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Symmetry 2023 - The 4th International Conference on Symmetry

Part of the International Conference on Symmetry series
21–23 Jun 2023, Barcelona, Spain

Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Symmetry Breakdown, Symmetry, Interdisciplinary Sciences
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Welcome from the Chairs

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that “Symmetry 2023 — The 4th International Conference on Symmetry” will be back in person in 2023. The event is supported by MDPI’s open access journal Symmetry and will be held on 21–23 June 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.

As expressed by Hermann Weyl, who was responsible for important progress in the field of symmetry in math and physics: “Symmetry is a fundamental phenomenon in nature and all sciences”. Additionally, paraphrasing Frank Wilczek, “powerful symmetry principles have guided physicists in their quest for nature's fundamental laws”. Although one should add, at the same time, that many of the most interesting situations happen to occur when some fundamental symmetry principle is broken. It thus seems as if nature abhors perfect symmetry.

It is this interplay between symmetry and its breakdown, in the many different domains and situations where they appear, which we want to address in the 4th Symmetry Conference in Barcelona. Specifically, we will foster interaction between scholars working in different fields of science.

We welcome scholars, engineers, students, and non-academic colleagues to join Symmetry 2023, and we kindly ask you to save the date. The aim is to make this event a forum for discussion, knowledge exchange, and fruitful interactions among stakeholders working in the different symmetry-related fields: Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering Science. Both oral and poster contributions are welcome.

We are very enthusiastic about this 4th Symmetry Conference and are relying on you to make it a successful event.

We look forward to meeting you in Barcelona!

Kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde
Prof. Dr. Juan Luis García Guirao
Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Symmetry 2023 Conference chairs

Conference Secretariat

Dr. Elena González
Ms. Lee Li
Ms. Kira Yang

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Event Chairs

Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Introduction
Bio
Prof. Emilio Elizalde is the founding leader of the “Theoretical Physics and Cosmology” group of the CSIC Institute for Space Science (ICE-CSIC), in Bellaterra (Barcelona, Spain), and of the Catalan Institute of Space Studies (IEEC). The group, now co-leaded by Prof. Sergei D. Odintsov (whom Prof. Elizalde attracted to Barcelona in 1992) is highly recognized internationally and leader in Spain in its field. Prof. Elizalde was actually a cofounder of both ICE and IEEC, two institutes that have consistently topped all rankings of the Science Citation Normalized Impact Factor for Spain institutions during the last fifteen years. Prof. Elizalde has received Honorary Professorships from Tomsk TSPU University and from TUSUR University, and the Gold Medal and an Honor Certificate in recognition of Scientific and Academic Services from the first one. Five times “Visiting Scholar” at MIT (Mass, USA), he has got two prestigious “Invitational Fellowships of the Japan Government for Excellent Researchers” (2016, 2017) and four “Distinctions of Merit” from the National Higher Research Council of Spain (2013, 2016, 2018, 2019), where he become Professor Ad Honorem in 2020. He was elected Member of the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers, and Member of the prestigious Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath). He is a recipient of a “Connecting Great Minds” Certificate of Appreciation (World Scientific, 2016), and also of the Medal and the Founder’s Distinction Certificate of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Association of Spain, of which he was elected Secretary General and is presently Vice-President. His most recent book is “The True Story of Modern Cosmology” (Springer-Nature, 2021).

ICREA, Barcelona, Spain,
Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Introduction
Bio
Prof. Sergei Odintsov is an ICREA Research Professor at ICE (CSIC-IEEC). He is the author of about 650 articles cited over 55000 times, and two of his manuscripts were cited more than 2500 times. Prof. Odintsov is Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy, member of the European Physics Society, and the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation. He was awarded the Amaldi Gold Medal: European Prize for Grav. Physics 2014. Prof. Odintsiov is an Editorial Board Member of six journals. His h-index=112 (Google S.), h=104 (inspirehep). According to research.com he is ranked 273 among the Top 1000 Scientists in Physics in the world (2021).

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

Introduction
Bio
Juan Luis García Guirao is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at Technical University of Cartagena in Spain. He obtained his Degree in Mathematics at Universidad de Murcia (Spain) in 2001. As a result of covering all the subjects of the degree in four years, he used the last year to work on his master's thesis. Under the supervision of Professor Francisco Balibrea, Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis and founder of the Dynamical Systems Group of the Region of Murcia (http://www.um.es/sistdinamicos), he defended his Master Thesis in 2001 and PhD Thesis in 2004. His PhD had European Mention as he did a research stay at Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon under the supervision of Professor José Sousa-Ramos, one of the main researchers in Dynamical Systems in Portugal, and who passed away in 2007. He has had several positions in different universities: Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (now). In 2011, he became the youngest Mathematics Full Professor in Spain at 33 years old. Author of more than 200 research papers published in the best journals, he has supervised 5 PhD Theses and more than 10 Master Theses. He belongs to the Editorial Board of several journals, including MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. ranked first on the JCR 2010 list (Interdisciplinary Mathematics). Founder and Editor in Chief of Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences (Sciendo), he has been awarded with several international prizes such as NSP 2017 prize and 2018 Best paper Award from Differences Equations Society joint with Jaume Llibre. He is currently Head of the Dynamical Systems Group of the Region of Murcia. His research follows three lines: discrete dynamical systems defined in low dimensional spaces, study of the periodic structure of smooth systems using the homological Lefschetz theory, and analysis of Hamiltonian systems. Also, he applies the aforementioned lines to problems in the fields of economy, chemistry, and engineering.

