Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Joe Rosen *
Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Tel. +1 301 610 7666; Fax: +1 301 610 7666
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Interests: symmetry; Curie principle; space; time; spacetime; quantum
* Private Address: 338 New Mark Esplanade, Rockville MD 20850, USA; Retired from Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Contribution:
Special Issue: Symmetry and Entropy
Managing Editor
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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Interests: molecular recognition; entropy; Gibbs paradox; irreversibility; stability; symmetry; similarity; diversity; diversity preservation; evolution; information theory; thermodynamics; enzyme inhibitors; heterocycles; isotopically-labeled compounds; Lewis acids and bases; quninoxaline N-oxides; photochemistry ESR; aromaticity; protein folding; nature of chemical processes
Assistant Editor
Ms. Laura Simon
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
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Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Cheryl Akner-Koler
Deptartment of Industrial Design, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, LM Ericssons väg 14, SE-126 27 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel. +46 8 450 41 00; Fax: +46 (0)70 279 83 76
Website: http://www.cherylaknerkoler.com/
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Interests: theoretical and applied aesthetics; formgiving intelligence; complexity and transformation; art projects and product design education
Prof. Dr. David Avnir
Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel. +972 2 658 5332; Fax: +972 2 652 0099
Website: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/avnir/
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Interests: materials science; chirality; symmetry; catalysis; composite materials
Dr. Stéphane Bellemin-Laponnaz
Institut de chimie, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg, 1 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Tel. +33(0)3 90 241 542
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Interests: asymmetric catalysis; ligand synthesis; coordination chemistry; organometallic chemistry
Dr. Kenneth S. Berenhaut
Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA
Tel. +1 336 758 5922; Fax: +1 336 758 7190
Website: http://www.math.wfu.edu/Faculty/berenhaut.html
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Interests: applied probability; convergence rates; mathematical inequalities; mathematical and statistical models; discrete dynamics; periodicities in sequences; statistical methodology; matrix inequalities; analytic, probabilistic and combinatorial number theory; discrete structures.
Dr. Sergey Borisenko
Institute for Solid State Research, IFW-Dresden, Helmnoltzstrasse 20, 01069, Dresden, Germany
Tel. +49 351 4659566; Fax: +49 351 4659440
Website: http://www.ifw-dresden.de/institutes/iff/research/SC/arpes
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Interests: unconventional superconductivity; strongly correlated electron systems; angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)
Dr. Victor Borovkov
Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tel. +81 6 6879 4128; Fax: +81 6 6879 7923
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Interests: induced chirality; chirality transfer; supramolecular chirality; chiral chromophores; circular dichroism; chiral materials and surfaces
Prof. Dr. William Chia
Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, 117604 Singapore
Tel. +65 68727010
Website: http://www.tll.org.sg/wchia.asp
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Interests: neural development; asymmetric cell division; myoblast fusion
Prof. Dr. Cheng-Wei Chiang
Department of Physics and Center for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, National Central University, Chungli 320, Taiwan and Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
Tel. +886 (0)3 280 4442; Fax: +886 (0)3 425 1175
Website: http://www.phy.ncu.edu.tw/~chengwei/
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Interests: heavy quark systems; CP violation; electroweak theory; Higgs phenomenology, Z' physics
Prof. Dr. David Cline
Physics & Astronomy Department, College of Letters & Sciences, UCLA, 3-166 Knudsen Hall, Box 951547, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
Website: http://personnel.physics.ucla.edu/directory/faculty/cline.htm
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Interests: astroparticle physics; solar neutrino puzzle and nucleon decay; unique detection of primordial black holes; gamma-ray astronomy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Symmetry of Life and Homochirality
Dr. Radovan Dermisek
Physics Department, Indiana University, 727 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Tel. +1 812 856 6918
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys/research/faculty/Dermisek.shtml
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Interests: electroweak symmetry breaking; supersymmetry; Higgs phenomenology; grand unified theory; flavor symmetry; origin of fermion masses and mixing
Prof. Dr. M. Lawrence Ellzey, Jr.
Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA
Tel. +1 95 747 7557
Website: http://psci203d.utep.edu/
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Interests: quantum chemistry; finite groups and their algebras; symmetry adaptation; computational methods; effective Hamiltonian methods
Prof. Dr. Albert Ferrando
Interdisciplinary Modeling Group, InterTech. Departament d'Òptica, Universitat de València. Dr Moliner, 50, E-46100 Burjassot (València), Spain
Tel. +34 96 354 4765; Fax: +34 96 354 4715
Website: http://www.intertech.upv.es/
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Interests: computational photonics; discrete symmetry and solitons; singular optics; nonlinear plasmonics; symmetry in cold atoms; nonlinear quantum electrodynamics
Prof. Dr. Karl Grammer
Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 1 4277 54766; Fax: +43 1 4277 9547
Website: http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/
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Interests: geometric morphometrics; computer supported analysis and simulation of human behaviour; human ethology
Prof. Dr. Hans Grimmer
Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Condensed Matter Research with Neutrons and Muons, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5234 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Tel. +41 56 310 2421; Fax: +41 56 310 2939
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Interests: symmetry of crystals and quasicrystals; magnetic symmetry; anisotropy of physical properties in crystals; coincidence site lattices; twinning
Prof. Dr. Magdolna Hargittai
Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P. O. Box 91, 1521 Budapest, Hungary
Tel. +36 1 463 3407; Fax: +36 1 463 4052
Website: http://www.amkcs.ch.bme.hu/HM/hm.html
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Interests: structural chemistry; models of molecular geometry; metal halides; gas-phase electron diffraction; computational chemistry; symmetry as a bridge between the sciences and humanities
Prof. Dr. Slavik V. Jablan
The Mathematical Institute, Knez Mihailova 35, P.O. Box 367, 1101 Belgrade, Serbia
Tel. +381 11 2630170; Fax: +381 11 2186105
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Interests: knot theory; discrete and combinatorial geometry; theory of groups; theory of symmetry; antisymmetry and colored symmetry; mathematical crystallography; symmetry analysis of visual arts; ornamental design; ethnomathematics
Prof. Dr. Shoichi Kai
Department of Applied Quantum Physics and Nuclear Engineering, and Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Tel. +81 92 802 3527; Fax: +81 92 802 3531
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Interests: pattern formation; bifurcation; instability due to symmetry; nonlinear dynamics; rhythm in life systems; symmetry breaking phenomena
Prof. Dr. Sidney F.A. Kettle
School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK
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Interests: molecular symmetry; symmetry and structure
Dr. Takeshi Koshiba
Area of Informatics, Division of Mathematics, Electronics and Informatics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
Website: http://www.tcs.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~koshiba/
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Interests: Theoretical computer science: computational cryptography; quantum computation; computational complexity theory; machine learning; Recent interests are: quantum computational cryptography; cryptographic pseudorandom generators; randomness extractors; cryptographic primitive protocols (e.g., commitment, oblivious transfer, zero-knowledge proofs/arguments)
Dr. Rémi Léandre
C.N.R.S., Institut de Mathematiques, Université de Bourgogne, 21000 Dijon, France
Website: http://math.u-bourgogne.fr/IMB/IMB2-membres.html
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Interests: stochastic methods in mathematical physics
Prof. Dr. Malcolm Levitt FRS
School of Chemistry, Room 27:2025, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England, UK
Tel. +44 23 8059 6753; +44 77 6652 2964 (mobile); Fax: +44 23 8059 3781
Website: http://www.malcolmhlevitt.com/
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Interests: magnetic resonance; time-dependent quantum mechanics
Prof. Dr. Klaus Mainzer
Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, Direktor der Carl von Linde-Akademie, Technische Universität München, Arcisstrasse 21, D-80333 München, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)89 2 89 2 53 60; Fax: +49 (0)89 2 89 2 53 62
Website: http://www.cvl-a.tum.de/mainzer1.html
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Interests: philosophy of science; symmetry and complexity
Contribution:
Special Issue: Complexity and Symmetry
Prof. Dr. Saeid Nahavandi
Alfred Deakin Professor, Chair in Engineering; Director, Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus, Geelong 3217, Australia
Tel. +61 3 5227 1231; Fax: +61 3 5227 1046
Website: http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/
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Interests: modelling; simulation and control of engineered systems; robotics, haptics and human machine interface
Prof. Dr. Emeka Nkenke
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital of Erlangen, Glueckstr. 11, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 9131 8534201; Fax: +49 9131 8535922
Website: http://www.mkg.uni-erlangen.de/mitarbeiter
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Interests: morphable models; prediction of facial soft tissue changes; craniofacial malformations; cleft lip and palate surgery; orthognathic surgery; head and neck oncology
Dr. Richard Palmer
Systematics and Evolution Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
Tel. +1 780 492 3633; Fax: +1 780 492 9234
Website: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/palmer/palmer.html
