International scientific conference was held

An international scientific conference dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the great Georgian scientist Niko Muskhelishvili was held at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. The event was attended by Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Dimitri Shashkin, Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, and representatives of scientific circles from Georgia and abroad.

The scientific conference "Mechanics of Continuous Media and Related Problems of Analysis" will last for 6 days. Along with Georgian mathematicians, up to 20 foreign scientists from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Mexico, and Russia will participate in it.

The jubilee conference of Niko Muskhelishvili, the founder of the Georgian mathematical school and a world-class Georgian scientist, was funded within the framework of the conference grants competition by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education and Science. To date, the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation has funded more than 50 grant projects in the scientific fields of mathematics and mechanics, with a total budget of approximately 5 million GEL.