Event Committee

Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Introduction
Bio
Prof. Dr. Iver H. Brevik obtained his PhD from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Trondheim, 1970, with the title: “A study of some relativistic aspects of thermodynamics and phenomenological electrodynamics”. He then became scientific assistant/fellow in theoretical physics in the same institute, 1963 - 1966 and 1968 – 1972. In 1966 – 1968, he worked at NORDITA (Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Fysik) and then, 1972 – 1988, he was a lecturer at Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy. Dr. Brevik was finally appointed Professor of Mechanics in 1988 at NTH. He retired from full position in 2009 but maintained a temporary position in the same institute until 2019. His research fields are hydrodynamics: air-bubble plumes, wave-current interactions; electromagnetic theory of continuous media: energy-momentum tensor, Casimir effect, laser radiation pressure; and Fluid cosmology: the early/late universe. Prof. Brevik has published about 330 refereed papers, alone or with collaborators in international journals, plus two books. He was chairman of the Physics section of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (2003-2008), and he is currently a member of Optical Society of America and International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.
Research Keywords
electrodynamics in continuous media; Casimir effect; cosmology; fluid dynamics

University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

Introduction
Bio
Dr. Almerinda Di Venere is Associate Professor in Biochemistry, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. She obtained her M.S. University Degree in Physics and her PhD in Biology and Physiopathology of Epithelium from University of Rome, "Tor Vergata", Italy. Her research is focused on the relationship between protein structure and function: a. conformational stability studies of proteins by equilibrium unfolding measurements; b. kinetic measurements of the folding/unfolding process of metal containing proteins; c. structural and functional behavior of monomeric and oligomeric enzymes under high pressure condition. Di Venere has a very good knowledge of fluorescence dynamics (both in phase and time-resolved techniques), circular dichroism, and rotational dynamics measurements of proteins in solution. She is author of about 60 scientific publications in the fields of optical spectroscopy of biological molecules, fluorescence instrumentation, and biomaterials.

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Cadiz, Spain

Introduction
Bio
Maria Luz Gandarias received her PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Sevilla, Spain. She joined the University of Cádiz in 1974. From 2000, she has been a full professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Cádiz. She has supervised 6 PhD and 2 Master students to date. From October 2023 she is Emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Cádiz Her research interests are the applications of Lie group methods to differential equations and conservation laws. She has published more than 150 research articles with more than 2000 citations in various international peer-reviewed journals with high impact factors and has delivered research talks at many international conferences. She is on the Editorial board of four international journals and has reviewed research papers for more than 20 academic journals. She has a Google citation h index of 25 with 2408 citations, Web of Science h index of 16, Scopus h index of 19 with 158 publications and 1383 citations. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8604-8272. Web of science researcher I-1581-2015

Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Introduction
Bio
Dr. Eduardo Guendelman is Full Professor at the Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. In 1985, he obtained his PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, under the supervision of Professor Alan H. Guth. After two PostDoc positions at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel (1985-1988) and at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (1988 – 1990), Prof. Guendelman was appointed Full Professor in Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (1990-1991). In 1991, he finally moved to the Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Research Keywords
gravity; cosmology; particle physics

Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Introduction
Bio
György Keglevich graduated from the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1981. He got PhD (1984), DSc (1994) and Dr Habil (1995) degrees. He has been the Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology for 22 years (1999– 2021). He developed P-heterocyclic research in the subject of 6- and 7-membered, as well as bridged P-heterocycles. Additional research interests include the modification of the P-functions, and mechanisms. He also deals with environmentally friendly (green) chemistry embracing MW chemistry, ionic liquids, new catalysts and selective syntheses. He also took part in pharmaceutical industrial projects marked by 3 patents. He is the author or co-author of 660 papers including 42 review articles, 3 books and 52 book chapters. 20 PhD degrees were born under his supervision, 4 degrees are in process. He is the Editor-in Chief of Curr. Org. Chem., founder E-I-C of Curr. Green Chem., and the Section-E-I-C of the “Chemical Section” of Symmetry. He is an Associate Editor for Curr. Org. Synth., Lett. in Org. Chem., Lett. in Drug Design and Discovery and Heteroatom Chem. He is Editorial Board Member for Molecules, Green Processing and Synthesis and Phosphorus, Sulfur, Silicon. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference of Phosphorus Chem. (ICPC). The 22. ICPC was arranged in Budapest/Hungary in 2018 under his chairmanship.
Research Keywords
organophosphorus chemistry; green chemistry; microwave chemistry; catalysts; ionic liquids

SIDIS Research Group, Department of Mathematics, Institute of Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering (IMACI), Polytechnic School of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain

Introduction
Bio
Miguel A. López is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at University of Castilla–La Mancha in Spain. He received the PhD degree in Mathematics at University of Murcia (Spain). He is an expert in dynamical systems. He mainly works in applied mathematics, engineering and mathematical physics problems. He has published many papers in high level research journals, he has advised several PhD thesis and he served as a Principal of the Polytechnic School of Cuenca (UCLM) for 8 years.

Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan,
Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Introduction
Bio
Prof. Shin’ichi Nojiri obtained his PhD in Science from Kyoto University, 1986. Then, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at RIFP, Kyoto University (1986-1987), at the Department of Physics, Kyoto University(1987-1989), at the KEK (1989-1991), and at the INS, Tokyo University (1991-1992). He then moved to the National Defense Academy where he was appointed Assistant Professor (1992-1995), Lecturer (1995-1997), and Associate Professor (1997-2006). Since 2006, he has been Professor at Nagoya University. In 2012-2019, he was the Director of the Center for Theoretical Studies, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University. Since 2019, he is Chair of the Division of Theoretical Studies, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University. His research covers Particle Cosmology, Elementary Particle Physics, and String Theory. In 2008, he was selected in “Fast Breaking Paper” by Thomson Reuters and was on the list of “Highly Cited Researchers” in 2014-2018. In 2014, he was awarded with the title of “Honorary Professor of Tomsk State Pedagogical University”.
Research Keywords
particle cosmology; quantum field theory; theoretical physics; quantum gravity; modified gravity

Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Introduction
Research Keywords
cosmology; inflationary cosmology; modified theories of gravity; physics of the early universe; dark energy; dark matter; supersymmetry; mathematical physics; high energy physics; theoretical physics; epistemic game theory; game theory

