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SYMMETRY FESTIVAL 2003

where Science meets Art

16-22 August, 2003, Budapest , Hungary

Science program:

Symmetry:
A Synthesis of Constancy and Change

Art program series:

Ars (Dis)Symmetrica '03

Sponsored by
L'Oreal Art and Science Foundation

History

Budapest hosted first the Symposium and Exhibition series Symmetry of Structure in 1989. That was the birth of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry), start of the journal Symmetry: Culture and Science (published 1990-), and of the formation of local Symmetry Circles in several cities around the world. Similar, widely attended events followed in Japan, the U.S.A., and in Israel. The investigation and conscious application of symmetry shaped a movement bringing together hundreds of artists, scientists, designers and engineers. 14 years later it is time to return to the origins in Europe.

The Buda Royal Castle, accommodating the Hungarian National Gallery
where the Symmetry - Asymmetry exhibition was organised in August 1989

Fields of Interest

All kinds of interpretation, application and representation of symmetry (asymmetry, dissymmetry, broken symmetry, antisymmetry) and its related terms (like invariance, harmony, proportion, rhythm, conservation, self-organisation, etc.) are welcome. Special interest will be devoted to its relation to beauty and truth, to search for any perfect and good.

As a result of the recent decades' publication, conference and exhibition activity one should not re-emphasise the role played by the concept and phenomenon of symmetry in linking sciences and arts, technology and design, different cultures.

Aims

Several discoveries could not have been perfected without an impression induced by art, a symmetry consideration (e.g., the artificial retina by the combined digital-analogue chip reflecting the pattern of the cerebral asymmetry; the Fullerene molecule; quasicrystals, etc.), not mentioning here the generalised symmetries, which guide all investigations in physics, looking for the structure of matter. Geometric art movements, inspired partly by design and science, experience a new Renaissance. Meetings of symmetrists have facilitated the birth of such interdisciplinary clues. It is expected that this tradition will continue at the Symmetry Festival in 2003.

The Festival provides a forum for all who apply symmetry (and the related concepts, phenomena and operations, or just the lack of symmetry) in their creative work. It also gives a forum to those who work beyond the traditional boundaries of their respective background discipline, branch of art, technology, or design. Interdisciplinary and holistic approaches are preferred.

The symmetry movement needs revitalisation and rejuvenation. Members of the International Advisory Board and our other senior colleagues are expected to invite their former and present students to join us at the Festival.

Scope

There are welcome specialists - beyond the traditional disciplines - from the fields e.g., of

geometric crystallography, stereochemistry, material structures;
applied discrete geometry, ethnomathematics;
generalised, geometric- and dynamic, gauge symmetries in physics, astronomy;
geomorphology and biomorphology;
functional and cerebral asymmetries, and their consequences in perception, education, psychology, creativity and art-science relations;
chirality, anthropology, archaeology;
structures in molecular biology and genetics;
bioengineering;
design and construction principles in structural mechanics, electronics, robotics, hardware, software and processing in computing;
design extended beyond art and technology;
synergetics;
composition principles in ornamental art, architecture, design, structural- and socio-linguistics, literature, visual and acoustic arts;
non-equilibrium processes, asymmetric assumptions in applied game-theory, social structures;
applications in the humanities;
applications in the education;
hierarchy in inanimate and organic natural, human, social, and artificial systems;
logic and philosophy of science, ontology, gnoseology, hermeneutics;
principles and laws governing nature and man-made structures;
analogies from the mentioned (and other) fields.

New applications and approaches are also welcome.

Preliminary Program

Keynote speaker	István Hargittai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics) www.roadtostockholm.com
Plenary lectures	V H.S.M. Coxeter University of Toronto Honorary member of the Symmetry Society, H.S.M. (Donald) Coxeter passed away on March 31. As a commemoration his presentation is to be read. Avnir, David (Jerusalem) Caglioti, Giuseppe, (Milan) Hahn, Theo (Aachen) Marcus, Solomon (Bucuresti) Miyazaki, Koji (Kyoto) Ne'eman, Yuval (Tel-Aviv) Prigogine, Ilya - René Lefever (Brussels) Ruffini, Remo (Roma) Schattschneider, Doris (Bethlehem, PA) Shechtman, Dan (Washington, DC/Haifa) Sims, John (Sarasota, FL) Trivedi, Kirti (Bombay) Zee, Anthony (Santa Barbara, CA)
Afternoons:	- Parallel sessions, poster sessions; abstracts will be selected and accepted based on a review process. - Workshops, with participants invited by the moderators
Evenings:	- Concert, dance- and other performances. - Special sessions will be devoted to the memory of A. L. Loeb who would be 80 years old in 2003, and to the 100th anniversary of the birth of C. Smith.
Social programs
Exhibitions:	- Artworks, invited and selected by jury - Computer- and video graphics and animations - Demonstration models - Books, CD-ROMs

