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Diderot Mathematical Forum: Mathematics and Architecture
A Diderot Mathematical Forum dedicated to
“Mathematics and Architecture”
will be held on June 8th 2019 in the three cities :
Helsinki (Finland), Porto (Portugal) and Prague (Czech Republic)
The cycle of conferences “Diderot Mathematical Forum” was introduced by the European Mathematical Society (EMS) in 1996.
Each conference takes place simultaneously in three European cities exchanging information by videoconferences, addresses a specific topic, and has both a research and a public component.
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Preliminary Programme :
HELSINKI
Organizer : Juliette Kennedy
Speakers:
– Kirsi Peltonen (Aalto University)
IN TRANSITION – Mathematics and Art
– Philip Tidwell (Aalto University)
TBA
– Juhani Pallasmaa (Aalto University)
Man, Measure, Proportion: mathematics and music in architecture
– Axel Kilian (MIT)
Embodied Computation – Architectural Robotics
Location: Metsätalo, conference room 2, Unioninkatu 40 00170 Helsinki
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PORTO
Organizers: João Pedro Xavier and João Nuno Tavares
Speakers:
– Sylvie Duvernoy (Politecnico di Milano. Scuola di Design)
Guarino Guarini, architect and mathematician
– Alexandra Paio (ISCTE-IUL)
Shape grammar
– José Pedro Sousa (FAUP)
Parametric architecture and digital manufacturing
– João Pedro Xavier (FAUP)
Perspective in perspective
Location: University of Porto / Department of Mathematics
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PRAGUE
Organizer : Jiří Rákosník
Speakers:
– Henri H. Achten (Prague, Czech Technical University)
– Robert Aish (London, University College London)
– Daniel Piker (London, Foster and Partners)
– Christopher Williams (Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology)
Location: Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of
Sciences, Žitná 609/25, 110 00, Prague
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A publishing of a book in the series of the CIM-Springer collection
http://www.cim.pt/CIM-MS ) is considered
Secretariat and Administration
CIM (Centro Internacional de Matemática, Portugal )http://www.cim.pt/CIM-MS
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Coordination and Contact
Mireille.Chaleyat-Maurel (University Paris Descartes, Paris, France)
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