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IMA Maths in Music Conference
13‐15 July 2022, Royal College of Music London


https://ima.org.uk/18115/ima‐maths‐in‐music‐conference/

CALL FOR PAPERS
The study of the relationship between music and mathematics has a thousand‐year‐long history which predates Pythagoras. Mathematics and music share a common basis of language and creativity. From the theory of tuning systems and temperament to physical acoustics, from harmonic analysis to spectrograms, from the structures of rhythms and pulses to the continuous stretching of the laws of harmony and the exploration of the musical forms carried out by contemporary composers, all elements of music lead to an immediate connection to mathematics. Established and recent research has witnessed the use of set theory to describe how musical objects are related and organised, the use of group theory in the context of transformational analysis of tonal and atonal compositions, the application of Grassmannians to the study of temperaments, and the investigation of category theory, topology and differential geometry to provide a basis of music theory.

The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications is glad to announce the launch of the first IMA conference on “Mathematics in Music”, to take place on 13‐15 July 2022 at the Royal College of Music, London, with the support of the Royal Musical Association. The conference focusses onto the exploration of the connections between mathematics and music, in particular current developments of music theory, music performance, music perception and music technology based on or inspired by mathematical applications and concepts, including (but not limited to) category theory, group theory, topology, differential geometry, combinatorics, analysis, acoustic theory, as well as artificial intelligence, deep learning, language processing and coding.

The conference is aimed at mathematical researchers working at the frontier between mathematics or computation with music theory, musicology, music performance, sound engineering and composition, as well as at musicologists or computational musicologists, performers and composers
 
using quantitative tools and formal methods from mathematics in their investigation and professional practice of music.

We are very keen that student researchers are a core part of this event and would very much like to encourage anyone studying music and mathematics to submit an abstract to join us for this conference. The event will include a student prize for the best submission, with the winning student being awarded a book voucher from the IMA and a free RMA membership from the RMA.


Invited Speakers:
Prof Emily Howard, Royal Northern College of Music Prof Guerino Mazzola, University of Minnesota
Prof Geraint Wiggins, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Queen Mary University of London Prof Moreno Andreatta, CNRS Director of Research at IRMA

Call for Abstracts:

Abstract Submission of 300 words by the 24 April 2022. via https://my.ima.org.uk
Note: If you are an IMA Member or you have previously registered for an IMA conference, then you are already on our database. Please “request a new password” using the email address previously used, to log in.

Student contributions and posters. The event will host a special session, dedicated to showcase student research. PhD students and undergrad students are invited to contribute to the event with a poster on their work on the themes of the conference. Contributing students will be offered the opportunity to deliver a short (5‐10 minutes) talk in front of the general assembly, and will be offered the opportunity to participate in a prize for the best submission, if they wish so. The winning student will be awarded with a £50.00 book voucher from the IMA and a one‐year RMA membership fromthe RMA. PhD and undergrad students will be asked if they want to opt for delivering a short talk and participate in the prize in the reply to the confirmation letter from the IMA, which they will receive following their registration on the IMA portal. Submissions for the student session must include the specification “[POSTER]” next to the title of the contribution, when inserted during the registration process on the IMA portal (https://my.ima.org.uk).

Registration:
Registration for this Conference is currently open. https://my.ima.org.uk/services.php?section=events

If you are an IMA Member or you have previously registered for an IMA conference, then you are already on our database. Please “request a new password” using the email address previously used, to log in.

Conference Fees:
Non Member – £300 IMA/RCM/RMA Member – £150
IMA/RCM /RMA Student Member – £100 Non Student Member – £120

Conference fees do not include lunch.

Important Dates:
 
Extended Call for papers deadline – 24 April 2022 Papers acceptance notification – 6  May 2022 Scores selection notification – 1 April 2022 Final registration date – 1 July 2022 Conference Dates – 13‐15 July 2022

Organising Committee:
Matteo Sommacal, Northumbria University Michelle Phillips, Royal Northern College of Music Dimitri Scarlato, Royal College of Music
Rob Sturman, Leeds University

COVID
We plan to run conferences in person as advertised; however, if government guidance changes then we will consider holding affected events online using Zoom.

Further information:
E‐mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354 020
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend‐on‐Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK.
In cooperation with the Royal College of Music

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