Institut FEMTO-ST CNRS UMR 6174, Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Besançon, France,
Quantum Gravity Research, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Introduction
Bio
Michel Planat was a researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research in France from 1982 to 2018. He is now a permanent visitor at this institute. From 1980 to 2001, he did research about nonlinear waves in piezoelectric crystals and 1/f noise in quartz resonators. He established links between 1/f noise and number theory. He did research about the Riemann hypothesis. He discovered Ramanujan sums signal processing. From 2002 to 2018, he was interested in quantum information theory with work about mutually unbiased bases, quantum entanglement and contextuality and quantum computing, using mathematical tools such as finite geometries, number theory, ‘dessins d’enfants’ and free group theory. Since 2019, he has collaborated with the QGR (Quantum Gravity Research) group in Los Angeles on topological quantum computing from three- and four-manifolds with the goal of establishing bridges between quantum computing, DNA and proteins, and quantum gravity.
Research Keywords
foundations of quantum theory; quantum computation; number theory; graph theory; finite groups and finite geometries; Grothendieck’s dessins d’enfants; quantum statistical physics; quantum brain

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
astro-particle physics; particle dark matter searches and model building; high energy astrophysics; theoretical high energy physics; particle physics beyond the standard model; models for the generation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe

Warsaw University of Life Science, Poland

Introduction
Bio
Ewa Daniela Raczyńska was born in 1954 in Radom, Poland. She received a M.Sc. (1978), Ph.D. (1984) and D.Sc. degree (1995), and also a Prof. title in Chemical Sciences (2007) from the Chemistry Department of the Warsaw University (Poland). She worked as an Assistant (1985-1987), Assistant Professor (1987-1997) and Professor (1997-2022) of Organic Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Life Science (SGGW, Poland). Since October 2022, she is a Professor Emeritus of SGGW. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Nantes, France (1985-1990), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France (1989-1992, 1994-1995, 1997, 2000), and University of California, Irvine, USA (1993-1994). Her research interest is mainly concentrated on physical organic chemistry, in particular on structure and acid-base equilibria of nitrogen containing compounds. She is also interested in tautomeric equilibria, substituent and solvent effects, structure-reactivity relationships, hydrogen bonding, inter- and intramolecular interactions, positive and negative ionization effects. She is an author or co-author of 160 papers, including two review articles in the Chemical Review (ACS Journal), published in 2005 and 2016, one on tautomeric systems and the other one on basicity of strong nitrogen bases.

ICTS Center of Lasers (CLPU), Spain

Introduction
Bio
Prof. M. D. Rodriguez Frias is Full Professor at University of Alcalá (UAH, Madrid) and since 2022 she serves as Director of the Singular Scientific Technical Infrastructure (ICTS) Center of Lasers (CLPU). She graduated on Fundamental Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and with a PhD fellowship she finished her PhD Thesis on Cosmic Radiation in the HEGRA (High Energy Gamma Ray Array) International Collaboration. First PhD Thesis in Spain in this array located at La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) and in this field of research. Postdoctoral fellowship for a postdococtoral stay at the Space Science Department of UNAM. Her main scientific interests have been focused on Astroparticle Physics, mainly Ultra-High and Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays from Earth and Space in the HEGRA, SOHO (ESA/NASA), Auger & JEM-EUSO international collaborations. Since 1990, she has been member or principal investigator of more than 50 research projects. More than 100 scientific research papers in referred international journals with a h index of 55, and g index of 102. She is Principal Investigator of the Spanish contribution, funded by the Space Program of MINECO under a coordinated project to the Extreme Universe Space Observatory telescope to be attached to the International Space Station and she is the Spanish representative in the Executive Committee of this Space Mission. Moreover she is the PI of the infrared camera, the Spanish contribution to two stratospheric balloon flights: the EUSO-BALLOON (CNES) stratospheric balloon launched from Timmins (Canada) and the NASA-Balloon launched from Fort Sumner (New Mexico). During a Sabbatical year in 2014 she is awarded a grant from the Severo Ochoa Excellence Program at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), a grant from DGAPA (UNAM) and an International Senior visitor grant at the University of Geneva from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Introduction
Bio
Prof. Misao Sasaki obtained his PhD in Science from the Department of Physics, Kyoto University, 1981. In 1983, he became an Assistant professor in the same Department and in 1986 moved to the Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hiroshima University. He became a full professor in 1995, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University. In 2002, he moved to Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University and, since 2018, he is Project Professor, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo.

Department of Complex Information Security of Computer Systems, University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Tomsk, Russia

Introduction
Research Keywords
theory and practice of complex information security systems; information security, mathematical modeling of difficult systems; algorithms of processing of big data; artificial intelligence in cybersecurity

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Juan M. Maldacena

Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA

Invited Speakers

Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey

Introduction
Bio
Dumitru Baleanu is a Professor at the Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania and a visiting staff member at the Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey. He got his PhD from the Institute of Atomic Physics in 1996. His fields of interest include the fractional dynamics and its applications, fractional differential equations and their applications, discrete mathematics, image processing, bio-informatics, mathematical biology, mathematical physics, soliton theory, Lie symmetry, dynamic systems on time scales, computational complexity, the wavelet method and its applications, quantization of systems with constraints, the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, geometries admitting generic and non-generic symmetries. Dumitru Baleanu is one of the pioneers of the fractional variational principles and their applications in control theory. He is one of the co-authors of the seminal paper entitled “Anomalous diffusion expressed through fractional order differential operators in the Bloch-Torrey equation”, published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance (2008), which now plays a fundamental role within diffusion weighted MRI. Dumitru Baleanu is co-author of 18 books published by Springer, Elsevier and World Scientific. His H index is 91 and he is highly cited researcher in Mathematics in 2021. Prof. Baleanu won several awards: 2020-Best Research Award, given by the ITSR Foundation Award 2020; 2020-Distinguished Researcher Award, given by the Jaipur Mathematical Society; 2019-Award for 20 years of successful scientific activity in the field of fractional calculus and its applications by Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey; 2019-Obada Prize, that recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research; 2018-ICFDA2018 Award, granted to inventors of new patents which address major problems and have a great perspective by use of fractional calculus in real world applications.

