Bolyai200
Art-Science Fest
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of János Bolyai's letter sent from Timișoara: "from nothing I have created a new and another world" (November 3, 1823 )
Preliminary program
Friday, November 3, 2023.
Location: New Millennium Reformed Center (Splaiul Morarilor 1b)
Six teams of students participate in each event and prepare as many media productions as possible about the festival and Bolyai's personality. The best results are promoted on the event's website and will be awarded at the closing ceremony. After the event, the awarded works will be translated into English and presented to the general public.
16:30 Bolyai and Timișoara – cultural route – Timișoara (approx. 20 minutes)
Gathering in the parking of the West University of Timișoara
A cultural route that pays tribute to Bolyai's personality: a) Western University (Blvd. Pârvan 4.) – Bust of János Bolyai; b) Bolyai Street – a monument with multilingual signs on the wall of the house where János Bolyai worked as a military engineer in 1823. Memorial wreaths-laying ceremony.
17:30 Theater performance – Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre from Timișoara (Str. Alba Iulia, nr. 2)
István Kocsis: Space – monodrama about the faith, struggle and loves of János Bolyai, performed by Aba Sebestyén
19:30 Bolyai Memorial – New Millennium Reformed Center (Splaiul Morarilor 1b)
Opening ceremony of the event, speeches
Prof. Nagy Dénes, International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, president
Prof. Kovács Levente, Óbuda University, rector
Prof. Nagy László, academician, KAB
Prof. Bitay Enikő, academician, EME president
Dr. Erdei Ildikó, Bartók Béla Foundation
Tamás Péter, Honorary Consul of Hungary in Timișoara
Prof. Nagy-György Tamás, KAB- Regional working group from Banat
20:00 Organ concert with contemporary works of the two Bolyai – organist: Ciurtin Viorel
Repertoire: J. S. Bach – Concerto II (PI, PII, PIII), G. F. Händel – Suit in G major HWV 441 Aria, G. F. Händel – Largo, F. Liszt – Le Rossignol, F. Liszt – Die Loreley, J. Brahms – Das ungar nr. 5, G. F. Händel – Simfonia from the oratorio Soloman – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
20:40 Welcome Reception: for registered participants.
Saturday, November 4, 2023.
9:00 – 13:00 Plenary presentations – first part
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 20:00 Parallel events
Workshops
W1. Dr. Renate Quehenberger, SciArt Researcher, Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS), Vienna – Origami Workshop: How to solve the riddle of Plato's „5th element“ with the 3D representation of the Penrose Kites & Darts tiling, named epitahedron (E±) by enfolding the unit cell of the 5-dimensional space. (in English)
Guests: artists from Timișoara
W2. Dr. Szilassi Lajos, assoc. prof., Univ. Szeged – Tactile geometry
Exhibition(s)
Dr. Renate Quehenberger, SciArt Researcher, Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS), Vienna – Exhibition in honor to János Bolyai: „From the Penrose tilings I’ve built the Poincaré Universe“
20:00 – 20:45 Violin recital – Paganini pieces, performed by Agigheoleanu Antonio-Leonard
(Paganini 5, Paganini 9, Paganini 19, Paganini 20, Paganini 24, Sonata in A Major, Sonata "Prayer" (Fantasia of Moses).)
20:45 Dinner with wine tasting: for registered participants
Sunday, November 5, 2023.
9:00 – 12:00 Plenary presentations. Awards. Closing ceremony
12:00 Traveling home
Speakers, presentations (confirmed, but not final list!)
Dr. Bagosi Zsolt, assoc. prof., Univ. of Szeged – The time and place of János Bolyai in the history of pandemics
Dr. Bitay Enikő, academician, EME president – About the Importance of interdisciplinary research.
Dr. Bodó Barna, honorary professor, Sapientia Univ. – Researches on the life and activity of János Bolyai in Timișoara.
