Seminars, Workshops, Conferences at AIT
March 7, 2003: Dr. George P. Einstein, a Visiting Professor at Asian University of Science
and Technology will present his research in the area of robotics (Telescopic Robotic Arm for Wheelchair,
Gripper for Automated Assembly Line, Bipedal Walking Robot, Robot for Astronauts) on Friday, March 7, 2003
at 1.30 p.m., in room 115, Chalerm Prakiat Building.
ABSTRACT:
Development of the concept and the construction a folding robotic arm for
the wheelchair will be introduced. As result of this arm construction, the
gripper, which is attached to fore arm, gains six degree of freedom and can
reach object on the floor, floppy disk from computer and switch light
off/on as well serve drink or food for disable.
The following robotic arm can have great impact in various types of
environment, particularly for person with physical disabilities.
The pneumatically powered six digit has ability a range of objects as
delicate as fresh egg or as massive as 17 lb. cast iron bar for the same
actuation air pressure.
The seminar will also present the application of four-finger gripper for
automation production line and for mobile robot.
NASA and USA Navy are searching for new spherical joints for robots. Dr.
G. P. Einstein will be presenting the mechanical concept of spherical joint
as well.
The other focus attention will be on humanoid design. Analysis of the
bipedal walking robots still present a genuine challenge which must be
solved with novel design concepts The various options of the design of
walking robots will be presented. Numerous advantages and disadvantages
related to three designs for the walking robots will be discussed.
All Mechatronics students are expected to attend. Interested persons are invited.
March 10, 2003: The National Workshop on Cluster Computing 2003 (NWCC2003) will be held at the AIT Conference Center Auditorium, AIT Campus.
Cluster computing is now an important area of high-performance computing. The capability of building high performance and cost effective computing system using cluster technology has dramatically enhanced the capability of researchers in science and engineering. Moreover, the deployment and development of applications on cluster platform is now creating a huge impact in research community. In developing country like Thailand, this technology has empowered the researchers to pursue much more ambitious goal that ever expected before.
Currently, many organizations in Thailand have seriously employed cluster computing platform for their application. Hence, the major goal of NCCW is to stimulate the collaboration among researchers in cluster computing area in Thailand. The NCCW Forum provides the opportunity for practitioners in this area to discuss in detail about their works and create the collaboration among each others.
Objectives:
* Capture the state of cluster computing development in Thailand
* Forming a community of people who seriously working in this area
* Exchange the ideas, define the direction of the development in this country
* Preparation step for international event of this kind in Thailand
Format:
* One day only event
* Presentation by invitation only speakers. The speakers will be a
representative of an active research group or organization
* Round table, free discussion in the afternoon.
* Poster presentation is possible for any group that wants to show their
work but no talk slot available.
* Attendant is free of charge
Special Presentation: ‘Angstrom Microsystems – leading the world in to 64-bit computing?’
By: Kenneth Bergenthal, Asia Pacific Director, Angstrom Microsystems
Biography:
As Asia Pacific Director for Angstrom Microsystems Inc., Kenneth Bergenthal is responsible for all sales, marketing, and business development in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to Angstrom, Kenneth spend several years with Caldera and SCO as their Asia Pacific Vice President. Prior to that, Kenneth was the Asia Pacific Director for Viewpoint Datalabs. In the first half of the 90s, Kenneth spent 5 years in Japan and China working with Oracle and Mitsubishi. Kenneth graduated in Math and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) and speaks fluent Japanese and Chinese.
About Angstrom:
Angstrom Microsystems is a privately-held company located in
Boston, Massachusetts. Angstrom focuses on developing custom solutions for high- performance computing needs. Angstrom specializes in the design and manufacturing of ultra-dense high-performance rackmount servers for streaming, rendering, and clustering applications.
Angstrom engineers work directly with clients to provide solutions
to the most demanding computing requirements. Our custom-designed and engineered systems are pre-secured, pre-tuned and pre-configured to
customer specifications. Angstrom’s turnkey solutions are ideal for
performance- and storage-driven companies seeking high-quality, value-added servers for mission-critical applications.
