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BGS Colloquium XI program
April 23 (wednesday)
| 08:00 | Welcome and registration (main entrance of the Museum) |
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| Manuel Valadares Amphitheatre: | |
| 09:00 | Opening session |
| 09:30 | Ancient American Board Games, I: From
Teotihuacan to the Great Plains Tierry Depaulis (Paris) |
| 10:15 | The Game of Dashavtar José Carlos Quadrado (ISEL) |
| 10:45 | · coffee-break · |
| 11:15 | Some random thoughts on chance and
skill David Parlett (games scholar and games inventor) |
| 12:00 | History, exhibitions and activities - board
games in a museum context Paulo Dias (Lisbon University Museum of Science) |
| 12:20 | Cooperative strategies in board
games Paula Falcão (KDP Kepler) |
| Aurélio Quintanilha
Amphitheatre: Jogos Matemáticos, a Portuguese project Alda Carvalho (ISEL) |
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| 12:40 | · lunch · |
| 14:15 | Board games in the Indian Ocean: Isopaedea
of History Alex de Voogt (Leiden University) |
| 15:00 | On the use of the chess game to represent
famous battles Pedro Palhares (University of Minho) |
| 15:30 | · coffee-break · |
| 16:00 | Draughts and Academie des Jeux Jurgen Stigter (TWA) |
| 16:30 | Alekhin's death: murder or natural
causes? Dagoberto Markl (National Museum of Ancient Art) |
| 17:00 | Origami's geometry Liliana Monteiro |
| 17:30 | Visit to Laboratorio Chimico Marta Lourenço (Lisbon University Museum of Science) |
| 18:30 | Welcome cocktail (main entrance of the Museum) |
April 24 (thursday)
| Manuel Valadares Amphitheatre: | |
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| 09:30 | Astronomy and astrology - a new invention of
the king of Mysore Rangachar Vasantha (Sri Krishnadevaraya University) |
| 10:15 | Origami: its history and
mathematics Fátima Granadeiro (Agrupamento de Escolas de Carcavelos), José Manuel Rodrigues (ES Eça de Queirós) |
| 10:45 | · coffee-break · |
| 11:15 | The use of pit and pebble games in
education: benefits and limits Jean Retschitzi (Fribourg University) |
| 12:00 | O Jogo do Crescimento and Collecta:
Experiences of the use of board games in the implantation of new
administration models in Brazilian companies Brian Castelli Azevedo (KDP - Kepler) |
| Aurélio Quintanilha
Amphitheatre: Metromachia -- an ancient pedagogical game Isabel Catarino (ES Pinhal Novo) |
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| 12:20 | A transmedia comparison of game mechanics in
board and digital games Brian Magerko (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Aurélio Quintanilha
Amphitheatre: Education via a board game: understanding forecasting basics Rozainum Abdul Aziz (University Technology Mara) |
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| 12:40 | · lunch · |
| 14:15 | Board games in ancient Ephesus Ulrich Schädler (Swiss Museum of Games) |
| 15:00 | The sociable Goose Adrian Seville (City University, London) |
| 15:30 | · coffee-break · |
| 16:00 | Mathematical games Maria das Dores Ferreira (University of Minho), Pedro Palhares (University of Minho), Jorge Nuno Silva (University of Lisbon) |
| 16:30 | An English riddle Arie van der Stoep (University of Leiden) |
| 17:00 | The l'Attaque family of games: comparisons
beyond a patent Alex Voogt (University of Leiden) Fred Horn (games inventor) |
| 18:00 | Official opening of the exhibition Mathematical Games
Throughout the Ages Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education* Ana Eiró, Director of the Lisbon University Museum of Science Nuno Crato, President of the Portuguese Mathematical Society Ana Simões, President of the History of Sciences Center of Univ. of Lisbon Jorge Nuno Silva, President of Ludus Association |
| *to be confirmed closer to the event |
April 25 (friday)
| Manuel Valadares Amphitheatre: | |
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| 09:30 | A historical survey of combinatorial game
theory Richard Nowakowski (Dalhousie University) |
| 10:15 | On the puzzles with polyhedra and
numbers Jorge Rezende (University of Lisbon) |
| Aurélio Quintanilha
Amphitheatre: Goths, Vikings and Hanseatic town: gaming pieces from archeological excavations in Elblag, Poland Piotr Adamczyk (The Museum of Archeology and History in Elblag) |
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| 10:45 | · coffee-break · |
| 11:15 | Why are games exciting and
stimulating? Aviezri Fraenkel (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| 12:00 | Combinatorial games & BGS Carlos Pereira dos Santos (ISEC) |
| 12:20 | Combining mutators and the math behind
progressive mutators Bill Taylor (Canterbury University) |
| 12:40 | · lunch · |
| 14:15 | On problem design in games David Wolfe (Gustavus Adolphus College) |
| 15:00 | Archimedes´s Stomachion Henrique Leitão (University of Lisbon) |
| 15:30 | Group photo (main entrance of the
Museum) Visit to Bairro Alto |
| 20:00 | Conference dinner (meeting point: 19:30 at the Museum entrance) |
April 26 (saturday)
| Manuel Valadares Amphitheatre: | |
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| 09:30 | Toward a classification of non-electronic
table games Bruce Whitehill (The Big Game Hunter) |
| 10:15 | Chess as a school sport: its relation to
academic success and school integration António Lago (Basic School Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires), Luísa Santos (Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo), Pedro Palhares University of Minho |
| 10:45 | · coffee-break · |
| 11:15 | Revival of traditional board games --
prospects and retrospects V. Balambal (University of Madras) |
| 12:00 | Games as cultural practice: post colonial
imaginations Francisco Ortega-Grimaldo (Texas Tech University) |
| 12:20 | Opponent: enemy or
complementary? Gaspar Pujol (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya) |
| 12:40 | · lunch · |
| 14:15 | The Game of Fifty-Eight Holes: new examples
and new ideas Irving Finkel (British Museum) |
| 15:00 | Mancala games in Brazil: is board game a
media? Maurício Lima |
| 15:30 | Game systems and rule mutators João Pedro Neto (University of Lisbon) |
| 16:00 | Closing session |
