21 September 2006
Message from the Rector
The University Lecture given by Dr Hugh Mackay on Thursday 14 th of September on the ‘Ethics of Leadership' was outstanding. Hugh analysed the elements of good and bad leadership with a range of examples . Some outstanding leaders espouse the highest moral values, while other strong and successful leaders are clearly immoral. Hugh and discussed the preconditions for both. that led to such situations. He provided much insightful comment on developing leadership qualities, and leading from a position of moral values. The lecture was directly relevant to the Midshipmen and Officer Cadets and Midshipmen , and was highly thought provoking very entertaining for all of us.
Professor John Baird
Rector
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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
Currently planned events for September include a staff development event for sessional lecturers (date TBA) and an information session on the Carrick Institute (22 Sept) 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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For Rent
Cosy coastal cottage available for weekend and holiday rental at Mossy Point (15 mins. South of Batemans Bay). Contact Susan Cowan on x 88898.
Wanted to Rent
House in Canberra from 23 Sep to 29 Jan. Please contact Ted Catchpole (x88895) or Barbara Catchpole (x88884).
House for Sale
Contemporary passive solar design overlooking Queanbeyan River. Five bedrooms plus study. New carpet and freshly painted. Very private setting and river frontage.
See http://allhomes.com.au/c/ah?a=sp&p=270208 .
FREE COMMUNITY LECTURES and SEMINARS
School of Physical , Environmental & Mathematical Sciences
Upcoming Seminars
When: Fridays at 11.10am
Where: P25, PEMS Sth (Bldg 26)
* 6 October - Stewart Campbell - TBA
* 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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Teaching and Learning Committee Presents
The UNSW@ADFA Teaching and Learning Committee is pleased to present Ms Elizabeth McDonald, Director, Grants Scheme and Company Secretary, of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Ms McDonald will make a presentation to UNSW@ADFA on the Carrick Institute, its role and how it supports the improvement of University Learning and Teaching.
The Carrick Institute provides a range of support for the improvement of University Learning and Teaching and UNSW@ADFA has, or is attempting to, receive some of that support. Dr Frances Miley of the School of Business recently received a commendation from the Carrick Institute for her teaching of accounting at UNSW@ADFA and another UNSW@ADFA academic is part of a team seeking grants from this institution. Come along and find out just what these opportunities mean and how the Carrick Institute can help you to improve your learning and teaching approach.
Ms McDonald will speak on:
• An overview of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education programs
• The principles underpinning the Grants Scheme
• The differences between the three types of grants – Leadership, Priority Projects and Competitive grants within the Grants Scheme
• The project assessment process
• An update on what has happened this year under the various programs.
The presentation will be held on 22 September 2006 at 12:45pm in LT9. The TLC invites you to join us for a light lunch from 12pm outside LT9 and then for coffee and discussion with Ms McDonald after her presentation.
Elizabeth McDonald took up the appointment as Director-Grants Scheme and Company Secretary, the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, in January 2006. The Carrick Institute is an initiative of the Commonwealth Government It has a charter to advance and promote learning and teaching in Australian higher education. Prior to this appointment, Elizabeth spent a year on loan from the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) to the Carrick Institute to assist with the development of the Institute and was engaged in all aspects of planning during that year. In 2003-04 she was Director, Teaching and Learning Unit, Higher Education, DEST during the early implementation of the higher education reforms arising from Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future. In 2001-02 Elizabeth ran the secretariat for the National Review of Nursing Education.
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Public Lecture
WHO: Professor Arjo Klamer
WHAT: 'For heaven's sake: let's turn the economy upside down'
WHERE: Chapel at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture
15 Blackall Street , Barton
WHEN: 7.30 pm Thursday 21 September 2006
Background:
Christian values stressing concern for the disadvantaged are widespread in our culture even among those who are not themselves Christians. Economic thinking usually highlights the behavior of individuals in the market place and shows how the government makes up for imperfections of the market. But that leaves open a large area in which people realize social, cultural and spiritual values. Attention to that phase will have an effect of turning around a world now turned upside down by arguments that stress economic values.
