YUCOMAT 2021 AWARDS
WELCOME SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT OF MRS-SERBIA
Dear Attendees,
It is my great pleasure to greet you on behalf of the Conference hosts and wish you a solid program, lots of happiness and good health, which we all need in these times. Not a single prior YUCOMAT Conference has been organized with as much uncertainties as this one. Some remember the Third YUCOMAT Conference held right after the NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro, which lasted from the end of March 1999 until mid-June that same year. That Conference was held with a single foreign participant – Giovanni Battiston, CNRS, Padua, Italy, who said back then, “I promised that I would come and now I am here”. Last year was the first one to have a YUCOMAT Conference canceled, not long before it was scheduled to be held, after it was clear that the risk for the participants would be too large....