Call for Contributions

The title "Symmetry: A Synthesis of Constancy and Change" expresses, that
- in its modern, generalised meaning -

we speak about	SYMMETRY
if under a transformation	[CHANGE]
at least one property of the studied object is left intact	[CONSTANCY]
Contributions - both papers and artworks - are expected to express this	SYNTHESIS

>> Call for Extended Abstracts

You are kindly invited to submit your proposal for a lecture at the Symmetry Festival 2003. Please fill in and return the Abstract Form accompanied with an Extended Abstract.
Authors are requested to indicate the preferred topic(s). You may choose an item either from the Scope or specify another (interdisciplinary ones are preferred, which link at least two disciplines, or science with arts).
All the authors should be listed in the heading according to the typing instructions below. The abstract should describe the major findings of the paper in max. 4 pages.
The presenter author will be notified on the acceptance of the paper. The accepted extended abstracts will be published before the Festival provided one of the authors has registered before the early registration deadline (30 June, 2003). The CD-ROM of Abstracts will be available to all participants at the Festival.

>> Call for Artworks: Exhibition Items, Performances, Shows, Presentations

You are kindly invited to submit your proposal for exhibition items, performances, shows and presentations at the Symmetry Festival 2003. The "Ars (Dis)Symmetrica '03" focuses on the continuation of the traditions of the major geometric art movements in the 20th c. Please fill in and return the Abstract Form accompanied with an Extended Abstract which describes your proposal. In your Extended Abstract, please, specify the works/program you will display/show/present, and include image(s) within the 4 pages limit. You may refer to publications on your works, and document your former most important science-related exhibitions. Note, artists take part at the Festival by invitation, with their specific works, which should be closely related to the thematics of the "Ars (Dis)Symmetrica '03
Exhibition Catalogue and Proceedings are also planned to be published on CD-rom

>> Extended Abstract Submission

The abstract should be sent to the Symmetry Festival Secretariat:
Ms. Eva Thiry,
Symmetry Festival Secretariat c/o SCOPE Ltd.,
Kende utca 13-17, Budapest, H-1111 Hungary
Phone: 36-1-209-6001
Fax: 36-1-386-9378
E-mail: symmetry2003@conferences.hu

The extended abstracts should be sent electronically (.ps, .doc, .rtf files are accepted) as a separate e-mail attachment.

>>Typing Instructions (Example .doc)

The abstract must be written in English.
The length of the Extended Abstract should not exceed 4 pages.
Page size:	160 X 220mm size mirror frame
Running headline:	Papers should not have running headlines
Font size:	12 point
Font type:	Times New Roman
Justification:	- Left justification for title, authors and affiliation - Justified for text
Orientation:	Portrait
Line spacing:	Single spacing
Page numbers:	Do not number the pages of your original text.
Title:	use the following format: USE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR TITLE (line space) List of authors (see notes under “Authors”) (line space) Affiliation(s) of authors, numbered 1,2,3 etc. (2 line spaces) Start the text of the Extended Abstract ….
Authors:	Given name, SURNAME (in capital letters) -Authors from different organizations should be identified by using superscript numbers 1, 2, 3, -Affiliations have to be listed as follows: 1Affiliation, full postal address and e-mail of Author1 2Affiliation, full postal address and e-mail of Author2
Add up to five keywords and a topic which best fits to your abstract.
List of references in alphabetic order by first author at the end of the abstract, according to the below convention: Asymmetrist, A. Z. (or corporate author) (1991) Book Title: Subtitle, Series Title, No. 27, 2nd ed., City: Publisher, vii + 619 p. Asymmetrist, A. Z., Dissymmetrist, S. Z., and Symmetrist, W. M. (2002) Article title: Subtitle, Journal Name Without Abbreviation, [E-Journal address: http://sym.journal.edu/~dissymmetrist.htm (if applicable)], B22 (volume number), 6 (issue number), 66-99 (page numbers).
References in the main text: (Asymmetrist et al., 2002, pp. 89-90)

Venue

The Symmetry Festival 2003 will be organised in the same Conference Centre in Budapest, where the symposium, Symmetry of Structure, was organised in August 1989.
The recently renewed Hotel Agro Conference Centre (54, Normafa St., Budapest, H-1121) provides a theatre style conference room, further rooms with flexible walls for parallel sessions, exhibition space, panorama terrace, reception room.

Exhibition will be held in Millenaris Park, a brand new prestigious exhibition hall in the center of Budapest.

Accommodation

Hotel Agro Conference Centre is situated in the Buda Hills 350 m high above the city in a green area. Unique view to the city (incl. the fireworks at the Danube on 20 August). Over the conference and exhibition facilities it provides 3 star hotel accommodation, 2 restaurants, swimming pool, sauna, tennis court.
Hotel of higher category in the downtown and budget accommodation next to the Festival venue will also be available.
Transportation to the downtown: direct city bus connection (20 min), and cab shuttle service.
Budapest airport can be reached by direct flights from over forty European (< 2-3 hours) and North American (< 8 hours) airports. Direct minibuses take the participants from the airport to the Hotel Agro.

