A view of the village Monteroduni, in the Province of Isernia, in the Molise Region, a couple of hours East of Rome, Italy, and of the Prince Pignatelli Castle. The village is perched on top of a hill overlooking the historical valley of the river Volturno, and still bears its medieval urban structure consisting of narrow spiral roads starting from the valley and ending at the entrance of the Castle with very narrow intersecting radial streets. The village was founded by the Pentria Confederation of the Sanniti, an Italic pre-Roman civilization. The Castle originated as a fortress in pre-Roman times which was destroyed by the Romans during the Sannitic wars, and subsequently rebuilt as a military stronghold (castrum) due to its strategic importance. During the Longobard period of the 9-th century, the Castle acquired a square structure with four towers at the corners surrounded by a protective wall. The area was subsequently invaded by German and Florentine troops of the Emperor Arrigo the Sixth under the command of Count Berthold Honebruch, who besieged Monteroduni on May 8, 1193, and died in that siege. The Castle was conquered and completely destroyed by the successor, Commander Corrado. Under the Anjoins Monarchy, the Castle was rebuilt according to its original Longobard style and awarded as a feud by Charles the First to Eustace of Anticort, a nobleman of French origin. In 1281 the feud was passed to the Italian counts of Eboli. On June 6, 1333, King Robert granted the feud to his wife, Queen Sancha. Subsequently, the feud was granted to Giovanna Durazzo, daughter of Charles Durazzo and Maria D’Anjou. In 1460 Monteroduni supported Giovanni D’Anjou against the King of Naples, Ferrante The First of Aragona. Having lost the battle, King Ferrante exiled the owners and passed the feud to Count Niccolo’ Gaetani. In 1503 the feud went to the D’Afflitto family. In 1668 the feud went to the Prince Pignatelli whose family occupied the Castle until recently. The Castle was purchased in 1991 by the Molise Region and passed to the village of Monteroduni for its administration. A systematic restoration work was initiated to bring the castle back to the original Longobard splendor, while having all modern facilities. The restoration works was interrupted on August 7, 1995, for the inauguration of the Prince Pignatelli Castle as the scientific headquarters of the Italian branch of the Institute for Basic Research under the Presidency of Prof. Ruggero Maria Santilli, assisted by an International Scientific Council and a Local Operating Board. Completion of the restoration of this historical Castle is expected within a few years.

       In early 1994 the President of the IBR, Prof. Ruggero Maria Santilli, a U. S. citizen originally born in the Italian Region Molise, was invited to organize a branch of the IBR at the Prince Pignatelli Castle located in the town of Monteroduni, Province of Isernia, Molise Region.
       On June 12, 1994, the Council of the town of Monteroduni voted unanimously the authorization for the permanent use of the Prince Pignatelli Castle as the scientific address of the Italian branch of the IBR.
       The Italian branch of the IBR was recorded in the Registry of Deeds of the Province of Isernia on June 12, 1995, with the legal structure of a Consortium Not for Profit among Institutions and Towns in Molise.
       The formal inauguration of the IBR-Molise took place at the Prince Pignatelli Castle on August 7, 1995, at the presence of officers, friends and dignitaries, 145 scientists from 33 different countries, numerous local residents and the Italian television.
       Following formal talks by the Prince Pignatelli, who inhabited the castle until 1991, and other dignitaries, there was the granting of the first IBR International Scientific Prizes (see Sect. 4 in this page).
       Scientific activities initiated the following day with seven international workshops in mathematics, physics and biology (see Sect. 6 below).
       On June 26, 1996, Deliberation no. 34, the Council of the Town of Monteroduni allocate the Forestry of the Prince Pignatelli Castle as scientific offices of the Italian branch of the IBR, plus the use of the Castle for scientific meetings.
       The Prince Pignatelli Castle is now under the final phase of restoration which is expected to last a few years.

