Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
20 June 2005:: Special lecture on 'Algorithms for rectilinear polygon partitioning for workspace division amongst k UAVs' will be conducted by Mr. Amit Agarwal, PhD candidate, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The special lecture will be held at 2:00 p.m. in CSIM Lab, Room 210, Computer Science Building.
All CS&IM; students are invited, others are welcome.
For further information, please contact: Dr. Sumanta Guha guha@ait.ac.th
23 - 25 June 2005: International Symposium on 'Floods in Coastal Cities under Climate Change Conditions' to be held at the AIT Conference Center, which is coordinated by the Regional Network Office for Urban Safety (RNUS) / SCE / AIT and sponsored by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN).
The main objectives of the symposium are to bring together researchers, academicians, practitioners and decision makers working in related areas, to:
- discuss about impacts of floods in coastal cities under climate change,
- discuss and identify gaps in existing disaster mitigation policies and provide guidelines and strategies for improved policies for flood risk management in coastal cities under climate change condition, and
- raise public awareness about risk of sea level rising and coastal flooding.
A workshop is planned for demonstration of several case studies on assessment of socio-economic impacts of floods in coastal cities in South and South-east Asia under climate change conditions, which are carried out under a APN supported project. Any other case studies related to the themes of the symposium are welcome for demonstration.
For further information and details, please visit
http://www.sce.ait.ac.th/rnus/apn/. For other enquiries, please e-mail:
rnus@ait.ac.th
28 June - 9 July 2005: UT-AIT Intensive Program on Sustainability - Food and Energy will be conducted for students from the University of Tokyo, AIT and Alliance Partner for Global Sustainability (AGS).
Interested persons are advised to email the following persons for further inquiries: fukushi@esc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, athapol@ait.ac.th or phfpe@ait.ac.th. AGS students are advised to contact the AGS office at their own institute or Dr. Ken Fukushi directly.
Successful applicants will be notified by e-mail.
26 - 29 July 2005: Training Workshop on
Power Distribution System organized by the Electric Power System Management, SCE, will be held in Room ET 238, Energy Building, AIT.
The Power Distribution System
Electricity is indispensable for social and economic development of a nation and providing it in the economical and secured way to urban and rural consumers is one of challenging tasks. Delivery of electricity to the end users requires efficient and reliable distribution system. So far, the growth of power distribution networks, especially in developing countries, has been in relatively unplanned directions due to various economic and political reasons. This has resulted in lengthy low voltage feeders, increase in losses and voltage drop, etc. Only recently, power utilities have started paying more attention to well planned expansion and better reconfiguration of the distribution network. Also as electric power technologies have advanced so rapidly, there is a great need of training and education on emerging issues on power distribution system, such as applications of FACT devices (so-called Custom Power) and Distributed Generators (DG) to distribution networks. The in-depth knowledge on management, planning and future trends of power distribution system is essential to policy makers, planners, managers, academicians, etc.
The main objective of this training workshop is to familiarize participants to some of the recent concepts and development of power distribution network.
The participants will be given the opportunity to attend the lectures delivered by eminent experts in this area and discussions related to power distribution system. Also it will be a great opportunity to share related experiences of participants from different utilities of different countries.
For personal inquiries, please contact:
Dr. Weerakorn Ongsakul
Tel: (66-2) 524-5437, 524-6219
Fax: (66-2) 524-6589
E-mail: epsm@ait.ac.th
Website: http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/ep/epsm/PDS.PDF