Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
January 26 - 29, 2004: 'International Conference on Wastewater Treatment for Nutrient Removal and Reuse 2004 (ICWNR '04)' will be organized by the Environmental Engineering and Management (EEM) of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Supported by the International Water Association (IWA) the conference will be held at the AIT Conference Center. This international conference is being organized in cooperation with Danish Technical University (DTU), Denmark. About 150 delegates from all over the world are expected to attend this prestigious conference.
The conference aims to bring together international experts in the field of wastewater treatment to share their experiences for addressing water quality issues in developing countries. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for dissemination of state-of-the-art technologies in wastewater treatment for nutrient removal and reuse.
For further details, please contact Dr. Ajit P. Annachhatre (EEM), at ext. 5644 or visit the conference website: http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/twinning
January 26 - February 5, 2004: International Comparison Program for Asia and the Pacific Workshop on Product Specification will be organized by AIT Extension for Asian Development Bank.
Objective
The main objective of the workshop is to compile a list of products that is as representative and comparable in all countries in the region. During the workshop, participating countries of ICP Asia Pacific will meet to agree on the regional product list. Initially, the focus will be on the regional product list for food; clothing and footwear.
For more information, please contact: Prof. Gajendra Singh, Dean, AIT Extension, tel: 66-2 524-6331, fax: 66-2 524-6332. Email: singhg@ait.ac.th
January 27, 2004, 1:00 p.m.: From Micro to Nano in Manufacturing Processes special seminar will be delivered by Ioan D. Marinescu, Ph.D, AIT Visiting Professor, Fulbright Fellow, Professor and Director of Precision Micro-Machining Center College of Engineering University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio, USA. The seminar will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 in room IE-106, Chalerm Prakiat Building.
Abstract:
'Do not preach technology to me unless it lowers my cost' This is a common refrain from industry today in the light of economic scenario. In order to stay ahead of the competition, a company needs to be smarter, faster and more efficient in its manufacturing processes. Thus while new innovative technologies are certain welcome, applicability will be limited unless these technologies will be capable of boosting productivity and reducing the cost. Flexibility and adaptability to change hold the key to the success.
This first seminar of a series of five under the general theme of Precision Micro/Nanomanufacturing Processes will focus on the definition of the Nanotechnology and particularly on the Nanomachining component of it. The history of the term Nanotechnology will be presented together with the new definition of international organizations (CIRP, ISO) as well as some national definitions (USA, Japan). A presentation of the nanomanufaturing processes will lay down the basics for the next seminars.
All Microelectronics and ISE students are expected to attend. Others are most welcome.
January 29, 2004, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Seminar on 'Social Agents in Digital Cities' will be held at 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Computer Science Room 209. Dr. Toru Ishida Professor of Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University and Research Professor of NTT Communication Science Laboratory will conduct the seminar.
Contents
The research community tackling agents and multi-agent systems has studied
and developed various agents. Typically, personal agents belong to humans
and help their users to operate complex computer/communication systems. In
the area of multi-agent systems, though computational agents are designed to
interact (both collaborate and compete) with each other, interaction among
humans and computational agents has not been studied intensively. In this
talk, however, I focus on social agents that can be members of a human
community: social agents support human-human interactions, while personal
agents support human-computer interactions. To understand the nature of
social agents, we need a research platform to play with them. This talk
proposes a scenario description language called Q for designing interactions
among a large number of agents, and its application to digital cities and crisis management simulations. We started a five years project to develop social agents for supporting social interactions in digital cities.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
http://www.lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida/
Professor Ishida received his B.E., M. Eng. and D. Eng. from Kyoto
University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978 and 1989, respectively. I am an
IEEE fellow from Jan. 2002.
He is currently a professor of Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. From 1978 to 1993, Ishida was a research scientist of NTT Laboratories.
He has been working on parallel, distributed and multi-agent production systems from 1983. He proposed parallel rule firing, and extended it to distributed rule firing. Organizational self-design was then introduced into distributed production systems for increasing adaptiveness. From 1990, he started working on real-time search for learning autonomous agents. Again, organizational adaptation becomes a central issue in controlling multiple problem solving agents. He started working on community computing in 1995. Currently, he is leading digital cities and intercultural collaboration projects in Kyoto.