This is a continuation from a committee at the last ICUS in which symmetry was discussed as it is found in math, astronomy, biology, music and several other fields. The fact that certain similar symmetries are found at wildly different scales are investigated and propositions for their existence put forward.

• Abas, Syed Jan, The Precious Gift of Symmetry in Islamic Art
• Atalay, Bulent I., The Two Leonardos, Part I, Nature’s Numbers, Leonardo Fibonacci di Pisa
• Atalay, Bulent I., The Two Leonardos, Part II, Leonardo da Vinci
• Ataly, Michael K., Symmetry and Sidedness in Human Anatomy
• Fomenko, Anatoly T,. Modern Variational Calculus in Large
• Hamdan, Halimaton, The Structue of Microcrystalline Zeolites, Symmetry with a Purpose
• Kondepudi, Dilip K., The Enigma of Asymmetry
• Ricketts, Robert M., Various Forms of Symmetry and Beauty
• Tyler, Christopher M., The Human Expression of Symmetry, Art and Neuroscience

 

Committee 2: Holistic Medicine in Modern Health Care

Notwithstanding the incredible accomplishments of modern medicine in recent history, we find today the medical profession at a crossroads. Has modern medicine reached its limit, medically and financially? With billions of dollars being spent on health care today in the West, why is there such patient dissatisfaction? This committee will take a critical look at the alternatives offered by holistic medicine with experts and scholars from both the East and West.

• Becker, Carl, Religious Healing, Psycho-Spiritual, Laying on of Hands and Intercessory Prayer
• DePaula, Geraldine F., Aromatherapy, The Healing Uses of Essential Oils
• Hobbs, Ron, Integrating Science and Nature in a Global Health Care System
• Hui, Ka Kit P., Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the U.S., Incorporating TCM in Modern Health Care to Enhance the Care of Patients
• Kenner, Daniel C., The Potential of Modern Clinical Phytotherapy as a Whole System Science
• Kim, Tae-Soo, Two Cases of Cancer Patients Treated by Holistic Medicine
• Kit, Wong K., Chi Kung in Holistic Medicine and Modern Health Care
• Nagata, Katsutaro, Comprehensive Medicine – Its Philosophy and Methodology
• Oh, Hong Keun, Aromatherapy in Korea, A Direction of Research and Developmental Program
• Pirtle, Lizette C., and Sheppard-Hangar, Sylla, Aromatherapy, Uniting Body, Mind and Spirit – The Missing Model
• Thomlinson, Paul, Successful Holisitc Treatment of Chronic Depression

 

Committee 3: The Threat of Epidemics

With the development of vaccines and antibiotics within the last century, the medical establishment may have become overly optimistic in its feeling of dominance over microbes. As we have now learned they pose a serious threat to human well-being. This committee will look at the demographic, social, and political threats of recent epidemics with particular attention to AIDS, Ebola, and other potential epidemic microorganisms.

• Benedicton, Ole Y., The Ancestral Homeland of Plague and the Black Death’s Area of Origin
• Bergan, Tom, The Spanish Flu – A Pandemic with Extension to an Arctic Norwegian Community
• Brogger, Jan, The Cultural History of Epidemics
• Damman, Sigrid, Mukenenya – Metaphor of a Modern Plague
• Kakonge, Edward J.B., The Biochemical Challenges of HIV
• Lee, Ho Wang, The Threat of Hantaviruses and Vaccine
• Pincheira, Guido, Evolutionary Aspects of the Host-Parasite Relationship
• Puranen, Bi, Tuberculosis La Belle Dame sans Merci

 

Committee 4: Military and Police – Public or Private? Explorations in the Theory and History of Security Production

How should the security of the people be provided? This brings up one of mankind’s most fundamental problem: how best to protect life, property, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and create the conditions for a lasting peace. Since armies and police have not been very successful in the past and are likely to do even worse in the future, is there an alternative or supplement? This committee will clarify the issues and approach them from a unitary perspective.