Department of Physics, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy

Introduction
Bio
Salvatore Capozziello is Full Professor of General Relativity and Cosmology at the Department of Physics of University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy) and former President of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV). He is the Coordinator of PhD program in Cosmology and Space Science at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples). He also teaches General Relativity at Gran Sasso Science Institute for Advanced Studies (L’Aquila) and he is Honorary Professor at Tomsk State Pedagogical University (Russia). He has been supervisor of almost 40 PhD and over 60 Master students in Physics and Mathematics. He spent several periods of his scientific career in USA, Germany, Poland, UK, Russia, South Africa, Canada, Brazil and Japan. His scientific activity is essentially devoted to General Relativity, Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics in their theoretical and phenomenological aspects. His main scientific achievements are related to the possibility to explain dark energy and dark matter phenomena by curvature invariants extending General Relativity to more general classes of theories. The results of these researches are published in over 600 papers appeared in several refereed journals. He is also author of monographic texts on Extended Theories of Gravity, Gravitational Lensing, Cosmology and General Relativity (Eds. Springer, Cambridge, Bibliopolis et al.).

Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Introduction
Bio
Born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1945, José F. Cariñena received the Master Degree in Physics in 1967 and in Mathematics in 1970 in Zaragoza University and obtained in 1972 his Ph.D. cum laude in Valladolid University under supervision of Luis J Boya. Since 1993 is Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where he has been heading a research team working in the area of Geometry, Mechanics and Control, mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, and the interface of mathematics, and particle physics. He is a member of several professional societies and was elected as a fellow (n. 33) of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Zaragoza in February 2001. He is referee of many international journals of physics and mathematics and has been Chairman or member of the Organizing Committee of several international scientific meetings. His scientific work has been mainly devoted to the study of mathematical techniques and its applications to physics and particularly of Differential Geometry and its Applications to Mechanics and Differential equations, and related fields in Mathematical Physics. He has been the Thesis Advisor of fifteen Ph. D. students and is currently member of other Editorial Boards as Advances in Mathematical Physics, Frontiers in Physics: Mathematical Physics, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, ISRN Mathematical Physics, Reports on Mathematical Physics, Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, and Symmetry.
Research Keywords
Geometric methods in physics and differential equations

Department of Mathematics, Universidad de Cádiz, Biomedical Research and Innovation Institute of Cádiz (INiBICA), Cádiz, Spain

Introduction
Bio
María Rosa Durán is an associate professor of applied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of University of Cádiz (Spain), where she also did her PhD “cum laude” in Mathematics, granted Extraordinary PhD in Sciences Award. Her thesis was focused on findings exact solutions in mathematical models in cancer, by applying Lie transformation groups. In this thesis, she also developed a mathematical model able to describe the phenomenon of transfer resistance in lung cancer using in vitro data. She has worked on methodological aspects and on mathematical models of tumor growth and the development of resistances. Currently, her research focuses on the development of mathematical models to optimize Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) treatments in children. Her mathematical toolbox includes partial differential equations, Lie symmetries, dynamical systems and discriminant analysis. She is head of the research group “Bifurcation theory and dynamic systems” at University of Cádiz and of the research group “Mathematical Medicine” at Biomedical Research and Innovation Institute of Cádiz, (INiBICA), doing research in collaboration with medical doctors in the oncohematology programme. She belongs to the Mathematical Oncology Laboratory in University of Castilla-La Mancha. She is the principal investigator of the following projects: “Relapse 0: Mathematics against childhood leukemia”, funded by the crowdfunding platform “Precipita: Activando la ciencia colectiva” and by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT); “Early relapse detection and treatment optimization for ALL through mathematical models and discriminant analysis”, funded by “ITI Cádiz 2019-Proyectos de Investigación en salud”. She has received three awards for the repercussion and social impact of the project of which she is principal investigator. As well, she has presented numerous communications in international congresses related to the study of mathematical models of tumour evolution.

Departament of Mathematics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

Introduction
Bio
Jaume Llibre (Barcelona, ​​1952) is a Spanish researcher, mathematician, professor and lecturer. During his career as a researcher he has published more than 1100 scientific articles and 21 books. Many of his publications appear in magazines such as the American Journal of Mathematics, Memoris of the American Mathematical Society, Advances in Mathematics, among others. The group of working on dynamical systems that he leads is an international benchmark in the investigation of dynamic systems. His contributions and research focus on celestial mechanics, Hamiltonian systems, dynamical systems, and qualitative research focused on the area of ​​differential equations.

Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan,
Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Introduction
Bio
Prof. Shin’ichi Nojiri obtained his PhD in Science from Kyoto University, 1986. Then, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at RIFP, Kyoto University (1986-1987), at the Department of Physics, Kyoto University(1987-1989), at the KEK (1989-1991), and at the INS, Tokyo University (1991-1992). He then moved to the National Defense Academy where he was appointed Assistant Professor (1992-1995), Lecturer (1995-1997), and Associate Professor (1997-2006). Since 2006, he has been Professor at Nagoya University. In 2012-2019, he was the Director of the Center for Theoretical Studies, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University. Since 2019, he is Chair of the Division of Theoretical Studies, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University. His research covers Particle Cosmology, Elementary Particle Physics, and String Theory. In 2008, he was selected in “Fast Breaking Paper” by Thomson Reuters and was on the list of “Highly Cited Researchers” in 2014-2018. In 2014, he was awarded with the title of “Honorary Professor of Tomsk State Pedagogical University”.
Research Keywords
particle cosmology; quantum field theory; theoretical physics; quantum gravity; modified gravity

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Introduction
Bio
Prof. Misao Sasaki obtained his PhD in Science from the Department of Physics, Kyoto University, 1981. In 1983, he became an Assistant professor in the same Department and in 1986 moved to the Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hiroshima University. He became a full professor in 1995, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University. In 2002, he moved to Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University and, since 2018, he is Project Professor, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo.