Dr. Bokor József, academician, ELKH vice-president, Dr. Szabó Zoltán, SZTAKI – Hyperbolic geometry in system theory.
Dr. Egyed Emese, professor, UBB Cluj – The relationship between art and science – Farkas Bolyai’s relationship with art.
Dr. Fodor Ferenc, professor, Univ. of Szeged – The continuation of the spirit of the two Bolyai in Szeged.
Dr. Gábor Csilla, academician, UBB Cluj – Science and art. The artistic approach in the works of Farkas Bolyai and János Bolyai.
Dr. Gall Anthony, professor, Óbuda Univ. – Károly Kós: a renaissance style champion for the preservation of beauty and place in Modern Transylvania 1905-1977
Dr. Jancsó Árpád, engineer, technology historian – From Kiskőrös to Timișoara – György Varga, head of the Engineering Division from Timișoara.
Dr. Jenkovszky László, Kiev Institute of Theoretical Physics – Memoir of Bolyai, Gauss and Lobacsevskij.
Dr. Kása Zoltán, professor emeritus, Sapientia Univ. – The relationship between János Bolyai and music – János Bolyai’s violin performance / American mathematician Halsted and the Bolyais.
Kopeczny Zsuzsanna, archaeologist, historian, Banat National Museum of Timișoara – The Bolyai family in the middle ages
Dr. Kovács Levente, professor, rector of Óbuda Univ. – Interdisciplinary science in the service of humanity.
Dr. Magyari Sára, assoc. prof., Partiumi Christian Univ. – “Bolyai” as a brand name(?)
Mandics György, poet, writer – János Bolyai is the man who dared to compete with God
Dr. Nagy Dénes, president, International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry – The two Bolyai in science and art – and around the world.
Dr. Nagy László, academician, UBB Cluj, KAB president – János Bolyai and gravity as seen by Zoltán Gábos
Dr. Nagy-György Tamás, professor, Politehnica Univ. Timișoara – The role and necessity of scientific workshops in divergent and creative thinking.
Dr. Páles Zsolt, academician, MTA-DAB president
Dr. Revesz Peter, professor, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln – How should society handle a genius? Some lessons from the story of János Bolyai (zoom presentation in English)
Dr. Quehenberger Renate, SciArt Researcher, Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS), Vienna – How to conceive a hyper-Euclidean geometry from Euclid’s 5th postulate
Dr. Soós Anna, assoc. prof., vice-rector of UBB Cluj – The relationship between art and mathematics from the perspective of fractals.
Dr. Szabó Péter Gábor, assoc. prof., Univ. of Szeged – In Search of the Lost Bolyai Relics.
Dr. Székely Gabriel, assoc. prof., Banat University of Agricultural Sciences – Architects and master builders in Timișoara during Bolyai’s era
Dr. Székely Gabriel, assoc. prof., Banat University of Agricultural Sciences – Architects and master builders in Timișoara during Bolyai’s era
Dr. Szenkovits Ferenc, assoc. prof., UBB Cluj – Astronomy of the two Bolyai.
Dr. Szilassi Lajos, assoc. prof., Univ. of Szeged – Euclid, Bolyai and our geometric approach.
Planned Book Presentation(s)
Sándor Téglásy: Dutch-Hungarian Protestant Relations Between the Two World Wars. Book presentation and translator’s reflections based on the presentation of the Hungarian translation of the book by Maarten J. Aalders
Planned reading performances
1. Nagy Dénes: Parallel biographies: Bolyai Farkas and Carl Friedrich Gauss, or letter-drama
Persons: Farkas Bolyai, János Bolyai, Carl Friedrich Gauss + Narrator
2. Butulescu Valeriu: Bolyai (The Science of Space) – Drama
The project is part of the National Cultural Programme “Timisoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” and is funded under the Grow Timișoara 2023 programme, implemented by the Center for Projects of the Timișoara Municipality, with sums allocated from the state budget, through the Ministry of Culture budget.
