MCM 2017
Mathematics and Computation in Music
Mexico City
26-29 June 2017
The Sixth International
Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music will be held June 26-29,
2017 at
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, México.
MCM is the flagship conference of the Society for
Mathematics and Computation in Music (SMCM), whose official
publication is the Journal of Mathematics and Music (JMM).
MCM 2017 continues the tradition of biennial international
conferences of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music held on
alternating sides of the Atlantic. In this occasion it is hosted by the Facultad de Ciencias at UNAM.
The conference brings
together researchers from around the world who combine mathematics or
computation with music theory, music analysis, composition and performance. MCM
provides a dedicated platform for the communication and exchange of ideas
amongst researchers in mathematics, computer science, music theory, composition
and performance, musicology and related disciplines.
There will be introductory
talks to specific fields of research.
The disciplines of
Mathematics and Music share an intertwined history stretching back more than
two and a half millennia. More recently, computer science has made possible new
approaches to these disciplines, often with transformative effect.
In addition to the
scientific program, there will be concerts open to both congress participants
and the general public.
The publication of revised
selected papers will be as a post-proceeding in LNCS/LNAI in the series name
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence www.springer.com/lncs.
The MCM 2017 Conference URL will be included among the list of Forthcoming
Proceedings (ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/LNCS_FCP.pdf ) on Springer
server.
The proceedings are now available online: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-71827-9 LNAI 10527, MCM 2017
There is a free access for a period of 4 weeks.
Download
Official
poster MCM 2017 in jpg
Past Conferences
MCM2015: http://mcm2015.qmul.ac.uk/
ICCM2014: http://icmm.cucei.udg.mx/
MCM2013: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/mcm2013/
MCM2011: http://mcm2011.ircam.fr/drupal/
MCM2009: http://www.mcm2009.info/
Contact
Dr.
Emilio Lluis-Puebla
lluisp(at)unam(dot)mx
Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music SMCM
Sociedad
Matemática Mexicana SMM
Facultad de
Ciencias, UNAM
Collaborating Institutions
Important dates, Submission, Panel discussions, Registration
Important Dates
The deadline for all types
of submission is: 31 March 2017
Notification of Acceptance:
28 April 2017 or earlier
Camera-ready Copy: 16 May 2017
Early Registration Dates: 2
May 2017
Conference Dates: 26-29
June 2017
Submission
The organisers of MCM 2017
encourage submissions of unpublished papers that use mathematical and/or computational
approaches to music theory, music analysis, composition, performance, by
researchers or teams of researchers from any relevant field. If space is
available, lectures without paper submission will be welcome.
Particularly, we welcome
submissions on any topic relating to mathematics and/or computation in music,
including (but not limited to):
•Mathematical and
computational models of and/or approaches to logical, philosophical and
methodological aspects of mathematics and computation in music
•Musicology, music theory,
analysis
•Composition and
performance, improvisation
•The perception and
cognition of any aspect of musical structure
•Music and emotion
•Musical learning and
education
•Musical interaction and
gestures
•The history of mathematics
and computation in music
•Applications of
mathematical music theory and computational tools for musicians, musicologists
and others who work with music
•Study of mathematical
objects derived from mathematical music theory.
We invite submissions of
the following types:
Long papers (10-12 pages in the Springer
LNCS style) to be presented orally
Short papers (4-6 pages in the Springer
LNCS style) to be presented as posters
Panel discussions
Long and short papers
Long and short paper
submissions should take the form of complete papers; each paper submission
should include an abstract of up to 150 words. Authors may not reveal their
identity if they deem it necessary.
Accepted papers will be
published by Springer in an edited volume in the series Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, as were the proceedings of previous MCM conferences. This
Memoirs will be published after the congress. Information for authors in this
series may be found in
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
including formatting
guidelines. Submissions must be made using one of the Springer LNCS style
templates. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare their submissions using
the LNCS LaTeX style (see also this sample file). However, if authors are
unable to use LaTeX, then they may submit it in LibreOffice/OpenOffice.odt
format, but must have the same layout as obtained with TeX.
