th New Horizons August 1-5 2020 Virtual Atlantykron Academy for Learning ATLANTYKRON 2020 In these uncertain times due to Keeping in line with the ideals of COVID-19, World Genesis UNESCO, Atlantykron Summer NEW Foundation and Center for academy greatly promotes Complexity Studies have decided to UNESCO core goals to contribute HORIZONS announce the Virtual Atlantykron to the creation of sustainable Summer Academy of Learning 2020. development and intercultural This year’s theme “New dialogue by promoting Horizons” features top The Academy is a fun, exciting and collaboration among nations speakers and workshops unique learning experience, one of through education, science, in the fields of Sciences, its only kind in the world for the culture and communication. This last 30 years. It brings together year creates a wonderful chance to The Arts, Culture, hundreds of youth and world reach so many across the world, Communications and experts in many areas of science, from students, experts, public Sports, from around the culture, arts, sport and officials and other dignitaries. world. communications in an outdoor setting. Although this year will be Visit: https://atlantykron.org/ different, it is an opportunity study and explore the most important http://www.worldgenesis.org/ issues and sciences as well as other http://complexity.ro/ subjects, shaping our world today and tomorrow. Table of Contents New Horizons: Virtual Atlantykron Academy: August 1-5th 2020 1. Guest Speakers (by Subject) 2. Calendar of Conferences & Workshop’s 3. More information for Conferences and Workshop’s 4. Thank you to our Supporters “Never stop learning because lift never stops teaching.” Photo By: Silvia Nae Lin Pernille Special Guests Virtual Guest Speakers “The important th New Horizons: Virtual Atlantykron Academy: August 1-5 2020 thing is to never stop questioning.” Science Albert Einstein Erisa K Stilley Ravi Prakash MARS 2020 PERSEVERANCE - ROVER MISSION https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ Jaime Martinez Energy and Evolution Dr. Florin Munteanu Biosemiotics in the Reinterpretation of Nature Dr. Florin Colceag http://complexity.ro/ Generating and solving crises to avoid imbalances and Nina Munteanu catastrophes The Science and Meaning of Water Dr. Leon Zagrean Dr. Cristian Presura The Physics of Compact Stars Stan Jirman Planning and scripting a time-lapse movie Dr. Pierre de Hillerin STS-135 Endeavour Pompilian Tofilescu France McCloskey WHO'S AFRAID OF AUTONOMOUS CARS Maximize Your Memory Virtual Guest Speakers New Horizons: Virtual Atlantykron Academy: August 1-5th 2020 “Writing to me is Communications simply thinking through my fingers.” Isaac Asimov AUREL CĂRĂȘEL Romanian literature and the „CSF” (Colecția Science-Fiction) magazine www.colectiasf.ro CONSTANTIN D. PAVEL Published and Read Anywhere in CRISTIAN CÂRSTOIU the World www.colectiasf.ro „Carpathica 2020” – Romanian Sci-Fi www.pavcon.ro anthology https://www.amazon.com/Carpathi ca-2020-Cristian-Carstoiu- ebook/dp/B085XTQ8LD CLAUDIU MURGAN FLORIN PURLUCA Claudiu Murgan's novels and the history of Romania In the Vision of Writer www.claudiumurgan.com http://samovar.strangehorizons.com /2016/12/04/dust-praf/ Joan Roth Apocolyptic 2020 Virtual Guest Speakers New Horizons: Virtual Atlantykron Academy: August 1-5th 2020 The Arts Dr. Theodor Vasile Personal development workshop - relaxation session “A nation’s culture Mediation resides in the hearts and souls of its people.” Culture Mahatma Gandhi Chan Chow Wah NEW HORIZONS OF ANIMAL-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS Sports “Only those that can see the invisible can do the impossible.” Heather Caton-Anderson Frank Gains Yoga http://myhealthinmotion.com/ Calendar of Conferences & Workshop’s Saturday Sunday Monday August 1 August 2 August 3 Opening Ceremony Maximize Your Memory (Part 2 of 3) MARS 2020 PERSEVERANCE - ROVER 13:00 – 14:00 UTC France McCloskey MISSION Time: 12:00 - 13:00 UTC Ravi Prakash, Erisa K. Stilley, Dumitru Maximize Your Memory (Part 1 of 3) Prunariu and Alexander Mironov France McCloskey Living in Harmony animal/human Time: 14:00 - 15:00 UTC Time: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC relationships Chan Chow Wah Personal Development - Relaxation Round Table: New Horizons Time: 13:30 - 14:30 UTC Session (1 of 2) Roundtable Discussion: Dr. Theodor Vasile Time: 16:00 - 17:00 UTC Notions of Semiotics and Biosemiotics; Time: 15:30 - 16:30 UTC From Sign to Meaning Romanian literature and the „CSF” Dr. Florin Munteanu New Horizons of the Human Mind (Colecția Science-Fiction) magazine: Time: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC Dr. Leon Zagrean Aurel Carasel: Time: 15:30 - 16:30 UTC Time: 14:00 - 15:00 UTC "Carpathica 2020” – Romanian Sci-Fi anthology (Part 2 of 5) Post-apocalyptic literature in the The Physics of Compact Stars: White Cristian