Ruhr-Universität Bochum

The GACM Colloquium for Young Scientists on Computational Mechanics will be held in the lecture room center east (HZO) at the Ruhr University Bochum. The University of Bochum is one of the most diversified of German universities. 20 faculties offer about 100 subjects in the Natural and Engineering Sciences as well as the Humanities and Medicine. Almost 35000 students study and 6700 members of staff including 433 professors work at the university. The colloquium center can be reached by the subway U35 starting at Bochum main station directed towards 'Hustadt', exit at station 'Ruhr-Universität'. Detailed informations concerning the location and recommended hotels are contained in the colloquium web-page.
	The Ruhr District is one of the most diversified and culturally active regions in Germany. With about 5.3 million inhabitants, it is one of the oldest and most influential industrial regions in the world and it is nowadays a centre of business and services. Bochum is a modern cosmopolitian city with a population of about 400.000. It is located in the heart of the Ruhr District approximately 60 km from Düsseldorf and about 100 km from Cologne and changed over the last 40 years from a centre of coal and steel industries to a modern city with well over half of the population working in the service sector. Today it is also a city of greens: 33 parks, 170 further green areas and over 35,000 trees along the streets. Renowned museums (among them the famous Deutsches Bergbau Museum), theatres and lovely surroundings (from the river Ruhr and the Sauerland hills in the South to the Münsterland in the North) are a stimulating scene for living, studying and - for congresses.
	Chinese Garden in the Botanical Garden of the Ruhr University