Hotel Agro

Registration

The Organisers try to keep the registration fee between EUR 325 - 375 (EUR 125-150 for students). EUR 100 reduction from the regular registration fee will be available for subscribers to Symmetry: Culture and Science.

The registration fee includes: free attendence of all lecture sessions, workshops, performances; visit of the related exhibitions; access to e-mail and the internet; conference bag, badge, extended abstracts on CD ROM; coffee, refreshment in the breaks, participation at the welcome reception.

Important Deadlines

Authors/Exhibitors notification	31 May 2003
Preliminary program	31 May 2003
Early registration	30 June 2003
Symmetry Festival	16-22 August 2003

Boards

International Advisory Board:

Adler, I. (USA) (biology, mathematics)
Aerts, D. (Belgium) (physics)
Avnir, D. (Israel) (chemistry)
Bookstein, F. (USA) (biology)
Bruhn, S. (Germany) (musicology)
Caglioti, G. (Italy) (physics, arts)
Chua, L. (USA) (electronic engineering)
Collier, J. (Canada) (philosophy of science)
Crowe, D. (USA) (mathematics)
D'Ambrosio, U. (Brazil) (ethnomathematcis)
Dunham, D. (USA) (mathematics, arts)
Durini, L. D. (Italy) (arts)
Elitzur, A. (Israel) (physics, philosophy of science)
Frolov, K.V. (Russia) (mechanical engineering)
Gerdes, P. (Mozambique) (ethnomathematics)
Gould, L. (USA) (physics)
Hahn, T. (Germany) (crystallography)
Hofkirchner, W. (Austria) (information science)
Hofstadter, D. (USA) (cognitive research)
Ilgen, F. (The Netherlands) (arts)
Imponente, A. (Italy) (arts)
Kappraff, J. (USA) (mathematics)
Kerszberg, M. (France) (biology)
Koptsik, V. A. (Russia) (crystallography, physics)
Lederman, L. (USA) (physics)
Lee, T. D. (USA) (physics)

VLoeb, A. L. (USA) (crystallography, arts, design)

Mackay, A. (UK) (crystallography)
Mainzer, K. (Germany) (philosophy)
Marcus, S. (Romania) (linguistics)
Marijuan, P. (Spain) (information science, engineering)
Miyazaki, K. (Japan) (mathematical crystallography)
Ne'eman, Y. (Israel) (physics)
Olovsson, I. (Sweden) (chemistry)
Pardavi-Horvath, M. (USA) (physics)
Penrose, R. (UK) (physics)
Petoukhov, S. V. (Russia) (bioengineering)
Pimenta, E. (Portugal) (architecutre, arts, music)
Prigogine, I. (Belgium) (chemistry)
Rosen, J. (USA) (physics)
Rossi, C. (Italy) (chemistry)
Ruffini, R. (Italy) (astrophysics)
Saniga, M. (Slovakia) (astronomy)
Schattschneider, D. (USA) (mathematics, arts)
Sequin, C. (USA) (mathematics, arts)
Sims, J. (USA) (arts, mathematics)
Trivedi, K. (India) (design, philosophy)
Verostko, R. (USA) (arts)
Vitiello, G. (Italy) (physics)
Weaire, D. (Ireland) (physics)
Weinberg, S. (USA) (physics)
Wegner, B. (Germany) (mathematics)
Wiggs, R. (USA) (mathematics, arts)
Zee, A. (USA) (physics)

Hungarian Advisory Board

T. Balogh, L. Beke, L. Cser, G. Darvas, P. Érdi, Z. Gáspár, A. Kálmán, M. Kedves, P. Michelberger, Z. Perjés, E. Szathmáry, K. Széles, T. Tarnai, E. Tusa.

Local Organising Committee

S. Bérczi, J. Böhm, A. Csáji, J. Cseh, Z. Dárdai, D. Erdély, K. Fittler, T. Fleischer, G. Fröhlich, E. Gaul, G. Gévay, G. Hajnóczi, E. Hartmann, S. Kabai, J. Karsai, M. Makai, C. Mezei, L. Ropolyi, L. Szabados, A. S. Szöllõsy.

Contact:

Symmetry Festival Secretariat
SCOPE Ltd., c/o Ms. Éva Thiry
Kende utca 13-17, Budapest, H-1111 Hungary
Phone: 36-1-209-6001
Fax: 36-1-386-9378
E-mail: symmetry2003@conferences.hu

Note:
to avoid misunderstanding:

the organiser of the Symmetry Festival is not ISIS-Symmetry

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