Bio:
Arjo Klamer is Professor of the Economics of Art and Culture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam , The Netherlands. His books on the rhetoric and culture of economics are Conversations with Economists (1984) and Speaking of Economics (Routledge, forthcoming). He is a Catholic layman active in policy debate and community organisations in the Netherlands . Published work, lectures and sermons are available at his web site http://www.klamer.nl/
Sponsors for the lecture are the Public and Contextual Theology Centre at Charles Sturt University , CSIRO Social and Economic Integration, UNSW/ADFA and ANU.
Details: Paul Oslington p.oslington@adfa.edu.au
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Public Lecture
The Canberra Chapter of the Project Management Institute sponsored by UNSW@ADFA invites you to a presentation by:
Who: Walt Lipke
What: ‘Earned Schedule Analysis - A Breakthrough Analytical Technique'
Where: Lecture Room 3, Kurrajong Hotel National Circuit, Barton
When: 6.30 pm, 3 Oct 2006
Cost : $25, PMI Members no charge
Book online: via link
http://www.pmichapters-australia.org.au/canberra/Events/chapter.asp
Walt Lipke is the father of ‘Earned Schedule' a compelling extension of Earned Value Management(EVM). Earned Schedule is a better measurement of schedule performance
than traditional EVM methods and is better at predicting project completion towards the end of a project. Walt is in Australia for PROMAC and is making a special trip to Canberra to provide an introduction and overview of this new technique.
Walt Lipke is the creator of the technique ‘Earned Schedule' which extracts schedule information from earned value data. He has over 35 years experience in software development and recently retired as the deputy chief of the Software Division at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Centre. In 1996 his division became the first software activity in the US Federal Service to achieve CMM Level 4. Walt has published and presented on the benefits of software process improvement. He is a professional engineer with a Masters Degree in Physics.
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
RT Scholarships
On 11 September, applications for funding under the above program were assessed by a Rector's Committee consisting of the Rector (chair), A/g Associate Dean (Research) and the Presiding Member of the Academic Board. Although 33 very high calibre applications were received for funding commencing in 2007, unfortunately it was only possible to fund 10 new stipends under this scheme. The committee expressly thanked all applicants for the time and effort taken in preparing their applications.
The Rector, Professor John Baird, and the Acting Associate Dean for Research, Professor Ian Petersen, extend their congratulations to the following successful applicants:
Dr Kathie Barnes and Prof Paul Eggert (H&SS), Christopher Brennan's annotations to texts in his Greek library and their implications for his poetry.
Dr Steven Barry, Dr Harvinder Sidhu and Dr Geoff Mercer (PEMS), Modelling the swelling process: Design of efficient drug delivery devices.
A/Prof Grant Collins and A/Prof Hans Riesen (PEMS), An NMR and laser spectroscopy study of the binding of dinuclear ruthenium complexes to RNA.
A/Prof Jacky Croke and Dr Ingrid Takken (PEMS), Quantifying Sediment Connectivity through Valley Constructions for improved Catchment Sediment Budgets.
Dr Elanor Huntington and A/Prof Michael Frater (ITEE), Non-linear dynamics and signal processing for communications systems.
Dr Elanor Huntington and Dr Charles Harb (ITEE), Experiments in Coherent State Quantum Computing.
Prof Brian Lees and Dr Robin Robertson (PEMS), Modelling Oil Spills on Beaches.
Prof David Lovell and Dr Jian Zhang (H&SS), The role of civil society in democratisation.
Dr Valeri Ougrinovski and Dr Hemanshu Pota (ITEE), Research in robust estimation & modelling of uncertain signals using hidden Markov models.
Dr Mark Pickering and Prof John Arnold (ITEE), Enhanced Motion Compensation for Video Compression Using 3D Elastic Image Registration.
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 30 September so that appropriate display arrangements can be made. Douglas may be contacted at d.macnicol@adfa.edu.au orx89585.
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.
The full program for Research Day is available on the Research Office website at:
http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/units/research/researchday/index.html
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/researchday/index.html
Applications close:- Friday 3 November 2006
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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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