The 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012)
will be held from 19-21 May 2012 in Yantai, China. Submission Deadline is
6 January 2012.

ICSAI 2012 aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and
researchers to present the state of the art of systems engineering and
information science. Topics include (but are not limited to):

Systems

• Control and Automation Systems
• Power and Energy Systems
• Intelligent Systems
• Computer Systems and Applications

Informatics

• Communications and Networking
• Image, Video, and Signal Processing
• Data Engineering and Data Mining
• Software Engineering

The registration fee of US$400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners,
banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. ICSAI 2012 is
technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Society.

All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex
and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record #19873; IEEE
Catalog Number CFP1273R-CDR; ISBN: 978-1-4673-0197-8). Substantially
extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a
special issue of a SCI-indexed journal.

Yantai was listed as one of the world’s most inhabitable places by the
United Nations and was recognized as the “most charming city of China” by
China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area’s many
rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist
attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai
Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai.

For more information, visit the conference web page: http://ICSAI2012.ytu.edu.cn
If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please
email the secretariat at ICSAI2012@ytu.edu.cn

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University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney will hold a seminar for UGM lecturers and researchers who have interest to study in UNSW. UNSW is one of the best universities in Australia, and is well-known for its advanced facility and research based learning method. Therefore they would like to give information about scholarship and research in UNSW. This seminar will be held in:

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
from 9 am to 12 pm at Pusat Pelatihan Bahasa (PPB) UGM
“UNSW Research Studies and Scholarship Info Session”

Please register to OIA UGM by phone (0274) 563974 or IDP Education UKDW (0274) 550278 / 0813 92 925 925 because of limited seats. And please make sure to re-confirm your attendance one day before this event by phone as well.

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Gama Fest is an annual event of Office of International Affairs, Universitas Gadjah Mada which involved both local and international students. This event aim to celebrate the international atmosphere in UGM. This year Gama Fest will be held in Pusat Kesenian Koesnadi Hardjasoemantri (Purna Budaya) UGM on Saturday, November 19, 2011.

Participants and visitors are welcome to have Gama Fest 2011 T-Shirt by contacting committee for pre-order.

Please contact dini_latifah@mail.ugm.ac.id before November 17th to order your T-Shirt.

T-Shirt Specifications

• Colour : Blue, White
• Size : M, L, XL
• Price : Rp 50.000,00

Don’t forget to state your order form as the followings

• Name :
• Colour :
• Size :
• Mobile Phone Number :

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Edlink+ConneX will hold a mini exhibiton for UGM lecturers who have been listed in the 6th batch of DIKTI scholarship interview. Edlink ConneX will visit UGM to inform the latest information and features from their representative universities in Australia, in the preparation to get Letter of Offer or Letter of Acceptance in the upcoming DIKTI batch.

Below is the list of universities:

1. Deakin University (Melbourne)
2. La Trobe University (Melbourne)
3. Monash University (Melbourne)
4. The University of Wollongong (Wollongong)
5. Macquarie University (Sydney)
6. The University of Queensland (Brisbane)
7. Think Education Group (Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane Campus)
8. Curtin University (Perth)

For those who are interested, please attend and participate to this event on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 9am in Ruang Sidang 1 Rektorat UGM. Because of the limited seats, please register first to OIA UGM by phone (0274) 563974.

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Universitas Gadjah Mada invites UGM students and lecturers to attend this seminar by Indonesian Ambassador for Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus, HE Djauhari Oratmangun, which will be held on:

day, date : Tuesday, 28 February 2012
time : 13.00-15.00
venue : Ruang Seminar Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada

For those who are interested please register to OIA UGM at (0274) 563974 or Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM (0274) 563362 ext 146.

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Delegation of Kanazawa University will pay a visit to Universitas Gadjah Mada to inform about studying procedures in Kanazawa University in Japan. In this agenda, Kanazawa University will also hold an open recruitment for UGM lecturers who are interested to pursue post-doctoral degree in any field and research. This agenda will be held on:

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Ruang Serba Guna, 3rd floor, East Wing, UGM Main Building
at 2 pm

Due to the limited 60 seats, please kindly register yourself first if you wish to attend this event to Mr. Bareng (0274) 563974 / 6491927.