Carstoiu, Anamaria Borlan vision of writer Florin Purluca (Part 3 Dwarfs (Part 1 of 3): and Constantin D. Pavel of 5) Dr. Cristian Presura Time: 10:30 - 11:30 UTC Florin Purluca, Constantin D. Pavel, Time: 16:30 - 17:30 UTC Cristian Carstoiu Performance as a Standard of Life Time: 12:30 - 13:30 UTC Energy and Evolution Pierre de Hillerin, Radu Dop and Jaime Martinez Mihai Covaliu Time: 18:00 - 19:00 UTC Time: 18:00 - 19:00 UTC The Physics of Compact Stars: Black Holes (Part 3 of 3) The Physics of Compact Stars: Dr. Cristian Presura Neutron Stars (Part 2 of 3) Time: 16:30 - 17:30 UTC Dr. Cristian Presura Time: 16:30 - 17:30 UTC Apocalyptic 2020 (Part 1 of 2) Joan Roth Time: 18:00 - 19:00 UTC YOGA (Part 1 of 3) Heather Caton-Anderson Time: 18:00 - 19:00 UTC Calendar of Conferences & Workshop’s Tuesday Wednesday Special Notes August 4 August 5 Maximize Your Memory (Part 3 of 3) The Science and Meaning of Water Visit the daily periodical and France McCloskey Nina Munteanu and Florin Munteanu see more about the workshops Time: 12:00 - 13:00 UTC Time: 13:00 - 14:00 UTC and special guest speakers. Generating and Solving Crisis to Avoid Claudiu Murgan's novels Stone Ring Island Imbalances and Catastrophes and the history of a Romanian- AtlantyChronicle Dr. Florin Colceag, Sorin Repanovici Canadian writer (Part 5 of 5) and Radu Dop Claudiu Murgan Instructors: Adina Stoicescu Time: 14:00 - 15:00 UTC Time: 14:30 - 15:30 UTC Ion Gabriel Pusca-Lupisor Apocalyptic 2020 (Part 2 of 2) Elements of Complexity Science: Joan Roth Generation and Time: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC Measurement of Fractal Objects Dr. Florin Munteanu Time: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC Who's Afraid of Autonomous Cars Pompilian Tofilescu Planning and Scripting a Time-Lapse Time: 16:30 - 18:30 UTC Movie Stan Jirman Mediation Session (The Violet Flame) Time: 16:00 - 17:30 UTC Dr. Theodor Vasile Time: 17:00 - 18:30 UTC Romanian Writers Published Around YOGA (Part 3 of 3) the World (Part 4 of 5) Heather Caton-Anderson Constantin D. Pavel Time: 19:00 - 19:50 UTC Time: 17:30 - 18:30 UTC Closing Ceremony Sorin Repanovici YOGA (Part 2 of 3) Time: 20:00 - 20:30 UTC Heather Caton-Anderson Time: 19:00 - 20:00 UTC More information for Conferences and Workshop’s New Horizons: Virtual Atlantykron Academy: August 1-5th 2020 Dr. Florin Munteanu Biosemiotics in the Reinterpretation of Nature http://complexity.ro/ Biosemiotics in the reinterpretation of Nature 1 Lecturer: Dr. Florin Munteanu We are living into a realm of shapes and forms, a realm of signs. We use semiotics as the science that deals with the study. It’s an important domain in science because understanding is dependent on knowing, recognizing and assuming the mining of those signs. The meaning associated with the sign becomes the object of another science: Semantics. Between Sign and Significance (mining) has woven a network generated by feelings, experiences, and information acquired through education, self-development and through cultural development. This network, depending on the history and individual particularities, is responsible for the degree of understanding and interpretation of Nature and for the reactions we have in front of its evolution. From traffic signs to the alphabet, from a function chart to a household object, all these can be considered "signs" (shapes, patterns) that mediate communication in society. Form becomes an essential element in communication and communication an essential aspect of society itself. In this workshop we will talk about a special semiotics. A semiotics of the Living, the signs of Nature and not of the signs associated with the world of artifacts in which we are immersed today. Biosemiotics is a meta-discipline that studies Live Communication. 1 Correspondent member of the Technical Sciences Academy or Romania; full member or the Academy of Romanian Scientist, president of the Center for Complexity Studies. More information for Conferences and Workshop’s Signs are structures (patterns), packed in biomolecules (pheromones for example), and modulated on different carriers (acoustic, electromagnetic, photonic or phononic). The very shape of a butterfly or the drawing on the skin of a snake are "signs" that ensure communication in the realm of the living. From this perspective Signs are physical manifestation of information, a special kind of information. Viewed as In-Form (action) we talk about an ontological dimension nearby energy and matter, a new paradigm that can be used for a better understanding of the Nature. We will talk about the history Biosemiotics, working methods, evaluation techniques (fractal analysis, nonlinear evaluation of no periodically structures, data clusterisations) and some applications such as Music Therapy, Urban Sono-therapy and why not, even the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence