From zita at ISI.EDU  Wed Feb  1 13:39:48 2006
From: zita at ISI.EDU (Zita Wenzel)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:39:48 -1000
Subject: [APRU-DLI] APRUNet Newsletter (v.5, n.1)
Message-ID: <43E12AA4.70409@isi.edu>

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APRUNET NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 2006 (V.5, n.1)

Current web issue and archived copies:
<http://www.apru.org/activities/aprunet/news.htm>

To subscribe to the APRUNet Newsletter, see: 
<http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/apru-dli>

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. APRU ?Distance Learning and the Internet Conference?
2. Inaugural APRU Enterprise Business Plan Competition
3. APRU Brain and Mind Research Symposium
4. APRU Doctoral Students Conference
5. 7TH APRU Fellows Program
6. APRU Enterprise Business Plan Competition - Extra Chapter Challenge
7. APRU Research Symposium 2006 - "Earthquake Hazards Around the Pacific 
Rim - Global Watch and Environmental Impact
8. ECAI News
9. Comments and Suggestions


1. APRU ?DISTANCE LEARNING AND THE INTERNET CONFERENCE?
<http://www.apru.org/activities/aprunet/>

The Seventh Annual "Distance Learning and the Internet" Conference will 
be hosted by University of Tokyo from 8-10 November 2006. The seventh in 
its series, the conference aims to bring together leading, international 
distance learning experts from academia, business and public sectors. 
The theme for this year was "Linking People through Information 
Technology Education".

The sub-themes for the Conference are:

- Mobile and ubiquitous learning
- Open knowledge sharing
- Virtual labs
- Multi-lingual learning environment
- Content development support
- Technology trends

Important dates:

Call opens: 1 February 2006 One (1)- two (2) page- abstract to be submitted.
Submission deadline: 1 May 2006 .
Acceptance notices issued: 1 July 2006 .
Camera-ready deadline: 1 September 2006.
Final version (2-10 page full paper) due for the conference proceedings.
Papers will be published on the conference web site.
All submissions are to be made electronically via a link from the APRU 
DLI 2006 Web site <http://apru2006.dir.u-tokyo.ac.jp>.

Presentations from this year?s conference, and information on next 
year?s conference, are available on the APRUNet web site at 
http://www.apru.org/activities/aprunet/.


2. INAUGURAL APRU ENTERPRISE BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
<http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/APRU/>

Inaugural APRU Enterprise Business Plan Competition ? Extra Chapter 
Challenge (ECC) is now open. This competition will be conducted 
concurrently but as an additional component of the 7th APRU Doctoral 
Students Conference (DSC) to be hosted by the National University of 
Singapore (NUS) from 17-21 July 2006.

The ECC, with prize money worth approximately US$20,000, is open to 
doctoral students in any discipline from all APRU member universities. 
Students are required to write an extra chapter in their dissertations 
on how they will commercialize their research output with the aim of 
creating extensive economic and social value beyond their dissertation. 
The process of developing a sustainable business plan will help them 
capitalize on their intellectual capabilities, and cultivate a spirit of 
innovation and entrepreneurship. Further benefits include a rare 
opportunity to present their work to an international panel of judges 
comprising distinguished and prominent members of the venture capital 
community, industry leaders and other experts.

Further information on the program and other conference information will 
be progressively made available at the conference website at 
<http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/APRU/>. If you have any queries, please 
direct them to the ECC Organizing Committee at <aprudscecc at nus.edu.sg>. 
The APRU Secretariat can also be contacted at <apru at apru.org 
<mailto:apru at apru.org>>.


3. APRU BRAIN AND MIND RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
<maxb at physiol.usyd.edu.au> <mailto:maxb at physiol.usyd.edu.au>

The APRU Brain and Mind Research Symposium is to be held from 14-16 
August next year at University of Sydney for APRU brain researchers. The 
Symposium is for senior representatives of APRU brain researchers to 
meet in Sydney for the three-day symposium. The Symposium's purpose is 
to illuminate the scope of brain research in APRU and to put specific 
plans in place for optimizing brain research in the Asia Pacific region.