Submissions that do not conform to one of these templates will be rejected
without review.
All papers will be reviewed
according to their novelty or expository quality, scientific quality, relevance
to the conference and stimulation potential.
A researcher may not appear
as single author on more than one paper submission, nor as a lead author on
more than two paper submissions. Submissions of long and short papers must
follow the following guidelines:
use the LNCS templates
respect the page restrictions for long and
short papers
Poster size can be A0 or 70
cm x 100 cm, printed in photographic paper, and should be installed by the
author.
Panel discussions
Panels should offer lively
and provocative discussions on topics of particular interest to the community.
Rather than offering a series of paper presentations, panel sessions should be
structured so as to engage the audience in thoughtful and constructive dialogue
with the panelists. The primary criteria for selection are the anticipated
level of interest, the potential impact, and the organizer’s and panelists’ expertise
in the field.
Proposals should be no more
than 4000 words and need not follow the Springer formatting procedures. A
proposal for a panel discussion should provide the following details:
clear description of the topic of the
discussion
arguments why the topic is timely,
significant and relevant to the conference
references to relevant recent publications
short biographies for the proposed
discussants.
The deadline for all types
of submission is: Friday 31 of March, 2017.
There will be no extension
to the paper submission deadline on 31 of March. However, authors of registered
papers on March 31 will be allowed to send new versions of their pdf-papers
until April 5th. No other changes will be possible (i.e. no change of title,
abstract, authors, keywords/topics, or other metadata). No submission of new
papers will be possible after March 31.
Notification
acceptance: 28 of April 2017
Camera-ready copy: 16 of May 2017
All submissions must be
made to any of the following organizers in pdf format files:
Emilio Lluis-Puebla
lluisp(at)unam(dot)mx
Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino
octavioalberto(at)unca(dot)edu(dot)mx
Mariana Montiel
mmontiel(at)gsu(dot)edu
Registration
To plan the logistics of the conference (local
transportation from and to the hotels, to the concerts, etc.) we strongly encourage
all participants to register (confirm your assistance) before May 2, 2017. This
will be the early registration. The conference takes place 26-29 of June
2017. At least one author of an accepted
paper should register by May 2, 2017.
Fee for early
registration (confirmation of your assistance): 500 MX pesos (or
its equivalent: approximately £ 21 = 27 US = 25 Euros) until May 2, 2017
payable in pesos the 26th of June at the registration desk. You do not
have to send any amount.
Please register (confirm your assistance) by just
sending an e mail to Dr. Emilio Lluis-Puebla at
lluisp(at)unam(dot)mx. The answer you get by e-mail for your
registration will be your confirmation of either early or normal registration
according to the date you send it.
Normal
registration fee: 700 MX pesos (or its equivalent: approximately
£33 = 38 US = 35 Euros).
We will appreciate you let us know also at which hotel
you made your reservation, since we want to know how many persons should be
picked up in the morning to take you to the University.
Special note for
students and professors from Mexico: Los alumnos y
profesores de cualquier institución mexicana que deseen asistir al MCM 2017
tendrán libre acceso al mismo, tanto a las sesiones de ponencias como de
conciertos. Se requiere mostrar su identificación que lo acredite en el
escritorio de registro. Hay cupo limitado al número de asientos de los
auditorios.
