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Date: July 14-18, 2014
Location: Holiday Inn Midtown 57th Street, New York, USA

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The 11th International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES 2014) will be held in the Grand Ball room of the Holiday Inn Midtown 57th Street, New York City, USA. Following the tradition established by previous ICMMES conferences, short courses will be offered on Monday, July 14, 2014, followed by 4 days of technical presentations.

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A poster for the conference can be downloaded here.

New York City is the most populous city in the United States. The city consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island with a census-estimated 2012 population of 8.3 million distributed over a land area of just 300 square miles (~780 sq. km). As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.

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Central Park is an 883-acre (3.57 sq. km) park in Manhattan and is the most visited city park in the United States, with 25 million visitors each year. The park contains a myriad of attractions; there are several lakes and ponds, two ice-skating rinks, the Central Park Zoo, the Central Park Conservatory Garden, the 106-acre (0.43 sq. km) Jackie Onassis Reservoir. Indoor attractions include Belvedere Castle with its nature center, the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater, and the historic Carousel.

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The conference will be hosted by the City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY). CUNY is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 24 institutions: 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the doctorate-granting Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY School of Law, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Public Health and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. CCNY graduates include 12 Nobel laureates, a U.S. Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, several New York City mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, scientists and artists.