5 October 2006
Message from the Rector
On Tuesday 3 October the Singaporean Chief of Air Force visited ADFA to meet with the Singaporean students and was given a tour of our major facilities. He seemed very impressed with both the organisation and infrastructure, and was happy that his cadets were getting a first rate education.
I recently attended a planning day in Kensington. A number of issues relating to learning and teaching and to research were raised. The DVC (Research), Les Field, described the position of UNSW on a series of measures compared to the remainder of the Group of Eight. He also described a series of proposals aimed at improving the University's research performance. I will hold a forum later in the year to present the comparisons with other universities and to outline the issues for our campus.
On Monday 23 of October, we will be holding an informal function to farewell Professor Robert King and to thank him for his contribution to UNSW@ADFA. Full details of the function will be circulated soon and I would encourage all to attend if possible
Professor John Baird
Rector
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HASS NEWS
A major new study of Christopher Brennan's poetry by Katherine Barnes, from the English program in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, was launched recently in Canberra by Simon Haines.
The book titled ‘ The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism' , is published in the ARIES Book Series, Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism, by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
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Defence & Security Applications (DSA) Research Centre Seminar Series
"ALOS – New satellite imagery for Australia "
Presenters: Simon Oliver and Jim Mollison, GEMD, Geoscience Australia
Time: 12 noon
Date: Monday, October 9
Location: Lecture Theatre North, LT6 (Please note the new location)
Map of ADFA: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/images/adfamap.pdf
Abstract
The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) was launched by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in January 2006. ALOS promises high quality, low-cost Earth observation data for topographical mapping, disaster & environmental monitoring, and climate change studies.
Geoscience Australia will be down-linking data from the satellite and distributing ALOS products for non-commercial purposes within Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and other south Pacific islands.
This seminar will provide a description of the types of ALOS products that will be produced by Geoscience Australia and how those products can be used in the real world. Additionally, there will be a description of how Geoscience Australia staff and external users can access the data. The Japanese distribution model for ALOS data worldwide is quite unique and has implications for data accessibility, especially between commercial and non-commercial use.
About the presenters
Simon Oliver and Jim Mollison work in the Remote Sensing Information Services (RSIS) section of the Spatial Information Access and Remote Sensing (SIARS) Group within GEM Division at Geoscience Australia.
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ADFA Golf Competition
When : Friday 13 October
Where : Fairbairn Golf Club
The day will begin with a (free) BBQ at 1200. Everybody is welcome to attend the BBQ including non-golfers.
A briefing for golfers will be held at 1245 with the Ambrose Fours getting underway at 1300. Golf cost is $10 per head.
Please register your participation in the Golf Competition by contacting either Stephen Yeomans on x 88336 or Mark Wardell on x 88526 by 11 October. Please indicate if you will only be attending the BBQ.
Hope to see you there.
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KOKODA FOUNDATION - New Essay Competition for Young Strategic Thinkers
Security Challenges is pleased to announce a new competition for young scholars or professionals writing on Australia's national security challenges. The winners of the Australian Defence Business Review competition will be awarded cash prizes of $1000 for first, $500 for second and $250 for third place in November this year.
Winning articles will be published in forthcoming issues of Security Challenges, and certificates will be presented by Defence Minister Brendan Nelson at a Kokoda Foundation seminar-dinner in Old Parliament House on 2 November 2006 in Canberra.
Articles submitted for this competition must be future-oriented and deal with a national security issue of relevance to Australia or the wider Asia-Pacific region.
The competition is open to all young scholars or professionals under 35 years of age (as of 2 November 2006). If a submission is co-authored, all authors must be under 35 years of age.
Submissions can be made as comments of 1000-2500 words, or as full length articles of 4000-6000 words (for author guidelines, see http://www.kokodafoundation.org/journal/guide.htm
Authors are permitted to re-submit articles included in Security Challenges vol.1, no.1 to vol.2, no.3 for the purposes of the competition. Any work previously published elsewhere is not eligible.
Please send submissions by email to editor@kokodafoundation.org or by mail to
The Kokoda Foundation
46 Baracchi Cres
Giralang ACT 2617
Australia
Submissions must be received by Friday, 20 October 2006 at 17:00 (by email) or by postal delivery that day.
