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Conference Co-Chairs
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Marco Ceccarelli
University of Cassino
Cassino, Italy
E-mail: ceccarelli@unicas.it
Web Sites:
Personal Home Page
Laboratory of Robotics
and Mechatronics Page |
Professor Marco Ceccarelli is Director of the Laboratory of Robotics andMechatronics (LARM) at the University of Cassino (Cassino, Italy). He is the President of the International Federation for the Promotion of Machine and Mechanism Science (IFToMM), 2008-11, and was Chairman of the Permanent Commission for History of Machine and Mechanism Science of IFToMM,1998-2004. He created the IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms and edits a Springer book series, History of Mechanism and Machine Science.
Professor Ceccarelli has great interest in the History of Mechanical Engineering, particularly the History of Mechanism Design. His current research includes interpreting past works and designs, particularly rediscovering the kinematics of mechanisms in such works. |
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Stephanos A. Paipetis
University of Patras
Patras, Greece
E-mail: paipetis@mech.upatras.gr |
Professor Paipetis of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics at the University of Patras (Patras, Greece) is a specialist on Advanced Composite Materials. Throughout his career he has organized many successful conferences, both in his own research area and in ancient science and technology, especially of the Homeric Era.
In 2001 Professor Paipetis organized an International Symposium on Extraordinary Machines and Structures in Antiquities, and in 2006 he organized a conference on Science and Technology in Homeric Epics. In 2007 he organized a one-day worskhop entitled Archimedes from Syracuse in Patras, Greece, in preparation for this present World Conference in Syracuse. | | |
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