Statistical overview of CERME10

Maurice Oreilly (1)

1 St Patrick’s College Drumcondra

Dublin, Ireland, [e-mail] CERME evolves over time, and so it is of interest to gather and present some quantitative data on the number of participants and on the scientific output at CERME10. The table opposite shows the number of submissions to these proceedings (excluding the TWG introductions and the plenary papers) along with other submissions that were made online by December 2016 but were not included here. The numbers of long and short contributions are noted. Of course, each TWG had more participants than the number of submissions, since (i) many papers had several authors and (ii) there were other participants who did not submit. The entries in the table are explained in its footnotes. The data for the table comes from two sources: the submissions made online (to the CERME10 website) by mid-December 2016, and the registration and attendance database for the congress. The final column shows the 768 (distinct) participants at CERME10, allocating each to exactly one TWG. Although over 80 participants were active in more than one TWG, care was taken to ensure that no participant was included more than once (by fine-tuning the 'Additional authors' column appropriately). This was facilitated by taking into account the TWG explicitly chosen by each participant at registration. The foreword states that there were 774 participants; this figure includes the six presenters at the plenary sessions. Of the 565 submissions made in advance of CERME – comprising 466 (long) papers and 99 posters (or short contributions) – the attrition by the time these proceedings have been edited was only 20 (about 3.5%). This low figure underscores the observation mentioned in the foreword that " nobody was wandering in the corridors ". Contributions to the proceedings as a proportion of the total number of participants was 0.71 (= 545/768), this figure varying from 0.56 (for TWG2) to 0.82 (for TWG16). Another indicator of the intensity of the work at CERME is the low number of participants (84) who did not contribute papers – although they did contribute to the lively discussion! This was 10.9% of the total number of participants, with extremes ranging from 3.0% (for TWG10) to 20.0% (for TWG24). Yet another perspective on the hard work undertaken in the context of the congress is illustrated by the number (453) of 'long' papers as a proportion of all contributions: 83% overall, with a minimum of 71% (for TWG14) and an impressive maximum of 100% (for TWG2).

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]; Education

Maurice Oreilly. Statistical overview of CERME10. CERME 10, Feb 2017, Dublin, Ireland. ⟨hal-01849577⟩