Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
February 17, 2004: Industrial Tribology seminar will be conducted by Prof. Kishore N. Mistry, a Visiting Professor at ISE/SAT. It will be held at 2.00 p.m., in room IE-115, Chalerm Prakiat Building.
Abstract
Tribology is the branch of science and technology concerned with interacting surfaces in relative motion, friction, wear and lubrication. At a systems level, wear and friction result in a large number of mechanical failures. The phrase 'worn out' is very commonly used to describe the limit of part's working lifetime. The appropriate application of tribology can save considerable money by improving their lubrication practices.
The field of tribology is extremely diverse with challenges in many different areas of study including: materials science, fluid dynamics, contact mechanics, dynamics, heat transfer, chemistry, physics, controls, surface characterization and many more.
Interested persons are welcome.
February 18, 2004: Doctoral Seminars in Water Engineering and Management will be presented by the Water Engineering and Management Field of Study, SCE at Room E220, South Academic Building.
Doctoral students Mr. Natchapol V. will conduct a presentation on 'Modeling of Sediment Deposit in Sewer System' while Mr. Jirawat G. will share his research on 'Salinity Intrusion into Songkhla Lagoon.'
All students are cordially invited. For further details, please email Dr. Roberto Clemente at clemente@ait.ac.th or call tel. 5568 or Mr. Chanon T. at iwc999802@ait.ac.th, tel. 5795.
February 20, 2004:
Seismic Damage Mitigation System for City Gas Networks with Advanced GIS Technology and Dense Seismic Sensor Networks - Supreme - seminar will be conducted by Dr. Yoshihisa Shimizu Group Manager, Center for Disaster Management and Supply Control, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. It will be held at 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., in room N-250, SCE.
Abstract
Tokyo Gas Company has developed its super high-density real-time disaster mitigation system 'SUPREME' for gas supply networks, to cope with earthquake related secondary disasters. This system is designed to measure seismic and relevant data using new SI sensors installed in 3,800 district regulators throughout the gas service area (3,100km2). The new SI sensor is very small and low-cost due to the adoption of a ultra small acceleration pickup, which is capable of measuring not only SI value but also acceleration time history. Through monitoring all new SI sensors after occurrence of earthquakes by SUPREME, damage ratio of low-pressure gas pipelines due to shaking and liquefiable depth are judged to conduct precise real-time damage assessment for decision making on gas supply shut-off. Moreover, immediately after the occurrence of an earthquake, all the regulators can be shut of either automatically on site or remotely from SUPREME to prevent secondary disaster cause by gas leaks.
February 27, 2004: Remote Sensing from Local to Global Scale: Catering the Need in the 21st Century seminar. The seminar wil be held from 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. in Room No. E222, Academic Building
Introduction:
With the rapid development of new sensors and launching of many sophisticated satellites in recent years, remote sensing has become an important source of data and information for monitoring and modeling of the environment. These advances have made it possible to use the remote sensing technologies in various disciplines from local to global scales, accounting both natural and anthropogenic activities. These developments have widened our vision in addressing various problems and motivated us
to integrate remote sensing with conventional tools and methodologies for innovative solutions. In this seminar, two leading scientists from Japan, Prof. Yoshifumi Yasuoka, University of Tokyo and Dr. Dennis Dye, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan are going to present the recent scientific developments in the field of remote sensing and its applications in engineering and environment monitoring.
About the Speakers:
Prof. Yoshifumi Yasuoka is the Deputy Director General of the Institute of Industrial Science under the University of Tokyo. He is a leading
scientist in Japan in the field of remote sensing and image processing. During his long professional career, he has been conducting research in a wide range of issues including environmental modeling and monitoring. One of his areas of interest is the application of remote sensing techniques in civil engineering problems. He is currently serving as the
President of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan.
Dr. Dennis Dye is the Group Leader (Bof the Ecosystem Change Research Program, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan. His main research areas are vegetation-climate relations, terrestrial carbon cycle, ecosystem process modeling and terrestrial ecosystem. He has been actively working in estimating photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) from remote sensing data to calculate the Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems.
All interested persons are cordially invited. For further details, please contact Dr. Dushmanta Dutta of RNUS, SCE at tel. 02 524-5794 or Ms. Kasuna at tel. 02 524-6418.