Department of Complex Information Security of Computer Systems, University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Tomsk, Russia

Introduction
Research Keywords
theory and practice of complex information security systems; information security, mathematical modeling of difficult systems; algorithms of processing of big data; artificial intelligence in cybersecurity

Physics Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Introduction
Bio
Herbert Weigel is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stellenbosch University (South Africa).He received his PhD at Siegen University (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. G. Holzwarth. Thereafter he spent several years as postdoc in Syracuse (New York), Orsay (France) and Tubingen (Germany). In Tubingen he also gained his 'Habilitation' (2nd PhD). He was then awarded a Heisenberg fellowship by the German Science Foundation (DFG) for a period of five years which he spent as researcher at the MIT, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and Tubingen. He became an Extra-curricular Professor at Siegen University before he moved to Stellenbosch as Associate Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2013. Prof. Weigel's research interests are centered around non-linear phenomena in (quantum) field theory. Most notably these are the so-called soliton solutions. They have a particle interpretation and can, for example, be used to model aspects of quantum-chromo-dynamics as low energy scales. He particularly investigated the relevance of strange degrees of freedom for baryons. More recently he also focused on the quantum effects for solitons (or soliton-like structures). Not only yields that study insight in the famous Casimir effect; it also shows that classically unstable field configurations can be stabilized quantum mechanically. In other cases these quantum effects may cause classically stable configurations to fade away. Prof. Weigel has (co)authored more than one hundred research publications, about half a dozen review articles and two monographs on his research projects.

Abridged Program

Wednesday 21 June 2023
Thursday 22 June 2023
Friday 23 June 2023
Morning Invited Talks
Short Talks
Invited Talks
Short Talks
Coffee Break and
Poster Session
Coffee Break and
Poster Session
Short Talks Short Talks
Registration Lunch Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks
Afternoon Welcome and Introduction
Invited Talks
Short Talks
Short Talks
Coffee Break Coffee Break and Conference Group Photo
Short Talks Short Talks

Wednesday 21 June 2023: 14:00 – 18:20
Thursday 22 June 2023: 09:00 – 13:30 / 14:45 - 18:15 / Conference Dinner: 20:30
Friday 23 June 2023: 09:00 – 14:00

Conference Program

Please find the Symmetry 2023 Conference Program below (last update 22 June 2023):

Wednesday 21 June 2023

13:00 – 14:00

Registration (Check-in)

14:00 – 14:20

Welcome from the Chairs
Introductory Talk : Emilio Elizalde - Einstein, Barcelona, Symmetry & Cosmology

Session Chairs: Emilio Elizalde and Sergei Odinstov

14:20 – 14:45

Jaume Llibre - On the Abel Differential Equations and the Polynomial Differential Systems

14:45 – 15:10

Salvatore Capozziello - Noether Symmetries in Non-local Gravity Cosmology

15:10 – 15:35

Alexander Shelupanov - TBC

15:35 – 15:50

Lorentz Jäntschi - Symmetry in Regression Analysis - Perpendicular Offsets - The Case of a Photovoltaic Cell

15:50 – 16:05

György Keglevich - Optically Acive Organophosphorus Compounds With Phosphonate, Phosphinate and Phosphine Oxide Functions: Preparation, Characterization and Utilization

16:05 – 16:35

Coffee Break
Session Chairs: María Dolores Rodríguez Frías and György Keglevich

16:35 – 16:50

Maria Luz Gandarias - Some Exact Solutions for a Lotka-Volterra Diffusive Model Applied for High-Grade Brain Tumors

16:50 – 17:05

Martin Tamm - Curvature Properties of Rotating Objects

17:05 – 17:20

Vyacheslav Klyukhin - Calculation of Forces on the High Granularity Calorimeter Stainless Steel Absorber Plates in the Compact Muon Solenoid Magnetic Field

17:20 – 17:35

Eleonora-Mihaela Ungureanu - Rhodanine Derivatives as Model for New Electrochemical and Colorimetric Sensors Based on Azulene

17:35 – 17:50

Jozsef Schindler - The Role of Chiral and Achiral Related Structures on the Enantiomer Recognition

17:50 – 18:05

Emanuel Willert - Boussinesq’s Problem for a Power-Law Graded Elastic Half-Space on Elliptical and General Contact Domains

18:05 – 18:20

Abubakar Usman - Construction of Pt@BiFeO3/O-g-C3N4 Heterojunction for Efficient Rhodamine B. Photodegradation Driven by Visible-Light

Thursday 22 June 2023

Session Chairs: Maria Luz Gandarias and Salvatore Capozziello

09:00 – 09:25

Shin'ichi Nojiri - F(R) Gravity at Present

09:25 – 09:50

María Rosa Durán - Applied Mathematics in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Works in Progress

09:50 – 10:15

Misao Sasaki - Primordial Black Holes May Be Dark Matter of the Universe

10:15 – 10:30

Carlos Heredia Pimienta - Noether’s Theorem for Nonlocal Lagrangians

10:30 – 10:45

Carmen Ferrara - Comparing Equivalent Gravities: Common Features and Differences

10:45 – 11:00

Michel Planat - SL(2,C) Algebraic Processing of Singularities at the Genome Scale: Transcription Factors and microRNAs

11:00 – 12:00

Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session Chairs: Misao Sasaki and Jaume Llibre

12:00 – 12:15

Stephen Anco - Generalization of Noether’s First and Second Theorems in Modern Form to Non-Variational PDEs

12:15 – 12:30

Alexey Lukoyanov - Symmetry of Topological Features in the Band Structure of Rare-Earth Monoantimonides

12:30 – 12:45

Alberto Sevilla - Fine-Tuning of Colloidal Polymer Crystals by Molecular Simulation

12:45 – 13:00

Tomohiro Inagaki - Super Restoration of Explicit and Spontaneous Breaking of Chiral Symmetry in Four-Fermion Interaction Models

13:00 – 13:15

Marcin Czapla - Novel Podand Ligand With Superhalogen Nature as Effective Molecular Trap

