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Registering for the Nexus 2012 conference (Milan, 11-14 June 2012) consists of two steps:

1) Registering for the conference online: go the the conference webpage at:

http://www.nexusjournal.com/nexus2012-introduction.html

and click on the "Register" link in the menu on the right. This takes you to the website of the Politecnico di Milano, where you can create a user name and password.

2) Paying the conference registration fee: once you are registered, you need to log in with the user name and password you created, and there will be a "Payment" link on the left side. Click there, and pay the fee using any one of a number of accepted credit cards.

Registration is not complete until payment is made.

We are looking very forward to a great conference in Milan!

The deadline for early registration for the conference "Nexus 2012: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics" (11-14 June 2012) has been
EXTENDED TO 10 APRIL in order to allow those registering to take advantage of the lower fees for early registration.

If regisration is made by 10 April:
Participants 250 Euro
Speakers, PhD, students and accompanying persons 160 Euro
 
After 10 April:
Participants 350 Euro
Speakers, PhD, students and accompanying persons 200 Euro

Registration for the conference can be made by going to the conference website at:
http://www.nexusjournal.com/nexus2012-introduction.html
and clicking on "Register". This takes you to the registration page managed by the Politecnico di Milano. You will need to register with a name and password, and then log in. After logging in, you will see a menu on the left that includes "Payment". Payment can be paid by all major credit cards.

We are looking forward to an interesting and fun meeting in Milan and hope to see many there!

It is now possible to register online for the Nexus 2012 conference, 11-14 June 2012, in Milan. The fee for those who have been accepted as conference speakers is 160 Euros if registered before 31 March, and 200 Euros if registered after.  All other participants who register before 31 March 2012 pay a reduced conference fee of 250 Euros instead of the full fee of 350 Euros to be paid for those who register between 1 April and 11 June. It is also possible to attend single days only at the conference by paying a daily fee of 100 per day on the day of participation.

The registration process online is simple: from the conference website at http://www.nexusjournal.com/nexus2012-introduction.html click on "Register". This takes you to the website of the Politecnico di Milano. Simply provide information (name, address, e-mail) to create an account, then from the menu on the left side, select "Payment". Payment can be made with most major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc.).

We are looking forward to a fine conference in June!

By presidential decree of November 29, 2011, the State Prize of Ukraine for Architecture for 2011 has been awarded to Radoslav Zuk, Emeritus Professor at the McGill University School of Architecture. As leader of the design team, Prof. Zuk was awarded the prize for the design of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the city of Lviv.

Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, Lviv, Ukraine

Radoslav Zuk participated in Nexus 2004 in Mexico City, presenting a paper entitled "From Renaissance Musical Proportions to Polytonality in Twentieth Century Architecture". He will be present once again at Nexus 2012 in Milan to discuss "Three Musical Interpretations of Le Corbusier's Modulor".

Many, many congratulations to  Architect Zuk. Nexus is proud to have such a contributor, as well as a good friend!

The website for next year's conference, Nexus 2012: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, is now online. Click here to read all about it.

The website will be updated as information is available, with news about keynote speakers, conference program, how to register, and suggested hotels.  Mark the dates on your calendar:

Nexus 2012: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics
11-14 June 2012, Milan, Italy

Nexus Network Journal contributorDirk Huylebrouck has been officially named "Mad Professor" for his experiment with a footrace run clockwise. The 400m reverse experiment took place on Friday 16 September during the Diamond League athletic meeting in Brussels.

Dirk described his interest in this way: "Actually, I became interested in this topic through architecture: why do some buildings twist to the right, others to the left? No architect ever reasoned about this, it is just done "out of the blue"... Calatrava for instance says he was inspired by the human torso for the torsion in his Malmö tower, but that only pushes the question further: why did he choose a human torso that turned to the right?

You can watch the reverse 400m on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojMR7u6rhTs

NNJ contributor and scholar of archaeoastronomy Giulio Magli has collaborated with CNN on a report from Giza on why the pyramids were given their particular location. The link to the video, which was broadcast world-wide on CNN on Friday, 2 September, is:

http://backstory.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/01/the-revealer-revealed/

Prof. Magli, of the Politecnico di Milano, and member of the scientific committee for Nexus 2012, which will take place in Milan 11-14 June 2012, discussed this in his paper in NNJ vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 2009). You can read his article in the Nexus Network Journal at Springerlink.com.

Congratulations to Prof. Magli for this fascinating report.

Nexus authors have been busy! I'm very pleased to send news about five new publications by authors who are part of the Nexus community.

Branko Mitrovic presented a paper at Nexus 2004 in Mexico City. His new book, literally hot off the press, is Philosophy for Architects (Princeton Architectural Press, August 2011, ISBN 978-56898-994-5). The influence of philosophy on architecture has been manifest for centuries. Here, Mitrovic links philosophers from Plato to Derrida to architects from Palladio to Philip Johnson. More information on the Princeton Architectural Press website.

Tessa Morrison presented a paper at Nexus 2008 in San Diego about Villalpanda's reconstruction of Solomon's Temple. Her new book, Isaac Newton's Temple of Solomon and his Reconstruction of Sacred Architecture (Birkhauser, August 2011, ISBN 978-3-0348-0045-7) shows a surprising and unexpected facet of the great scientist. The book can be previewed on the Springer Link website: click here.

Ivan Tafteberg Jakobsen has been an welcome participant at many Nexus conferences. His new book, ANTONI GAUDÍ. Geometrien bag arkitekturen (Matematiklærerforeningen, ISBN 978-8790996437, in Danish), is a beautifully illustrated textbook on geometry and architecture for secondary school students. More information is available here.

Mathematicians Lionel March (Nexus 2002 in Obidos and Nexus 2010 in Porto) and Stephen R. Wassell (almost as many Nexus conferences as Kim!) teamed up with Kim Williams (director of the Nexus conferences and editor-in-chief of the Nexus Network Journal) to produce The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti (Birkhauser, ISBN 978-3-0346-0473-4). Includes translations and commentaries of Alberti's "Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum" (better known as "Ludi matematici"), "Elementi di pittura" (Elements of Painting), "De componendis cifris" (On Writing in Ciphers) and "De lunularum quadratura" (On Squaring the Lune). With a Foreword by Robert Tavernor (Nexus 2002, Obidos). The book can be previewed on Springer Link: click here.

David Speiser, a very active participant in the first 4 Nexus conferences, beginning in 1996, combined his career as a quantum physicist with a lifelong interest in the history of art. This new volume, Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art (Birkhauser, ISBN 978-3-0348-0138-6). A first volume of his collected essays on the history of mechanics is followed by this second collection, edited by Kim Williams, on relationships between science and art. It includes his paper "Architecture, Mathematics and Theology in Raphael's Paintings" presented at Nexus 2000 in Ferrara.  The book can be previewed on Springer Link: click here.

Congratulations to these authors! We'll be looking forward to reading reviews of these books soon in the Nexus Network Journal !