Program
Saturday, 28th January
8:30 – Registration
9:00 – Opening Session
9:30 – Robin Wilson, Open University, UK
_ Lewis Carroll's "Pillow Problems"
10:00 – Carlos Pereira dos Santos, CEAFEL
_ A mysterious mathematical painting
10:30 – Carlota Simões, University of Coimbra
_ From Gregorian chant to Star Wars: symmetries and mathematical structures in music
11:00 – Coffee-break
11:30 – Thane Plambeck, Counterwave
_ Faking Lisbon street tiles
12:00 – Eric Duchéne & Aline Parreau, Lyon 1 University
_ «Hunting the beast»: an example of activity in the
_ House of Mathematics and Computer Science
12:30 – Adam Atkinson
_ The Samaritani formula
13:00 – Break for lunch
14:30 – António Araújo, UAb
_ Optical Games: Anamorphosis and the Curious Perspectives
15:00 – Pedro Freitas, FCUL, University of Lisbon
_ The golden angle and how to construct it
15:30 – Alda Carvalho, ISEL & CEMAPRE
_ The geometer dog
15:55 – Alfii
_ Introducing a new game
16:00 – Coffee-break
16:30 – Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd
_ Unexpected connections from the Doodle Theorem
17:00 – Andreia Hall, Aveiro University
_ Symmetry and anti-symmetry in rosettes of Truchet tiles
17:30 – Silvia Heubach, California State University
_ Keeping your distance is hard
18:00 – Francisco Picado, Ludus
_ Shuffling a polygon
18:30 – Welcome cocktail
Sunday, 29th January
9:30 – David Singmaster, London South Bank University
_ The problems of Abbot Albert (C1240)
10:00 – Robert Vallin, Lamar University & Aaron M. Montgomery, Baldwin Wallace University
_ Penney's game from multiple perspectives
10:30 – Pedro Palhares, University of Minho
_ Claude-Gaspar Bachet’s book of problems
11:00 – Coffee-break
11:30 – Paulo Gil, EBS de Pinheiro
_ Mathematical tourism
12:00 – Tiago Hirth, Ludus
_ Topomagic
12:20 - Adrien Lochon
_ Anagrams
12:30 – Francisco Mousinho, ESTAL
_ Dadaism - A construction of an act
13:00 – Break for lunch
14:30 – Rogério Martins, FCT
_ The (not so simple!) chain fountain
15:00 – José Paulo Viana, APM
_ How to have dinner with everybody
15:30 – Jorge Nuno Silva, University of Lisbon
_ Mathematical games throughout the ages
16:00 – Coffee-break
16:30 – Public session: The Mathemagical Cabaret
_ Circo Matemático
_ Colin Wright
_ Leandro Morgado
19:00 – Conference dinner
Monday, 30th January
9:30 – Jorge Buescu, FCUL, University of Lisbon
_ From six-pointed stars to four-colored maps and back
10:00 – Margarida Telo da Gama, FCUL, University of Lisbon
_ Topological phase transitions: Nobel Prize material
10:30 – Henrique Leitão, CIUHCT-UL
_ The power of mathematics in the 16th century: nothing new under the Sun?
11:00 – Coffee-break
11:30 – Lília Marcelino, Lusófona University
_ Intervention in early numerical competencies: ludic activities and games
12:00 – Miguel Gonçalves, Ludus
_ I'm not sleeping
12:30 – Peter Lynch, UCD Dublin
_ The fractal structure of the Power Tower
13:00 – Break for lunch
14:30 – Carlos Florentino, DM-FCUL & CAMGSD
_ The two forest game and the four colour theorem
15:00 – Tereza Bártlová, Charles University
_ History of recreational mathematics
15:30 – Joaquim Eurico Nogueira, FCT-UNL
_ Inheritance problems
16:00 – Coffee-break (with optional food tasting)
16:30 – Svenja Huntermann, Dalhousie University
_ Nova Scotia Math Circles
17:00 – Melissa Huggan, Dalhousie University
_ Nova Scotia Math Circles (2)
17:30 – Urban Larsson, Technion
_ Endgames in bidding chess
18:00 – Leandro Morgado
_ Framing and context in the mistery arts
Tuesday, 31st January
9:30 – José Carlos Santos, University of Porto
_ Algebra before Algebra: The solution of algebraic problems before
_ the introduction of algebraic notation
10:00 – Jaime Carvalho e Silva, University of Coimbra
_ Recreational cryptography
10:30 – Ricardo Cunha Teixeira, University of Azores
_ Step by step math in primary school
11:00 – Coffee-break
12:00 – Adam Atkinson
_ Heavy boots and other stories
12:30 – Mariana Almeida Rodrigues & Beatriz Xavier, IST
_ NMATH-IST
13:00 – Break for lunch
14:30 – Teresa Maria Sousa, Escola Naval
_ The 4 colour theorem
15:00 – Filipe Papança, Military Academy
_ The origins of mathematics - The influence of mathematics in poetry
_ and poetry in mathematics
15:30 Noémia Simões, ISEL
_ Dignity games: playing, learning and promoting human rights
17:00 – Aviezri Fraenkel, Colin Wright, David Singmaster
_ Richard Nowakowski, Robin Wilson, Thane Plambeck
_ Our dearest problems, Auditório Caleidoscópio, Campo Grande
18:30 – Closing, Presence of Professor António Feijó, Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon
_ Auditório Caleidoscópio, Campo Grande