Past events
Workshops and conferences
Practical information
- When: 18th June 2022. The session will start at 10:00 and finish at 18:00 (CET).
- Where: Opzoomerkamer, Academiegebouw, Utrecht.
- How: Participation is free and open. Please notify the organisers for planning purposes if you wish to attend.
Funding provided by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) OCENW.KLEIN.222.
Organising Committee
- Viktor Blåsjö (v.n.e.blasjo@uu.nl; Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Nicolas Michel (n.p.r.michel@uu.nl; Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Talks
- Title: Painters, Jesuits and conic sections. Speaker: Ad Meskens (Artesis Plantijn University College of Antwerp).
- Title: Bolzano's early research on elementary geometry: equality, similarity and construction. Speaker: Davide Crippa (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).
- Title: In Newton's footsteps: ancient analysis and modern geometry in Chasles's construction of the cubic. Speaker: Ivahn Smadja (Université de Nantes) and Nicolas Michel (Utrecht University).
- Title: Omar Khayyam's geometric solutions of cubic equations. Speaker: Jeanine Daems (Hogeschool Utrecht).
- Title: Leibniz's (re)Construction of the notions of contact. Speaker: Sandra Bella (Laboratoire SPHERE, Université de Paris).
- Title: Newton's geometrical constructions. Speaker: Viktor Blåsjö (Utrecht University)
An event was organised on Friday 9 September 2022 at KBG Cosmos (Utrecht Science Campus) to celebrate the retirement of professor Jan Hogendijk. The poster of the event can be found here.