Organizers
The organizers of the congress and exhibition are SEMA and ISIS-Symmetry.
SEMA is the acronym for Sociedad Estudios Morfológicos de la Argentina, the Argentinean Society for Morphologic Studies. SEMA was founded in Buenos Aires in 1996, and has organized since then five national and two international congresses. The official annual publication of SEMA is Cuadernos de la Forma. The society aims are to congreggate researchers, educators, producers and all scholars interested in morphologic studies. SEMA provides the opportunity of meeting and exchanging work among 250 members all over the country. There are six stable Regional Working Groups in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mar del Plata, Nordeste, Noroeste y Santa Fe.
Biannual Congresses held by SEMA in Argentina:
1997 (San Juan, Prov. of San Juan) → 1999 (Mar del Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires) → 2001 (Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe) → 2003 (Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba) → 2005 (Resistencia, Prov. of Chaco) → 2007 (City of Buenos Aires)
More information at www.sema.org.ar
The International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry), founded in 1989, provides a central forum for these activities. ISIS-Symmetry comprises several branches of science and art, while symmetry studies have gained the rank of an individual interdisciplinary field in the judgement of the scientific community. The Society has members in all continents, in over forty countries.
This movement started from Hungary not by chance. The study of symmetry was pioneered in several disciplines by Hungarian or Hungarian-born intellectuals, for example, the Hungarian geometrical school; the circle of E. P. Wigner, who received the Nobel-prize for his symmetry related discoveries in physics; and recently several acknowledged achievements and interdisciplinary publications in the related fields of chemistry and crystallography, as well as in brain research. In modern art one can mention the Hungarian professors of the Bauhaus, the symmetric motifs of Bartok’s music, (and the related musicological studies of E. Lendvai), the artistic and pedagogic activity of the Hungarian-born Victor Vasarely (France), Pierre Szekely (France), and Gyorgy Kepes (U.S.A.).
Triennial Congresses held by ISIS-Symmetry around the world:
1989 (Budapest, Hungary) → 1992 (Hiroshima, Japan) → 1995 (Washington DC, USA) → 1998 (Haifa, Israel) → 2001 (Sydney, Australia) → 2002 (midterm congress: Brussels, Belgium) → 2004 (Tihany, Lake Balaton, Hungary) → 2007 (City of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
More information at www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/vismath/isis0.htm
