Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
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
14 - 15 March 2005: Asialink project Tetrawama workshop on 'Mechanical Biological (MBT) Treatment and Landfilling of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)' will be held at the AIT Conference Center. Eminent speakers from Asia and Europe will conduct various issues in the workshop. For more information, please visit:
http://www.altetrawama.ait.ac.th
21 March 2005: Numerical Simulation of Human Behavior in Evacuation from Underground MRT seminar will be conducted by Dr. Juniji Kiyono, Dept. of Urban Management, Kyoto University, Japan at 12:00 noontime in Room E220,
Abstract
Accident occurred in an underground subway on January 17, 2005 in Bangkok. Fifty or more injuries were caused by this accident. When people rush into an exit in a confined space under an emergency situation during an earthquake, a flood, a subway accident, or a fire, forces act on person bodies and control the movement of the people. In order to investigate such a situation, numerical simulation was developed to grasp dynamic behavior of evacuees. Distinct Element Method (DEM) is used to simulate emergency evacuations from confined areas. The
evacuation behavior is analyzed by a use of distinct elements. The movement of each element is determined by solving the equation of motion.
A calculation algorithm in which element could avoid each other and turned naturally is proposed. Case studies such as an evacuation from underground shopping mall, an accident on the pedestrian bridge, force measurement acting on the body in the crowded subway train and so on are introduced. This method can be applied to Bangkok cases, especially the Bangkok MRT subway which just experienced an accident in January 2005 and the evacuation was not so effective.
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