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SOM professor to chair roundtable

The Centre for Organizational Studies (COS), Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración (EADA), Barcelona,
is organizing the 12th 2006 COS Roundtable from 3 to 5 November 2006 in Ashridge, one of the world's foremost business schools located in the United KingdomUK. The theme for the Round Table is: 'Creating Culturally Competent Firms - Strategies for Gaining from Cultural Pluralism.

SET welcomes new faculty member

Computer Science and Information Management, School of Engineering and Technology, welcomes its newest faculty member, Dr. Matthew N. Dailey, who joined the school in April 2006 as an assistant professor.

Dr. Dailey earned his B.S. (1992) and M.S. (1995) in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, and his Ph.D. (2002) in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego.

More shops open to serve the AIT community

In the objective of making more services available to the AIT community, three more shops have recently opened:

Bhandari Botanical Spa – Spa lovers in AIT can now enjoy health-enriching massage in a relaxing environment without leaving the campus.

International Housewives Club organizes activities for all AITians

The AIT International Housewives Club is organizing exercise, meditation, cooking, laughing and outing classes for all in the AIT community. Interested people please call Ext. 6258 for further information.

Overnight parking in Admin and Academic areas prohibited

The Safety, Security and Sports Unit seeks cooperation from the AIT community on matters of parking. Overnight parking in the Admin and Academic areas is prohibited. Car owners are requested to respect this rule because many AITians and guests can not find a space to park their cars when going to work or visit AIT due to overnight parked cars.

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intERLab hosts workshops

AIT's Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab) is planning to host its collaborative training event, which is held once a year, with Asia Pacific Network Information Centre of Brisbane, Australia, from 13 to 16 June 2006 at AIT. The courses will include a three-day Routing Essentials Workshop, which was designed to help networking professionals identify the design requirements in running a network; perform Internet protocol addressing best practices for the network infrastructure; configure a router running in a simulated network environment; use appropriate routing protocols that will handle the traffic flow to address the reliability, redundancy, and performance requirements of a network; and a one-day Internet resource management essentials course.

AIT, Thammasat and Science Park to hold 'Tri-Institution Sports Day'

The three neighboring institutes, AIT, Thammasat University and National Science and Technology Development Agency, are coming together for a friendly sports competition dubbed the 'Tri-Institution Sports Day' on 30 June 2006. This activity, which is to be hosted by Thammasat this year, aims to forge harmony and friendly relations between faculty and staff of the three institutions.

Indian conference focuses on Geographic Information System

The Geographic Information System Engineers Society, a non-profit organization for GIS professionals affiliated to the Indian Cultural Center under Embassy of India, Qatar, invites interested public to participate in a conference on GIS titled 'b-GIS@India' at Technopark, Trivandrum, India from 6 to 8 December 2006 in association with Department of Geology, University of Kerala, India and Technopark, Trivandrum, India.