Angstrom delivers its new technologies to a broad range of companies — from infrastructure providers seeking to deploy high volumes of server solutions globally – to government laboratories requiring massive amounts of scientific computing power – to number-crunching financial institutions that offer on-line services. Angstrom products are shipped world-wide and held to the most stringent quality requirements, providing an unmatched record of reliability in the field.
March 11, 2003: The Computer Science and Information Management Program, School of Advanced Technologies will organize the following two special lectures on at 1:00 p.m., room 201, Telecom Building.
Title: A logic-based agent model and its application to ‘chance discovery’, game theory and conflict resolution
Speaker: Prof. Robert Kowalski http://www-lp.doc.ic.ac.uk/UserPages/staff/rak/rak.html
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow
Department of Computing , Imperial College , London
ABSTRACT:
In this talk, he will summarize some of the most important
intelligent agent models developed in Cognitive Science, including
condition-action rule production systems, goal-reduction, and BDI
agents. He will present a unified logic-based cognitive model, developed
with Fariba Sadri, which arguably incorporates many of the best features of these other models.
To illustrate the power and generality of the unified agent model, he will
discuss three applications: ‘chance discovery,’ as exemplified by a shopping example; the prisoner’s dilemma; and a logical analysis of the
Agha-Malley proposed solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
March 11, 2003, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., Room 201, Telecom Building
Title: Speculative Computation in multi-agent systems
Speaker: Prof. Ken Satoh http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/
Professor of Foundations of Information Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
ABSTRACT:
In multi-agent system, we often face incompleteness of information due to communication failure or other agent’s suspension of decisions. To solve the incompleteness, we propose a speculative computation using abduction in the context of multi-agent systems and a procedure in abductive logic programming. In this study, a master agent prepares a default value for a question in advance and it performs speculative computation using the default without waiting for a reply for the question. This computation is effective unless the contradictory reply with the default is returned. We also discuss usage of computation in planning domain.
Interested persons are invited. CSIM students are encouraged to attend these lectures.
March 14, 2003, 10:00 a.m.: A special seminar entitled ‘Bond Graph Modelling of Thermometallurgical Process in a Runout Table Cooling,’ will be given by Dr. Surjya K. Pal, a candidate for a faculty position in Design and Manufacturing Engineering (DME) field. This seminar scheduled on Friday, will be held in room 106, at the Chalerm Prakiat Building.
Members of FA&R; Panel, Search Panel, and SAT faculty/staff/students are invited. ISE students are encouraged to attend, others are most welcome.
March 14, 2003, 10:00-12:00 a.m. at E109 (Seminar Room SERD Office 2): Lecture and Seminar on Rural Development and Rural Energy Supplies: Potential of Small and Micro-Hydel Projects for Forest Conservation in Mountain Areas of Northern Pakistan will be conducted by Dr. Jürgen Clemens, Department of Geography, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is currently teaching human geography, regional development and basics of general and topical cartography.
The topic is of great interest within the context of research activities on rural development that is carried out by AIT in various parts of Asia.
All interested persons are invited to attend.
April 9-11, 2003: A short term training workshop on DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION will be organized by Electric Power System Management, AIT
The main topics that will be covered are as follows:
- Demand side management options
- DSM programs in Thailand
- DSM implementation issues and challenges
- Introduction to power quality
- Power quality improvement devices and their demonstration
- Distribution load flow and state estimation
- Introduction to distribution automation
- Components and architecture of DA systems
- Remote terminal units and communication system
- Master DA and application software
- DA system implementation & testing
- Demonstration of DA system
Resource persons:
Prof. Surapong C., AIT
Dr. Weerakorn O., AIT
Dr. Mithulananthan N., AIT
Prof. S.C. Srivastava, IIT-Kanpur, India
Mr. R. P. Gupta, IIT-Kanpur, India
Dr. Jovitha J., SIIT, Thammasat U., Thailand
Dr. Bundit L., SIIT, Thammasat U., Thailand
Mr. Terry Chandler, Power Quality Inc.
The registration fee is US$175 (THB7,000) per participant. For
attendees from government agencies, state enterprises, or universities,
the registration fee is US$150 (THB6,000). Accommodation can be arranged at AIT Conference Center or hotel near AIT upon request of participant.