13:15 – 14:45

Lunch

Session Chairs: Shin'ichi Nojiri and Michel Planat

14:45 – 15:00

Ivan Nhlanganiso Madondo - Effect of Electrode Spacing on the Performance of a Membraneless Microbial Fuel Cell with Magnetite as an Additive

15:00 – 15:15

Bernard Piette - Near-Miss Polyhedral Cages: A Geometry for Artificial Protein Nano-Cages

15:15 – 15:30

Giuseppe Nisticò - Consistent Theories of Dirac Particle Derived From Invariance and Covariance Principles

15:30 – 15:45

Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton - A Scalar Product for Computing Fundamental Quantities in Matter

15:45 – 16:00

Ana Niño-López - A Virtual Clinical Trial for Leukemia Therapy Using Mathematical Models

16:00 – 16:15

Ronald Ramos Montiel - Three-Dimensional Evaluation of Cranio-Cervical Maxillofacial Symmetry Before and After Implant-Assisted Maxillary Expansion

16:15 - 16:45

Coffee Break and Conference Group Photograh

Session Chairs: Herbert Weigel

16:45-17:00

Higinio Ramos - Development of Hybrid Symmetric Compact Finite Difference Schemes With High Resolution Characteristics for the Approximation of Derivatives

17:00 - 17:15

Alessandro Linzi - A New Symmetry in Valuation Theory

17:15 - 17:30

Andrew Pickering - On the Transformation Properties of a Sequence of Equations

17:30 - 17:45

Giuliana Galati - SND@LHC: A New Experiment on Neutrino Physics at the LHC

17:45 - 18:00

Daniel Martínez-Fernández - Heterogeneous Crystallization of Flexible Chains of Tangent Hard Spheres Under Confinement

18:00 - 18:15

Jaume Haro - An Analytic Formula to Calculate the Reheating Temperature via Gravitational Particle Production in Quintessential Inflation

20:30

Conference Dinner at Abrassame

Friday 23 June 2023

Session Chairs: Lorentz Jäntschi and Giuliana Galati

09:00 – 09:25

Dumitru Baleanu - About Lie Symmetry Analysis of Fractional Differential Equations

09:25 – 09:50

Herbert Weigel - Vacuum Polarization Energies of Solitons

09:50 – 10:15

José F. Cariñena - A Geometric Approach to Sundman Transformation and Its Applications in Integrability

10:15 – 10:30

Maxim Vavilin - Polychromatic T-Matrix: Group-Theoretical Perspective and Applications

10:30 – 10:45

Salvador Chulián - Predicting Relapse in Leukemia Using Topological Data Analysis and Machine Learning

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session Chairs: Dumitru Baleanu and José F. Cariñena

11:15 - 11:45

Pilar Gordoa - Integrability and Asymptotic Behaviour of a Matrix Lattice Equation

11:45 - 12:00

Lamya Baharith - The Odd Weibull-Inverse Gompertz Distribution: Properties and Applications

12:00 – 12:15

Irina Cristea - Arithmetic Functions Associated With Hypergroups

12:15 – 12:30

Sergio Mendoza - A Complete p-Poisson Description of Mondian Gravity

12:30 – 12:45

Tom Lawrence - Covariant Compactification: A Radical Revision of Kaluza-Klein Unification

12:45 – 13:00

Martiros Khurshudyan - Understanding the H0 Tension Problem With Machine Learning

13:00 – 13:15

Dmitry Ivankov - Symmetry and Asymmetry in Predicting the Impact of Single Mutations on Protein Stability

13:15 – 13:30

Marco Avila-Calle - Evolution of Structural Systems Through Dynamic Seismic-Resistant Behaviour. A Prospective for the Year 2100

13:30 – 13:45

Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks

Poster Sessions

Please find the list of posters HERE (last update 25 May 2023). You will be provided with a vertical poster board and your poster will be displayed based on your assigned poster number. Note that maximum poster size limited to A0: 84 x 120 cm / 33 x 47 in (width x height) in vertical orientation (portrait). Please print your poster prior to the conference.

Posters should be set up on Wednesday, 21 June in the afternoon, and they should remain in place for the entire event. Poster sessions are scheduled for Thursday, 22 June from 11:00 to 12:00, and on Friday, 23 June from 11:00 to 11:30. During these times you are required to stand at your poster. Posters must be taken down by Friday at 14:00. Any posters remaining after this time will be removed and recycled.

Conference Dinner

Thursday 22 June, 20:30h
45 EUR per person

We invite you to join us at the Conference Dinner at Abrassame, a cutting-edge restaurant specialised in Mediterranean cuisine which, in addition to its location at the pictouresque terrace of Arenas de Barcelona, will make of your evening at the restaurant an experience to remember.

The dinner will be at an additional cost of 45 EUR and will need to be booked separately in an independent registration. Please register and pay for it here before 13 June 2023 and save your seat. You are welcome to bring any accompanying persons by booking their seats. Please note that registrations onsite will not be permitted.

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Abrassame is located at the top of Arenas de Barcelona (Address: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 373 – 385), only a few minutes away from one of Barcelona’s most emblematic must-sees, Montjüic. You can easily reach the restaurant from the conference venue either by foot, taxi or public transport (buses number V7 or V9; metro L3 from Les Corts to Pl. Espanya). To reach the terrace, you could either use the exterior elevator (adults 1€; children, seniors over 65 years old, and people with reduced mobility are free) or climb through the stairs/elevators inside the shopping centre (free).

Conference Book

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Registration

The conference will be held fully in person, it is not possible to participate online. The registration fee includes attendance to all conference sessions, morning/afternoon coffee breaks, lunch, conference bag, and program book. Participation to the conference is considered final only once the registration fees have been paid. The number of participants is limited: once the number of paid registrations reaches the maximum number of participants, unpaid registrations will be cancelled.