General Organizing Committee
Guerino Mazzola
School of Music, University of Minnesota, USA
mazzola(at)umn(dot)edu
Emilio Lluis-Puebla
Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico
lluisp(at)unam(dot)mx
Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino
Universidad
de la Cañada, Oaxaca, Mexico
octavioalberto(at)unca(dot)edu(dot)mx
Mariana Montiel
Georgia State University, Georgia, USA
mmontiel(at)gsu(dot)edu
Gabriel Pareyón
National Center for Music Research, Documentation and
Information, CENIDIM-INBA
gabrielpareyon(at)gmail(dot)com
Roberto Morales-Manzanares
Music Informatics Laboratory, LIM, U. de Guanajuato,
Mexico
roberto(dot)mm(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mx
Emil Awad
Research Center fot the
Arts, CECDA, U. Veracruzana, Mexico
eawad(at)uv(dot)mx
Juan Sebastián Lach
Conservatorio
de las Rosas, Morelia, Mich, Mexico
lachjs(at)gmail(dot)com
Scientific Programme Committee
Emilio Lluis-Puebla
Faculty
of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico
Mariana Montiel
Georgia State University, Georgia, USA
Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino
Universidad
de la Cañada, Oaxaca, Mexico
Local Organizing Committee
Emilio Lluis-Puebla
Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico
Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino
Universidad
de la Cañada, Oaxaca, Mexico
with the valuable assistance of graduate and
undergraduate students, all from the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM
Yemile Chávez
Martínez
Bruno Martínez Warnholtz
Julisa
Rodríguez Torres
Ruby Almazán Calzada
Kuauhtémok
González Cortés
Gabriela Jacinto
Alison Barbosa
Alan Cordero Vilchis
Venue
The Sixth Biennial
International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music will be
held in Mexico City in the “Conjunto Amoxcalli” at
the Faculty of Sciences of the “Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México” (UNAM). Please see map below in a new window since the editor of
this website does not allow to be opened in the same one for security reasons:
It is at 5-minute drive
from the south hotel zone Perisur. There are several
ways to get here from the hotel. We will get a shuttle bus from the hotels to
the conference and back.
Venue formal
address:
Conjunto
Amoxcalli
Facultad
de Ciencias (UNAM)
Ciudad
Universitaria
Circuito
Exterior s/n
Coyoacán,
04510
Ciudad
de México
México
Travel and local visits
1.-Arrive at the Mexico
City International Airport called “Benito Juárez”. Go to immigration and then
pick your luggage.
2.-Once you exit the doors
from baggage claim, buy a taxi ticket at the counters of diverse taxi brands.
Anyone is good. Tell you go to the ___ hotel at the south of the city, near Perisur Mall. It will cost around 17-20 US.
Almost everybody does NOT
need a visa to enter México. To see the countries that do not need visa see:
http://www.inm.gob.mx/gobmx/word/index.php/paises-no-requieren-visa-para-mexico/
and for the countries that need visa see:
http://www.inm.gob.mx/gobmx/word/index.php/paises-requieren-visa-para-mexico/
The best way to enter is as
a tourist (since you are not going to work, but are going to be delighted from
“watching a music and mathematics spectacle”).
*There will be a visit and a concert from our Congress at the “Castillo
de Chapultepec” on Wednesday evening, (28th of June, 2017) from
18:00 to 20:30 hrs.
http://www.mnh.inah.gob.mx/historia/hist_historicos.html
http://www.mnh.inah.gob.mx/index_2.html
http://www.mexicoescultura.com/recinto/53752/index.php
*There is an interesting archeological site at “Cuicuilco”.
It is a five-minute walk from Radisson Hotel at Perisur.
http://www.ancient.eu/Cuicuilco/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuicuilco
*The Congress takes place at Ciudad Universitaria
which is another interesting place to visit
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1250
*Very near Ciudad Universitaria is “Museo de El Carmen”.
http://elcarmen.inah.gob.mx/
(Please open this address in a new window since the editor of this
website does not allow to be opened in the same one for security reasons).
Hotels and Restaurants
Hotels
We have the following 5
star hotels at very special rates for our Conference with its own
specifications. Reservations should be done by the participant as soon as
possible (since the rooms are subject to availability) exclusively by e-mail mentioning the code and should
be warranted with a credit card. As usual, in case of cancellation, they have
to be done 48 hours before in order not to get a “no show” charge. Very
important: do not
reserve in the web page of the hotels since we have very special rates for our
conference. Hotels will keep the same rate one week before and after the Conference,
please ask them.
