Bridges
Donostia San Sebastian July 24-27, 2007 The Bridges Organization |
Announcement |
Call for
Papers |
Workshops
(BTTB) |
Art Exhibit
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Accommodation |
Location
and Travel |
Excursion
and Events |
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Celebrate
the Tenth Annual Bridges Conference
BRIDGES
DONOSTIA
Mathematics,
Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
http://www.BridgesMathArt.Org
A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT
Bridges:
Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
The conference
consists of a
4-day combination of Bridges Conference activities (July 24, 26, and
27) and an
excursion day to
THE
CONFERENCE
The Bridges Conferences, running annually since 1998, brings together practicing mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, writers, computer scientists, sculptors, dancers, weavers, model builders in a lively atmosphere of exchange and mutual encouragement. Important components of these conferences, in addition to formal presentations, are hands-on workshops, gallery displays of visual art, working sessions with artists who are crossing the mathematics-arts boundaries, and musical/theatrical events in the evening.
THE
2007 EVENTS
In
addition to a set of extraordinary speakers and many intellectually
stimulating
sessions in the connections of mathematics, science, and the arts, the
2007
conference also offers the following events:
BTTB Workshops
Bridges
for
Teachers, Teachers for Bridges (BTTB) is a collection of special
workshop
sessions with a theme Fostering
Understanding of Mathematical Visualization. BTTB is organized for
K-12
teachers.
Musical
Event
There
will be a
night of music performed by a combination of Bridges conference
participants
and professionals. The special feature for this year’s music
performance will
be the introduction of maestro A. Borhani.
He will play several Persian classical instruments such as the
Tar,
Setar, Santur, Daf, and Tonbak. He will also talk about their
relationships
with other disciplines.
Visual
Art Exhibit
The
Bridges
Donostia Conference will be complemented by an exhibit of mathematical
art.
There are opportunities for participants and contributors to show their
work in
the exhibition (see instructions below).
The
Bilbao Excursion
Bilbao, founded 700 years ago, is a classic European
city in every respect. Uncluttered and easily explored on foot, its
wide open
boulevards feature interesting public buildings, museums, parks and the
titanium clad Guggenheim Museum (a highlight
of the trip). A delightful riverside stroll will take you to the Old
Quarter
where Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassic and Modernist buildings house
innovative
shops and traditional Basque restaurants and tapas bars. Bilbao is also
a
friendly, open city where visitors are welcomed and made to feel at
home. Please note that this excursion
includes a
trip to the Chillida Sculpture Garden.
The tickets for this excursion will be sold during the first day of the
conference.
THE
PLACE
The
Bridges Donostia
Conference will be held at the
San
Sebastián (Donostia in
Basque) is the capital city of the province of Guipuzcoa,
in the Spanish autonomous
community of the Basque Country.
The city
is located in the northeast of Spain,
on the Bay of Biscay,
close to the French
border.
For
information about how to get to the university please see the “Location
and
Travel Guide” on the Bridges website.
ACCOMMODATION
AND FACILITIES
Participants
have a choice of staying in the campus facilities (comparable to a
three star
hotel and within walking distance of the conference site) or staying in
a
nearby hotels (a list of hotels is provided on the “Accommodations”
section of the Bridges website).
The on-campus
accommodations are
high-quality facilities for singles or couples. They include complete
breakfasts
for every day of stay. The "Conference
Dorm Basic Package" covers
the nights of July 23--27. The package is
available only for a
block of all five nights; it costs 280 Euros for singles and 450 Euros
for
couples. The registration deadline for on-campus accommodations is April 23, 2007.
Package rates are for
arrival on
July 23 and departure on July 28. People may extend their stay by two
nights
before and/or after the conference.
The availability of campus accommodation is limited. For information about on-campus accommodation and registration, and for making reservations, please go to the “Accommodations” page on the Bridges website. The page also contains a list of hotels within walking distance of the conference.
Meals: The campus facility has a beautiful dining hall that serves breakfast every day. For lunch and dinner there is an extensive collection of restaurants offering international cuisine of many types, ranging from simple to luxurious,within walking distance from the university.
CALL
FOR PAPERS
The conference will feature presentations of regular, plenary, and short papers, as well as several workshops. The program for the conference is composed from a combination of submitted and invited presentations.
Papers submissions are
due by February
1, 2007 for the reviewing process.
Regular and plenary presentations require a regular paper with a maximum length of eight pages; short presentations require a two page short paper; and workshops can be accompanied by either a regular or a short paper.
All papers are to be
submitted
properly formatted as they would appear in the conference proceedings
(see the
formatting instructions and template on the Bridges website). Papers
that
ignore the formatting guidelines or the length limits will not be
entered into
the reviewing process.
In
order to have as diverse a representation of authors as possible and to
keep
the proceedings to a reasonable size, conference participants can be
the main
author and presenter on only one paper. The main author on each
submitted paper
should be identified with an asterisk: “*”. This rule includes all
contributions: short and regular papers as well as workshop papers.
The
regular presentations will be given a 25 minute time slot; short
presentations
will be given a 15-minute time slot.
SCHEDULE
The Conference plans to distribute the refereed Proceedings at the conference. Thus, there is a tight and firm schedule:
Deadline for paper
submissions for
review: February 1, 2007
If
electronic submission is impossible, please contact Reza Sarhangi to
make
alternate arrangements.
