Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Departamento de Matemática
Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto
Diderot Mathematical Forum dedicated to
“Mathematics and Architecture”
will be held on June 8th 2019 in the three cities: Porto (Portugal), Helsinki (Finland), and Prague (Czech Republic), exchanging information by videoconferences, and has both a research and a public component.
Schedule:
Yellow slots mean simultaneously conferences in the three cities (via videoconference), reserved for researchers only. The other Porto conferences (Alexandra Paio, Sylvie Duvernoy and João Pero Xavier) are open to the interested public.
PORTO Organizers: João Pedro Xavier and João Nuno Tavares
Speakers and conference titles:
- Sylvie Duvernoy (Politecnico di Milano. Scuola di Design): ”Guarino Guarini, architect and mathematician”
- Alexandra Paio (ISCTE-IUL) “Shape grammars”
- José Pedro Sousa (FAUP): “Parametric architecture and digital manufacturing”
- João Pedro Xavier (FAUP): “Perspective in perspective”.
Location: University of Porto / Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto / Computer Science Department.
HELSINKI Organizer : Juliette Kennedy
Speakers:
- Kirsi Peltonen (Aalto University)
- Philip Tidwell (Aalto University)
- Juhani Pallasmaa (Aalto University)
- Axel Kilian (MIT)
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
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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
Portuguese contacts
João Pedro Xavier jxavier@arq.up.pt; João Nuno Tavares jntavar@fc.up.pt
Telm.: 93 319 27 63