Venue

• "Auditorium Maximum" - Jagiellonian University’s new congress centre
• the AGH University of Science and Technology

In 2001 the Senate of the Jagiellonian University decided to build a lecture theatre complex, the Maximum Auditorium, located in Krupnicza Street. The investment planners proposed the building of a complex, consisting of large, modern lecture theatres, in the immediate vicinity of the Paderevianum College. Having since been realised, it now comprises a main theatre for 1,200 people (which, if necessary, can be divided into two smaller rooms accommodating 600 people each), one lecture room for 250 people, two for 150 people and one for 100 people, as well as the necessary catering and sanitary facilities. The Auditorium Maximum was officially opened on the 9^th of September 2005.

The theme session proceedings will, however, be held at the venues of the AGH University of Science and Technology. The structure of the University is unique to both Poland and Europe. It comprises faculties busying themselves with technical, earth, basic and social sciences. It is also a typical technical university. Traditional fields of science utilising contemporary scientific and technological  achievements, as well as newly-developing fields with state-of-the-art and futuristic solutions (introducing us to the 21^st century) are present in both student education and research. Scientists working at AGH concern themselves with the broad scope of mining, metallurgy, geology and environmental protection related issues. An extremely important area of research is information technology, telecommunications, electronics and research into new materials, especially nanotechnology and biomaterials.