14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS (ICTMA14)

Monday, 27th July to Friday, 31st July 2009, University of Hamburg

The 14th ICTMA Conference - ICTMA14 - will be held at the University of Hamburg and organised by the
Faculty of Education, Working group on didactics of mathematics. It will be chaired by Professor
Gabriele Kaiser.

Academic programme:
A variety of activities is planned, covering plenary lectures, paper presentations and working groups.
The following issues will be tackled:
(i) Pedagogical issues, such as the understanding of modelling, promotion of modelling competencies,
cognitive aspects;
(ii) Assessment of modelling activities in school and universities;
(iii) Connections to industrial or commercial practice, mathematics at the workplace;
(iv) Influences of technology;
(v) Cross-cultural aspects and international studies.

Conference venue:
The conference will take place in the building of the Faculty of Education at the university’s Campus
Von-Melle-Park. The Campus is situated near Lake Alster in the very heart of Hamburg.

Conference fee:
The conference fee will be approximately 400 € with a possible reduction for young researchers and
will include various events, such as a guided city excursion, conference dinner, snacks and lunch and
a hardcopy of the conference proceedings.

Social programme and accommodation:
There will be a strong social programme for participants, and a complementary programme for
accompanying persons. Participants can also arrange pre- and post-conference tours to Germany’s
new capital Berlin.
A great variety of hotels and cheaper accommodation are in walking distance.

The City:
The “Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg”, Germany`s second biggest metropolis (1.8 million inhabitants)
is a bustling, cosmopolitan port city. Hamburg is situated between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
and easily reachable by its internationally connected airport. The Lake Alster together with the Elbe
river, numerous canals and parks adjoining them, have made Hamburg well-known as a “green”
metropolis at the water’s edge.

The University:
The University of Hamburg is a state university of the “Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg”. Hamburg’s
view of itself as “gateway to the world“ is reflected by the university’s diversity of scientific areas and
educational possibilities and thus it presents itself as “gateway to the world of knowledge“. 38,700
students are inscribed at the University of Hamburg and 851 professors are engaged in teaching and
research.

Transport:
Hamburg is situated between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and easily reachable by its
internationally connected airport.

Further information:
For further information, please email to the conference secretary Karen Stadtlander:
stadtlander@erzwiss.uni-hamburg.de
or see the website of Prof. Gabriele Kaiser: http://www.erzwiss.uni-hamburg.de/Personal/Gkaiser/

Conference homepage:
Link 1: http://www.ictma14.de
Link 2: http://www.ictma2009.de
Link 3: http://www.erzwiss.uni-hamburg.de/ictma