Convergence Calendar

Please submit Calendar items and updates to convergence@maa.org.

Entries are tagged as follows:

• Red text – the event has been cancelled.
• Blue text – the event is online (virtual).
• Green text – the event is hybrid (occurring simultaneously in-person and online).
• Orange text – after the event, a recording has been made available.

An archive of past Calendar items is also available.

2025

January 8–11, 2025:  Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle Washington

          The program includes the following sessions relevant to the history of mathematics and its use in teaching:

• AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, organized by Victor J. Katz, Deborah Kent, Elizabeth Hunter, and Sloan Evans Despeaux.
• POM SIGMAA Guest Lecture by Dr. Rajesh Kasturiragan, organized by Steven M. Deckelman and Bonnie Gold.
• JMM Panel on The 1988–91 AMS “Computers and Mathematics” Initiative to Promote and Support the Use of Computers in Research & Education—And What Followed, organized by Keith J. Devlin.
• NAM Special Session on the Legacy of Elbert Frank Cox: First African American PhD in Mathematics, organized by Asamoah Nkwanta and Edray Herber Goins.

January 16, 2025:  Oliver Heaviside: An Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age, Camden History Society
This talk will take place virtually.

         Hugh Griffiths will explore the life, unusual character, and contributions to electrical engineering of the self-taught Heaviside (1850–1925). It marks 100 years since his death..

January 20–24, 2025:  Modern History of Mathematics: Emerging Themes, University of Cambridge, England
This workshop will be hybrid, with both in-person and virtual components.

          The first research seminar on the history of mathematics at the Isaac Newton Institute will begin with a workshop that is open both to in-person seminar participants and online guests. Each speaker will respond to “What do you consider to be the most significant open question, or lacuna, in your area of the history of mathematics?” Registration is free for virtual participants, but it must be completed by 22 September 2024. Additional information is available here.

February 4–5, 2025:  History of Modern Mathematics in Higher Education Mathematics Teaching, University of Cambridge, England
This workshop will be hybrid, with both in-person and virtual components.

          The History for Diversity in Mathematics Network, and the Isaac Newton Institute Modern History of Mathematics programme, are running a 2-day workshop on the History of Modern Mathematics in Higher Ed Mathematics Teaching in Cambridge on 4–5 February, to which all are welcome. The Programme and Registration are now available. Registration is free but essential and has a tight deadline of 19 January. In person and online options are available; the workshop has budget to cover reasonable travel and accommodation costs for up to 20 people. If you will require such funding in order to attend, contact Isobel Falconer.

February 22, 2025:  Research in Progress Meeting, British Society for the History of Mathematics, Queen’s College, Oxford, England

          BSHM’s annual meeting that provides an opportunity for graduate students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. Abstracts are due to Christopher Hollings by 30 November 2024.

March 29, 2025:  Field Trip to Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing, England

          Join the BSHM for a trip to two excellent museums in the history of computing and mathematics. Tickets cost £29 for BSHM members, £39 for non-members, and £5 for students, and can be purchased here. The ticket price includes entry to both museums, and a guided tour of Bletchley Park in the morning.

May 12, 2025:  Numbers and Narratives: A Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies, San Francisco, California

          May 12 is the International Women in Mathematics Day, which was chosen to mark and celebrate the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, in 2014. In joining these celebrations all over the world, the leaders organize a symposium, which will address amongst others the following questions, but its topics will by no means be restricted within them:

• How can we make sense of women mathematicians’ historical emergence as subjects of scientific knowledge, as well as creators of philosophy and culture?
• In what ways can memory work in the archives motivate young women and girls to re-imagine themselves as mathematicians in the future?

Please send an abstract of around 200 words with a short bio to Maria Tamboukou by June 30, 2024.

May 31–June 2, 2025:  Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

          The CSHPM will hold its 2025 Annual Meeting in Toronto at George Brown College in conjunction with the 2025 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Kenneth O. May Lecturer for the Special Session will be Patricia Blanchette of the University of Notre Dame. Proposals are welcome for a Special Session on Conceptual Change in Mathematics and a General Session on all topics relevant to the history of mathematics, the philosophy of mathematics, or the use of history or philosophy in the teaching of mathematics. All talks are 20 minutes in length. Send a title and abstract (maximum 200 words) by 1 February 2025 for the Special Session to Nicolas Fillion or for the General Session to Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and Robert E. Bradley. Register to attend and book accommodations with Congress 2025.

Please submit Calendar items and updates to convergence@maa.org.