Calendar of History and Philosophy of Mathematics Events

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January 2010
January 21	The Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics will meet at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. This seminar will be presented by Bud Bowman on the topic, "Ghosts of Departed Errors: A look at Bishop Berkeley's The Analyst and the scientific community's initial response to it."
February 2010
February 10	The Frederick V. Pohle Colloquium Series in the History of Mathematics presents a talk by Prof. Karen Parshall on Algebra: Creating New Mathematical Entities in Victorian Britain. The talk will be held at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
February 18	The Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics will meet at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. This seminar will be presented by Steven H. Weintraub on the topic, "On Legendre's Work on the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity."
March 2010
March 3	The Frederick V. Pohle Colloquium Series in the History of Mathematics presents a talk by Prof. Erik Tou. The talk will be held at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
March 6-7	The ARITHMOS seminar will meet at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. This seminar will discuss selections from the Cohen/Whitman translation of Newton's Principia.
March 13-14	HPM-Americas, the Americas Section of the International Study Group on History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, will hold its Third Annual Carriage House Meeting at the MAA Carriage House in Washington, D.C.
March 18	The Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics will meet at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. This seminar will be presented by Eisso Atzema.
March 20	The Fifth Biennial Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Conference on the History of Mathematics will be held at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The conference will feature a keynote address by Adrian Rice and welcomes proposals for talks and posters by undergraduate students on the history of mathematics and on mathematics informed by its history.
March 26-27	The Southeastern MAA Regional Conference will be held at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. The conference will include a special session on the history of mathematics.
March 30	The British Society for the History of Mathematics will hold a workshop at the University of Greenwich organised jointly with the British Society for the History of Mathematics and the Higher Education Academy Maths, Stats and OR Network. The topic of the workshop will be the History of Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum.
April 2010
April 6-9	The British Congress of Mathematics Education will be held at the University of Manchester. The congress will include a thread of talks on the history of mathematics.
April 7	The Frederick V. Pohle Colloquium Series in the History of Mathematics presents a talk by architect John Clagett. The talk will be held at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
April 9-10	The Illinois Section of the MAA will hold its 2010 Annual Meeting at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. David Bressoud will present a plenary talk on Stories from the Development of Real Analysis.
April 17-18	SoHOST 2010, the annual Southern regional conference for the history of science, technology and medicine, now in its fourth year, will be held at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. Paper and/or session proposals addressing all themes, time periods, and geographical regions in the history of science, technology, and medicine are welcome.
April 21-24	The NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition will take place in San Diego, California. Although the meeting program is not yet available, the meeting always includes a variety of presentations and workshops on incorporating mathematics history into elementary and secondary school classrooms.
April 22	The Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics will meet at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. This seminar will be presented by Alan Gluchoff.
May 2010
May 5	The Frederick V. Pohle Colloquium Series in the History of Mathematics presents a talk by Prof. Janet Barnett. The talk will be held at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
May 20-22	A conference on History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics will be held at the University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary.
May 29-31	The Annual CSHPM Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal.
June 2010
June 13-15	The eighth biennial Nexus conference for architecture and mathematics will take place in Porto, Portugal, at the University of Porto. The conference will include a session on From Mediaeval Stonecutting to Projective Geometry: Formal, Social and Epistemological Shifts and a round table discussion on The Geometric Construction of Morphology
June 21-23	A conference on The Role of Logical and Mathematical Practices in Shaping the Results will be held at the Nancy-Université in Nancy, France. This conference is aimed at discussing and exploring the practice of mathematics and logic from an epistemological standpoint.
July 2010
July 19-21	The 2010 Euler Conference, the ninth annual meeting of the Euler Society, will take place at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
July 19-23	The Sixth European Summer University on History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education will be held at the Vienna University of Technology. This annual conference is sponsored by the International Study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics.
August 2010
August 5-7	MathFest 2010, the summer meeting of the MAA, will be held in Pittsburgh, PA.
August 11-17	The International Conference on the History of Modern Mathematics will be held at Northwest University in Xi'an, China. The topic of the conference will be "Cultures and elements of practices in mathematics, 1800-1930."
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December 2010
December 4-6	The Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting will take place at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. The meeting will include a session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics.