About MECO

 The Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO) is an international conference on statistical physics which takes place every year in a different country of Europe. MECO conferences started in 1974 with the aim of bridging the gap between the communities of scientists from the Eastern and Western parts of Europe, separated as they were by the Iron Curtain. Since then, MECO conferences have become the yearly nomadic reference meetings for the community of scientists who are active in the field of Statistical Physics in the broader sense, including modern interdisciplinary applications to biology, finance, information theory, and quantum computation.

PAST CONFERENCE

MECO usually gathers from 100 to 150 scientists almost every year. Below is the list of the past conference and their locations. 

• MECO 1 (1974, Wien, Austria)
• MECO 2 (1975, Regensburg, West Germany)
• MECO 3 (1976, Bled, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
• MECO 4 (1977, Unterägeri, Switzerland)
• MECO 5 (1978, Boszkowo, Poland)
• MECO 6 (1979, Trieste, Italy)
• MECO 7 (1980, Budapest, Hungary)
• MECO 8 (1981, Saarbrücken,  West Germany)
• MECO 9 (1982, Wien, Austria)
• MECO 10 (1983, Bled, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
• MECO 11 (1984, Gernrode, East Germany)
• MECO 12 (1985, Aussois, France)
• MECO 13 (1986, Liblice, Czech Republic)
• MECO 14 (1987, Puidoux, Switzerland)
• MECO 15 (1988, Karpacz, Poland)
• MECO 17 (1990, Balatonfüred, Hungary)
• MECO 16 (1989, Siena, Italy)
• MECO 18 (1991, Duisburg, Germany)
• MECO 19 (1994, Smolenice, Slovakia)
• MECO 20 (1995, Wels, Austria)
• MECO 21 (1996, Bled, Slovenia)
• MECO 22 (1997, Szklarska Poreba, Poland)
• MECO 23 (1998, Trieste, Italy)
• MECO 24 (1999, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany)
• MECO 25 (2000, Pont-a-Mousson, France)
• MECO 26 (2001, Prague, Czech Republic)
• MECO 27 (2002, Sopron, Hungary)
• MECO 28 (2003, Saarbrücken, Germany)
• MECO 29 (2004, Bratislava, Slovakia)
• MECO 30 (2005, Cortona, Italy)
• MECO 31 (2006, Primošten, Croatia)
• MECO 32 (2007, Ladek Zdroj, Poland)
• MECO 33 (2008, Wels, Austria)
• MECO 34 (2009, Leipzig, Germany)
• MECO 35 (2010, Pont-a-Mousson, France)
• MECO 36 (2011, Lviv, Ukraine)
• MECO 37 (2012, Tatranské Matliare, Slovakia)
• MECO 38 (2013, Trieste, Italy)
• MECO 39 (2014, Coventry, United Kingdom)
• MECO 40 (2015, Esztergom, Hungary)
• MECO 41 (2016, Wien, Austria)
• MECO 42 (2017, Lyon, France)
• MECO 43 (2018, Krakow, Poland)
• MECO 44 (2019, Kloster Seeon, Germany)
• MECO 45 (2020, Cluj, Romania )
• MECO 46 (2021,Riga, Latvia)
• MECO 47 (2022, Erice, Italy)
• MECO 48 (2023, Stará Lesná, Slovakia)
• MECO 49 (2024, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia)
• MECO 50 (2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia)