Art and Crystallography
Massimo Nespolo
The International Union of Crystallography is doing several efforts to
strengthen the understanding and the development of the relations between
crystallography and many different branches of art. A new commission on
Crystallography, Art and Cultural Heritage (tentative title) is now being
considered and will most likely be officially proposed during the
forthcoming General Assembly in Osaka, Japan, next August.
In the last IUCr congress (Florence, Italy, August 2005), a special
session on Art and Crystallography was held with much success. As a
continuation of it, a special session on the same topic will be held also
during the XXI IUCr Congress in Osaka. This will be held as an evening
session on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, from 19:00 to 21:35. We have two
invited lecturers (Emil Makovicky from Copenhagen and Yoshihiro Kusano
from Kurashiki), who will present several examples of crystallographic
patterns and their symmetry in the Japanese and foreign art.
We would to invite you consider submitting an abstract for this evening
session. You can find the registration form and abstract submission form
at the congress website, http://www.iucr2008.jp/ Our session is marked as
"ES" or No. 99. For this special session the restriction of one abstract
per presenting author does not apply.
We hope to see you soon in Osaka!
Massimo Nespolo and Kazumasa Ohsumi,
Chairpersons of the Evening Session on Art and Crystallography
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Pr Massimo Nespolo
Laboratoire de Cristallographie et de Modélisation
des Matériaux Minéraux et Biologiques (LCM3B)
UMR - CNRS 7036
Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques
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