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The General Assembly of SIS will be held online on 23rd May 2021 (Sunday) at 9.30 UTC-time through Skype at the address https://join.skype.com/…

If the majority of members would not be present in that time, i.e., we do not have a quorum, the General Assembly will be held online on the same day at 10:00 UTC-time through Skype with the same agenda. By law, in this second case, the General Assembly may make valid decisions, even in that case if we do not have a quorum.

Suggested Agenda for the GA:

1 Opening of the meeting.
2 Election of the Chair for this meeting.
3 Election of the minute-taker and two verifiers for this meeting.
4 New centre (address) of the Society in Budapest.
5 Modification of the Articles (Charters) of the Society.
6 Financial reports.
7 Report on forthcoming events.
8 Others.

The General Assembly of SIS will be held on 26th November 2019 at 7 p.m. in the framework of the 11th congress at the site of the event, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan

If we do not have the majority of members in that time, i.e., we do not have a quorum, the General Assembly will be on the same day at 7:15 p.m. with the same agenda. By law, in this second case the General Assembly may make valid decisions, even in that case if we do not have a quorum.

Suggested Agenda for the GA:

1 Opening of the meeting
2 Election of Chair of this meeting
3 Election of minute-takers for this meeting
4 President’s Report
5 Treasurer’s Report
6 Oversight Committee Chair’s Report
7 Discussing the annual membership fee
8 Discussing the site of the 12th congress
9 Discussing the questions related to the symmetry-site
10 Discussing possible research topics and international cooperation
11 Election of Officers
12 Others

The second Symmetry Cookbook is being assembled! Information is here. The deadline for submissions is coming up.

The General Assembly will be held by Skype conference on 27th October 2018 (Saturday) at UTC-time 12:00 = Athens 14:00, Budapest 13:00, New York 7:00, Adelaide 21:30, Tokyo 20:00, Buenos Aires 8:00

If we do not have the majority of members in that time, i.e., we do not have a quorum, the General Assembly will be on 27 October 2018 at UTC.time 12:30 with the same agenda. By law, in this second case the General Assembly may make valid decisions, even in that case if we do not have a quorum.

Initial Agenda for the GA:

1 Opening of the meeting
2 Election of Chair of this meeting
3 Election of minute-takers for this meeting
4 President’s Report
5 Treasurer’s Report
6 Oversight Committee Chair’s Report
7 Discussing the annual membership fee
8 Discussing the progress in connection with the forthcoming 11th congress in Osaka, Japan, 25-30 November 2019
9 Discussing the questions related to the symmetry-site
10 Election of Officers
11 Others

Members are invited to participate.

Patricia Muñoz and Dénes Nagy have published the Symmetric Cookbook which can be downloaded from here.

The General Assembly was (will be) held on December 1, 2016 at 5 p.m. the framework of the 10th Symmetry Congress (Adelaide, South Australia, Dec 1-6, 2016), at the congress site, the Lecture Room of the Kathleen Lumley College of the University of Adelaide (51 Finniss Street, North Adelaide, SA 5006).

If we do not have the majority of members there, i.e., we do not have a quorum, the General Assembly will be on Dec 2 at 9 p.m. at the same place, with the same agenda. By law, in this second case the General Assembly may make valid decisions, even in that case if we do not have a quorum.

Suggested Agenda for the GA:

1 Opening of the meeting.
2 Election of Chair of this meeting.
3 Election of minute-takers for this meeting.
4 Remembering for George Lugosi, the first chair of the Society’s sister organization
5 President’s Report
6 Treasurer’s Report (here)
7 Oversight Committee Chair’s Report
7 Election of site of next congress
8 Discussing organizational questions, the relationship with the sister organizations
9 Introducing an Annual General Assembly and regular Board Meetings by electronic facilities
10 International connections and cooperation agreements with other institutions, societies and organizations
11 Others

The Logics of Image: Visualization, Iconicity, Imagination and Human Creativity, co-sponsored by the Society, will be in Santorini, Greece 25-30 July 2016.

The first edition of the Symmetric Cooking Book is being prepared. The invitation with details can be downloaded here.

The 10th Symmetry Congress-Festival was (will be) held in Adelaide, Australia Dec 1-6, 2016

The Congress website is here.

Please submit a four-page version of your paper ((summary of lecture, exhibition or performance) along with brief biographic data, by using the given SymmAdelaide2016 Paper Template in .doc or .rtf and .pdf formats. Pictures must have resolution higher than 300 dpi.

An important principle is to encourage interdisciplinary discussions. Thus, all contributors should be mindful to structure their presentations as to make them accessible to a non-specialist public, no jargon, as little technical information as possible, etc. (while the technical details can be given in the references).

Deadline for the submission of individual papers has been extended to 5 November, 2016.

A Sum of Its Parts: Symmetry in the Eighteenth Century will be held in Los Angeles, CA, March 19-21, 2015.

The Call for Papers and other information can be found here.