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: conferences@ima.org.uk 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
