Following the success of the European Conference on Computational Mechanics
ECCM'99,
which was organised in Munich, Germany on August 31-September 3, 1999,
the European Conference ECCM-2001
was held in Cracow, Poland on 26-29 June,
2001.
The venue of the ECCM-2001 was the
Cracow University of Technology, one of the two technical universities in
Cracow. The conference was held on the CUT.
The opening session
took place in the historical
Slowacki Theatre
and the last day of the Conference was spent in the CUT
Cultural Hall.
The conference was organised by the Department of
Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS),
the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics (PACM)
and TU Cracow under the auspices of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) and the European Community on Computational
Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS).
The Conference brought together researchers
and practising engineers, professors and students from
all European
countries as well as guests from overseas.
The Conference was accompanied by
a number of exhibitions organized by several publishers,
software firms and industrial partners.
A rich and attractive cultural and touristic
programme was offered to the conference participants and
accompanying persons to give them a chance to appreciate the atmosphere of Cracow and the region.
Cracow and Location of the Conference
Cracow was selected as the one of eight European Cities of Culture 2000. As the former capital of Poland, Cracow is a centre of arts and sciences. It integrates tradition and modern
trends, cultural heritage and international cooperation. The Royal Castle on the
Wawel Hill over the Vistula
River, the Medieval old City with the wonderful Main Square, Our Lady Church with the fameous altar by Veit
Stoss and the unique Cloth Hall, the 600 year-old Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University, many churches,
museums, music and exhibition halls make Cracow a well-known world touristic centre. A lot of restaurants with
excellent food, cafes and cabarets attract visitors from Europe and overseas.
The famous Wieliczka salt
mine is a pearl among many places of interest in the lovely Cracovian surroundings. The Our God's Ark Church, one of the most beautiful modern Polish churches is worth visiting in Nowa Huta, the workers' quarter known as a strong "Solidarity" movement centre.
Cracow is a town of universities and research centres, a town of students and youth, a town
of Nicolaus
Copernicus, of
the Pope John-Paul II, of the Noble Prize
Winner Wislawa Szymborska
as well as of Andrzej Wajda, a film director and recent Oscar Prize Winner.
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