Symposium Venue
The symposium will be organized at Moyzes hall (Moyzesova sieñ), a richly decorated Art Nouveau hall designed by Vienna architect Josef Rittner.
This representative hall of Comenius University (CU) nowadays serves to
various cultural and academic purposes. It is located in a building built in 1911 on Danube river bank very close to a city center.
Comenius University
Comenius University is the oldest and largest university in the Slovak Republic. It was founded in 1919 and follows the university traditions of Academia Istropolitana, which was established in Bratislava by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1465. Comenius University is named after Johan Amos Comenius, the teacher of nations, an outstanding personality of the world history. Comenius University comprises fourteen faculties, with about 27 000 students at Bc., MSc., PhD. levels of study, out of it 19 000 full time students, including about 550 foreign students from more than 80 countries all over the world.Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics (FMFI), Comenius University, was established in 1980 when the departments of mathematics, computer science, physics, astronomy, meteorology and geophysics separated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences. This event resulted from 40 years of endeavour of several generations of teachers and researchers in mathematics, physics and later also informatics. The Faculty has become a renowned and respected institution both in Slovakia and abroad.
