7 September 2006
Message from the Rector
Dear Colleagues,
We were very pleased to secure Prof Robert Pape from the University of Chicago talking on the Strategic Logic for Suicide Terrorism on Tuesday 5th September. The highly successful event was sponsored by the School of Humanities And Social Sciences. The value of such a high profile speaker for UNSW@ADFA is considerable.
I would like to encourage staff to continue to put forward suitable speakers for future public lectures.
A reminder that the 2006 University Lecture will be held in Adams Hall on Thursday 14th September with Dr Hugh Mackay speaking on 'the Ethics of Leadership'.
Professor John Baird
Rector
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NEXT PUBLISHED CAMPUS NEWSLETTER THURS 21 SEPTEMBER 2006.
PEMS SPONSORS SUCCESSFUL GISc POST-GRADUATE WORKSHOP
Through the last week in August PEMS staff ran a successful Australasian post-graduate workshop in Geographic Information Science, Social and Environmental Modelling. The event was held at Kioloa, near Batemans Bay , which is the focus of the NASA Pathfinder Digital Data Set established by Brian Lees of PEMS. Thirty post-graduate and honours students from around Australia, New Zealand and the US, mixed with PEMS geographers and overseas colleagues including Prof Mark Gahegan of Penn State and David O'Sullivan of Auckland. Students came from the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, Monash, Western Australia, Wollongong, Penn State and Charles Darwin University and, of course, UNSW@ADFA. All attendees presented papers and evening sessions on supervisor-student interaction and publishing were particularly well received. PEMS, UNSW@ADFA sponsored the event, Mark Gahegan's travel was supported by NICTA and David O'Sullivan's by IAG.
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Student Administrative Services Staff Changes
Over the last few months, Student Administrative Services experienced quite a few staffing changes. Now things have settled down, we are pleased to announce the following.
We recently welcomed Patricia McCauley as our new Deputy Manager. Patricia has extensive experience in providing administration in educational environments.
Debbie Dennis has commenced as our new Student Systems Officer after working briefly as a Client Services Officer. She is our new contact regarding timetabling and examinations.
Our former timetabling contact, Pauline Baragry, is our new Office Manager.
May Ong is our new Client Services Officer for International and Engineering students.
Further information regarding our staffing can be found at: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/student/contact/sas-staff.html
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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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Introduction to the Military Structure
Thursday 14th September 10.30am-11.30am in the Military Theatre
This presentation is designed for all interested University staff, both academic and general, who are new to the UNSW@ADFA, although everyone is welcome. An outline of the Department of Defence's organisational structure and the life of a cadet at the Academy will be provided. Members of the Academy military staff will present this information session.
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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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FREE COMMUNITY LECTURES and SEMINARS
School of Physical , Environmental & Mathematical Sciences
Upcoming Seminars
When: Fridays at 11.10am
Where: P25, PEMS Sth (Bldg 26)
* 8 September - Steve James - "PC Birthday Party"
* 15 September - Rodney Weber - "Drifting Microgravity Flame Balls "
* 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.
Asia Pacific Seminar Series
Date: 11 September 2006
Time: 12:10-13:00
Where: Room SL1 (upstairs), Building 21
Creating a New Indonesian Society: Recent Development of Islamic Economic Institutions in Indonesia
Who: Dr Minako Sakai - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
Ekonomi syariah is an Indonesian word which refers to Islamic business and economic systems based on Islamic values. Along with the increasing resurgence of Islam as a religion, support for Islamic economic systems is growing. The first syariah business expo in Jakarta in May, organisers expected, was the first step to create a new direction of social and economic development in Indonesia by promoting the emergent ekonomi syariah business.
This paper aims to review the recent institutional development of Islamic economic systems in Indonesia . It will examine the aims of ekonomi syariah and motivations of new business practitioners through case studies. The causes of the resurgence of Islam, are often linked to the rejection of dominance against the west/globalisation (Islamic activism). I argue that in the case of Indonesia , the most important element of the rise of ekonomi syariah is nationalism; a commitment to strengthen the Indonesian economy from economic crisis and to create a humane society by eradicating poverty.
Upcoming Asia Pacific Seminars
Date: 18 September 2006
Beyond Terminal Development? Rethinking Economic Development in Melanesia
Who: Dr Glenn Banks - School of Physical , Environmental and Mathematical Sciences,
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
Acting Associate Dean (Research)
Staff in the Research and Research Training Office (RRTO) would like to wecome Professor Ian Petersen in his current role as A/g Associate Dean (Research) while Professor Joseph Lai is enjoying a well-deserved break on SSP. (We suspect that Joseph is currently languishing amid his miriad research projects and enjoying a productive time away from the constant disruptions caused by this office).
We are looking forward to working with Ian, and will attempt not to make his life too intolerably miserable over the next few months.
Faculty Seminar 12 September; Prof Ian Petersen
An Overview of Control Engineering
(Despite the number of applications staff in the Research and Research Training Office (RRTO) read which describe Robust Feedback Control in Quantum Technology, Robust Control of Jump Parameter Systems, linearization and studied linear or quazilinear models, and Markov chain approximation techniques, we're still none the wiser! We're hoping this seminar by the A/g Associate Dean (Research) will be the light at the end of the tunnel. We just hope it's not an oncoming train....)
