Videos Symmetry Festival 2016 – Vienna

Opening ceremony

Welcome address Peter Weibel
Chair: Larry Gould
Opening ceremony,
Welcome address, Peter Weibel (ZKM, Karlsruhe)

Welcome address, Keynote lecture: Peter C. Aichelburg
Chair: Larry Gould
Opening ceremony,
Welcome address, P. Weibel (ZKM, Karlsruhe)
Keynote lecture, Peter C. Aichelburg (Vienna University): Symmetry principles in Einstein’s theory of Relativity

Public Keynote lecture

Haresh Lalvani
Chair: György Darvas
Keynote lecture, Haresh Lalvani (Lalvani Studio, Pratt Institute, N.Y.): The Morphological Universe: Genetics vs Epigenetics in Form-Making

Keynote lecture

Benno Willke
Chair: Larry Gould
Keynote lecture, Benno Willke (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics): Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger – Dawn of a New Astronomy

Plenary lecture

Jay Kappraff
Plenary lecture, Jay Kappraff (New Jersey Institute of Technology): The Proportions of the Parthenon and its connection to a Vedic ceremonial Altar and to Earth

László Beke
Plenary lecture, László Beke (University of Fine Arts, Budapest): Kandinsky, black spots, black holes and sequels

Roy Howat
Plenary lecture, Roy Howat (Royal Academy of Music, London and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow): Symmetries overt and hidden in musical form

Kristóf Fenyvesi and Zsolt Lavicza
Chair: Kristóf Fenyvesi
Plenary lecture, Kristóf Fenyvesi (University of Jyväskylä): Symmetry in Education
Plenary lecture, Zsolt Lavicza (Johannes Kepler University – International Geogebra Institute): GeoGebra in Symmetry Education

Larry Gould
Chair: Kristóf Fenyvesi
Plenary lecture, Larry Gould (University of Hartford): Albert Einstein – Myth and Magic

Egon Schulte
Plenary lecture, Egon Schulte (Northeastern University, Boston): Skeletal Polyhedral Geometry and Symmetry

Michel Deza
Plenary lecture, Michel Deza (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris): Mathematician Geometry of Virus Structure

Panel discussion

Exploring Connections Between Relativity And The Arts
Panel discussion: Exploring Connections Between Relativity And The Arts
Moderator: Larry Gould
Panel members: Helmut Rauch, Renate Quehenberger, György Darvas

Sessions

Physics
Chair: Larry Gould
Peter Achinstein: Science and Simplicity – 00:00-43:25
Sascha Husa: From Einstein’s Theory to Identifying the Sources of Gravitational Waves – 43:25-01:20:10
Dezső Horváth: Antiparticle Spectroscopy – 01:20:10-01:48:05

Music and Symmetry (Part 1)
Chair: Konstantin Zenkin
Ivan V. Stepanyan: Bioinformatic Model Of Musical Hearing Improvement And Activation Of The Auditory Analyzer – 00:00-19:04
Ivan S. Soshinsky: Notation of Genetic Music for Classical and Encoding Instruments. Symmetric Substructures In Genetic Modes – 19:04-37:14
Sergey V. Petoukhov, E. S. Petukhova: Resonances, Walsh Functions And Logical Holography in Genetics and Musicology – 37:14-01:01:10
David Banney and Giuseppe Caglioti (read by K. Zenkin): Symmetry Reduction and Ambiguity in Music – 01:01:10-01:14:50

Music and Symmetry (Part 2)
Chair: Konstantin Zenkin
M. Stefanovich, Aleksey Nasretdinov: The Theories of Consonance and Dissonance in Music – 00:00-20:18
Igor A. Yevin and Aleksander A. Koblyakov: Pattern Recognition and Music Perception – 20:18-35:00
Alexander A. Koblyakov: “Transdimensional Dissymmetry” in Music, Language, Creation – 35:00-53:30

