[Maths-Education] Fwd: Call for abstracts - MEC symposium 2018

[Matthew Inglis]

Some details of a conference at Loughborough in May.

Matthew


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From: Iro Xenidou-Dervou <I.Xenidou-Dervou at lboro.ac.uk<mailto:I.Xenidou-Dervou at lboro.ac.uk>>
Subject: [MEC-Announce] Call for abstracts - MEC symposium 2018
Date: 15 January 2018 at 15:56:31 GMT

Dear all,

The time has come to submit your abstracts for a poster presentation at the upcoming Mathematics Education Centre's (MEC<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/mec/>) symposium!

The 3rd annual MEC symposium will take place 7-8 June 2018 in the James France building at Loughborough University<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/?external>. Attendance for both days is free of charge. This symposium will focus on the timely topic of “The Symbol Grounding Problem”.

Keynote speakers:

- Prof. Wim Gevers (Université<https://www.researchgate.net/institution/Universite_Libre_de_Bruxelles> libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Dr. Matthew Inglis (Loughborough University, UK)
- Prof. Marie-Pascale Noël (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
- Prof. Hans-Christoph Nuerk (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
- Prof. Gaia Sceriff (Oxford University, UK)

This symposium will be held right after the SIG22 Neuroscience and Education conference hosted by the Wellcome Trust, London, June 4-6 2018. It will be an excellent opportunity to share and discuss the latest findings/ideas/trends in the field and to meet old and new national and international colleagues/friends.

Important Dates (please note that these have been changed):

Poster abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2018
Registration deadline: 25 May 2018

For more information - including travel tips - please visit the MEC symposium 2018 website<https://jeaves6.wixsite.com/mecsymposium2018>.
Please feel free to share this info with your colleagues. For assistance and further info please contact us at: mathscognition at gmail.com<mailto:mathscognition at gmail.com>

We look forward to seeing you in Loughborough!

All the best,
The organising committee

Dr Iro Xenidou-Dervou
Dr Camilla Gilmore
Joanne Eaves
Jayne Pickering
Nikos Vlaseros


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