Christmas Meeting 2020: Talks

Welcome to the Talks page of the BSHM Christmas Meeting 2020

bshm_christmas_meeting_2020_abstracts.pdf

The talks will be played in live sessions, followed by Q&A, at the times shown below. However, recordings are also available from Friday afternoon for those who cannot make the live sessions. Each talk is approx 30 mins long.

Live Q&A links were emailed to all registered participants on Friday. If you have not received the email, please check your spam folder. If you still cannot find it, contact Isobel Falconer (ijf3@st-andrews.ac.uk).  If you have not used zoom before, or recently, you may need to allow a minute or two before the session starts for recent updates.

Times: are UK time, which is currently Greenwich Mean Time.

9:50 Mark McCartney: Introduction & Welcome

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

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

15:45 Craig Fraser: John Charles Fields and Canadian Mathematics (Q&A immediately after the talk)

16:45 Meeting Ends