Christmas meeting and AGM
Christmas meeting and AGM
This Christmas meeting this year will use a mix of specially pre-recorded sessions and live Q&A online.
The AGM will take place during the meeting as a live online session.
Christmas Meeting
This year's Christmas meeting looks forward to the BSHM's 50th birthday next year. All the speakers are past Presidents who will reflect on aspects of the history of "history of mathematics" over the past 50 years. The keynote speaker at the end of the day is Craig Fraser, President of our sister society, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics.
9:50 Mark McCartney: Introduction & Welcome
Morning talks: Chair Isobel Falconer
10:00 Robin Wilson: The BSHM: the first fifty years
10:30 Raymond Flood: John Fauvel: life, labours and legacy
11:00 Steve Russ: Onwards and Outwards
11:30 Q&A Session on the morning's talks
12:00 Break
12:15 Society AGM
12:45 Lunch
Afternoon talks: Chair Snezana Lawrence
13:30 June Barrow-Green: “I found out myself by the triangles”: The mathematical progress of Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859) as told by himself. (Q&A immediately after the talk)
14:10 Philip Beeley: Whither the history of mathematics? Historical reflections on a historical discipline (Q&A immediately after the talk)
14:50 Tony Mann: History of Mathematics: Dealing with the past (Q&A immediately after the talk)
15:30 Break
Keynote talk: Chair Mark McCartney
15:45 Craig Fraser: John Charles Fields and Canadian Mathematics (Q&A immediately after the talk)
16:45 Meeting Ends
bshm_christmas_meeting_2020_abstracts.pdf
AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the BSHM is to be held online during the Christmas Meeting (12:15-12:45pm). Please note only BSHM members should attend the AGM.
AGM documents are linked below.
Registration
Please register (free) to receive links to the live sessions and recordings. All are very welcome to the meeting, but only BSHM members should attend the AGM session.