Dear readers of Symmetry,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Travel Awards for The First International Conference on Symmetry 2017.

The awards are granted to Mr. Masashi Yamazaki, PhD student from Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Japan; Dr. Ekaterina Pozdeeva, postdoctoral researcher at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia; and to Dr. Juliane Fonseca de Oliveira, postdoctoral researcher at University of Porto, Portugal.

Mr. Masashi Yamazaki, PhD student, is the co-author of the paper “Relativistic Stars in de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley Massive Gravity” published in 2016 in Physical Review D. Dr. Ekaterina Pozdeeva is the author of more than 30 research articles, such as ”Possible evolution of a bouncing universe in cosmological models with non-minimally coupled scalar fields” published in 2016 in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Dr. Juliane Fonseca de Oliveira is a researcher who published a paper entitled “Hexagonal Projected Symmetries” in Acta Crystallographica in 2015. Each winner will receive 500 Euros with a certificate and a waiver of registration fees for the Symmetry 2017 conference. We congratulate them all on their valuable scientific contributions and would also like to thank all applicants for the very diverse and interesting submissions.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor in Chief and Chairman of the Conference Symmetry 2017