WSEAS Post-Conference
Report |
With much success, WSEAS
closed the conferences of 2003 celebrating in the sea resort of Astir Palace in the nice
suburb of Athens, Vouliagmeni, the end of the 7th year of WSEAS and the
beginning of the 8th. The year 2004 is the year of Olympic Games in Athens
and for this reason the conference participants had the opportunity to
enjoy also the festive atmosphere of Athens and admire the holidays in the
Syntagma Square.
The
scientific level of the conference was high and the participation
satisfactory taking into account the narrow subject of the meeting
(mathematical methods).
Following the tradition, WSEAS cuts the New
Year's cake (Saint Vassilios' Cake) in the morning of December 31 in the
Aphrodite Hotel of Astir Palace.
At the end of the morning's session, Prof. Bojkovic
(senior member of WSEAS) gave a brief speech underlining the importance of
the WSEAS conferences and strongly encouraging the young researchers to
attend the meetings because of their big scientific importance and of the
opportunity to publish their research in the WSEAS books and journals.
Prof. Bojkovic (Belgrade University in Serbia) is well known Professor in
the area of Telecommunications and Signal Processing and Fellow member of
other scientific societies (outside WSEAS).
In the previous night (December 30), a wonderful
banquet with live orchester and folklore show took place in the
cosmopolitan salon of the Hotel where almost all the participants of the
conference participate in the dance and one of them also played a
traditional greek musical instrument ("cretan lyra").
The New Year's cake of WSEAS (Saint Vassilios'
Cake)
The Members of the organizing committee with
the New Year's cake of WSEAS (Saint Vassilios'
Cake)
Prof. Nikos Mastorakis (Greece) cutting the
Saint Vassilios' Cake. In his right, Prof. Damgov (Bulgaria) member of the
Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences.
Banquet - Menus
Banquet - Greek Folklore Dances