Welcome

The Organizers of MACAS2 Astrid Beckmann, Claus Michelsen & Bharath Sriraman are pleased to announce that the 2nd Symposium is scheduled to be held in Odense, Denmark from May, 29-31, 2007, and will hosted by Claus Michelsen at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

The first symposium (MACAS1) which grew out of the collaborations of Topic Study Group 21 participants at the conclusion of ICME-10 was held in Schwäbisch Gmünd hosted by Astrid Beckmann.
Given the success in bringing together researchers interested in connections between mathematics, the arts and sciences, we have decided to make the Symposium a biennial event (2005, 2007, 2009,…).
Our initial goal was to bring together researchers engaged in interdisciplinary work and interested in working towards networks of collaborators with a common research agenda.
At the conclusion of the first Symposium we believed that we were only able to partially achieve our goals. We did accomplish the goal of bringing together researchers who share a vision of unifying the arts, mathematics, and the sciences in the school and university curricula and creating a scholarly publication through which the work of the group is transmitted. However we did not accomplish the goal of articulating common research agendas. MACAS1 was best characterized by the word diversity, which showed the need for the development of common conceptual frameworks under which researchers can pursue and consolidate their myriad ideas.