HMM 2028

The 9th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms will be held in Rome, Italy, from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 May 2028.

The aim of the Symposium is to provide an international forum for presenting and discussing historical developments and achievements in the field of Machine and Mechanism Science (MMS).

This is the 9th event of a Symposium series that was started in 2000 in Cassino (Italy), as main activity of the IFToMM PC for History of MMS.

Scientific Committee

  • M. Ceccarelli, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) Chair
  • Y.-H. Chen National Taiwan Univ .Sc.&Tech (China-Taipei)
  • I. Aslan Seyhan, Bartin University (Turkey)
  • O. Egorova, Bauman Moscow State Tech. Univ. (Russia) 
  • Y. Fang, Chinese Academy of Science (China-Beijing)
  • A. Gasparetto, University of Udine (Italy)
  • T. Koetsier, Vrije University (Netherlands)
  • J. C. Jáuregui, Queretaro University (Mexico)
  • R. López-García, University of Jaén (Spain)
  • R. Pisano, Lille University (France)
  • B. Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science (China-Beijing)
  • N. Zrnic, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

Honorary Advisory Borad

  • T. Chondros, University of Patras (Greece) 
  • M. Dosay, Ankara University (Turkey)
  • F. Moon, Cornell University (USA)
  • H. S. Yan, Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, China-Taipei)

Organizing committee

  • Marco Ceccarelli, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
  • Marco Cocconcelli, Univ. of Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)
  • Matteo Russo, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)

Topics

The Symposium covers all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity to the present and its historiography:

  • Modern reviews of past works
  • People, history, and their works
  • Direct memories of the recent past
  • Historic development of theories
  • History of design of machines and mechanisms
  • Developments of mechanical design and automation
  • History of teaching and education
  • Schools of engineering

Paper Submission

Full papers should be submitted through the Springer OCS web system to be indicated on the symposium website. Guidelines for the layout of the full papers will be available in the symposium website with Springer format.

At least one registration is required per submitted paper.

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings by Springer, in a volume of the series on the History of Mechanism and Machine Science http://www.springer.com/series/7481

There will be three awards (gold, silver and bronze) for each category: Student Paper, History Paper. Gold awards will get a Springer voucher.

Location

HMM2028 will be held in Roma, the capital of Italy.

Rome can be reached easily both by train, plane, ship and by car. Rome is a well-known city with monuments built for more than 2500 years. The city is full of evidence of its history. In May the weather is fine, sunny with near 25°C.

In Rome there are many hotels in all the categories. The average cost for a 3-star hotel is about 70 Euro. Early reservation is recommended by contacting directly hotels or through the conference Secretariat.

Tor Vergata Campus is just outside the ring and easy to reach by public transportation.

Symposium secretary

E-mail: marco.ceccarelli@uniroma2.it

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