On the 22nd April 2013 in Bratislava at the premises of the Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics of the SAV, a Colloquium was held on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Ing. Marcel Zitnansky, DrSc., Professor emeritus of the STU. The event was co-organized by the MTF STU, it was attended by several distinguished guests from Slovakia and abroad, including the Rector of the STU Prof. Ing. Robert Redhammer, PhD. A laudation was presented at the colloquium as well as two special lectures and several greeting speeches in which the presenters portrayed appreciation whilst celebrating his life's work and his significant contribution to the development of casting technology and the development of progressive materials in Slovakia.
Dear Professor, we wish you good health and much happiness.
Translation: Anthony James Ronald Atkinson
