AIT, KIST team up for joint symposium
AIT faculty, staff, and students attended the Sixth AIT-KIST Joint International Symposium, co-organized by AIT and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), held 18 January 2007 at the Milton E. Bender Auditorium and the AIT Conference Center.
Topics of presentation/discussion were: Robotics; Nanotechnology & MEMS; Human-computer Interface and Remote Sensing & GIS; Water Quality; Air Quality; and Natural Product.
The seminar was opened by AIT President Said Irandoust and KIST Vice President Dr. K.C. Moon. It was followed by a plenary session with the presentations of KIST's Dr. Ji-Hyung Park, KIST, on 'Tangible Space Initiative: Intelligent Responsive Space Technology,' and AIT Prof. Chongrak Polprasert on 'Control of Perfluorinated Organic Compounds.'
Then, three parallel sessions were held with the presentations of the faculty members from both institutes on various issues:
Human-Computer Interaction/Interface and GIS – 'Visualizing the semantic structure of web-based content' by Dr. Paul Janecek, AIT; 'Remote Sensing & GIS' by Dr. Xiaoyong Chen and Dr. Kiyoshi Honda, AIT.
Nanomaterials – 'Nanostructurizing and Amorphization of Inorganic Materials by Plasma Spray Coating Technology' by Dr. Hyun Kwang Seok.
Water Quality – 'Innovative System Development to Control NPS Pollutions' by Dr. Kyu Hong Ahn, KIST; 'River Basin Water Quality Management: Tha Chin Case Study' by Dr. Sutat Weesakul, AIT; 'Recovery of Phosphate in Reject Waters after Sludge Dewatering with Zirconium Mesostructures' by Dr. Sang Hyup Yi, KIST.
Robotics – 'Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics Research at AIT' by Dr.Manukid Parnichkun, AIT; 'Network-based Humanoid Technologies' by Dr. Bum Jae Yoo, KIST; 'Machine Vision for Mobile Robots' by Dr. Matthew Dailey, AIT; 'MEMS based Microrobot Design and Fabrication' by Dr. Nitin Afzulpurkar, AIT.
Air Quality – 'Air Quality Study at AIT' by Dr. Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh, AIT; 'In situ Generated TiO2 Catalytic Oxidation of Elemental Mercury and o-dichlorobenzene (DCB) with Short Wavelength UV' by Dr. Jongsoo Jurng, KIST; 'Pilot-plant Co-incineration Experiment of Organic Waste-water Sludges with Municipal Solid Wastes Using Oxygen-enriched Air' by Dr. Jongsoo Jurng, KIST; 'Modeling Study on Asian Dust in Korea' by Dr. Shang Gyoo Shim, KIST.
Nanotechnology & MEMS – 'Nano-structured Materials from Phase Separated Metallic Glasses' by Dr. Eric Fleury; 'Self Organisation of Colloidal Nanoparticles and the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology at AIT' by Dr. Joydeep Dutta, AIT; 'Application of Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel in Microfluidic Chips' by Dr. Sang Kyung Kim, KIST.
Natural Product – 'Health Risk study at AIT and Chulabhorn Research Institute (CRI)' by Dr. Preeda Parkpian, AIT; '2-(4-Methylphenyl)-1,3-selenazol-4-one Induces Apoptosis by Different Mechanisms in SKOV3 and HL 60 Cells' by Dr. Hyun Ok Yang, KIST; 'Natural Product Research at CRI' by a CRI researcher; 'HTSEB (High throughput structure elucidation/bioassay) System on Natural Products Research' by Dr. Byung-Hun Um, KIST; 'MEMS based Smart Drug Delivery Systems' by Dr. Nitin Afzulpurkar, AIT.