Program

The following is the Program for the 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress. Apart from the activities considered in the Social Program and SIS-General Assembly, all the sessions will take place at Auditório Fernando Távora in FAUP. Detailed descriptions are found below, in Papers Sessions and Social Program., in Papers Sessions and Social Program. Apart from the activities considered in the Social Program and SIS-General Assembly, all the sessions will take place at Auditório Fernando Távora in FAUP.

DAY 01 | 11.07.2022, Monday

14:00 RECEPTION (the reception will be held in the Atrium of the Faculty of Architecture, until 18:00)

15:30 WELCOMING COFFEE^B

16:30 OPENING SESSION

• JOÃO PEDRO XAVIER, Congress Honorary Chair and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto
• PEDRO ALARCÃO, Vice-Director of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism
• MANUEL COUCEIRO DA COSTA, President of the General Assembly of Aproged, the Portuguese Geometry and Drawing Teachers’ Association
• VERA VIANA, Congress Chair and President of the Board of Directors of Aproged

17:15 KEYNOTE SESSION

• Keynote Session 01: Συμμετρια – Symmetria – Symmetry. Zoo- And Ethno-Mathematics, Birth of the Term in Greece, Survival in the Theory of Architecture, Rebirth in Art and Science, and the Future Tasks, with Outlooks to “Portuguese Symmetries” and Camões, and to the Golden Section with Less “Gold” and without Leonardo.
  • DÉNES NAGY, Congress Chair and President of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Hungary

18:15 GUIDED TOUR TO FAUP

DAY 02 | 12.07.2022, Tuesday

PAPERS SESSION A | SESSION MODERATOR: TAKASHI YOSHINO

• 09:00 | Paper A.01: Maurits Cornelis Escher: When a Simple Empty Plane Comes to Life.
  • Carlos Santos, Portugal
• 09:15 | Paper A.02: Antisymmetry in Portuguese Ceramic Tile Façades.
  • João Nunes, Andreia Hall and Paolo Vettori, Portugal
• 09:30 | Paper A.03: Space Tessellations – Polyhedral Sculpting.
  • Werner Van Hoeydonck, Austria
• 09:45 | Paper A.04: Interlacing Islamic Art with the Teaching of Symmetry in Portuguese Schools.
  • Paula Rita, Nuno Bastos and Andreia Hall, Portugal
• 10:00 | Debate

10:30 COFFEE-BREAK^B

PAPERS SESSION B | SESSION MODERATOR: MARIA ZACK

• 11:00 | Paper B.01: Symmetry and Landscape Representation. Internal Order and Picturesque .Singularity.
  • Joan Carles Oliver, Spain
• 11:15 | Paper B.02: Symmetry in Shape and Symmetry in Motion of Digital 3DCharacters.
  • Ratko Obradovic, Ivana Vasiljevic, Filip Mirceski And Isidora Djuric, Republic of Serbia
• 11:30 | Paper B.03: Split Plywood as a Platform for Creative Research on Symmetry. Between Beauty And Symmetry, Between Art and Design.
  • Adi Hamer Yacobi, Israel
• 11:45 | Debate

LUNCH^B

PAPERS SESSION C | SESSION MODERATOR: CORNELIE LEOPOLD

• 14:00 | Paper C.01: Transformation in Implementation. Symmetry Concepts in Industrial Design Products.
  • Patricia Muñoz, Argentina
• 14:15 | Paper C.02: Symmetry And Variance. Generative Parametric Modelling Of Historical Brick Wall Patterns.
  • Sevgi Altun, Mustafa Cem Güneş, Yusuf Hüseyin Şahin, Alican Mertan, Mine Özkar and Gözde Ünal, Turkey
• 14:30 | Paper C.03: Dynamic Symmetry, Harmony, and Balance in Naqsh-E-Jahan Square of Ispahan.
  • Mohammadmahdi Alizadeh and Clara Pimenta do Vale, Portugal
• 14:45 | Paper C.04: Four Houses by Kazuo Shinohara. Symmetry and Topology.
  • Filipe Magalhães, Portugal
• 15:00 | Paper C.05: (In)Visibilities from the Interval’s Dissymmetry. Reflections Through Távora’s Japan and Sartre: The Tennis Pavilion.
  • João Cepeda, Portugal
• 15:15 | Paper C.06: Frontally Framed Compositions. Iterations Through a Recognizable Trope.
  • Ana Luisa Soares, Portugal
• 15:30 | Debate

