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Monday, 25, 9:30am—1 pm. Room: Valentin.

Introduction by Chemla, Karine
Shaping numbers & quantities

Rost, Stéphanie, PhD candidate (Department of Anthropology, State
University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Computation and quantification in the administration of irrigation
systems in 3rd millennium B.C. Mesopotamia
Commentary by: Robert Middeke-Conlin

Heimpel, Wolfgang (University of California, Berkeley)
Ancient Mesopotamian brick and reed bundle metrology in theory and praxis
Commentary by: Ouyang Xiaoli

Monday 25, 2pm—5:30pm. Room: Valentin.

Shaping value
Sarma, Sreeramula Rajeswara (Duesseldorf, Emeritus Aligarh Muslim
University, for the time of the workshop member of SAW project)
Grades of Gold and the related Computational Methods in Indian Texts
Commentary by: Cécile Michel

Petrocchi, Alessandra, PhD candidate (SPHERE (CNRS & University Paris
Diderot) & SAW project)
Coins, Seeds, and Units of Weight in the Arthasastra and in the
commentary Kriyakramakari.
Commentary by: Ma Biao

Tuesday, 26, 9:30am—1 pm. Room: Valentin.

Shaping value
Chemla, Karine 林 力 娜 (ERC SAW project & SPHERE, UMR 7219 SPHERE,
CNRS—University Paris Diderot, France) & Ma Biao 馬彪（山口大學 Yamaguchi
University, Japan, at the present time invited by ERC SAW project)
Measuring grains in early China
Commentary by: Ales Petrocchi

Sallaberger, Walther (Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Capacity measures in Early Mesopotamia
Commentary by: R. S. Sarma

Tuesday, 26, 2pm—5:30pm. Room: Valentin.
Interpreting numbers in texts
Ouyang Xiaoli (Fudan University, for the time of the workshop member
of SAW project) & Proust, Christine (SPHERE (CNRS & University Paris
Diderot) & SAW project)
Marginal Numbers and the Sexagesimal Place Value Notation in
Mesopotamia during the Ur III Period (c. 2112-2004 BCE)
Commentary by: Karine Chemla

Middeke-Conlin, Robert, PhD candidate (SPHERE (CNRS & University
Paris Diderot) & SAW project)
The Nazbalum in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia: A Concrete Number or
Administrative Tool
Commentary by: Baptiste Mélès

Wednesday, 27, 9:00am—1 pm. Room: Valentin.

Working with operations
Keller, Agathe (SPHERE (CNRS & University Paris Diderot), SAW project)
& Singh, Catherine, PhD candidate (SPHERE (CNRS & University Paris
Diderot) & SAW project)
Multiplying Integers: on the diverse practices of medieval Sanskrit authors
Commentary by: Christine Proust

Chemla, Karine (SPHERE (CNRS & University Paris Diderot) & SAW project)
Working on and with division in early China
Commentary by: Takanori Kusuba

Thursday, 28, 9:30am—1 pm. Room: Mondrian.

Working with algorithms
Mélès, Baptiste (Archives Henri Poincaré, Université de Lorraine)
How to Program an Abacus?
Commentary by: Agathe Keller

Kusuba, Takanori (Osaka University of Economics, for the time of the
workshop member of SAW project)
Loans and Interest in the Lilavati of Bhaskara and in the
Ganitakaumudi of Narayana
Commentary by: Robert Middeke-Conlin

Thursday, 28, 2pm—5:30pm. Room: Mondrian.

Struggling with Measuring units
Jones, Alexander (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New
York University)
Mathematics and Metrology in a Fourth-Century Greek Papyrus Codex
Commentary by: Karine Chemla

Zhu Yiwen (SPHERE (CNRS & University Paris Diderot) & SAW project)
Another Culture of Computation from 7th century China
Commentary by: Cécile Michel

Friday, 29, 9:30am—1 pm. Room: Mondrian.

Struggling with Measuring units
Proust, Christine (SPHERE (CNRS & University Paris Diderot) & SAW project)
Shaping numbers and units of measure: some evidences in pre-sargonic
tables of surfaces from Southern Mesopotamia (mid-third millenium BCE)
Commentary by: Catherine Singh

Michel, Cécile (ArScAn-HAROC (CNRS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et Paris
Ouest Nanterre La Défense), SAW project)
Weighing units and weights in the context of trade from Upper
Mesopotamia to Anatolia (19th-18th centuries B.C.E.)
Commentary by: Ales Petrocchi

Friday, 29, 2pm—5:30pm. Room: Mondrian.

Numbers and computations in their social contexts
Cuomo, Serafina (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at
Birkbeck, University of London)
Numeracy in ancient Greece and Rome
Commentary by: Agathe Keller

Zou Dahai (& Chen Wei) (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences,
CAS, Beijing)
The Characteristics of Calculation Methods in the Wu cao suan jing and
its Social Background
Commentary by: Christine Proust

General discussion