Interested parties may want to contact Professor Max Bennett who is the 
Scientific Director of the Brain & Mind Research Institute, University 
of Sydney and coordinating efforts to hold the Symposium. Professor 
Bennett can be reached at <maxb at physiol.usyd.edu.au> 
<mailto:maxb at physiol.usyd.edu.au>.


4. APRU DOCTORAL STUDENTS CONFERENCE
<http://www.apru.org/activities/dsc/>

The 7th APRU Doctoral Students Conference (DSC) will be hosted by the 
National University of Singapore (NUS) from 17-21 July 2006. The 
conference theme is "Inventing the Future: Trends, Perspectives and 
Enterprise from the Pacific Rim".

Building on last year?s theme that centers on a sustainable future, the 
DSC 2006 aspires to explore the ways in which academic research can 
contribute towards inventing a future that benefits the community and 
the world. Designed as an interdisciplinary gathering of doctoral 
students where the flow of ideas and information converge, the 
conference provides an important avenue for doctoral students to present 
their research in an international academic setting to fellow students 
from other APRU universities. It will be an opportune time for students 
to obtain critique on their research, establish valuable networks and 
future academic collaborations.

The DSC participants will be provided with 6 nights of free lodging at 
the NUS residence. No registration fees will be charged as well. We hope 
that this will strongly promote participation from doctoral students. 
APRU member universities are encouraged to select and fund the travel of 
at least one or more doctoral students to this conference.

For successful DSC applicants, they are also encouraged to maximize 
their subsidized accommodation by taking part in the APRU Enterprise 
Business Plan Competition ? Extra Chapter Challenge (ECC) where the top 
three participants will share prize money of approximately US$20,000.

More information on registration, lodging and other conference 
information will progressively be made available at the conference 
website at <http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/APRU/>. The NUS conference 
organizers, Mr. Raphael Funwa Iluyomade and Ms. Chan Mei Yen, may be 
contacted at <apruinquiry at nus.edu.sg <mailto:aprudscecc at nus.edu.sg>> for 
any queries regarding the conference.


5. 7TH APRU FELLOWS PROGRAM

The APRU Fellows Program (AFP) is into its 7th series and next year, it 
will be hosted by the Australian National University (ANU) from 16-25 
August 2006. The 2006 Fellows Program is championed by the Asia Pacific 
School of Economics and Government at ANU and will focus on the theme 
?Regional Security and Governance?.
This year's program aims to bring together faculty members from the 
political sciences, humanities and social sciences, international 
relations, law, economics, sciences and environmental studies who are 
interested to study the myriad of complexities relating to regional 
security and governance.

? Great Power Politics and Regional Security Implications
? Terrorism and Islam
? Democratization in the Asia Pacific
? The Political Economy of Globalization
? Regional Architecture
? Environmental Security
? Pandemics and Health Security

Please contact Ms Maree Tait of ANU via email <maree.tait at anu.edu.au 
<mailto:maree.tait at anu.edu.au>> or fax: + 61 2 61250767 by 31 March 
2006. Registration awards may be available for APRU member universities 
from developing economies. If you wish to apply for the registration 
awards for your fellow, please contact the APRU Secretariat at 
<apru at apru.org <mailto:apru at apru.org>>.


6. APRU ENTERPRISE BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION - EXTRA CHAPTER CHALLENGE

APNG Secretariat is once again happy to announce the APNG Camp 
Fellowship Program. The APNG Camp Committee now cordially invites 
suitable applicants to apply for fellowship funding to participate in 
the 8th APNG Camp in Singapore from 18-20 July 2006.

Those wishing to participate are requested to submit your applications 
at <camp-fp at apng.org <mailto:camp-fp at apng.org>>. The deadline of the 
submission is 15 March, 2006.


7. APRU RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2006
"Earthquake Hazards Around the Pacific Rim - Global Watch and 
Environmental Impact

Osaka University and University of California, Berkeley will co-host the 
Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) / Association of East 
Asian Research Universities AEARU) Research Symposium 2006 on 
"Earthquake Hazards Around the Pacific Rim - Global Watch and 
Environmental Impact" from 21-22 April 2006.

