Dear colleague,

On behalf of the co-chairs of the Kauffman International Symposium on Sustainable Mathematics Applications (8th Intl. Symp.): Dr. Anastassios Bountis (University of Patras, Greece), Dr. Mark Johnson (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Dr. Sabah Karam (Duality Science Academy, United States), Dr. Pinchas Mandell (Family of Israel Foundation, Israel), Mr. Mike Mikalajunas (CIME, Canada), Dr. William Miller (Bioverse Foundation, United States), Dr. Garnet Ord (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada), Dr. Peter Rowlands (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom), Sir Dr. Ruggero Maria Santilli (Hadronic Technologies Corporation, United States), Dr. Ephraim Suhir (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, United States), Dr. Erik Trell (Linkoping University, Sweden), and Dr. Thomas Vougiouklis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece), in my capacity as President of SIPS 2025, I am pleased to invite you to participate as an author/speaker in this prestigious symposium.

This major symposium, which honors the lifetime achievements of Prof. Louis Kauffman, will take place from 17-20 November 2025 at the Dusit Thani Mactan Resort, Cebu, Philippines, as part of the SIPS 2025 Summit which is dedicated to Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Prof. Aaron Ciechanover.

Key Details:

Symposium Topics: topology, graph theory, knot theory, rope magic, knot logic, knots and lambda calculus, eigenform, state summation models for the Alexander-Conway polynomial, generalized Tait conjectures, virtual knot theory, welded knot theory, knot diagrams and their checkerboard graphs, knotoids in the sphere, plane, and surfaces, chirality of knotoids, Temperley-Lieb Recoupling Theory, nilpotent solutions of the Dirac equation, classification of rational tangles and rational knots, and many more.

Symposium Website: https://www.flogen.org/sips2025/Louis_Kauffman.php

Abstract Submission Link can be found at the bottom of the above website link

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Publication Details:

The papers will be double peer reviewed and published in the official Publication entitled: "Kauffman International Symposium" containing ISBN and ISSN numbers and indexed by Google Scholar joining more than 3600 SIPS articles that are already indexed in Google Scholar. FLOGEN SIPS Publications over the years have the following Google Scholar Citation Indexes: h-index=40 and i10-index=191. Furthermore, many papers upon significant updates will be subsequently published as part of special volume of a relevant Journal dedicated to this symposium.

If you are interested in delivering a keynote or invited lecture, please contact us with your proposed topic and abstract and the appropriate committee will take it into consideration and decide based on the SIPS criteria described in the website at Guidelines/Types of Presentations.

We look forward to your participation in this important event.

Best regards,

Dr. Florian Kongoli

President of the SIPS 2025 Organizing Committee

Chairman, FLOGEN Stars Outreach

Guest Member, European Academy of Sciences

Honorary Member, Lorraine Academy of Sciences

Presidium Member, Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gold Medal of the City of Nancy, France