Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
19 January 2005:
Special seminar on 'Using Law as a Tool to Ensure Meaningful Public Participation in Environmental Assessment' will be held at 10:00 a.m. in S101, SERD meeting room. The seminar will be conducted by Prof. Andrew John Sinclair, Professor, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Abstract
Brief evaluation of legal provisions for public participation and suggests needed reform to ensure that participatory activities are meaningful. The literature on public participation provides the evaluative criteria and document review, semi-structured interviews and key informant input provides insight into legal reform. Reform in the way of essential components covering issues such as access and purpose, notice, access to information and the provision of resources in considered. As well, reforms related to process activities are also suggested that consider issues such as the timing of participation, two-way exchange of information, power balance and decision accountability.
19 January 2005:
Seminar on the 'Presentation of Findings by AIT Team of Experts on Tsunami affected areas in the South of Thailand' will be held at 1:00 p.m. at the AIT Conference Center Auditorium.
The seminar will be presented as follows:
1:30 - 1:40 p.m. Overview on AIT's Response to the Tsunami Disaster
Professor Mario T. Tabucanon, Acting President, AIT
1:40 - 2:00 p.m. Presentation on Tsunami Phenomenon, Reconnaissance Survey and Tsunami Warning System
AIT Team Leader, Associate Professor, Dr. Pennung Warnitchai and Dr. Sutat Weesakul
2:00 - 2:20 p.m. Presentation by Group 1: Detailed 3-D Mapping of Disaster Affected Areas & Tsunami Geospatial Information Sharing System
Associate Professor Dr. Xiaoyong Chen and Associate Professor Dr. Kiyoshi Honda
2:20 - 2:40 p.m. Presentation by Group 2: Disaster Management
Professor Tawatchai Tingsanchali
2:40 - 3:00 p.m. Presentation by Group 3: Natural Resources and Community Based Rehabilitation
Associate Professor Dr. Soparth Pongquan and Associate Professor Dr. Amrit Bart
3:00 - 3:45 p.m. Open Discussion on Future Action and Collaboration
20 January 2005:
ISE seminar entitled 'Tangible Space Initiative' will be delivered by Prof. Sehyung Park, Principal Researcher, KIST, Korea. The seminar will be held on at 1:30 p.m. in room IE-106, Chalerm Prakiat Building.
Abstract
Tangible Space Initiative (TSI) is a new internal project initiated by Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) to explore novel integration framework for next generation Human Computer Interface (HCI) issues for interacting with responsive cyber space. The initiative involves diverse but related fields such as virtual reality (VR), intelligent control, human robotics, image processing, multimedia database, and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Sehyung Park will divide the TSI effort led by three parallel and cooperative components: Tangible Interface (TI), Responsive Cyber Space (RCS), and Tangible Agent (TA). TI controls how the user sees and manipulates the 3D cyber space directly. RCS creates and controls the virtual environment with its objects and behaviors. TA may sense and act upon the physical interface environment on behalf of any components of TSI or the user.
All ISE, CSIM, and ICT students are encouraged to attend. Others are most welcome.
10 -12 March 2005:
International symposium on ' Role of Water Sciences in Transboundary River Basin Management ' will be held in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. The symposium will be organized by the United Nations University with the support of AIT, Thammasat University, and a number of related organizations.
The symposium is an academic meeting that will serve as a venue for information exchange among transboundary water stakeholders working on Asia's international rivers especially on the Mekong Basin. In this symposium, we expect to bring water professionals together to share case studies emphasizing both risks and paths to cooperation.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Satiraporn Sirisampan
Secretariat, Local Organizing Committee of the Symposium
RNUS, SCE, AIT
P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
Tel: 02 524-6418
Fax: 02 524-5565
E-mail: rnus@ait.ac.th
6 - 10 June 2005:
International Conference on 'Modeling Tools for Environment and Resources Management (MTERM)'. The conference will be coordinated by the Water Engineering and Management (WEM) FoS staff in cooperation with the faculty members of the Modeling Tools for Environment and Resources Management (MTERM) and will be held at the AIT Conference Center.
Interested persons are invited to submit their research/technical papers related but not limited to the broader themes listed as follows:
- Integrated Water Resources Management
- Modeling of Water Resources
- Water Quality Management and Modeling
- Air Pollution Modeling
A two-day pre-conference training workshop on 'Governance of Transboundary Waters' will also be conducted in collaboration with 'The Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters' (http://waterpartners.geo.orst.edu)
For further information and details, please visit http://www.mterm.ait.ac.th. For other enquiries, please e-mail: mterm@ait.ac.th,
http://www.mterm.ait.ac.th