Program

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Saturday, January 26th

8:30 – Registration

9:00 – Opening session

9:30 – David Singmaster, London South Bank University
_ The bridges of Koenigsberg

10:00 – Carlos Pereira dos Santos, CEAFEL
_ Raymond Smullyan’s legacy: A centennial celebration

10:30 – Fernando Blasco, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
_ The magic of the periodic table

11:00 – Coffee-break

11:30 – Richard Nowakowski, Dalhousie University
_ A matter of perspective

12:00 – José Carlos Santos, University of Oporto
_ Tiling boards

12:30 – Luís Trabucho, FCT-UNL
_ On the probability equilibrium of the Egyptian game Senet

13:00 – Break for lunch

14:30 – Pedro Freitas, FCUL, University of Lisbon
_ Euler's formula and the Pascal triangle

15:00 – Aleksandra Ravas
_ Carl Friedrich Gauss and the formula for the sum of the first n natural number

15:30 – Adrien Lochon,
_ How a magician hacks the brain

16:00 – Coffee-break

16:30 – Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd
_ Pythagoras, Archimedes, and the napkin ring

17:00 – Guido Ramellini, MMACA
_ No gardeners like M. Gardner

17:30 – Francisco Mousinho, ESTAL
_ A gambling portrait: cheating devices and their story

18:00 – Peter Lynch, University College Dublin
_ Magnums: Counting Sets with Surreals

19:00 – Conference dinner

Sunday, January 27th

9:30 – Robin Wilson, Open University, UK
_ Lewis Carroll’s "A tangled tale"

(Handout)

10:00 – Hugo Almeida
_ The sweet algorithm

10:30 – Jaime Carvalho e Silva, University of Coimbra
_ A reflection on the ideas of Miguel de Guzman about games and mathematics teaching

11:00 – Coffee-break

11:30 – Hélder Pinto, CIDMA-UA, ESE - Instituto Piaget & Cristina Silva, ES Pinhal Novo
_ «Contas de cabeça» - a book of mathematical riddles edit by FPF

12:00 – Ricardo Teixeira, University of Houston - Victoria
_ An innovative card trick that combines classical concepts

12:30 – Francisco Albuquerque Picado, University of Lisbon
_ "The book of numbers": Unveiling sequences

13:00 – Break for lunch

14:30 – Carlota Simões & Cristina Cordeiro, University of Coimbra
_ The numerical calculation of God: a humorous text by Boris Vian

15:00 – Rogério Martins, FCT
_ The biggest secrets in the world

16:00 – Public session: The maths and magical cabaret

During the course of an hour and a half we aim to entertain you with various acts taken from Magic, Maths and their intersection. All presented in the National Museum of Natural History and Science*. Hosted by the Circo Matemático we'll have various performers from various places of the globe each with their unique act and skills.

*A entrada para o espectáculo é gratuita / Admission to the show is free.

Monday, January 28th

9:30 – Andreas M. Hinz, LMU Munich
_ Are the Chinese Rings Chinese?

10:00 – Rodrigo Girão Serrão, MMA-IST
_ N{MATH}

10:30 – Flavia Sancier-Barbosa, Colorado College
_ Defending with one or three dice: What are the RISKs?

11:00 – Coffee-break

11:30 – Jorge Buescu, University of Lisbon
_ The magical mystery Thue-Morse

12:00 –Tiago Hirth, Ludus
_ Topomagic, always the same trick?

12:30 – Lisa Rougetet, Université de Bretabne Occidentale
_ The “Ozanam Project”

13:00 – Break for lunch

14:30 – José Paulo Viana
_ Cyclic surprises

15:00 – Tereza Bártlová, Charles University
_ History of recreational mathematics

15:30 – Joaquim Eurico Nogueira, FCT-UNL
_ Palindromes

16:00 – Coffee-break

16:30 – Andrew Shirtz
_ High dimensioned Gosper-like space filling curves

17:00 – Andreia Hall, Paulo Almeida, Sónia Pais & Paolo Vettori, University of Aveiro
_ Mathematical Circus clown tricks

17:30 – Urban Larsson, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
_ Cumulative Subtraction Games

Tuesday, January 29th

9:30 – António Araújo, UAb
_ Urban sketching with spherical perspective

10:00 – Alexandre Mena e Silva, CSJ
_ Symmetry in the walls of the Palace of Ramalhão

10:30 – Ravi Kant Rai, IEOR, IIT Bombay
_ Who wins the Gambling Tic-Tac-Toe?

11:00 – Coffee-break

11:30 – Adam Atkinson
_ Real life problems and a vast conspiracy

12:00 – Felipe Cabral, University of Coimbra
_ A Mathematical Modeling Activity: optimization and planning of operating room

12:30 – Filipe Papança, Military Academy
_ Bemposta Palace, Military Academy Museums and laboratory

13:00 – Break for lunch

Auditório Caleidoscópio, Campo Grande

15:00 - Our dearst problems. Chair: Jorge Buescu (CMAF-IO)

_ Adam Atkinson: The subheaps problem

_ Andreas M. Hinz: The Linear Tower of Hanoi

_ Guido Ramellini: Big box

_ Ricardo Teixeira: Collatz conjecture

_ Thane Plambeck: Guessing Red or Black

10 minutes each. At the end of all presentations there will be a Q&A period.

16:30 – Closing, Presence of Professor António Feijó, Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon

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