       A view of the town of Pesche, Province of Isernia, Molise Region, Italy, a few miles north of Monteroduni. Pesche soil is well known among geologists because it is one of the very few soils throughout Europe dating back to prehistorical solidification of the magma, which has remained without additional sedimentations. Near-by escavations have confirmed this ancient character by discovering the oldest paleontological remains in Europe dating back 700,000 years (the Homo Aeserniensis). The birth of the town is lost in pre-Roman times with recorded history beginning with the construction of the Castle, one of the oldest and largest in the Molise Region. During the Longobard times, Pesche gave birth to Count de Molisee, a nobleman who eventually gave the name of Molise to the entire region. The rather peculiar distribution of the houses on a steep incline, one house above the other, motivated Pesche’s nickname of The library of the Kingdom of the Sicilies by King Ferdinand The First of Bourbon (1739-1825). Besides its unique geological, paleontological and societal history, Pesche is also the site of rather unique religious history. It began with a Pagan Temple during Roman times which was subsequently converted into a Catholic Sanctuary originally known as Saint Mary of the Holy Trinity and more recently named the Sanctuary of Saint Mary of the Bath (Santa Maria del Bagno) because of the apparently miraculous waters of a near-by brook. A visit to this Sanctuary is inspiring to persons of all faiths because of its simplicity, sense of history and peace. The rather unique flora and fauna developed on the hills over Pesche have motivated the first permit by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for the creation in Pesche’s territory of a Natural Oriented Reserve. A large parcel of land in the plane below the town has been selected by the Italian National Research Council to house a Technological Park. Formal approval by all necessary authorities was granted on February 1996, and ground is expected to be broken sometimes in 1997 for the construction of the main buildings. The Institute for Basic Research has been invited to propose three laboratories to be built in Pesche’s Technological Park as described in the text.

       Thanks to relentless efforts by Prof. Annibale Pizzi, of the University of Cassino, Italy, and Mayor of the town of Pesche, Province of Isernia, a few miles north of Monteroduni, on February 6, 1996, the Council of the Molise Region, granted final authorization for the construction in the town of Pesche of a Technological Park under the support of the Italian National Research Council in Rome as well as of the European Community.
       Funds for the construction of the main offices of the Technological Park were also allocated and their construction is expected to be initiated in 1997.
       In March 1996 Prof. Pizzi invited the scientists of the Institute for Basic Research to submit specific projects of applied technological character to be part of the Pesche Technological Park.
       An international panel of IBR members was then set up, which proposed specific Laboratories as listed in the next Page 9. The first official meeting of the Pesche Technological Park was held on October 26, 1996, with a presentation of said laboratories. Construction of the main facilities of the Technological Park was initiated in mid 1997. Ten acres have been formally allocated to the IBR for the constructed of the proposed Laboratories, as described in Page 9 of this Web Site.

The IBR International Scientific Prizes consist of beautiful artistic bells about half a meter high with the name of the winner cast in the bronze to signify its preservation through the passing of time.
The artistic bells are designed and cast by the historical factory Marinelli, located in the town of Agnone, Molise, Italy, near Monteroduni.
The Prizes are specifically intended for fundamental novelty in scientific inquiries and are granted by an International Scientific Committee.
The following Prizes were granted on August 7, 1995, at the Castle Prince Pignatelli, at the presence of the Prince, local dignitaries, IBR officers and members, the Italian television and local residents:

1995 IBR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR GRAVITATION.

WINNER: Prof. A. A. Logunov, Director, Institute for High Energy Physica, 142284 Protvino, Moscow Region, Russia.
The motivation reads in part: Most theories of gravitation only admit a consistent limit to the flat Euclidean-Galilean space and, therefore, are unable to provide a consistent representation of gravitation for relativistic particles, such as a proton in a particle accelerator. Prof. Logunov has been one of the firsts scholars to study a theory of gravitation specifically conceived to admit a consistent relativistic limit in Minkowski space as well as a joint representation in Riemannian space.

1995 IBR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS.

WINNER: Prof. Gr. Tsagas, Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.
The motivation reads in part: One of the most fundamental mathematical methods of contemporary quantitative sciences, Lie’s theory, is linear, local (differential) and potential (Hamiltonian), thus possessing clear limitations in front of an ever increasing scientific knowledge. Prof. Tsagas has been one of the first mathematicians to study a covering of Lie’s theory known under the name of the Lie-Santilli isotheory, which had been proposed in physics to represent nonlinear, nonlocal and nonpotential systems.

1995 IBR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR BIOLOGY.

WINNER: Prof. C. Illert, Research Center, 2/3 Birch Crescent, East Corrimal, N. S. W. 2518, Australia.
The motivation reads in part: The lack of effectiveness of classical and quantum theories for the representation of the structure and growth of biological systems is established by clear evidence, such as the conservative and reversible character of the former versus the nonconservative and irreversible nature of the latter. Prof. Illert has been one of the first biologists to establish the inapplicability of conventional geometries (such as the Euclidean, Minkowskian or Riemannian geometries) for quantitative representations of sea shells growth, thus providing the foundations for potentially historical advances in biology.

