The 1st International Symposium on Square Bamboos and the Geometree (ISSBG 2022) was held online in a videoconference format on 21-22 November, 2022. The symposium was organized by Johan Gielis, visiting professor at the University of Antwerp, and co-founder of Genicap Beheer B.V. and the Antenna Company, where he is currently Vice-President of Research and Materials. The event was jointly sponsored by Genicap, First Impression Audiovisual and the Simon Stevin Institute for Geometry.

ISSBG 2022 brought together botanists, biologists, technologists, physicists, applied mathematicians and geometers. Contributions spanned a wide range of subjects, but the common themes were:

Cutting-edge research on form and shape in geometry and in the natural sciences;
Transcending boundaries.

Please click here to visit the conference website.