Dr. Gyorgy Darvas, PhD

Physicist

S Y M M E T R I O N 

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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H-1051 Budapest

Hungary

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Hungary

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 The Symmetrion is an institute founded and maintained by the International Symmetry Foundation, in 1992. Its main aims are perfoming interdisciplinary research into the phenomena of different appearences of symmetrreies and symmetry breaking in and across the boarders of the individual disiciplines, between the arts and  the sciences, and among different cultures. Most remarkable achievements of the institute are in the fileds of developing the foundations of symmetrology, application of antisymmetry in image processing, the cognitive consequences of the cerebral asymmetries (more precisely dissymmetries and antisymmetries of the two human brain hemispheres), and extending the scope of the  theory of physical symmetries. It publishes the journal Symmetry (1990-), organises meetings, exhibitions, and develops teaching materials.

The Symmetrion intends to contribute to WP6: „BC - Data Base & Knowledge Management Systems and Communication“.  The contribution of the Symmetrion can be based on the phenomenon, that the active cortical neurons -- concerned in cogintive processes -- are fireing (are inflamed). Applying a thermal filter to brain images (taken by any method, MR or CT) to represent only higher temperature fields, and using these filtered images as subjects of the programme and method developed in the Symmetrion by G. Darvas (as patent owner), one can identifiy even single cells, that are active either only in the left or only in the right hemisphere. This information may be useful for the understanding of cognitive processes. The method can be applied to identify further asymmetric processes, and is intended to be developed further to be applicable to visualise information characterising further aspects of cognitive processes in the brain. Comparision of cognitive processes in equilateral animal brains and asymmetric hemispheric human brains are aimed at too.

CV of the key person

György Darvas (m) (1948) took his master degree in physics (1971) and in philosophy (1974) his dr.univ. degree (1985) and PhD (1996) at the L. Eötvös University, Budapest. He has been working in the Institute for Research Organisation of the Hunagraian Academy of Sciences (present status: senior research fellow), and is the director of the Symmetrion (1992-). He was a founding member and secretary general of the late Intnl. Symmetry Society (1989-2001), founder and CEO of the Intnl.Symmetry Association (2003-), editor of the journal Symmetry (Culture and Science) (1990-). He has nearly two hundred scientific publications, incl. 12 books, journal papers, etc., and a patent. More details at http://www.mtakszi.iif.hu/darvas.htm

Publications

Darvas Gy. (2003) Image processing based on dismounting into antisymmetric-symmetric components. Patent P0302597 Magyar Szabadalmi Hivatal.

Darvas, G. (1997) Symmetry in mathematics and world view, pp. 319-334, In: Agazzi, E, Darvas, G., eds., Philosophy of Mathematics Today, Episteme 22, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, xxix + 361 p.

Darvas, G. (2006) Symmetry (monograph), under publication at the Birkhauser, Basel, 425 p.

Darvas, G., Nagy, D. (1994) Wasan versus western mathematics: Asymmetry of the brain and education, pp. 321-324, In: Ogawa, T., ed., Katachi U Symmetry, Extended Abstracts, International Symposium, University of Tsukuba, 21-25 November, 1994, 360 p.

Darvas, G.,  Farkas, F. T. (2006) Animated graphic illustration of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD), Leonardo (under publication) 2006 January.

Darvas, G., (2001) Symmetry and asymmetry in our surroundings; Aspects of symmetry in the phenomena of nature, physical laws, and human perception, pp. 136-149, In: Peter Weibel, ed., Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded, Essays on Space and Science, Karlsruhe: ZKM, Center for Arts and Media, 703 p.

Darvas, G. (2002) Generalisation of the concept of symmetry and its classification in physics, The Official Electronic Proceedings Issue of the Wigner Centennial Conference , Pécs, 8-12 July, 2002, CD-ROM, item 48,  7 p.

Darvas, G. (2002) Generalisation of the concept of symmetry and its classification in physics,   http://quantum.ttk.pte.hu/~wigner/proceedings/papers/w48.htm; also to be appear in the  Heavy Ion Physics, 15. 

Darvas, G. (2003) Symmetry-antisymmetry, quasiperiodicity, and a classification of gauge invariances, In: Symmetry: A synthesis of constancy and change , Abstracts of the Symmetry Festival 2003, Program and papers, CD-ROM, 188darva.rtf, 1 p.