Notification of
acceptance of paper:
March 25, 2007.
Deadline
for submission of final electronic manuscript: Monday April 25, 2007.
All
papers must follow the format specified on the Bridges website. You
must also complete you registration by
this date. Please note that one non-refundable full registration is
required
for one author of each paper.
Please note that if you plan to use the on-campus accommodations, you also need to register and pay in full for your accommodations by this deadline. Of course, you may still seek accommodations outside of campus after this deadline.
The 1998-2006 Bridges Proceedings are available through the online store mathartfun.com
http://mathartfun.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/index.html
WORKSHOPS
The key theme is: “Bridges for Teachers – Teachers for Bridges”
http://www.education.wichita.edu/alagic/bridges_conference/BTTB.asp
There will be several
teacher
workshops for K-12 teachers and educators at the 2007 Bridges
Conference. If
you are interested in making a presentation in one of these workshops
you need
to submit either a short (two page) or long (eight page) paper; The
deadlines
for submissions of preliminary and final versions are the same as for
the
contributed papers. However, the time frame for each accepted workshop
will be
between 45 and 75 minutes, depending on the nature of the presentation
and the
time slots that are available. If the paper itself does not make it
clear what
exactly the activities are that you plan to do in your workshop, please
add additional
material to explain; this additional material is not intended for
publication.
Papers
intended for the teacher workshops should be marked by the words
"BTTB" on the top right corner of the first page of the article. The
submission process is the same as for all other papers.
VISUAL ART EXHIBIT
At
the conference, there will be an exhibition room for 2D and 3D
mathematical
art, ranging from computer graphics to quilts to geometrical
sculptures. This
art exhibit will be curated by Robert Fathauer. All submitted artwork
will
undergo a refereeing process. There is a
limit of
five submissions per artist. Images of accepted artworks will also be
published
on the conference CD.
The
primary intent of the art exhibit is to foster active interaction
between
exhibiting artists and conference participants. Thus we expect all
exhibitors
to attend the conference and require them to register once they obtain
the
notification that their work has been accepted. Work of non-registered
participants will not be exhibited and will not appear on the
conference
CD. Submissions and questions related to
the art exhibit should be addressed by e-mail to:
Dr.
Robert Fathauer, Tessellations Company, tessellations@cox.net.
If
you would like to submit your work, please
follow the instructions below. Nonconforming submissions will not
be
entered into the review process.
Please
note that all the artworks should be hand delivered to the exhibit room
on
Monday July 23, 2007, preferably in the time frame 2 p.m. to 7
p.m. The
exhibit participants are also responsible for picking up their works at
the end
of the conference. The artworks
will not be insured while on display, so the artist assumes all risk
for damage
or theft.
The
exhibit space will only accommodate a limited number of works,
which may necessitate rejecting some good quality pieces.
Review criteria include:
Due
to space constraints, flat works will be limited in size to
24" x 36" (including frame), and 3-D works will be limited to
24" x 24" x 24".
Please
note that the works should be presented in a manner that
would be appropriate for a mainstream art gallery.
This is to be contrasted to a poster session
or technical illustration look, which most mathematicians are more
accustomed
to.
For
examples of the sort of works that are appropriate, recent art
exhibits from the Bridges Conference and Joint Mathematics Meetings are
available for viewing online at http://www.bridgesmathart.org.
Images
of any submitted artwork
and accompanying descriptive data and technical description (see
below)
should be submitted between February 15 and March 15, 2007, to: Robert Fathauer (tessellations@cox.net)
Notification of acceptance will be made via e-mail by April 15.
For
each piece of artwork (limited to 5 per artist) please submit
the following:
An
Image of the Work:
Images
should be e-mailed as JPEG files with a dimension of
between 500 and 600 pixels in the larger direction.
Color images should be in RGB format. Black
and white images should be in grayscale format, not RGB, in order to
minimize
file size. The file names for the images
must conform to the following format – “Lastname1.JPG”. E.g., if John
Doe
submitted 2 works, the image for his second work would be called
Doe2.JPG.
Artist
Information and Descriptive Text for each Submission:
In
the body of your e-mail, please include the following,
including the numbers and headings exactly as shown here:
CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION
There is a registration fee of US $180 that includes a copy of the Proceedings. Extra proceedings will be available during the conference with a price of US $50.
There
is a special discounted rate for students, artists whose expenses are
not
otherwise supported, and K-12 teachers. Please visit the
Registration
page at the conference website.
Visitors from outside
of
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
SCIENTIFIC
ORGANIZERS
Javier Barrallo,
Reza Sarhangi,
Department of Mathematics,
LOCAL
ORGANIZERS
BRIDGES FOR TEACHERS, TEACHERS
FOR
BRIDGES WORKSHOPS
BRIDGES
VISUAL ART EXHIBIT
Robert W. Fathauer,
Tessellations Company,
ACCOMMODATION
REGISTRATION
Javier Barrallo,
CONFERENCE WEB
SITE
ELECTRONIC
CORRESPONDENCE
BRIDGES
DONOSTIA CONFERENCE BOARD OF ADVISORY
OTHER
INQUIRIES
For any other information not available on the web page, please contact:
Professor
Reza Sarhangi, Department of Mathematics,