Interested scholars are welcome to submit recommendations for future prizes in all quantitative sciences, provided that they represent truly fundamental and recent advancements over pre-existing lines of inquiries.

The IBR President, Prof. Ruggero Maria Santilli, and his wife Mrs. Carla Santilli, in collaboration with numerous other individuals and institutions, have been very active in the organization of international meetings in various branches of mathematics, physics and biology as per the following list:

Another objective of the IBR is to deliver advanced, post Ph.D., seminar courses on ongoing research in mathematics, physics and biology.
Some of the courses DELIVERED until now are:

1. INTEGRABILITY CONDITIONS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A LAGRANGIAN OR A HAMILTONIAN (CONDITIONS OF VARIATIONAL SELFADJOINTNESS)

Informal seminar course delivered by Prof. R. M. Santilli at Harvard University, 1978.
Reference: R. M. Santilli, Foundations of Theoretical Mechanics, Volumes I (1978) and II (1983), Springer-Verlag.

2. FLEXIBLE LIE-ADMISSIBLE ALGEBRAS

Lecture series delivered by Prof. H. C. Myung at the IBR, Cambridge, MA, August , 1982.
Reference: H. C. Myung, Lie Algebras and Flexible Lie-Admissible Algebras, Hadronic Press, Nonantum, MA, 1982.

3. NONLINEAR AXIOM-PRESERVING ISOTOPIES OF GALILEI’S RELATIVITY

Short seminar course delivered by Prof. R. M. Santilli at the I.C.T.P., fall 1991.
Reference: A. K. Aringazin, A. Jannussis, D. L. Lopez, M. Nishioka and B. Veljanosky, Santilli’s Isotopies of Galilei’s and Einstein’s Relativities, Kostarakis Publisher (1991).

4. AN INTRODUCTION TO HADRONIC MECHANICS

Lecture series delivered by Prof. R. M. Santilli at the J.I.N.R., Dubna, Russia, August 1992.
Reference: R. M. Santilli, Elements of Hadronic Mechanics, Volumes I and II Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Second Edition (1995).

5. MULTIVALUED HYPERSTRUCTURES

Lectures delivered by Prof. T. Vougiouklis at the Democritus University of Thrace, June 1994.
Reference: T. Vougiouklis, Hyperstructure and Their Representations, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, FL, 1994.

6. TOPICS IN NONASSOCIATIVE ALGEBRAS

Lectures delivered by Prof. J. Lohmus at the Estonia Academy of Sciences, May 1994.
Reference: J. Lohmus, E. Paal and L. Sorgsepp, Nonassociative Algebras in Physics, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, FL, 1994.
Winner of the 1994 Estonia Science Award.

7. AN INTRODUCTION TO BARBILIAN SPACES

Lectures delivered by Prof. W. G. Boskoff at the IBR, Monteroduni, Italy, August 1995.
Reference: G. W. Boskoff, Hyperbolic Geometry and Barbilian Spaces, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, FL 1996.

8. ISOTOPIES OF LIE THEORY

Lecture series delivered by Prof. Santilli at the Department of Mathematics of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, Decemnber 1992.
Reference: D. S. Sourlas and G. T. Tsagas, Mathematical Foundations of the Lie-Santilli Theory, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev, 1993.

9. ISOTOPIES AND GENOTOPIES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

Lecture series delivered by Prof. R. M. Santilli at the Theoretical Physics Division, C.E.R.N., Geneva, Switzerland, in Novembre 1994.
Reference: Relativistic Hadronic Mechanics: Nonunitary, Axiom-Preserving Completion of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, in press at an international physics journal.

R. M. Santilli, Foundations of Theoretical Mechanics, Vol. I, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg-New York (1978).

R. M. Santilli, Lie-admissible Approach to the Hadronic Structure, Vol.I, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1978).

R. M. Santilli, Lie-admissible Approach to the Hadronic Structure, Vol. II, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1981).

R. M. Santilli, Foundations of Theoretical Mechanics, Vol. II, Springer--Verlag, Heidelberg--New York (1983).

R. M. Santilli, Isotopic Generalizations of Galilei and Einstein Relativities, Vol. I, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1991).