Please note that abstract submission and conference registration are two separate processes. During registration, please provide us with the same email address you used to submit your abstract(s). Otherwise, leave us a comment in the registration form, providing the email address used during the submission process. In addition, please use your institutional email address for both processes. If you are registering several people under the same registration order, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual institutional email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.

Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 8 May 2023. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.

Group Registration: groups of 5 or more attendees are offered a 10% discount on the registration fees. To enjoy this discount you need to complete one multiple registration, by selecting the number of people attending in each category (type of registration) during the first step of the registration process. Please note that no other discounts will be applicable.

Certificate of Attendance: Participants of the event will be able to downlod an electronic Certificate of Attendance by accessing their dashboards on Sciforum.net once the event is concluded. The certificates will be found under "My Certificates" category.

Registration Options
Early Bird
Until 7th May 2023
Regular
Until 11th June 2023
Supported documents
Academic 350.00 EUR 400.00 EUR
Student 200.00 EUR 250.00 EUR Scanned copy or photograph of your current student ID, showing its expiry date, is required.
Guest Editor/Board Member of Symmetry 250.00 EUR 280.00 EUR
Symmetry Author/Reviewer 300.00 EUR 350.00 EUR
Non-Academic 500.00 EUR 600.00 EUR
Registration Options
Price
Conference Dinner 45.00 EUR

Free Registration Options
Chairs, Invited Speakers and Committee Members

Cancellation policy

Cancellation of paid registration is possible under the terms listed below:
> 2 months before the conference Full refund but 100 EUR are retained for administration
> 1 month before the conference Refund 50% of the applying fees
> 2 weeks before the conference Refund 25% of the applying fees
< 2 weeks before the conference No refund

Disclaimer

In the unlikely event that MDPI shall deem it necessary to cancel the conference, all pre-paid registration fees will be reimbursed. MDPI shall not be liable for reimbursing the cost of travel or accommodation arrangements made by individual delegates.

Beware of unauthorized registration and hotel solicitations

Note that Sciforum is the only official registration platform to register to Symmetry 2023, and that we are not associated with any hotel agency (other than the listed in the conference website). While other hotel resellers and travel agencies may contact you with offers for your trip, they are not endorsed by or affiliated with Symmetry 2023 or Sciforum. Beware that entering into financial agreements with non-endorsed companies can have costly consequences.

Insurance

The organizers do not accept liability for personal accident, loss, or damage to private property incurred as a result of participation in Symmetry 2023 –The 4th International Conference on Symmetry. Delegates are advised to arrange appropriate insurance to cover travel, cancellation costs, medical, and theft or damage of belongings.

Photographs and/or video will be taken during the conference

By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes to help achieve the conference’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications.

Payment methods

Wire transfer, Credit card

Instructions for Authors

Instructions

Symmetry 2023 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Moreover, participants will have the opportunity to contribute with a full manuscript to a Special Issue related to the conference in the open-access journal Symmetry.

The conference will be held fully in person, it is not possible to participate online. Please note that abstract submission and conference registration are two separate processes. Please use your institutional email address for both processes.

To present your research at the event
  • Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ on the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
  • Choose a session which is best suited for your research.
  • Submit an abstract in English - the word limits are minimum 150 words and maximum 300 words.
  • The deadline to submit your abstract is 31 March 2023. You will be notified about its acceptance by 28 April 2023.
  • Upon submission, you can select if you wish to be considered for oral or poster presentation (or both). Following assessment by the Chairs and Scientific Committee, you will be notified by 28 April 2023 whether your contribution has been accepted for oral or poster presentation.
  • Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 8 May 2023. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
Oral Presentations

Invited talks will be 25-minute long including questions (20 minutes oral presentation + 5 minutes Q&A). Short talks will be 15-minute long including questions (10 minutes oral presentation + 5 minutes Q&A).

Please ensure that your slides are formatted in widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio.

Poster Presentations

Each presenter will be provided with a vertical poster board. Maximum poster size limited to A0: 84 x 120 cm / 33 x 47 in (width x height) in vertical orientation (portrait). Please print your poster prior to the conference. A plan of the poster session will be circulated later.

Publication Opportunities
  • All accepted abstracts will be available online in Open Access form on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
  • Participants of this conference are cordially invited to contribute with a full manuscript to the Special Issue "Selected Papers: Symmetry 2023—The Fourth Edition of the International Conference on Symmetry" in the journal Symmetry, with a 20% discount on the publication fees. Additionally, five papers will be selected to be free of charge. Please note that no other discounts will be applicable.
  • Symmetry is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), CAPlus / SciFinder, Inspec, Astrophysics Data System, and other databases, and has an Impact Factor of 2.940 (2021) and a 5-Year Impact Factor of 2.834.

Venue, Travel and Accommodation

Venue

Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and largest city of Catalonia and is Spain's second largest city, with a population of over one and half million people.

Located on the northeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, this city has a rich and diverse history, with its roots dating back to Roman times. The fruitful medieval period established Barcelona's position as the economic and political centre of the Western Mediterranean. The city's Gothic Quarter bears witness to the splendour enjoyed by the city from the 13th to the 15th centuries.

The 20th century ushered in widespread urban renewal throughout Barcelona city, culminating in its landmark Eixample district, which showcases some of Barcelona's most distinctive Catalan art-nouveau, or modernista, buildings. The Catalan Antoni Gaudí, one of the most eminent architects, designed buildings such as La Pedrera, the Casa Batlló and the Sagrada Família church, which have become world-famous landmarks.

In 1992, Barcelona gained international recognition by hosting the Olympic games which brought about a massive upturn in its tourism industry. For visitors, this has translated into the very modern, yet incredibly old city you see now in the 21st century, where new elements work to both preserve and celebrate both the city’s heritage and origins.

Barcelona is plenty of outdoor markets, restaurants, shops, museums, and churches. The city is also very walkable, with an extensive and reliable Metro system for more far-flung destinations.

For a complete overview, see wikitravel.org or visit barcelonaturisme.com.

