Professor Branko Katlinić on the left, with impressive bell in front of him that he obtained as a gift from the delegation of Russian scientists at one of previous DAAAM conferences.


But this year a new, even larger bell has arrived as a gift from the University of Vienna. Professor Katalinić tested it with a hammer in his hands, to a great pleasure of the audience.


Dr Kanji Ueda in the middle, distinguished expert from Japan, the president of the DAAAM Prize Committee.


Four years earlier, at the 2005 DAAAM Conference organized in the famous Croatian tourist resort Opatija, Dr. Ueda was also the president of the Prize Committee. Source www.daaam.com.


A part of the presidency at 20th DAAAM Conference in Vienna 2009.


One of the past DAAAM conferences has been organized in the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1997. Photo from the DAAAM web pages.


2nd from the right is professor Vlado Majstorović from The University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.


Dr. Alexey Eliseev from the famous Energy Institute in Moscow, Russia, distinguished scientist, sportsman and cosmonaut.


Professor Alexey Eliseev delivered a very interesting plenary lecture dealing with various technical problems of construcion of vehicules to drive on very rocky and sandy surface of the planet Mars.


A group of distinguished Russian mathematicians from the Keldysh Insitute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, also attended the 2009 DAAAM Conference in Vienna. First from the right is Dr. Viktor Andreev, next to him Dr. Valentin Pryanishnikov.


Presentation of posters of various authors at 2009 DAAAM Conference in Vienna, describing their scientific results.


Professor Katalinić is on the right during the closing ceremony in Zadar, Croatia, 2007. But who is awarded on the left? Photo from www.daaam.com. Dr. Kanji Ueda, Japan, is in front of Croatian flag.


This is also Professor Branko Katalinić, at the DAAAM Conference organised in Zadar, Croatia 2007, but who is on the right? Photo from www.daaam.com.

On September 21st 1991, in time when Croatia was seriously threatened by the Serbian aggression, "A Coordination Headquarter for Help to Croatia" had been founded in Vienna by professor Branko Katalinić and Mr. Perica Vučemilović, securing humanitarian aid. For more details see an article published in the monograph "Women in Homeland War" by Ms. Cika Mikolčić.

I express my deep gratitude to Professor Branko Katalinić for his kind invitation to participate at the opening ceremony of the 2009 DAAAM Conference in Vienna, while I visited the Technical University of Vienna for other reasons. For those wishing to know more details about his very interesting projects, please visit the DAAAM web pages.