Abstract : This talk will give a general overview of control systems and control engineering with an emphasis on where they are applied and emerging areas of research. The talk will begin with a discussion of the key concept in control engineering which is the use of feedback. These ideas will be illustrated with examples of control systems in aircraft, missiles, spacecraft, cars, power systems and steel mills. The talk will then discuss some of the critical issues in control engineering practice and research including the issues of nonlinearity, noise, stability, robustness, and optimality. As well, we will discuss new theoretical directions for control research including control over communications networks such as the internet and control of large scale complex system via distributed controllers. The talk will conclude with a discussion of new applications areas for control engineering including the control of swarms of unmanned aircraft, the control in biological systems, the control of quantum systems, and the control of smart structures.
The Faculty Seminar will be held in SL1 (Bld 21). Refreshments will be available in the ACME/ P/g lounge from 3:15 and the seminar commence at 3:40pm. After the presentation, time will be available for questions and feedback. All staff and research students are encouraged to attend as Faculty Seminars provide a great opportunity for networking across all Schools at UNSW@ADFA .
And despite the fact that the only time we ever received a full complement of responses to our request for an RSVP was when there was a typo in the broadcast email, we have still not given up!! We would like to emphasise that RSVPs are greatly appreciated – makes catering so much easier.
Please RSVP to Elvira Berra at e.berra@adfa.edu.au or on 88112 by cob on 8 September.
Congratulations to Dr James Warn and Dr Paul Tranter
Professor John Baird (Rector) and Professor Ian Petersen (Acting Associate Dean (Research) congratulate Dr James Warn from the School of Business and Dr Paul Tranter from the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences (PEMS) on their successful grant application to the NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust.
The project, titled Slowing Down in the Community: Reducing the Speeding Behaviour of Motorists Through Cultural Change will be conducted over two years and has been awarded $80,850.
The aim of the project is to challenge ‘the culture of speed' in the ACT and the findings will be used to develop a holistic methodological framework for evaluating the links between road safety and community initiatives for cultural change.
Background : In 1993, a “speed review” study was undertaken by the Monash University Accident Research Centre for the then Federal Office of Road Safety (now Australian Transport Safety Bureau). Twelve action items were identified for their importance for reducing speed related crashes. One of the priority items for these action programs was the need for a change in community attitude towards speeding, and the development of public education programs to promote a widespread change in community attitudes to speeding. However, recent critiques reinforce the need for a wider cultural change. This is reflected in the social trend towards “downshifting”, and in popular books such as In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore, which question whether speed, busyness, and “saving time” should be the hallmarks of modern life. David Engwicht likewise promotes the notion of “psychological traffic calming” in his book Mental Speed Bumps .
RT Scholarship Applications Closed
Applications for the Research Training Scholarships closed on 25 August, with a record number of 33 applications received from across all Schools on campus. The RT Scholarships provide funding to full-time continuing academic staff in the form of scholarships to attract new research students.
Applications will be assessed by a Rector's Committee consisting of the Rector (Chair), A/g Associate Dean (Research) and Presiding Member of the Academic Board. Applicants are expected to be notified of the outcome by 12 September.
Congratulations Greg Freebairn
It has come to the attention of the Research and Research Training Office (not much escapes us!) that Gregory Freebairn, - postgraduate research student in ACME - really deserves congratulating! The letter sent to Greg from Professor John Hay, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Queensland reads in part:
‘I am delighted to advise that your outstanding academic achievements in your Bachelor of Science with Honours Class 1 are to be recognised by the awarding of a University Medal for 2005. Congratulations on this honour in the field of Physics'.
Both Professor John Baird (Rector) and Professor Ian Petersen (A/g Associate Dean (Research)) extend their sincere congratulations to Greg on this outstanding achievement.
Summer Scholarships
Last week Schools were advised that applications for the 2006/2007 Summer Research Scholarships are now open. School Executive Officers were provided with guidelines and application form together with a copy of the one-page flyer advertising the scholarships.
The Summer Research Scholarships are also advertised on the UNSW@ADFA homepage and the RRTO web page at http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/units/research/PG_student/summer_scholarships_guidelines_2006.doc.
Please note that applications and nomination forms must reach the Research & Research Training Office by 27 October 2006. No late applications will be accepted.
Advance Notice: Research Day 31 October
The Research and Research Training Office is now commencing preparations for the 2006 Research Day which will take place on Tuesday 31 October. The annual UNSW@ADFA Research Day is one of the highlights of the year and is aimed at celebrating research students' achievements. Further information about the annual Poster Competition and Students' Presentation Awards will be contained in the next Campus Newsletter.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
| DATE |
TITLE |
VENUE |
| 14 Sept |
University Lecture |
Adams Hall - 6.00pm |
| 13 Dec |
Degree Conferrals |
Adams Hall |
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