Academic meetings and events are the workshops, conferences and
seminars that UNU-IIST organised or jointly organised with other
institutions.
TECS week
TECS week is an annual event organised by TRDDC in
Pune, India, and was held during 2-9 January in 2003. He Jifeng is
a member of the Steering Committee, and he also presented some
lectures. 63 people attended.
Nepal workshop
Chris George and Prof. Jay Bagga of Ball State,
Muncie, Indiana, together organised a half-day workshop on 24 May in
Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the ITPC conference. The event was
well attended and its informal nature, especially the closing panel
discussion, was very successful.
Berhampur workshop
Chris George and Jay Bagga also presented
at a 2-day workshop on formal methods during 1-2 June at Berhampur
University, Orissa, India. The workshop was organised by 2 former
fellows, and they and another also gave presentations. Some 80
people, mostly from the state of Orissa but also from further
afield, attended.
FACS03
UNU-IIST organised a workshop Formal Aspects of
Component Software (FACS03) during 8-9 September as part of the
Formal Methods 2003 Conference in Pisa, Italy. Invited speakers
were He Jifeng of UNU-IIST, Prof. Manfred Broy from Munich and
Prof. Tom Maibaum from London. The proceedings are available as a
UNU/IIST report [13].
Seminars and In-house Training
UNU-IIST has organised 17
seminars and 7 in-house training courses of 3-5 days for its
fellows and staff in
2003. The lecturers were visitors, fellows and staff of UNU-IIST.
The seminars act as a forum for the UNU-IIST staff and fellows to
present their work and to discuss topics of common interest
in software technology. In-house training lectures are to provide
more fundamental knowledge in computer science for the fellows.