12th European Simulation Multiconference
VENUE

Manchester today is a city with energy and style, an international multicultural centre for education, business, culture and sport. It combines the Victorian architectural charm of the Town Hall and the University Main Quadrangle with a zest for future design found in its new buildings such as the international concert hall, national sports arenas, banking and finance houses. In short it is a city with one eye looking into the past while the other is discovering its future. The University of Manchester, the venue for the 1998 ESM, founded in 1851, as Owen's College, and constituted by Royal Charter in 1903 as the Victoria University of Manchester, was the first of England's great civic universities, and is today the largest of those well-established universities. The University very much reflects the nature of the city - a place with a fine tradition but looking to the future. It has been involved in some of the major advances in the last 150 years. The work leading to the splitting of the atom was done here by Rutherford, the world's first stored-program computer was invented here, the sciences of radio astronomy, orthopaedic surgery and moon mapping were developed here. No fewer than 20 Nobel Prize Winners between 1906 and 1993, are linked with the University of Manchester. Today, the University of Manchester has 16.500 students, many of them from overseas, representing more than 100 countries. It also and boasts the John Rylands University library, one of the three major academic libraries in the nation.

Manchester is very well served by its large international airport close to the City, with a direct rail link to the City Centre. From Manchester Piccadilly Station, the University and conference hotels can easily be reached by bus or taxi.


Alexander Verbraeck, Philippe Geril. © SCS Europe, 1997
Latest change: 24-05-2002