1.- Radisson
Paraíso Hotel, Ciudad de México.
$990 pesos plus taxes
(16% tax & 3% tax) =
990+158+30 pesos = 1178 pesos = approx. 56 US Dollars = approx. 53 Euros = approx. 44 Pounds
per night. Single or double rooms same rate.
You can visit the hotel web
page www.radisson.com/mexico-city-hotel-df-14010/mexicoci
but do the reservation exclusively by e-mail at Rocio Guzman <rguzman@radisson.com.mx> Code: MCM 2017.
2.- Royal Hotel Pedregal.
$990 pesos plus taxes =
990+158+30 pesos = 1178 pesos = approx. 56 US Dollars = approx. 53 Euros =
approx. 44 Pounds per night. Single or double rooms same rate.
You can visit the hotel web
page www.hotelesroyal.com.mx but do the reservation exclusively by e-mail
at gjasso@hotelesroyal.com.mx or
rsvasroyal@hotelesroyal.com.mx or rsvaspedregal@hotelesroyal.com.mx Code: MMCUNI.
3.- Hotel
Camino Real Pedregal.
$1100 pesos+16%tax+3% tax=
$1100 + 176 + 33 pesos = $1309 pesos = approx. 63 US Dollars = approx. 60 Euros = approx. 50 Pounds
per night. Single or double rooms same rate.
You can visit the hotel web
page www.caminoreal.com/pedregal
but do the reservation exclusively by e-mail at Yazmin Jimenez
<yazmin.jimenez@caminoreal.com.mx> Code: MCM 2017.
4.- Pedregal Palace Hotel.
$1053 pesos already with
taxes = approx. 50 US Dollars already with taxes = approx. 48 Euros already
with taxes = approx. 40 Pounds already with taxes per night. Single or double
rooms same rate.
You can visit the hotel web
page www.pedregalpalace.com.mx
but do the reservation exclusively by e-mail
at reservaciones@pedregalpalace.com.mx Code: Congreso
de Matematica y Computacion
en la Musica.
Restaurants
There are plenty of very
good restaurants. Besides the restaurants at the Radisson or Royal hotels there
are many good restaurants in the Mexican cousin, one of the best in the world.
But it takes time to find out where to go, make a reservation, etc. Here are
three very good restaurants in the south of the city where we are at the MCM
2017 Conference.
1.- San Angel Inn. On
a magnificent 16th century estate, the San Angel Inn is unquestionably one of
the city’s most traditional and renowned. Extraordinary international cuisine,
with strong Mexican accents, allows the Inn to devote itself to magnificent
experimentation and achievement over more than 50 years. Huitlacoche crepes,
cream of poblano chilis, lobster bisque and Rockefeller shrimp are just some of
the highlights on the menu. Their martinis and margaritas remain legendary.
Diego Rivera 50 (at
Altavista), col. San Angel Inn
Tel. 5516 1402 / sanangelinn.com
2.- Always esoteric, El Cardenal has been one of the best Centro restaurants for as
long as anyone can remember. Most famous for the breakfasts, at lunchtime all
the niceties go away and the real guns come out. A chicken breast stuffed goat
cheese ought to get you going but the red mole is easily among the best moles
in Mexico City.
Restaurant El Cardenal
Number 5 out of 4,009
Restaurants. Calle de La Paz, 32, Ciudad de México 01000, México
Tel. +52 55 55500293;
https://www.tripadvisor.com.mx/Restaurants-g150800-Mexico_City_Central_Mexico_and_Gulf_Coast.html
3.- Enrique
“Carnitas”, “barbacoa”, the
best Mexican food.
Avenida Insurgentes Sur 4061; +52 55 5573 9988;
https://www.queremoscomer.rest/restaurantes/comida-mexicana/perisur-tlalpan/enrique/