Submissions must be accompanied by the full name, address and email address and institutional affiliation (if any) of the author. They must also include a statement regarding the author's age and an explicit confirmation that the work is the author's own and has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
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Learning and Teaching events for September and October
Plans for national improvement of teaching and learning, including opportunities for grants and awards. For more information, refer to the Learning and Teaching events page.
On Friday 20 October, interested staff are invited to attend Nancy White's Canberra presentations on e-learning:
• Presentation for managers (1 hour)
• Workshop for practitioners (1.5 hours)
Registration before 6 October is essential as places are limited on this national speaking tour. Register with kerry.manikis@cit.act.edu.au or download the August issue of "Framework News in the ACT" (pdf) for more details.
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Academic Procession
Participating in our graduation ceremonies gives you the opportunity to be involved in one of the happiest and most memorable occasions of a student's life at UNSW. All academic staff at UNSW@ADFA are encouraged to join an academic procession on Wednesday 13 December 2006. The ceremonies will be held in Adams Hall as follows:
10.00am – Business, Humanities and Social Sciences
2.30pm – Engineering, Science and Technology
An invitation to attend will be emailed to all academic staff shortly.
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FREE COMMUNITY LECTURES and SEMINARS
School of Physical , Environmental & Mathematical Sciences
Upcoming Seminars
When: Fridays at 11.10am
Where: P25, PEMS Sth (Bldg 26)
* 13 October - Ric McRae (Emergency Services & Bushfire CRC) - "Lessons from the January 2003 Fires; Advancing Bushfire Risk Managment in the High Country"
* 27 October - Ravi Sood - "Super-Orbital Periods in X-ray Binaries"
For details and abstracts go to http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/pems/news/index.html and follow the link to the relevant discipline seminars.
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Upcoming Asia Pacific Seminars
Date: 9 October 2006
Restructuring Sulawesi: Factionalism and Unity in the Drive for Development
Who: Dr Elizabeth Morrell Director of Studies, Flinders Asia Centre, Flinders University
Date: 16 October 2006
Emblematic Lives of Cosmopolitan Pluralists: Sketching the Social Context of Indonesias Sufi Revival
Who: Associate Professor Julie Howell Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Date: 23 October 2006
Language Shift and Language Choice in a Chinese-Indonesian Family
Who: Francisca Handoko PhD candidate, RSPAS, Australian National University
Date: 30 October 2006
Literary Links: Australia and the Asia-Pacific
Who: Professor Bruce Bennett School of Humanities and Social Sciences
For the abstracts of the seminars please visit our website: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/APSS/Apss.html
Suggestions:
The Asia-Pacific Seminar convenors welcome suggestions for seminar speakers and topics. Please contact 2006 convenors: Minako Sakai (m.sakai@adfa.edu.au), Glenn Banks (glenn.banks@adfa.edu.au), Paul Tickell (p.tickell@adfa.edu.au)
Enquiries:
Taufiq Tanasaldy (apss@adfa.edu.au), tel. (02) 6268 8914
RESEARCH & RESEARCH TRAINING OFFICE REPORT
Congratulations to Dr Harald Kleine
Professor John Baird (Rector) and Professor Ian Petersen (A/g Associate Dean (Research)) extend their sincere congratulations to Dr Harald Kleine from the School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering on winning the Hubert Schardin Award. This prestigious prize is only awarded every second year.
Examples of Dr Kleine's spectacular photography using the phenomenal high-speed camera (one million frames per second is indeed ‘high-speed' and we wouldn't want to pay the development costs!) feature in the 2005 UNSW@ADFA Research and Research Training Report as well as many other UNSW@ADFA publications.
(The Research and Research Training Office has often wanted to use the camera to photograph our deadlines as they go whooshing past the office......)
THE HUBERT SCHARDIN AWARD was set up in 1968, three years after his sudden death due to a heart attack, immediately after his presentation of a paper during the 8th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics which was organized at Zürich in Switzerland in 1965. This award of the German Physical Society consisting of a golden Medal and a Certificate was aimed at commemorating and honouring Hubert Schardin as one of the pioneers in diagnostics of high speed physical processes and at encouraging scientists for continued efforts. Since the Congress at Stockholm in 1968, the Hubert Schardin Award was regularly remitted during the upcoming International Congresses on High-Speed Photography and Photonics to younger scientists for outstanding publications in the increasingly important fields of photonics, related imaging and optical high resolution technologies in physical and industrial applications or for having given major contributions to these "High-Speed" conferences. Moreover, the Hubert Schardin Award is also intended to promote international cooperation and the exchange of information in these rapidly growing scientific and technological areas.
