An International Symposium on Urban Energy and Carbon Management: Challenges for Science and Policy and International Workshop on Urban Energy and Carbon Modeling will be held on 4-6 February 2008 at the AIT Center, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand
The event is organized by the Global Carbon Project (GCP), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan.
The AIT Language Center will organize a Japanese class for beginners.
Class schedule: starts on 15th of January and finishes before the mid-term exams in March. Classes are every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
Class size: maximum 20 students, minimum 10 students
Tuition fee: 1500 Baht for the whole course of 19.5 hours.
The 2nd International Conference on HealthGIS 2008 will be held on 14-16 January 2008 in Bangkok in cooperation with the Association for Geoinformation Technology (AgIT), University of Salzburg and Japanese Vietnamese Geoinformatics Consortium (JVGC).
For further information, please visit: http://e-geoinfo.
A Japanese teacher, Ms. Fumie Mune, is pleased to announce a special event for the celebration of the New Year. There will be a Japanese Traditional Tea Ceremony Workshop for all the members of AIT community.
The workshop includes tea ceremony demonstration by a skilled tea master, Ms. Shizuko Kawashima, who is invited from Japan.
Dr. Bindu Lohani, distinguished AIT alumnus and former faculty will be visiting AIT on Friday, 4 January 2008 during which he has kindly offered to deliver a talk on "Challenge of Climate Change: How to deal with it" to members of the AIT community. The talk will take place at the Milton E. Bender Jr. Auditorium from 10:00-11:30 a.m.
On a most recent development, Dr. Lohani, who currently serves as the ADB Vice President for Finance and Administration, was conferred an honorary doctorate degree by Griffith University, Australia on 14 December 2007. The honorary doctorate degree which was conferred on Dr. Lohani, on the occasion of the University's graduation ceremony, recognizes his work and contribution in the areas of sustainable development, environmental issues and poverty as well as instrumental role in breaking new ground in the incorporation of environmental and social considerations in ADB's lending and development activities.
The School of Environment, Resources and Development will organize a Special Lecture on Water and Politics in Transboundary Water Management to be conducted by Dr. Anders Jägerskog, Project Manager, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), on 14 December 2007, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at room S101, SERD Meeting Room.
The Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) will organize the second GMSARN International Conference 2007 on "Sustainable Development: Issues and Prospects for the Greater Mekong Subregion", to be held on 12-14 December 2007 at the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel, Pattaya, Thailand.
The Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) will organize the second GMSARN International Conference 2007 on "Sustainable Development: Issues and Prospects for the Greater Mekong Subregion", to be held on 12-14 December 2007 at the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel, Pattaya, Thailand.
The regional workshop on hazardous chemicals management, organized by AIT, the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research of Norway (SINTEF) and the Pollution Control Department of Thailand, will be held at the AIT Conference Center during December 10-14, 2007. This regional workshop is part of the project “Capacity Strengthening on Hazardous Chemicals Management”, sponsored by the Norwegian government and being undertaken jointly by AIT and SINTEF. The workshop goals is to contribute to the reduction and eradication of health and environmental risks hosted by improper hazardous chemicals management, including awareness raising and capacity strengthening.