This Third Edition is presented with the support of Chapman University, the Chapman MPP graduate program, the Kennedy Chairs in Mathematics, Philosophy and Physics, the Struppa Chair of Mathematics, the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, and the University of Calabria.

Third Edition

Call for Applications

"Classical Mechanics from Newton to Hamilton"

Cetraro (Cosenza, Italy) | May 29 – 31, 2026

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Keynote Teachers

• Niccolò Guicciardini (Univ. Milano): Newton’s mechanics and its mathematics
• Craig Fraser (Univ. Toronto): Variational Mechanics from Lagrange to Hamilton
  
  

Invited Teachers

• Carlos Alvarez (UNAM, Mexico City): Euler’s “New Law of Mechanics”
• Paolo Freguglia (Univ. of l’Aquila): Analytical Optics and Mechanics in W.R. Hamilton
• Jemma Lorenat (Pitzer College, Claremont Unv.): Early-19th-century correspondence on The Mechanism of the Heavens (1831)
• Andrew Jordan (Chapman University): Analytical Mechanics from a modern perspective
• Ahmed Sebbar (Chapman University): The least action principle: Past and present
  
  

We invite applications from graduate students, teachers, and junior research post-docs in the history of
mathematics as well as mathematicians seeking to engage more critically with historical subjects and
methodology to attend Luigi Maierù’s International School in the History of Mathematics to be held in the
wonderful location of Cetraro (Cosenza, South Italy) on May 29 – 31, 2026 (participants arrival on May 28 and departure on June 1).

The aim of this School in the history of mathematics is to gather early career historians of mathematics and scholars from different backgrounds who are approaching the discipline for the first time in a space to explore both content and tools for research and teaching.

Each day will be organized around formal lectures, structured discussion times, and informal
conversations. Participants will receive reading materials in advance and will be requested to
provide substantial comments which will be discussed during the collective reading sessions.

The International School will take place in Cetraro, Grand Hotel San Michele. 

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and a CV before March 1, 2026 to Lisa Beesley (Chapman University): beesley@chapman.edu.

We will cover meals and accommodation expenses for a selected group of candidates, who will be informed by March 15, 2026, at the latest. If you are able to fund your own expenses, please let us know in your application.

The organizing committee:

• Carlos Alvarez (UNAM, Mexico)
• Emilia Florio (Università della Calabria, Italy)
• Jemma Lorenat (Pitzer College, USA)
• Marco Panza (Chapman University, USA and IHPST, France)
• Eleonora Sammarchi (University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Ahmed Sebbar (Chapman University, USA)
• Daniele Struppa (Chapman University, USA)