Vera Moniz, University of Azores
17:30 – The Golden Ratio - from Euclid to Almada Negreiros
_ Carlota Simões (Invited Speaker)
18:30 – Break Time
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 – Lewis Carroll in Numberland
_ Robin Wilson, Open University (Invited Speaker)
15:30 – Problem solving through crafts and challenges
_ Marie Stephanie Cabral, University of Azores
16:00 – Coffee-Break
16:30 – Treason strategies
_ João Cabral, University of Azores
17:00 – Jogo do Paralelo
_ Raquel Faria, University of Azores
17:30 – Can mathematical exhibitions be recreational?
_ José Francisco Rodrigues, University of Lisbon
18:00 – Contest «Um conto que contas»
_ Helena Melo, University of Azores & CMATI
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 – Turning the lights out on graphs
_ António Machiavelo, University of Oporto (Invited Speaker)
15:30 – Counting the number of sudoku's by importance sampling simulation
_ Ad Ridder, University of Amsterdam
16:00 – Combinatorial games and Computability
_ Urban Larsson, University of Gothenburg
16:30 – Closing Session