You are cordially invited to the 27th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, which will be held at Gdańsk University of Technology (GdanskTECH), Gdańsk, Poland. The symposium is hosted for the second time in Gdańsk, the first successful event took place in 2000 and was organized by the Institute of Hydro-Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the leadership of prof. Wojciech Majewski.
GdanskTECH is one of the oldest universities in Poland – it was founded in 1904 and has multiple engineering research areas. The university belongs to the Fahrenheit Union of Universities in Gdańsk, which includes three leading universities of the Pomerania region.
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea coast of northern Poland. It is one of the oldest and most traditional cities in Poland. The city’s history is complex, with periods of Polish and German rule, and autonomy as a free city. In the 1980s, Gdańsk was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which helped precipitate the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The city is served by Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport, the country’s third busiest airport.
