Dear FISers, The Symmetry Festival 2009 will be held in Budapest, 31 July - 4 August. The deadline for abstract submission is: 15 February 2009.
The Conference is transdisciplinary: maths, science, education, art. Please visit the site: http://www.conferences.hu/symmetry2009/ FIS is also transdisciplinary, and the fields of Information and Symmetry have much in common. Proceedings: accepted papers will be published in the Journal "Symmetry: Culture and Science" (ISSN 0865-4824). http://symmetry.hu/aus_journal_content_abs.html The anonymous peer review process applies. Provisional list of speakers: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Steven Weinberg (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) PLENARY LECTURERS Michele Emmer (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Chaim Goodman-Strauss (University of Arkansas, USA) Dezso Horvath (KFKI RMKI, Hungary and LHC CERN, Switzerland) Alajos Kalman (Chemical Research Center, Hungary) Gabor Naray-Szabo (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) Meir Shinitzky (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Tibor Toro (Sapientia University, Romania) Planned special sessions: # Symmetry in the history and philosophy of science # Symmetry in the history of interdisciplinary approaches in the sciences # Symmetry in the history of physics, chemistry and material science # Symmetry in the history of mathematics # Arts and the space research (application of symmetry considerations) # Symmetry in life sciences, medicine and pharmacology # Symmetry as a medium between the arts and the sciences # Symmetry principles in architecture and design # Origami in science and art # Symmetries and visualisation # Symmetry in bioinformatics # Symmetry in Linguistics # Education and symmetry I hope to meet you in Budapest! Best regards, Michel. Michel Petitjean, DSV/iBiTec-S/SB2SM (CNRS URA 2096), CEA Saclay, bat. 528, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France. Phone: +331 6908 4006 / Fax: +331 6908 4007 E-mail: michel.petitj...@cea.fr, petitjean.chi...@gmail.com http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.html _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis