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Nexus 2012, the 9th edition of the International Conference Nexus: Relationship between Architecture and Mathematics, to take place in Milan 11-14 June 2012, will include the Nexus 2012 PhD Day. This will consist of a workshop especially dedicated to PhD students, scheduled for the final day of the meeting on 14 June 2012.
This event is sponsored by the Politecnico PhD School and the Design PhD programme of the INDACO department and by the Italian National PhD School in “Science of Representation and Architectural Survey”.
Purpose
The Nexus PhD Day is intended to be an international and multi-disciplinary meeting between PhD students involved in scientific research regarding architecture and mathematics. The aim is to promote exchanges and interaction among students in various schools from different countries.
The PhD Day will consist of: discussions of posters and comments by members of the scientific committee; brief oral presentations by selected authors; and a round table with public discussion of selected papers at all the different scales of design, from landscape to urban planning, to architecture, applied arts and industrial design. This will provide an opportunity for PhD candidates and those who have received a PhD within the past two years to present their work to a large international academic community, by either a brief oral presentation and/or by a poster.
In parallel to the poster session of the Conference, another special poster session will be specifically dedicated to the presentation of PhD theses and PhD research in progress. Papers selected for oral presentation, posters and abstracts will be published and distributed to the participants of the conference.
Italian PhD Schools in “Science of Representation and Architectural Survey” will recognise credits (CFU) for participants whose work is selected or accepted.
General Topics
Theory and Analysis of design in architecture, landscape and objects
Design grammars, morphology, parametrical transformation
Complex shapes and structures in architecture and industrial design
Harmony and Architecture (music and proportions)
The digital ‘lecture’: a synthesis of history, science and architecture
The digital model: innovative methods of survey and representation real-world data shape representation: from mathematics to visualization
Who Is Eligible
PhD students, alone or in a research group (without senior scholars)
Those who have earned a PhD within the last two years (2010 and later), alone or in a research group (without senior scholars)
Those eligible to participate in the PhD day who submitted abstracts during the Call for Papers for Nexus 2012 that were not accepted are encouraged to re-submit for the PhD Day.
Qualifying participants for the PhD day are eligible to pay a reduced conference fee.
What To Submit
PhD students are asked to prepare both a poster and paper of their research (no more than 10,000 characters/1600 words with a short abstract of 200/400 words. The scientific committee will review all submissions and selected authors will be asked to prepare a short oral presentation (10 minutes) of their work.
Submissions should be accompanied by a COVER SHEET including the submitter's full name, regular and e-mail addresses, and name of the university, the department and the PhD programme involved.
Posters (in PDF format), papers and short abstracts (in .doc or .rtf format) must be submitted to the scientific committee of the Nexus PhD Day by the established deadlines.
When To Submit
The deadlines are:
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2011
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2012
Deadline for digital submission of posters: 31 March 2012
Registration and conference fee payment: 31 March 2012
Printed Posters must be brought by students on the first day of the Conference in order to be pinned up.
The precise schedule of the workshop will be announced together with the schedule of the Conference.
How To Submit
Posters (in PDF format), papers and short abstracts (in. rtf format) should be sent by e-mail to Giuseppe Amoruso on
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Poster Formats
To be announced. Size, scheme and lay-out for the poster will be provided by the organisation committee of the conference.
Creator of the Nexus 2012 PhD Day
Michela Rossi
Dipartimento INDACO
Politecnico di Milano – Italy
PhD Day Coordinator
Giuseppe Amoruso
Dipartimento INDACO
Politecnico di Milano – Italy
Scientific committee
Marco Gaiani
Università di Bologna – Italy
Cornelie Leopold
Department of Architecture –Descriptive Geometry
TU Kaiserslautern – Germany
Edie Miglio
Department of Mathematics
Politecnico di Milano – Italy
Branko Mitrovic
Architecture
UNITEC Institute of Technology
Auckland – New Zealand
Francesco Trabucco
Dipartimento INDACO
Politecnico di Milano – Italy
Joao Pedro Xavier
Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (FAUP)
Porto – Portugal
Maria Zack
Department of Mathematical, Information and Computer Sciences
Point Loma Nazarene University
San Diego – USA
For further information
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