• Basani, Luigi Marco and Lottieri, Carlo, The Provision of Law and Order in Political Theory
• Block, Walter E., National Defense and the Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Clubs
• Fleming, James, Signals, Storms and Surveillance, A Case Study in the Militarization of Economy and Society
• Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, On Government and the Private Production of Defense
• Hulsmann, Guido, Secession and the Production of Defense
• Hummell, Jeffrey R., The Will to be Free, The Role of Ideology in National Defense
• Kinsella, Stephan N., Police, Adjudication and Arbitration, Public or Private
• Radnitzky, Gerard, Democracy and War, Is Democracy More Peaceful than Other Forms of Government
• Stromberg, Joseph R., Mercenaries, Guerrillas, Militias and the Defense of Minimal States and Free Societies
• von Kuehneldt-Leddihn, Erik, Monarchy and War

 

Extra Session:

• Kuiper, T.B.H., Man’s Place in the Universe and the Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life
• Radnitzky, Gerard, The Boundaries of Science and Technology

 

Committee 5: Non-linear Structures in Natural Sciences and Economics

A continuation from the last conference. In the hard science, life science and the social sciences, many phenomena cannot be described from a linear perspective, such as, oscillations, diffusive properties, entropy growth, and so on. We can state that in these areas the processes are non-linear and do not lend themselves to linear treatment. In particular, one of the main features of any self consistent non-linear dynamic is the formation of non-linear structures. We can see this in mechanics (solitons, vortices, strange attractors), chemistry (Belousov-Zhaboltinsky reactions), dynamics (earthquakes), biology, human history, and world economy. Many of their features seem to be universal. These discussions will be directed to their application in the social sciences.

• Alonso, Marcelo, Change, Organization and Complexity, A Coherent Paradigm
• Artyushkov, Eugene V., Non-linear Processes of Accelerated Destruction of the Earth’s Crust
• Bisnovatyi-Kogan, Guennadi S., Dynamic Processes During Accretion in a Black Hole
• Chukbar, Konstantin V., Non-trivial Transport Phenomena, Sub- and Super-diffusion
• Fridman, Alexei M., Nonlinear Dynamics in Galactic Disks
• Gontar, Vladimir, Discrete Chaotic Dynamics and Time and Space in Complex Systems
• Kalda, Jaan, The Methods of Nonlinear Dynamics in the Analysis of Heart Rate Variability
• Lobanov, Alexei, I., Non-linear Effects in the Model of Human Blood Coagulation
• Petrov, Alexander A., Integrality Condiitons and Foundations of Mathematical Modeling of Economy
• Pospelov, I.G., Model of Firm in Transient Economy
• Rambidi, Nicholas G., Non-linear Structures and Dynamics in Non-trivial Chemical Systems
• Razumora, Ksenia A., Non-linear Dissipative Structures in Hot Plasma
• Shananin, Alexander A., Mathematical Model of Technological Change
• Velarde, Manuel G., Patterns, Waves and Solitrons in Fluids

 

Committee 6: Science and Music: A Unifying Concept

In the twentieth century various physicists, chemists, and biologists have looked for connections between the regularities in their fields and musical scores. In nature from elementary particles to galaxy clusters, including the specter of the elements, the structure of crystals and polymers, and biological and geological rhythm is made of waves, periodicities, vibrations and resonances. This committee will investigate the similarities and postulate the causes for them.

• Buchholtzer, Guy, A Musical Void in the Surrealist Quest, Ecounter with Pacific North West Coast Natives
• Daudel, Raymond, Science and Technology as an Inspiration and Support for Artists and Musicians
• de Gerlicz, Claude Gaudeau, The Human Body As a Crossroad Between Inner and Outer Vibrations, Examples of Biological Rhythms
• de Lannoy, Jean-Louis, The Sociology of Music, From Max Weber to Theodor Adorno
• Dukan, Laurent, Systemic Approach of the Influence of Classical Music on the Development of Emotional Intelligence
• Eaton, David, Music and Values in Western and Eastern Cultures
• Koussanellos, George, Anthropologic Basis of the Search for Harmony in the Structure of the Universe
• Lecourt, Edith, Music as a Pychic Elaboration of Physical and Relational Vibrations, Rhythms and Sounds
• Lefebvre, Roland, Music Patterns in Molecular Spectra and Structures Lekkas, Demetrios, The Missing Link of the Quadrivium
• Lekkas, Demetrios, The Music World Before, During and After Pythagoras
• Maruani, Jean, Musical Patterns at the Various Levels of Complexity in Nature
• Moraitis, Thanassis, Prehistoric Mode and Polyphony in the Balkans

 

Closing Plenary:

• Charles Habib Malik, The Search for Absolute Values
• Oscar Handlin, The Search for the Factual in History