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Interests: animal asymmetry; morphological asymmetry; antisymmetry; evolution of development; handed behavior; developmental plasticity; symmetry-breaking during development
Dr. Marco Picariello
Dipartimento di Fisica, Salento University, Via per Arnesano, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
Tel. +39 0832 29 7612; Fax: +39 0832 29 7467
Website: http://www.le.infn.it/~picariel/
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Interests: conservation laws; standard model; local and global symmetries; symmetry breaking; supersymmetry and supergravity
Dr. Joel Ratsaby
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ariel University Center, Ariel 40700, Israel
Tel. +972 (0)3 907 6587
Website: http://www.ariel.ac.il/ee/pf/ratsaby
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Interests: discrete applied mathematics; statistical learning theory; pattern recognition and classification; machine learning
Dr. Dean Rickles
Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9351 8552
Website: http://www.usyd.edu.au/hps/staff/academic/Dean_Rickles.shtml
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Interests: history & philosophy of science; quantum gravity; gauge symmetries; econophysics
Dr. Yuka Sasaki
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Building 149, Room 2301, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Tel. +1 617 726 0364; Fax: +1 617 726 7422
Website: http://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/796/Yuka+Sasaki+PhD
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Interests: unconscious brain activity; visual/motor skill learning during wakefulness and sleep; non-invasive neuroimaging techniques including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Symmetry and Beauty
Dr. Michael Schlame
NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 First Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
Tel. +1 212 263 0648 (office); +1 212 263 0649 (lab)
Website: http://www.med.nyu.edu/research/schlam01.html
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Interests: biological membranes; cardiolipin; mitochondria; phospholipids; stereochemistry; thermodynamics
Prof. Dr. Paul v. R. Schleyer
Computational Chemistry Annex, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2525, USA
Tel. +1 706 542 7510; Fax: +1 706 542 7514
Website: http://www.chem.uga.edu/schleyer/
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Interests: adamantane synthesis; cage molecules; hydrogen bonding; reactive intermediates; computational chemistry; aromaticity and planar hypercoordination
Contribution:
Special Issue: Aromaticity and Molecular Symmetry
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Shpilrain
Department of Mathematics, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
Tel. +1 212 6505158
Website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/
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Interests: computational complexity; cryptography and information security: authentication; protocols; zero-knowledge proofs,; data privacy protection; combinatorial and computational group theory; theory of algorithms; affine algebraic geometry; knot theory
Prof. Dr. Ming-Liang Tong
School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Tel. +86 20 8411 0966; Fax: +86 20 8411 2245
Website: http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/bisc/Members02/200809/6478.html
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Interests: functional metal-organic framework solids; crystal engineering of molecular architectures; magnetic metal cluster; supramolecular chirality
Prof. Dr. Soren Toxvaerd
DNRF Centre of Viscous Liquid Dynamics "Glass and Time", Building 27, Universitetsvej 1, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Tel. +45 4674 2062
Website: http://dirac.ruc.dk/~st
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Interests: highly viscous liquids; phase transitions; phase separation and nucleation dynamics; self assembly in complex systems; origin of homochirality; molecular dynamics simulations of complex physical, chemical and biological systems
Prof. Dr. Svetlana Tsogoeva
Institut für Organische Chemie I, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Henkestrasse 42, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 9131 85 22541; Fax: +49 9131 85 26865
Website: http://www.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/oc/tsogoeva/
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Interests: asymmetric organocatalysis and organo-autocatalysis; synthesis of natural product hybrids for medicinal chemistry; redox-active metal complexes for asymmetric oxidation reactions
Dr. Christopher W. Tyler
Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Center, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, 2318 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Tel. +1 415 345 2105; Fax: +1 415 345 8455
Website: http://www.ski.org/cwt
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Interests: human symmetry perception; mathematical systems analysis; complexity theory; texture analysis; self-referential systems; symmetry in art; consciousness
Dr. Marlos Viana
University of Illinois at Chicago Eye Center, 1855 W. Taylor Street M/C 648, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Tel. +1 312 996 8384; Fax: +1 312 413 7376
Website: http://tigger.uic.edu/~viana/
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Interests: symmetry-derived algebraic methods for data analysis; symmetry studies
Prof. Dr. Steven Weinberg *
Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, TX 78712-0264, USA
Tel. +1 512 471 4394; Fax: +1 512 471 4888
Website: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/weinberg.html
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Interests: particle physics; unification of fundamental interactions; cosmology; astrophysics; supersymmetry; supergravity
* Prof. Dr. Steven Weinberg is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979
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