Doctoral Thesis Presentation
Mrs. Jantanee Jamsangtong, candidate for the degree of Doctor of Technical Science, the Natural Resources Management (NRM) FoS, SERD, will have her final on Thursday, 10 Nov. 2005, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. in Room W117 (EEM Seminar Room), SERD Building.

Doctoral Thesis Presentation
Mrs. Jantanee Jamsangtong, candidate for the degree of Doctor of Technical Science, the Natural Resources Management (NRM) FoS, SERD, will have her final on Thursday, 10 Nov. 2005, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. in Room W117 (EEM Seminar Room), SERD Building.

AIT Conference Center Functions
24 - 30 October 2005

Date
Time
Room
Group Name/Organizer

Mon . 24 Oct..
08:30-17:00
B144

Management and Implementation of Development Project (MIDP/AITE)
c/o Mr. Anil, AITE, Tel.5273

Tue .25 Oct.
08:30-17:00
B144

Management and Implementation of Development Project (MIDP/AITE)
c/o Mr. Anil, AITE, Tel.

AIT Conference Center Functions
24 - 30 October 2005

Date
Time
Room
Group Name/Organizer

Mon . 24 Oct..
08:30-17:00
B144

Management and Implementation of Development Project (MIDP/AITE)
c/o Mr. Anil, AITE, Tel.5273

Tue .25 Oct.
08:30-17:00
B144

Management and Implementation of Development Project (MIDP/AITE)
c/o Mr. Anil, AITE, Tel.

Visiting AIT

On 17 October, Mr. Amita Lal Gooneratna (right), Managing Director/CEO of Commercial Bank of Ceylon made a courtesy call on Prof. Said Irandoust, AIT President.

During the meeting, Prof. Irandoust expressed the interest of AIT to further collaborate with CBC to be the private sector arm of AIT in Sri Lanka.

AIT Mission to Jakarta, Bogor and Bandung, Indonesia

On 12-15 October 2005, Prof. Said Irandoust (above, 5th from right:), AIT President accompanied by Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe (above, 3rd from right), Director of Promotions and Mr. Kyaw Soe Hlaing (above, right), Alumni Relations Coordinator carried out a mission to Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mr. Chen lectures at the Prominent Alumni Lecture Series

On 17 October 2005, Mr. Shih-Yi George Chen (TRE'72) (above) lectured on the topic of 'Sustainable Transportation Development in Taiwan Area' at the AIT-AITAA Prominent Alumni Lecture Series.

UNEP Supports Scholarships for ESD Studies in AIT

As part of the cooperation between United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and AIT is to implement joint activities in the area of environment and sustainable development, UNEP recently launched 5 Masters scholarships for Environmental and Sustainable Development studies in AIT.

The scholarship program -- targeted for January 2006 semester - is under the UNEP Bali Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity-building which aims to provide capacity building measures based on national and subregional priorities and needs.

SU to hold 'CelebrAsian 2005' Food Fair

Tagged as Celebrating Harmony Amidst Diversity, the Student Union (SU) will be holding 'CelebrAsian 2005' Food Fair on Saturday, 5 Nov. 2005. The event will be held on the football field located at the back of Admin Bldg.

ITServ Increases Storage Quota, Improves Service
A. MAIL SERVER MIGRATION FOR IMPROVED SERVICES

Starting November 8th in the evening, ITServ will roll out a new mail
system that will give users a disk storage quota of 100 Mb compared to
the current 10 Mb. This system is also expected to provide:

faster response times (new NAS storage back-end)
improved reliability (3 servers instead of 1, new storage
format avoiding mailbox corruption)
more flexible quota management with a grace period (instead of
immediately bounced mails)

More improvements will follow after this first stage, such as an
improved web mail.