DAF Seminar: Technological Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Climate Resilience Smart Cities

Live broadcast link : http://www.livebroadcast.ait.ac.th/daf2016/

About the Speaker:An AIT alumnus, Dr. Lohani is a member of the AIT Board of Trustees. He has also served as Chairman and Associate Professor of the Divison of Environmental Engineering at AIT.

Dr. Bindu Lohani is currently the Head of Global Climate Change Practice, Centennial Group, USA; Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan; and Chief Advisor, K water and Founding Member, Asian Water Council, Korea.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Geophysics

Abstract: We live in the 21st Century. The satellites cruising around the earth help our daily communication. The spacecrafts travel interplanetary space to collect information. Radio telescopes watch birth and death of stars. We try to understand what happened in the galaxies millions of light years away.

Andalas University, Indonesia taps into AIT’s academic and administrative expertise

Andalas University, Indonesia, has sought the expertise of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in academic excellence, international research, and administrative and budgetary management. A 17-member delegation from Andalas University led by their former Rector Prof. Werry Darta Taifur, visited AIT on 12 January 2016 and interacted with senior AIT officials to learn about AIT’s academic and nonacademic evaluation system.

116 students from three continents join AIT

One-hundred and sixteen students hailing from 16 countries spread across three continents were welcomed on the occasion of the Orientation Day on 5 January 2016 organized at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The day marked the beginning of the January semester, with the incoming students being acquainted to the premier postgraduate institute.