Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
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, SERD, will be held in Room ET 238, Energy Building, AIT.
The Power Distribution System
Electricity is indispensable for social and economic de-velopment 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
1 July 2005: A Presentation
on A QUICK TOUR THROUGH SELECTED HISTORIC AND RECENT EARTHQUAKE SOURCES
IN INDIA will be conducted by Dr. Kusala Rajendran,Centre of
Earth Science (CESS), Akkulam India. The presentation will be held at 11:00 a.m.
in Room N240, SCE Building.
Abstract
First part of the presentation will be on research done in the source zone
of the 2001 Bhuj disastrous earthquake. The presentation focuses on how to use
paleoseismologic, historic and archeological data to infer the timing of pst
earthquakes. The second source that will be discussed is the 1897 Great Shillong
Earthquake. The methodology here is very similar - going back in time using
paleoseismologic, historic and other data to analyze the source of the quake.
The third stop is in the Andaman region to demonstrate the co-seismic deformation
caused by the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.
About Speaker
Dr. Kusala Rajendran is a Scientist at the Centre of Earth Science (CESS),
Akkulam, India. She received a MSc. in applied geophysics from IIT Roorkee,
India and her PhD from the University of South Carolina, USA. She is specialized
on topics such as mechanics of earthquakes, earthquake recurrence,
paleo-seismology, source characteristics etc.. Her publication record covers
over 50 papers, most of them in peer-reviewed journals.