Second in the series, this symposium is sponsored by Japan Society for 
the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Earthquake Engineering Research 
Institute (EERI), Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of 
California, Berkeley, and San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Association. 
Different from other more technical and specialized symposiums on 
earthquakes, this research symposium will focus more on the reduction of 
environmental impact by earthquakes. Various methods such as 
international warning network and risk management will be intensively 
discussed at the symposium.
Interested participants can contact Professor Yoshikatsu Murooka at 
<info at osaka-u-sf.org <mailto:info at osaka-u-sf.org>>. Registration is now 
open till 15 March 2006. The schedule for the APRU/AEARU Research 
Symposium 2006 is as follows:

(1) Call for Abstracts (Deadline: 5 January 2006)
Contributing authors should submit their one-page abstracts to Osaka 
University San Francisco Office at <info at osaka-u-sf.org 
<mailto:info at osaka-u-sf.org>>. Contributing authors will be notified of 
paper acceptance by 25 January 2006.

(2) Submission of Papers (Deadline: 28 February 2006)
Papers for the research symposium should be submitted to Osaka 
University San Francisco Office at <info at osaka-u-sf.org 
<mailto:info at osaka-u-sf.org>>.

Interested participants can also find out more about the APRU/AEARU 
Research Symposium 2006 at Osaka University San Francisco Office's 
website at <http://www.osaka-u-sf.org>; it would be constantly updated 
with information.

All APRU universities are encouraged to participate in this conference. 
We would appreciate it if you could forward information on this 
conference to faculty, staff and students in your university who may be 
interested to attend. For further queries, interested parties can send 
an e-mail to Osaka University San Francisco Office at: 
<info at osaka-u-sf.org <mailto:info at osaka-u-sf.org>>.


8. ECAI NEWS
<ecai.org>

ECAI is pleased to announce that the Spring 2006 meetings will be held 
in conjunction with the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods 
in Archaeology (CAA) conference - Digital Discovery: Exploring New 
Frontiers in Human Heritage, 18-21 April in Fargo, North Dakota.

ECAI is accepting submissions for papers within the theme Cultural 
Heritage and Cyber infrastructure on the following topics:

1) Exemplary cultural maps and atlases
2) Cultural atlases in teaching
3) Gazetteers and related aids
4) Metadata, Standards, and Best Practices
5) e-Scholarship / e-Science
6) Cyber infrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences
7) e-Publications
8) Virtual Reality

The CAA list of conference topics include:

1. Virtual Reality Modeling
2. Simulations and Complex Modeling
3. 3D Data Capture, Manipulation, and Analysis
4. Field Applications
5. Remote Sensing
6. Mapping and Spatial Technologies (GIS and others)
7. Informatics
8. Education
9. Cultural Heritage Resources Management
10. Bio-Archaeology and Human Biological Heritage
11. Quantitative Applications
12. Archaeometry
13. Maritime Archaeology
14. Theoretical Issues

Submissions relevant to ECAI topics should be sent by 13 January 2006 to 
Kim Carl, ECAI, <kcarl at berkeley.edu <mailto:kcarl at berkeley.edu>>. 
Submissions relevant to the CAA list, but not to ECAIs, should be 
submitted directly to CAA. Submission guidelines for CAA are available 
from the CAA conference web site, <http://www.caa2006.org/>.

ECAI had a successful conference with CAA in the Spring 2003. We welcome 
this opportunity to once again meet with this diverse group of scholars. 
Plans to meet in Belfast were altered due to logistical problems however 
an ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases in Belfast is in the planning.


09. COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS
<apru-dli at mailman.isi.edu> <mailto:apru-dli at mailman.isi.edu>
<zita at isi.edu> <mailto:zita at isi.edu>

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Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). It is designed as a tool 
to assist in the development of advanced Internet capabilities among 
APRU universities and APEC economies. The key goal is to develop 
teaching and research applications that utilize advanced Internet 
technologies, e.g., distance learning, virtual conferences, 
telemedicine, etc. by sharing, networking, partnerships, and 
collaborations.

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