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Between April
            26 and 28, 2007, the 12th century medieval village Trancoso,
            in Northern Portugal, will promote, together with the Arts, Sciences
            and Technology Foundation - Observatory and the International
            Symmetry Association, from Budapest, the International Symmetry
            Meeting OREZ 1. It is an event with free admission that will
            have the presence of important scientists, mathematicians, artists
            and philosophers who will discuss questions related to symmetry
            and the world we live. The lectures will be transmitted in real
            time through Internet. Among the lecturers, the Meeting will
            have the presence of Cheryl Akner-Koler and Arijana Kajfes, from
            Sweden, on art and chemistry; Rachel Riemer, from the United
            States, researcher at the Harvard University - she was associated
            to Arhur Loeb who created, with Buckminster Fuller, the celebrated
            book Synergetics; the art historian Julia Wasserchuk, from Moscow;
            the art historian Donald McColl, from the United States; the
            Brazilian composer Eduardo Reck Miranda; the crystallographer
            and philosopher of science Gyorgy Darvas, from Hungary; the architect
            and composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, from Brazil and Portugal;
            the neurologist and cognitive researcher Alessandro Villa, from
            Switzerland; and the mathematician and philosopher Nuno Crato,
            from Portugal and the United States. It will also happen the
            projection of the film A White Balad, by the Italian cinematographer
            Stefano Odoardi, and a concert of the famous Italian violinist
            Maurizio Barbetti. Maurizio Barbetti was responsible for viola
            solos in movies by Oliver Stone and is a partner of the composer
            Ennio Morricone. There is no need of inscriptions to participate
            in the audience. The events will have place at the theatre and
            in the Romanesque church of the city.

            
More information
            at http://www.asa-art.com/orez1/1.html. Or directly by phone
            with Emanuel Pimenta - +351 919802813.