The General Assembly of SIS will be held online on 7th March 2021 at 9.30 UTC-time through Skype at the address https://join.skype.com/dhUIEJPcjvcE.

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 Chair of this meeting.
3 Election of minute-takers for this meeting.
4 Reports by the Officers.
5 Election of officers.
6 Issues of Protection of the SIS Legacy.
7 Report on forthcoming events.
8 Others.

The Conference of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, focusing on “Symmetry, Structure, and Information” is scheduled as a Contributing Event to the 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI).

This Summit will be held online between the 12th and the 19th of September, 2021.

Call for Submissions of Abstracts is open until 1st of May 2021. More information is available here.

The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference, that will be held as an online event between the 23th and the 27th of August 2021, will host a session dedicated to “Symmetry and Spatial Structures”.

This Session is being organized by Janusz Rębielak (Retired Professor from the Cracow University of Technology, Poland) and Alphose Zingoni (Professor of the University of Cape Town, South Africa).

A Call for Submissions for this Session is open until the 31st of December, 2020. Information on this may be found here and on the IASS, here. The flier is available here.

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.

 

Symmetry: Art and Science
11th Congress and Exhibition of SIS
Special Theme:
Fusing: Symmetry and Katachi 形.

November 25 – 30, 2019, Kanazawa, Japan

Venue

Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Main Theme

The SIS regular Congress-Festival Symmetry: Art and Science is devoted to the study of patterns in a sense of symmetry in sciences and the arts. These patterns pervade many fields of natural sciences and the humanities. SIS
has a tradition of interesting and productive scientific meetings in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, attracting leading researchers and professionals in a variety of fields which exhibit the importance of such patterns.

The 11th SIS Congress-Festival Symmetry: Art and Science is devoted to the same circle of problems traditionally discussed in the triennial SIS meetings; however, this year we have an additional special topic, i.e.
Fusing: Symmetry and Katachi 形.

The Eastern concept, “Katachi 形” includes meanings of “form” , “shape” , “figure” , and “pattern” . “Katachi” is regarded as a compound word of “Kata” and “Chi” . “Kata” means originally a mold to produce same objects, hence it means also universal or common form. “Chi” means vital force and energy. That is, “Katachi” means visible form with essence of things. The Western concept “Symmetry” is regarded as a compound word of “Sym” (meaning “share” or “common”) and metry” (meaning “measure”).　Therefore, “Katachi” and “Symmetry” correspond to each other. They may play similar roles of interdisciplinary ‘bridges’ between various fields of art and science in the corresponding cultural circles.

Website: http://symmetry2019.org/index.html

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.

The ISSC 2018 conference, which is also a mid-congress of the International Symmetry Society, had a great success. The lecturers came not only from only from EU/EEA countries, but also from Argentina, Canada, India, Iran, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA.

Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Crete, 11-18 August 2018.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/logicsofimage2/home
Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/ISSC2018/[ngg_images 

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