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OIA UGM is inviting you to attend the seminar and discussion with Dr. Allan E. Goodman (the President and Chief Executive Officer of Institute of International Education) at Ruang Multimedia lt. 3, Sayap Utara, Gedung Pusat UGM on Wednesday, February 15, 2012.. The main topic of discussion is “Creating Effective Partnerships between Indonesian and US Higher Education”, but it will also discuss other topics:

1. Trends in Global Student Mobility
2. Current Issues Affecting UG Higher Education
3. Why Governments Need to Invest in International Education

How to register:

• Sign up at Office of International Affairs UGM Main Building 2nd Floor, Southern Wing or
• Send email with subject “Registration for IIE Seminar” to assistant-headoia@ugm.ac.id providing complete information such as: name, mobile phone number, faculty/ unit of origin, and one reason why you register to this program.
• Deadline of registration is February 11, 2012.
• After we sort out the applicants, we will send a confirmation email to your email account on February 13, 2012.
• Please note that the seats are limited.

Who can apply?

1. Final year students from all UGM faculty
2. Young lecturer/ faculty member interested in continuing their studies in United States

Dresscode: Batik/ formal

Dr. Allan Goodman is the sixth President of the Institute, the leading non-for-profit organization in the field of international educational exchange and development training. IIE conducts research on international academic mobility and administers the Fulbright program sponsored by the United States Department of State, as well as over 250 other corporate, government, and privately-sponsored programs. Since its founding in 1919, the institute has also rescued scholars threatened by war, terrorism, and repression. Rescued scholars and other alumni of Institute-administered programs have won 67 Nobel Prizes.

Dr. Goodman has a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.S. from Northwestern University. He also holds honorary degrees from Chatham and Toyota Universities, Dickinson, Middlebury, Mount Ida, and Ramapo colleges, and The State University Of New York. He has received awards from Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, South Florida, and Tufts universities, and the Legion d’honneur from France.

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International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability (ISCES) was initiated by the proposal of Prof. WANG Guangtao, Chairman of Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of National People’s Congress of China, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Unep – Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development (IESD). The 1^st ISCES was co-organized by UNEP and Tongji University successfully in Shanghai from June 5^th to 8^th, 2011. During this conference, nearly 400 young students from more than 35 countries and well-known specialists and scholars came together to discuss the latest topics, including Water and Forest, Green Mobility, Eco-Urbanism & Cultural Heritage, etc. As one of the most significant outcomes, Global Youth Tongji Declaration was released on the closing ceremony, and the Declaration emphasizes that “The Conference at Tongji University was an optimal platform to promote the important role of youth in large-scale decisions”.

The 2012 International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability (ISCES) will be held from June 5^th to 8^th in Shanghai, China. The conference will invite young students, who are the future managers, policy makers, scientists and actionists, to experience the local green economy in Shanghai, to visit local eco-industry and to share their insight and understandings of environment and sustainability. During the conference, participants will join various activities, including keynote speeches, field visits, parallel group workshops and poster voting. The TOP 10 best poster winners will be awarded. Lastly, a booklet of 2012 ISCES with posters, proposals, summaries, reports and other forms of research outcomes will be published and disseminated in Rio +20.

For more information, please visit IESD-UNEP website.

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Michael E. McCoy (AMINEF Executive Director) will present Fulbright DIKTI program which provides scholarships to faculty members to study or conduct research in United States.

This presentation is free and open for faculty members and research staff of Universitas Gadjah Mada. Due to limited seat, please register by phone at 0274-563974 (KUI UGM)

The presentation about this program is scheduled at:

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Geography is all about Earth and phenomena occur within. Due to its approaches –spatial, ecological, and regional complex-, Geography becomes a holistic and dynamic science. Environmental problems such as natural disasters are now become the most happening issues in the world. Oftentimes disaster cannot be delayed or rejected but the risk can be reduced. Geography can answer the main question about location, process, and also how to reduce the risk of disaster.

One of the most popular environmental issues is climate change. Green House Gases (GHG) actually has a positive function which is to warn the Earth’s temperature. Without GHG, it is extremely low, while with the abundance of GHG in the atmosphere it increases significantly. This abundance was born as the consequence of people’s effort in achieving their welfare and prosperity through several economic activities. Agriculture intending to deforest decreases the population of carbon dioxide absorbers, cattle and poultry husbandries release methane, sulfur oxide, and nitro oxide, while industry and transportation contribute Freon and carbon dioxide.