16:00 COFFEE-BREAK^B

16:30 KEYNOTE SESSION

• Keynote Session 02: Symmetry In Mathematics and the Mathematics of Symmetry.
  • ANTÓNIO MACHIAVELO, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal

18:00 GUIDED TOUR TO CASA DA MÚSICA^A,C (googlemaps)

20:30 CONGRESS DINNER^A,C in Restaurante Terrela (googlemaps)

DAY 03 | 13.07.2022, Wednesday

EXCURSION DAY^A (departure time: 08:00)

• Bus trip from Porto to Leça da Palmeira
• Guided Tour to Casa de Chá da Boa Nova and Piscina das Marés
• Guided Tour to Quinta da Conceição Swimming Pool
• Lunch^B in Quinta da Conceição
• Bus trip from Leça da Palmeira to Braga
• Guided Tour to Estádio Municipal de Braga
• Bus trip from Braga to Porto.

DAY 04 | 14.07.2022, Thursday

PAPERS SESSION D | SESSION MODERATOR: DÉNES NAGY

• 09:00 | Paper D.01: Application of Aperiodic Tiling to Lattice Spatial Structures: A Family of Aperiodic Patterns on Spherical Caps.
  • James Durn and Alireza Behnejad, United Kingdom
• 09:15 | Paper D.02: Perspective Perovskites.
  • Eugene Katz, Israel
• 09:30 | Paper D.03: A Combined Research Platform of Structural Morphology, dealing with the Ordered 3D Space.
  • Michael Burt, Israel
• 09:45 | Paper D.04: Fullerene-Like Architecture of Pollen.
  • Irina Delusina and Eugene Katz, United States of America
• 10:00 | Debate

10:30 COFFEE-BREAK^B

PAPERS SESSION E | SESSION MODERATOR: EUGENE KATZ

• 11:00 | Paper E.01: Persian Velvets of the 17^th Century: Symmetry, Craft, and Technology.
  • Carol Bier, United States of America
• 11:15 | Paper E.02: Applying Symmetry inFigured Velvet Design.
  • Barbara Setsu Pickett, United States of America
• 11:30 | Paper E.03: Crossings. Flying Over Antisymmetric Truchet Friezes.
  • Andreia Hall, João Nunes And Paolo Vettori, Portugal
• 11:45 | Paper E.04: Playing Symmetries. Portuguese Sidewalks.
  • Alda Carvalho, Carlos Santos, Jorge Silva And Ricardo Teixeira, Portugal
• 12:00 | Debate

LUNCH^B

PAPERS SESSION F | SESSION MODERATOR: JOÃO PEDRO XAVIER

• 14:00 | Paper F.01: Symmetry Concepts as Design Approach. Aesthetics Between Irregularity and Regularity.
  • Cornelie Leopold, Germany
• 14:15 | Paper F.02: Symmetry in Motion. Stellae Octangulae, and Equifaced Polyhedra.
  • Gunter Weiss, Austria
• 14:30 | Paper F.03: Polyhedrons, Art, And Architecture In Renaissance Venice.
  • Cosimo Monteleone, Italy
• 14:45 | Paper F.04: Analogy and Symmetry: Some Heuristic Spatial Generalizations of the Octagon.
  • Antonia Redondo Buitrago, Spain
• 15:00 | Paper F.05: Torricelli’s Computation of the Area Under the Cycloid.
  • Maria Zack, United States of America
• 15:15 | Debate

16:00 COFFEE-BREAK^B

16:30 KEYNOTE SESSION

• Keynote Session 03: S, M, L, Xl, Y, Z. Images With Count, Weight, and Measure.
  • OS ESPACIALISTAS: LUÍS BAPTISTA, DIOGO CASTRO and SERGIO ESTEVÃO, Portugal

