{"id":898,"date":"2016-01-14T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/?p=898"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:35:13","slug":"announcing-the-e-assessment-in-mathematical-sciences-conference-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/blog\/2016\/01\/announcing-the-e-assessment-in-mathematical-sciences-conference-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the E-Assessment in Mathematical Sciences conference, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eams.ncl.ac.uk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/eams-logo.png\" alt=\"eams-logo\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/eams-logo.png 600w, https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/eams-logo-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re proud to announce that we are organising an international conference on E-Assessment in Mathematical Sciences, which will\u00a0take place on the 13th-14th September 2016, here in\u00a0Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in e-assessment for mathematics and the sciences. It will consist of a mix of presentations of new techniques, and pedagogic research, as well as workshops where you can get hands-on with leading e-assessment software.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/eams.ncl.ac.uk\/keynote-speakers\/\">keynote speakers<\/a> will be <a href=\"http:\/\/eams.ncl.ac.uk\/news\/speaker\/chris-sangwin\/\">Professor Chris Sangwin<\/a> of Edinburgh University, <a href=\"http:\/\/eams.ncl.ac.uk\/news\/speaker\/michael-gage\/\">Professor Michael Gage<\/a> of the University of Rochester, <a href=\"http:\/\/eams.ncl.ac.uk\/news\/speaker\/sally-jordan\/\">Dr Sally Jordan<\/a> of the Open University, and our own <a href=\"http:\/\/eams.ncl.ac.uk\/news\/speaker\/christian-lawson-perfect\/\">Christian Lawson-Perfect<\/a>, lead developer of Numbas.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will include presentations by speakers from around the world, workshops where you can try out\u00a0the latest mathematical e-assessment systems, and\u00a0a luxurious conference dinner at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balticmill.com\/\">BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The call for talk and workshop\u00a0proposals is currently <strong>open<\/strong>. If you have some research or an innovative technique related to\u00a0mathematical e-assessment that\u00a0you&#8217;d like to present, EAMS 2016 is the perfect venue.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about EAMS, and the\u00a0forms to register for the conference and propose a talk, at the conference website &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/eams.ncl.ac.uk\/\">eams.ncl.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you here in September!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re proud to announce that we are organising an international conference on E-Assessment in Mathematical Sciences, which will\u00a0take place on the 13th-14th September 2016, here in\u00a0Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}