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List of academic meetings and events

List of academic meetings and events

Academic meetings and events are the workshops, conferences and seminars that UNU-IIST organised or jointly organised with some other institutions.

ICTAC Colloquium

On 20-24 September 2004, UNU-IIST, jointly with the Academy of Sciences of Guizhou Province, China, organised the 1st International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing. The programme included six very good tutorials including one by Tobias Nipkow which lasted for 3 half days, four outstanding invited talks including one given by He Jifeng, and 36 regular presentations selected from 111 submissions from over 30 countries and regions. Zhiming Liu is co-chair of the Programme Committee and Bernhard Aichernig is the Publicity Chair. The initiative is to extend the traditional UNU-IIST training schools to research oriented presentations and tutorials in order for us to reach out to meet those potential researchers from developing countries and to help them to establish links with researchers from developed countries. This turned out to be very successful and cost effective as the tutorial lecturers came to teach at their own expense. We will continue the event of ICTAC and improve it in future: the next ICTAC is planned for September 2005 in Hanoi, Vietnam. He Jifeng and Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST Board Members Profs Manfred Broy and Mathai Joseph, and former director of UNU-IIST Prof. Dines Bjørner are among the members of the Advisory Committee of ICTAC.

SEFM Conference

UNU-IIST jointly with Peking University organised the 2nd International Conference for Software Engineering and Formal Methods during 26-30 September. He Jifeng is co-chair of the conference, Zhiming Liu is co-chair of the Programme Committee, Antonio Cerone is the Finance Chair, and Bernhard Aichernig is the Tutorial and Workshop Chair. The programme includes four excellent tutorials selected from 12 proposals, one workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Engineering, five outstanding keynote talks, and 38 regular presentations accepted from 144 submissions. Antonio Cerone is the coordinator of SEFM Steering Committee, for which Zhiming Liu is a member as well as UNU-IIST Board members Profs Manfred Broy and Mathai Joseph.

Seminars and In-house Training

UNU-IIST has organised 39 seminars and in-house training courses for its fellows and staff in 2004 (compared with 25 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 to the fellows.

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