R. M. Santilli, Isotopic Generalizations of Galilei and Einstein Relativities, Vol. II, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1991).

R. M. Santilli, Elements of Hadronic Mechanics, Vol I, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Second Edition (1995).

R. M. Santilli, Elements of Hadronic Mechanics, Vol II, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Second Edition (1995).

C. R. Illert and R. M. Santilli, Foundations of Theoretical Conchology, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, Florida (1995).

R. M. Santilli Isotopic, Genotopic and Hyperstructural Methods in Theoretical Biology, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev (1996).

R. M. Santilli, The Physics of New Clean Energies and Fuels According to Hadronic Mechanics, Special issue of the Journal of New Energy, 318 pages (1998).

R. M. Santilli, Foundations of Hadronic Chemistry with Applications to New Clean Energies and Fuels, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston-Dordrecht-London (2001).

R. M. Santilli, Isodual Theory of Antimatter, with Applications to Cosmology, Antigravity and Spacetime Machines, In preparation.

R. M. Santilli, Elements of Hadronic Mechanics, Vol. III, in preparation.

H. C. Myung, Lie Algebras and Flexible Lie-Admissible Algebras, Hadronic Press (1982).

A.K. Aringazin, A. Jannussis, D.F. Lopez, M. Nishioka, and B. Veljanoski, Santilli's Lie-isotopic Generalization of Galilei's and Einstein's Relativities, Kostarakis Publishers, Athens (1991).

D. S. Sourlas and G. T. Tsagas, Mathematical Foundations of the Lie-Santilli Theory, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev (1993).

J. L\^{o}hmus, E. Paal and L. Sorgsepp, Nonassociative Algebras in Physics, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, FL, USA (1994).

J. V. Kadeisvili, Santilli's Isotopies of Contemporary Algebras, Geometries and Relativities, Second Edition, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev , Second Edition (1997).

R. M. Falcon Ganfornina and J. Nunez Valdes, Fondamentos de la Isoteoria de Lie-Santilli, (in Spanish) International Academic Press, America-Europe-Asia, (2001), also available in the pdf file http://www.i-b-r.org/docs/spanish.pdf

Chun-Xuan Jiang, Foundations of Santilli's Isonumber Theory, with Applications to New Cryptograms, Fermat's Theorem and Goldbach's Conjecture, International Academic Press, America-Europe-Asia (2002) also available in the pdf file http://www.i-b-r.org/docs/jiang.pdf

H. C. Myung and S. Okubo, Editors, Applications of Lie-Admissible Algebras in Physics, Volume I, Hadronic Press (1978).

H. C. Myung and S. Okubo, Editors, Applications of Lie-Admissible Algebras in Physics, Vol. II, Hadronic Press (1978).

H. C. Myung and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Lie-Admissible Formulations, Part I, Hadronic J. Vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 1252-2033 (l979).

H. C. Myung and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Lie-Admissible Formulations, Part II, Hadronic J. Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-725 (l980.

H. C. Myung and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Lie-Admissible Formulations, Part A, Hadronic J. Vol. 4, issue no. 2, pp. 183-607 (l9881).

H. C. Myung and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Lie-Admissible Formulations, Part B, Hadronic J. Vo. 4, issue no. 3, pp. 608-1165 (l981).

H. C. Myung and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Lie-Admissible Formulations, Part C, Hadronic J. Vol. 4, issue no. 4, pp. 1166-1625 (l981).

J. Fronteau, A. Tellez-Arenas and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonpotential Interactions and their Lie-Admissible Treatment, Part A, Hadronic J., Vol. 5, issue no. 2, pp. 245-678 (l982).

J. Fronteau, A. Tellez-Arenas and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonpotential Interactions and their Lie-Admissible Treatment, Part B, Hadronic J. Vol. 5, issue no. 3, pp. 679-1193 (l982).

J. Fronteau, A. Tellez-Arenas and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonpotential Interactions and their Lie-Admissible Treatment, Part C, Hadronic J. Vol. 5, issue no. 4, pp. 1194-1626 (l982).

J. Fronteau, A. Tellez-Arenas and R. M. Santilli, Editor, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonpotential Interactions and their Lie-Admissible Treatment, Part D, Hadronic J. Vol. 5, issue no. 5, pp. 1627-1948 (l982).

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