18:00 SIS-SYMMETRY GENERAL ASSEMBLY (more information here)

DAY 05 | 15.07.2022, Friday

09:00 PAPERS SESSION G | SESSION MODERATOR: LUIGI COCCHIARELLA

• 09:00 | Paper G.01: Functional Asymmetry In Fly’s Wing Veins As Pipe Network.
  • Kazuki Sugiyama, Yoshihiro Kubota, and Osamu Mochizuki, Japan
• 09:15 | Paper G.02: Seed, Tree, Forest… Building Harmony Symmetry Through (Sacred) Creativity.
  • Joana Ribeiro, Portugal
• 09:30 | Paper G.03: Characteristics Of Water Supplying Network on Leaf.
  • Yuki Ishizaki And Yoshihiro Kubota, Japan
• 09:45 | Paper G.04: Relationship of Proportions, Floorplan Patterns, Typology, and Symmetry in Religious Architecture With Particular Focus on the Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Interwar Hungary.
  • Eszter Hajós-Baku, Hungary
• 10:00 | Paper G.05: The Language Revival Diamond (LARD): Revivalistics in the Mirroring Service of Rectifying Linguicide.
  • Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Australia
• 10:15 | Debate

10:45 COFFEE-BREAK^B

PAPERS SESSION H | SESSION MODERATOR: COSIMO MONTELEONE

• 11:15 | Paper H.01: Constructing Symmetric Bamboo Domes and Bamboo Spheres. The Shape of Fullerenes C60 and C80 as a Template For Domes.
  • Caspar Schwabe, Japan
• 11:30 | Paper H.02: Symmetry In Encoding Information. Search For Common Formalism.
  • Marcin Schroeder, Japan
• 11:45 | Paper H.03: A Semiotic Folly: Seeking the Opposite of a Circle.
  • Lynn Arnold, Australia
• 12:00 | Paper H.04: The Development and Role of Symmetry in Ancient Scripts.
  • Peter Revesz, United States of America
• 12:15 | Paper H.05: Unexpected Sense of Symmetry Inside Projection.
  • Luigi Cocchiarella, Italy
• 12:30 | Debate

LUNCH^B

16:30 SPECIAL SESSION^A,C in the Church of Clérigos (googlemaps)

• Special Session: The Architectural Complex of Clerics: A Mix of Baroque Symmetries.
  • JOÃO PEDRO XAVIER, Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal

18:00 TOUR, TASTE AND FADO in CAVES CALEM^A,C (googlemaps)

DAY 06 | 16.07.2022, Saturday

PAPERS SESSION I | SESSION MODERATOR: GÜNTER WEISS

• 09:00 | Paper I.01: Symmetries in Classical Music. From Guillaume De Machaut to Cesar Franck.
  • Carlota Simões, Portugal
• 09:15 | Paper I.02: Mathematical Aspects of a New Spherical Musical Instrument: Sphereharmonic.
  • Maria Mannonea and Takashi Yoshino, Japan
• 09:30 | Paper I.03: Symmetry in Literature, the Perspective of a Mathematician.
  • Natalia Bebiano, Portugal
• 09:45 | Paper I.04: Symmetry Relations in Crossed-Arch Domes. Comparison Between the Persian and Spanish-Muslim Traditions.
  • Clara Pimenta do Vale, Portugal
• 10:00 | Debate

10:30 COFFEE-BREAK^B

PAPERS SESSION J | SESSION MODERATOR: CARLOTA SIMÕES

• 11:00 | Paper J.01: The Golden Section: There Was Always a First Time – But When Was It?
  • Albert Van Der Schoot, The Netherlands
• 11:15 | Paper J.02: On the Ubiquity of Symmetry In Logical Geometry.
  • Hans Smessaert And Lorenz Demey, Belgium
• 11:45 | Paper J.03: Ambiguous Symmetry: The Typical Case of Human Beings.
  • Jean-Yves Beziau, Brazil
• 12:00 | Debate

12:30 CLOSING SESSION

LUNCH^B

A Activities considered in the Social Program.

B All the lunches and coffee-breaks mentioned are provided by the Organization.

C The trip to the activity’s location is not included in the registration fee.