International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry
The International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry ("International Symmetry Society") provides a central forum for the scholarly study of symmetry. The Society's community 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.
The Society was founded in 1989 following a hugely successful international gathering in Budapest. It has operated continuously since, publishing world class print and web journals and hosting an International Congress every three years:
- 1989 in Budapest, Hungary
- 1992 in Hiroshima, Japan
- 1995 in Washington DC, US
- 1998 in Haifa, Israel
- 2001 in Sydney, Australia
- 2004 in Tihany, Hungary
- 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2010 in Gmünd, Austria
- 2013 in Crete, Greece
- 2016 will be in Adelaide, Australia, Dec 1-6
Honorary Members of the Society:
- Jürgen Bokowski (Germany)
- Micheal Burt (Israel)
- Donald Crowe (USA)
- Istvan Hargittai (Hungary)
- William Huff (USA)
- Peter Klein (Germany)
- Michael Longuet-Higgins (UK and USA)
- Koryo Miura (Japan)
- Werner Schulze (Austria)
- Caspar Schwabe (Switzerland)
- Dan Shechtman (Israel)
Honorary Members of the Society (Passed away)
- Johann Jakob Burckhardt (Switzerland)
- Harold S. M. Coxeter (Canada)
- Victor A. Frank-Kamenetsky (Russia)
- Heinrich Heesch (Germany)
- Kodi Husimi (Japan)
- Yuval Ne’eman (Israel)
- Ilarion I. Shafranovskii (Russia)
- Cyril Smith (USA)
- Eugene P. Wigner (USA)