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On 28 September 2007, AIT President Said Irandoust met with Professor Jetze Huen, Director of the Partnership for Water Education and Research (POWER), who was visiting AIT at the invitation of Vice President for Development & Resources Khin Ni Ni Thein.

On 1 October 2007, AIT President Said Irandoust participated in the opening ceremony of a training program entitled "Capacity Building in Poverty Mapping in the ASEAN Member Countries", which was organized and conducted by the Geoinformatics Center.

AIT will be formally transferring the administration and management of the ".th" domain name to the Thai Network Information Center Foundation. The .th domain was first registered in 1988 by AIT faculty member Professor Kanchana Kanchanasut, who is also the Director of intERLab.

Recently, AIT President Said Irandoust took part in receptions celebrating the 47th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria, National Foundation Day of Korea, and the German Unity Day on 1, 2 and 3 October 2007, respectively. According to the President, such occasions are always important, since it not only provides an excellent opportunity to meet and interact with many of the Institute's partners, but also to brief them on some of our ongoing activities and initiatives

Through the invitation of the Minister of Urban Development and Sacred Areas Development of Sri Lanka, Vice President Khin Ni Ni Thien visited Sri Lanka from 25-30 August 2007. The vice president had an opportunity to have an audience with the President and the First Lady and exchanged goodwill gifts with the Prime Minister.

AIT is proud to announce that Lecture No. 4 of its ongoing AIT Prominent Alumni Lecture Series, which is jointly organized by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the AIT Alumni Association (AITAA), will be held on Friday, 19 October 2007, at the Milton E. Bender Jr. Auditorium.

The Asian Center for Engineering Computations and Software (ACECOMS) established in 1995 is regional level, non-profit organization located at School of Engineering and Technology (SET), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.

ACECOMS continues to organize series of seminars and workshops on various aspects of Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Structures.

President speaks at 4th Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto, lectures at 3rd Asian Science and Technology Forum (ASTF) in Tokyo

AIT President Said Irandoust was a recent speaker at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society Forum (STS Forum) held in Kyoto, Japan, from 7-9 October 2007. The president’s participation at this event came at the invitation of H.E. Mr. Koji Omi, Founder and Chairman of the STS Forum, and former Minister of Finance of Japan.

Dr. Bhichit Rattakul, ADPC Executive Director a.i.,left, is seen with Prof. Said Irandoust, President of AIT, at the signing ceremony.

New Regional Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia regions  

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) have launched a partnership agreement for the development and implementation of a Regional Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia regions.

To provide technical support and customer service assistance to their client base on- campus, SVOA Pub. Co. Ltd., supplier of computer laptops to AIT students and staff under partnership with AIT, has opened an authorized service center at the Arcade, Room C138. The SVOA Service Center sells and repairs personal computers, laptops, printers, cameras, scanners and computer accessories.