The global temperature increase in a very long period associates with the birth of climate change. Season shifts, more frequent extreme precipitation, drought, even increasing intensity of tropical cyclone become the footprints of climate change impacts all around the world. Developed countries in Europe have invented environmentally friendly technology without decreasing the economic activities which support their people’s life. On the contrary, the developing countries, such as Indonesia, still prioritize their energy and time to increase and distribute evenly the people’s welfare. Thus, similar technology is far beyond reach.

This condition doesn’t mean to represent the loss of Indonesia in war against the impact of climate change, but its obligation to improve all environmentally friendly acts which are simple and can be implemented by each of its citizen. The compilation of these acts is realized under the event named Geography International Symposium (GIS) 2012 which themed Adaptation Toward Climate Change for Sustainability. It is organized by BEM KM Fakultas Geografi UGM, as the host of GIS 2012, and Ikatan Mahasiswa Geografi Indonesia (IMAHAGI) which includes academic session, socio-cultural session, and regional meeting in order to increase the understanding of and unite the efficient and significant ideas of climate change of each of Indonesian and other countries’ participants.

Further information for this event please check: www.geographysymposium.geo.ugm.ac.id

Objectives

• To open the mind, perspective, and sensitivity of geography students and practicioners especially related to the theme of the Symposium, both in terms of scientific and academic experience of professionalism.
• To improve the competence and prepare candidates for geographers, who are reliable in terms of scientific expertise and scientific professionalism.
• To create a network for the development of geography
• To foster a sense of brotherhood among the geography students, especially in the South East Asia region

Form of Event :

Call for Papers with the theme “Applications of Interdiciplinary Science to Deal With Climate Change” . It gives opportunity for participants to present and exhibit their scientific paper and poster.

Provisions of participants :

Participants attend and required to write a paper (in English) from any kind of basic science. It may include social science, economic, technology, nature and environment, health science, engineering, etc.

Important Dates :

• Lastest abstract submission: January 31st, 2012
• Notification of Acceptance: February 10th, 2012
• Latest Participants Registration: March 30th, 2012
• Deadline Full paper and poster: April 20th, 2012
• Symposium and presentation: Mei 6 th, 2012

Send the Abstract and Curriculum Vitae by email to : geographysymposium@ugm.ac.id or GISyogyakarta@hotmail.com

Abstract must be written in english, 400 words max. For a group papers, the maximum number of the members are 3 persons.

Accepted Abstrack Should Pay :
- For undergraduate student (S1) : IDR 450.000 (US$ 50)
- For student S2 : IDR 650.000 (US$ 70)
- For student S3 and public : IDR 850.000 (US$ 90)

• There’s a prize for the best paper.
• The paper that is accepted will be published on geography scientific journal, and the author will get the journal for free.
• International Symposium with the theme “Adaptation toward Climate Change for Sustainability” will be presented by the speakers from Indonesia and abroad. It is purposed to outreach the community about the impact of Climate Change and steps to mitigate that case. It also expects that the movement can reach all levels of society as we all share the responsibility to preserve the Earth.

Youth Conference with the theme Youth Role for Climate Change and Environmental Issues

This Youth scientific conference will discuss the condition of environment nowadays, and its sustainability. At the Conference, participants must make description about the environmental problems that have occurred in their country and ensure some points thingking about youth contributions that can do to faced climate change and preserve environment in order to sustainable. The conference divided into group discussion, there are :
- Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
- Hydrology and Agroecosystem in Climate change
- Community Empowerment to Adapt Climate Change
- Reducing Economic Disruption Caused by Climate Change
Output from this activity is Youth Declaration on the steps to be taken in each country to minimize the impact of climate change (The declaration socialisted on opening ceremony of International Symposium).
Provisions of participants :

• Participants can choose one group from four topics and concern at that case (participants must make a short essay about that choosen focus theme)
• Participants are generally may comes from civitas academica, researcher, or public society who 18 – 35 years old
• The conference definite for 80 first registrant person
• Fee to join this conference : IDR 30.000
• Registration opened now till latest participants registration : April, 30th 2012
• The panel conference will be held at May, 5th 2012 starts from 08.00 – end at Faculty of Geography Universitas Gadjah Mada
• Facility : Notes and Pen, Certificate, Coffee break, Lunch

For Further Information
Mobile : +62 856 430 48 101 (Ms. Rona)
Telp : +62 274 649 2340 ; Fax : +62 274 589 595 (FGE UGM)
Email : GISyogyakarta@hotmail.com
Website : www.geographysymposium.geo.ugm.ac.id

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