THE 23RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MATERIAL SCIENCE
Abstract
This grant is for partial funding toward the travel and accommodations support for distinguished scientists and students to join Yucomat 2022, the 23rd Annual Conference on Material Science, in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, August 29 - September 2, 2022. The YUCOMAT conference has been for a long time an event where researchers from Eastern European countries had an opportunity to meet researchers from Western Europe and listen to prominent invited speakers coming from the US and other parts of the world. It found its unique niche that made it different from other conferences. Prof. Dragan Uskokovic put an enormous amount of his time and effort to make YUCOMAT a successful and well-respected scientific meeting. With majority of attendees staying in the same hotel, the conference is great for communication and community building, like Gordon conferences, where participants meet not just in the meeting rooms, but also during meals and outdoor activities. This environment is conducive to having project meeting with international partners in conjunction with the conference and to establishing new collaboration. The beach resort town location in Montenegro, near Dubrovnik, Kotor and other famous tourist attractions, makes the event attractive for speakers from all over the world, who frequently bring their spouses or even entire families for vacation and stay for the whole week at the meeting. I believe the conference should keep its unique position and bring together scientists from different part of Europe and the world. It’s particularly important in the time when Russian aggression against its democratic neighbor, Ukraine, is challenging peace in Europe and scientific cooperation between researchers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 20, 2023
- Source ID
- FA86552217039
Entities
People
- Yury Gogotsi
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Drexel University
- United States Air Force