FACTO

            
ISA

            
TRANCOSO

            
ASA Art and Technology

            
BRIEF BIOS

            
György Darvas (1948) took his degrees in theoretical
            physics and in philosophy of science at the Roland Eötvös
            University, Budapest. His research field covers interdisciplinary
            studies of symmetries in the arts and the sciences - http://www.mtakszi.iif.hu/darvas.htm.
            He has published several books and nearly two hundred articles
            - latest: Symmetry - http://www.birkhauser.ch/978-3-7643-7554-6.
            He has been the editor in chief of the journal "Symmetry"
            [1990--] http://symmetry.hu/ . He was one of the co-founders
            of the ever first international symmetry society [1989], and
            he is the founder and CEO of the International Symmetry Association
            (ISA) http://symmetry.hu/. He organised a long series of international
            meetings and art+science festivals related to the study and applications
            of symmetries around the world. He is the director of the Symmetrion,
            an international institute of ISA in Budapest, with branches
            abroad. He used to be an invited professor of several universities
            from the U.S. to Japan, currently he gives lectures at the R.
            Eötvös University, Budapest, and the Lomonosov State
            University, Moscow. He is employed as a senior research fellow
            by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.