Music and Symmetry (Part 3)
Chair: Konstantin Zenkin
Tom Johnson: Other Harmony – Chords within Chords – 00:00-30:45
Gilbert Delor: Symmetry in Minimalist Music – Some Examples 30:45–01:00:19
Marina Karaseva: Nicolas Slonimsky’s «Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns»: A Practical Application of the Symmetry Principle in Music Education 01:00:19–01:18:25
Konstantin Zenkin: The Displays Of Symmetry through Time Structuring in Music in View of its History and Stylistics 01:18:25–01:40:26

Invariances In Non-Euclidean Geometries Applied To Physics (1)
Chair: Emil Molnár
Egon Schulte: Classification of Regular and Chiral Polytopes by Topology – 00:00-29:30
Robert Thijs Kozma and Jenő Szirmai: Symmetries of Horoball Packings Related to Famous 3-Dimensional Hyperbolic Tilings – 29:30-55:18
Emil Molnár: On the 8 Homogeneous 3-Geometries where Crystals Can Grow – 55:18-01:31:56

Invariances In Non-Euclidean Geometries Applied To Physics (2)
Chair: Emil Molnár
Rafael G. L. D’Oliveira and Marcelo Firer: Geometry of Communication Channels: Metrization and Decoding – 00:00-22:02

Invariances In Non-Euclidean Geometries Applied To Physics (3)
Chair: Emil Molnár
Emil Molnár, István Prok: How to Find Fundamental Domains for Space Groups? – 00:00-23:50
Renate Quehenberger: On a Geometric Visualization of Unifying Theories in Five Dimensions – 23:50-01:07:53

Symmetry and the Arts
Chair: Douglas Dunham
Vincent J. Matsko: Koch-Like Fractal Images – 00:00-26:10
Douglas Dunham, John Shier: Artistic Patterns: From Randomness to Symmetry – 26:10-59:10
Takashi Yoshino: Projections Of Escher’s “Circle Limit” on Hyperboloids – Visualization of Triangulation Patterns on Hyperboloids – 59:10-01:19:11

Education
Chairs: Kristóf Fenyvesi and Noah Dana-Picard
Noah Dana-Picard: A Glimpse at Mathematics in Jewish Traditional Artefacts – 00:00-35:39
Larry Gould: The Sound in Music – From Symmetrical Substructures to the Sound of Music – 35:39-01:04:51
Hans Walser: Puzzles and Dissections – 01:04:51-01:22:31
Natalija Budinski: Оrigami – An Educational Bridge Between the Mathematics and Art – 01:22:31-01:48:52
Kristóf FenyvesiDiego Lieban: Connecting Hands-on and Digital Problem Solving in Symmetry Education – 4D Frame and Geogebra in Experience Workshop’s Geodesic Dome Construction – 01:48:52-02:14:41

ISA

General Assembly of the International Symmetry Assotiation (ISA)
Chairs: Kristóf Fenyvesi
General Assembly of the International Symmetry Assotiation (ISA) – 00:00-41:47

Concert – Biocomputer Music

Eduardo Miranda: Biocomputer Music
Eduardo Miranda – prepared piano and Edward Braund – technical assistant
Film – On Making Music with Organic Processors: Biocomputer Music
Concert of Biocomputer Music at Symmetry Festival – 2016, Concert Hall of the Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna, Austria.
Recorded by Scott A. Olsen
Edited by Aaron Schmidt

Concert – Genetic Music

Ivan Soshinsky: Kinder Perpetuums
Natalia Cherkasova – piano modificato
Concert of Genetic music at Symmetry Festival – 2016, Concert Hall of the Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna, Austria.

Ivan Soshinsky: «Fata Morgana» for cello and live electronics
Benjamin Skepper – electric cello
Concert of Genetic music at Symmetry Festival – 2016, Concert Hall of the Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna, Austria.

Ivan Soshinsky: Ivan Soshinsky: Song of Genome
Ivan Soshinsky – virtual flute & electronics
Series of genetic miniatures «Kinder perpetuums»
Natalia Cherkasova – digital piano
Concert of Genetic music at Symmetry Festival – 2016, Concert Hall of the Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna, Austria.