General Information
The Wokshop
of COST Action D10 will be held at the Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian
University, Krakow, Poland from June 6 to June 9 , 2002.
This is the
Final Evaluation Meeting of COST Action D10 “ Innovative Methods and Techniques
for Chemical Transformations” and
working groups will present their results in oral and poster sessions .
All
scientists interested in the topic are welcome even if they are not members of
the COST Action D10.
Official
language of the Workshop will be English.
Krakow is a
city of one million people in the very heart of Europe. Poland's former
capital, the cradle and Pantheon of Polish kings, it is also a city of learning
with one of the oldest universities in Europe. Krakow is a city both of museums
and of youth: a city of one hundred thousand university students. It is a city
of meetings, festivals and conferences. Moreover, it has preserved its
individual body of structure and buildings. The functionality of its thirteenth-century
urban plan can be seen in the fact that it still works today: now as then,
cultural, administrative and commercial life is focused around Krakow's
40,000-square-meter town square, the largest one in Europe.
The University of Cracow (Alma
Mater Cracoviensis) was established, in the centre of the city, with the
permission of the Pope and by a Royal Act of King Casimir the Great, in 1364.
In 1400, Alma Mater Cracoviensis was refounded and modernized thanks to a
donation by Queen Hedwig and King Ladislaus Jagiello - hence the school's
present name: the Jagiellonian University.
By the mid-15th century the
University had become famous far beyond the borders of Poland, thanks to its
achievements in law and propagation of new ideas in science and philosophy.
Subsequently it grew into Europe's leading school of astronomy, mathematics and
geography. The University has always attracted many students from other
countries, but among its most distinguished students were Nicolaus Copernicus
(1491-95) and Pope John Paul II (1938-39, 1942-46).
The Jagiellonian University
is one of Poland's largest institutions of higher education.
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