Celebrations for the 50-Year Anniversary of IFToMM
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EDITORIAL
Celebrations for the 50‑Year Anniversary of IFToMM Marco Ceccarelli1 · Tian Huang2 · Teresa Zielinska3 · Juan Antonio Carretero4 · Tadeusz Uhl5
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During the 15th IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) in Krakow, Poland on 30 June–4 July 2019, a special opening session has been organized to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of IFToMM with unveiling of a bronze commemorative plaque, Fig. 1. In the 15th World Congress, 637 participants from 66 countries and regions have been registered and 437 papers have been presented in a dense program with 17 topic sections of the wide domain of MMS and the most relevant to the IFToMM Technical Committees. The Springer Nature in Series Mechanism and Machine Science published proceedings of 15th World Congress proceedings in five volumes, [1]. IFToMM was founded in 1969 during the Second World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science in Zakopane, Poland with an act, Fig. 2, that was signed on 29th September 1969 by the IFToMM founding fathers, (see Appendix
* Marco Ceccarelli [email protected] Tian Huang [email protected] Teresa Zielinska [email protected] Juan Antonio Carretero [email protected] Tadeusz Uhl [email protected] 1
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
2
School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
3
Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
4
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
5
Department of Robotics and Machine, University of Science and Technology AGH, Kraków, Poland
1), during a special meeting establishing also the first Executive Council, Fig. 3, [2, 3]. A celebration session was planned with the following speeches of the living past IFToMM Presidents to outline the scientific and social aspects of the history of IFToMM: • IFToMM: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Prof.
Marco Ceccarelli
• The Forming of International and Personal Connections
Through IFToMM inspite of a Turbulent World by Prof. Bernard Roth • The Existential Question of IFToMM in the Twenty-first Century by Prof. Jorge Angeles • Intersections Between My Career and IFToMM by Prof. Kenneth Waldron • Let Me Think About The Gap Between IFToMM Globalism And The Economic Globalism by Prof. Yoshihiko Nakamura In addition, a special set of posters on IFToMM history was exhibited in the Congress hall during the 2019 World Congress near the bronze commemorative plaque, Appendix 2. At the end of the celebration session, the current IFToMM President, Marco Ceccarelli, and the Chair of the 2019 World Congress, Tadeusz Uhl, revealed the commemorative plaque, Fig. 4, among the enthusiastic applauses of the congress attendees. In Fig. 5 the living past IFToMM Presidents share their appreciation for the celebration. Figure 6 shows the Executive Council members serving in years 2016–2019 surrounding the just unveiled p
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