Foto de mediterraneo creado por bearfotos

The AXA Convention Center

The AXA Convention Centre is located in a vibrant modern zone of the city, with easy access from the airport, as well as the urban and suburban areas of the city. It is part of the "L'Illa Diagonal", a modern complex which includes a shopping centre, two 4-stars hotels, several offices, a sports centre, a public park, and a parking with 2500 spaces.

Address: Carrer de Déu i Mata, 111, 08029 Barcelona

Travel

By Plane:

The international airport of Barcelona is called Barcelona-El Prat and is located 10 km from the city centre. The airport is well connected to airport hubs in Europe and several locations around the world. For more information about the airport and flights, please visit the official website https://www.aena.es.

Once you get to the airport, you have several options to reach the city centre.

To the city centre:

- By shuttle bus: AEROBUS (https://aerobusbarcelona.es). This bus connects Barcelona Airport (Terminal 1 and Terminal 2) with the city center (Pl. Catalunya) in 35 minutes. It runs every day of the year with departures every 5 minutes and costs 6,75 €.

- By train: TRAIN R2 NORD (https://rodalies.gencat.cat). This train connects the Terminal 2 of the airport with the city center (Barcelona-Passeig de Gràcia). It runs every day of the year with departures every 30 minutes and costs 2,40€.

- By taxi: taxis just outside the arrival area. The taxi from the airport to the city center (Plaza Catalunya) costs approximately 30-35€. Public taxis can apply four types of fares in Barcelona. These fares must be visible inside the taxi, and are usually printed on a sticker over the window. Finally, the amount payable must be indicated on the taximeter. VTC apps that work in Barcelona are Bolt and Cabify and might offer cheaper rates.

To the conference venue:

- By metro: LINE L9 (https://www.tmb.cat). This metro line connects Barcelona Airport (Terminal 1 and Terminal 2) with the north-west of the city (Zona Universitària). From here you can take TRAM T1, T2, T3 (get off at L'Illa stop) or bus 7, 67 (get off at Diagonal - Entença stop) (https://www.tmb.cat). The metro from the airport costs 5,15 € and the tram or bus 2,40 €. You can buy the bus/tram ticket at the tram stop or on the bus.

- By taxi: taxis just outside the arrival area. The taxi from the airport to the conference venue costs approximately 30-35€. VTC apps that work in Barcelona are Bolt and Cabify and might offer cheaper rates.

By Train:

Barcelona Sants station is Barcelona's largest train station and provides rail services both in and around Barcelona and for the whole of Spain and beyond. For more information about the station and train service, please visit the official website https://www.renfe.com.

Once you get to the station, you have the following options to reach the conference venue:

- By bus: LINES V7 or 78 (https://www.tmb.cat)

- By taxi: taxis just outside the station. The taxi from the station to the conference venue costs about 10 €.

Accommodation

We want your stay in Barcelona during the conference to be as good as possible. With that in mind, we have agreed a discount with several hotels to make your accommodation choice easier. Please book your accommodation online and contact the hotels directly with any issues or requests related to accommodation bookings.

We are delighted to announce that the following hotels will offer a discounted price for all Symmetry 2023 attendees:

  • Arenas Atiram: The Arenas Atiram Hotel offers a highly personalized service together with very friendly, elegant facilities, and it is within walking distance from the conference venue.
  • Oriente Atiram and Meson Castilla Atiram: Located in Las Ramblas, have a fantastic central location, next to Plaza Catalunya and the famous Boqueria market, 25-30 minutes away (by metro) from the conference venue.
  • Tres Torres Atiram: Located in the center of one of the best residential neighbourhoods of Barcelona, next to the distinguished commercial and leisure districts Diagonal Avenue, 1.5 km away from the conference venue.
Please add the 10% discount code ‘MDPI23’ while making your reservation in any of the Atiram hotels.
    • Hostal Aslyp 114: The Hostal Aslyp114 is a cosy hotel with private rooms, located just 10 minutes away from the conference venue. Please add the 5% discount code ‘BCN114’ and indicate that you will be attending Symmetry 2023 while making your reservation.

    Beware of Unauthorized Registration and Hotel Solicitations

    Note that Sciforum is the only official registration platform to register to Symmetry2023, and that we are not associated with any hotel agency (other than the listed above). While other hotel resellers and travel agencies may contact you with offers for your trip, they are not endorsed by or affiliated with Symmetry2023 or Sciforum. Beware that entering into financial agreements with non-endorsed companies can have costly consequences.

    Visa Information

    Visa Support Letters

    • Applicants must have paid for registration and submitted an abstract in order to get a letter of support.
    • Applicants must provide us with a scan of their valid in date passport that contains a photo of them.
    • Applicants must provide us with an academic CV, two references from their institution (contact information including institutional email and phone) and a letter of support from their institution to confirm that they support the delegate attending the meeting.
    • This must be carried in good time before the meeting, “last minute” requests will not be processed.

    Event Awards

    The 4th International Conference on Symmetry announces the availability of awards for postdocs, PhD students and researchers conducting research in the field of symmetry and who plan to attend Symmetry 2023 - The 4th International Conference on Symmetry. Both awards are sponsored by MDPI's open access journal Symmetry.

    Best Oral Presentation (EUR 500)
    Selected by the Chairs and Invited Speakers after evaluation of all selected talks presented during the conference.

    We are pleased to announce that the Symmetry 2023 Best Oral Presentation Award has been granted to: Carmen Ferrara - "Comparing Equivalent Gravities: Common Features and Differences"

    Best Poster (EUR 300)
    Selected by the Chairs and Invited Speakers after evaluation of all posters presented during the conference.

    The Symmetry 2023 Best Poster Award has been granted to: Masahiko Taniguchi - "Cartan F(R) Gravity and Cosmological Accelerated Expansion"

    Congratulations to the two awardees!

    Sponsors and Partners

    We invite you and your company to participate in and sponsor Symmetry2023! Find all information on sponsorship opportunities in our Sponsorship Agenda. If you have any questions or wish to discuss options further, please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Secretariat. We thank you for your consideration!

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