Candidates for the Hubert Schardin Medal are usually suggested by the National Delegates of the International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics. The final decision, after evaluation of proposals is provided by an International Award Committee. Additional information may be found at: http://www.27hspp.cn/
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Important Notice: Research Day 2006
Research Day at UNSW@ADFA has quickly established itself as one of the highlights of the research calendar. Planning is now well underway for the 2006 Research Day on 31 October which will focus on research students and research training support. Once again a panel of eminent researchers has agreed to come to ADFA to adjudicate the presentations. Also – by popular demand – only academic staff on campus will be eligible to vote for the best poster in the poster competition.
One of the highlights of Research Day will once again be the 'Research Student Poster Competition' which will attract a certificate and $500.00 cash prize for the winning poster. Posters must be A1 sized (and preferably laminated). Expressions of intention to submit a poster must be provided to Douglas Macnicol in the Research and Research Training Office by no later than 6 October so that appropriate display arrangements can be made. Douglas may be contacted on x89585 or d.macnicol@adfa.edu.au
ETS have once again kindly offered their services in regard to the printing and laminating of posters to be entered in the competition. However, bearing in mind the advance notice which is necessary:
- Students who wish to have their posters printed by ETS must provide ETS with the final pdf file of their poster no later than 13 October; and
- ETS will only print ONE poster per student and will only print posters submitted by students who have notified the RRTO of their intention to enter the poster competition.
Completed posters entered in the competition must be lodged with Douglas by no later than 12 noon on 27 October.
This year there will again be a series of presentations by research students to introduce their areas of research (in plain language!). The best research presentation from both Business/Humanities and Social Sciences and from Engineering / Science will be awarded a certificate and cash prize of $800. (And for those of you who have already asked, if three students are part of one presentation team, they will have to share the $800!!!). The relevant Heads of Schools will nominate the students to take part in the presentations.
A light lunch and morning and afternoon tea will be provided. For catering purposes, please register your attendance with Douglas Macnicol on x89585 or at d.macnicol@adfa.edu.au by 1 October.
You may have noted that posters advertising the annual Research Day have begun appearing on campus. As Research Day is one of the highlights of the research calendar, Professor Ian Petersen A/g Associate Dean(Research) strongly encourages all researchers and research students to attend. The final program for the day can be accessed on our website at: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/units/research/researchday/index.html
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...last year's Research Day Presentation winner travels abroad..
Those who attended last year's Research Day will recall a memorable presentation by Dr Sock from the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. Dr Sock (Gym to his friends) was ably assisted in his presentation by postgraduate research students James Webb and Amy Dunlop. The presentation titled 'Wanted: Single, infra-red photon for fun and games at UNSW@ADFA was scored very highly by the judges who addressed a number of relevant questions to Dr Sock himself. It has now come to our attention that fame has gone to Dr Sock's mortar-board and he has been seen cavorting in Los Angeles ....the attached photos are just an indication......
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Spitfire Fellowship
The Spitfire Memorial Defence Fellowship has been established by ex-wartime Spitfire pilots and ground crew, the Australian Spitfire Association and leading private and corporate supporters to create a lasting and dynamic memorial to the important contributions of the Spitfire and its Squadrons during World War II. The Fellowship Fund provides for the award of an annual Fellowship up to the value of $15,000. Guidelines are available at: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/units/research/spitfire/index.html
Applications close:- Friday 3 November 2006
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Call for applications for internal funding schemes
Application forms and guidelines are now available for the following internal funding schemes:
(1) Defence-Related Research Funding Scheme;
(2) Special Research Grants Scheme;
(3) Faculty Research Grants Program; and
(4) Early Career Researchers Grants Scheme.
Guidelines and application forms for these schemes are available from the Research and Research Training Office Website at:http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/units/research/Internal/index.html
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Upcoming Events
| DATE |
TITLE |
VENUE |
| 13 Oct |
ADFA Golf Competition |
Fairnain Golf Club |
| 13 Dec |
Degree Conferrals |
Adams Hall |
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