Memories of Computational Modelling '05

November is fast approaching and Flotation '25 is now only 6 weeks away. This will be the biggest conference in MEI's history, but 20 years ago in November we held three small conferences in Cape Town. They were held at the Mount Nelson Hotel, a couple of years before we discovered the Vineyard Hotel.

The first of the three events was Computational Modelling '05, the first of what was to become a series of seven conferences, initially suggested by Jan Cilliers, who at the time was a lecturer at the University of Manchester and is now Professor of Mineral Processing at Imperial College, London.  

We ran the conference in consultation with Jan, and it was sponsored by DEM Solutions.  There were 40 delegates, some of whom can be seen in the photos below.

With Jan Cilliers and John Favier of DEM Solutions

Selected papers from the conference can be found in Volume 19 Number 10 of Minerals Engineering.