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For our sponsors Symmetry Festival 2009 Watch all plenary events of the Symmetry Festival on-line, real-time Central European Time (GMT +2), morning August 1 - afternoon Agust 4! http://videotorium.hu/hu/events/details/87 FOREWORD                                                   The Symmetry Festival 2009 is organized under the aegis of the International Symmetry Association (ISA) and under the patronage of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, main patron: Gábor Demszky, mayor of city Budapest Main theme: Symmetry in the History of Science, Art, Technology and Medicine 31 July - 05 August 2009, Budapest Contact Organised by the Symmetrion Science and art program series, the most important triennial event to bring together scientists, artists, educators and practitioners interested in symmetry, (its roots, what is behind, applications, etc.) or in the consequences of its lack. The Organising Committee and the Program Committee are the Boards of the International Symmetry Association (ISA) CONFERENCE CHAIR György DARVAS Symmetrion Preliminary Program Scientific program Main Building of the Technical University of Budapest Keynote speakers:              Theo Hahn (Germany, RWTH Aachen, Past President of the Intnl. Crystallographic Union)              Hermann Haken (Germany, Universität Stuttgart, Center of Synergetics)              Jay Kappraff (U.S.A.) and Sergey V. Petoukhov (Russia)              Meir Shinitzky (Israel, Weizmann Institute of Science)              Steven Weinberg (U.S.A., The University of Texas at Austin, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979) Plenary speakers:              Chaim Goodman-Strauss (U.S.A.)              Dezső Horváth (H)              Alajos Kálmán (H)              Solomon Marcus (RO)              Gábor Náray-Szabó (H)              Gerald Pollack (U.S.A.)              Yosef Scolnik (IL)              Tibor Toró (RO)              Tudor Zamfirescu (D) CURATOR and ART DIRECTOR Zsuzsa DÁRDAI International Mobil MADI Museum Foundation Art program series Key dates: Opening of the Symmetry Festival:  31 July, 19.00 Opening ceremony: B55 Gallery, Budapest, V. Balaton St. 2-4. Opening speach: Norbert Kroó, Vice President  of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Symmetry Festival 2009 is sponsored by the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology National Cultural Fund of Hungary B55 Gallery Gödör Club - Erzsébet tér Cultural Centre, Budapest ArtMill, Szentendre Fény Gallery, Budapest The Symmetry Festival 2009 is an event series connected to the 23rd International Congress on the History of Science and Technology satellite of the Bridges Conference Previous events in this series: Symmetry Festival 2003: Symmetry: A Synthesis of Constancy and Change Symmetry Festival 2006: Symmetry in Art and Science Education