1. Introduction
This conference volume presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Symmetry (Symmetry 2025), held on 16–19 May 2025 in Hangzhou, China. The conference aimed to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration among scholars, engineers, students, and professionals working in symmetry-related fields, including computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and beyond.
The topics of the conference were organized around the following sessions:
- S1.
- Physics;
- S2.
- Mathematics;
- S3.
- Chemistry;
- S4.
- Engineering;
- S5.
- Computer Science.
2. Plenary Speakers
- Prof. Dr. Ronggen Cai, Ningbo University: A QCD phase diagram by a holographic model.
- Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov, Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), The unified universe history from modified gravity.
- Prof. Dr. Jiping Zhang, Peking University: Symmetry and group action.
3. Conference Awards
3.1. Best Speaker Award
Jie Li: AI-driven sustainable manufacturing: Innovations in resource recovery and recycling
Jipeng Cheng: KP theory and infinite dimensional Lie algebras
Song He: Holographic correlators of boundary/crosscap CFTs in two dimensions
Taishi Katsuragawa: Compact star physics in F(R) gravity
Weiyang Ding: Dual-valued functions of dual matrices with applications in causal emergence
Yuanbin Zhang: Anion pillared metal-organic frameworks for gas separation
Zhijin Li: Next-to-leading order corrections to the conserved current three-point correlators in the large N expansion
3.2. Best Oral Presentation Award
Chi-kwong Fok: Equivariant formality of homogeneous spaces
Hao Li: ADTSA: An adaptive dual subpopulation-based tree seed algorithm for local optima avoidance and fast convergence
Hongguang Liu: Construction of regular black holes: effective dynamics and quantum gravity implications
Jinbiao Wang: Generalized bigraded Toda hierarchy
Ngoc Khanh Vu: Recent Dark “Matter/Photon/Higgs” search results from ATLAS
Qiang Xin: Novel non-probabilistic uncertainty-based fault diagnosis method considering sample distribution
Sandra Carillo: Fifth-order nonlinear evolution equations of soliton type: old and new results
Shimian Zhang: Learn from human eyes: Zero-shot recurring pattern detection on a multi-perception benchmark
Vasilios Raptis: Chemical equitable partitions: A new perspective on molecular and Crystal lattice symmetries, and its implications for the study of structure–property relationships
Xiaobin Li: Conjecture O and the gamma conjectures: A unified framework in quantum cohomology and geometric applications
Xiaoyan Chew: Asymptotically flat hairy black holes with (A)symmetric vacua
Zhimo Jian: Application of symmetry and fractional-order mechanics of bone in physical fractal space
3.3. Best Poster Award
Hongfang Gong: QCD topology and axion properties in an isotropic hot and dense medium
Huang Yue Ming: Simple primary amino amide organocatalyst for asymmetric hetero diels–alder reaction of isatins with enones
Ioannis Michos: Combinatorial comparison of trace monoids via their dependence graph symmetries
Takahiro Tanaka: Large gauge transformation in cosmological perturbation theory
Tianlyu Xu: Response of the mechanical and chiral character of ethane to ultra-fast laser pulses
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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