The Laboratory of Engineering Mechanics of the Civil Engineering Department of AUTh organizes the international Symposium "Shechtman – Suresh Convocation & Honorary Symposium, 30 November - 3 December 2018, which will take place at the Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center. The convocation ceremony in the morning of November 30 will be followed up by a Honorary Symposium with invited lecturers in a variety of disciplines ranging from physics and engineering to biology and medicine.