CVT Seminar - Real World Crash Investigations

Dear all,

The Centre for Vehicular Technology (CVT) is organising a research seminar on Crash Investigations.

Title: Real World Crash Investigations
Speaker: Dr. D. Logan (MUARC Australia)
Date & Time:  12/5/2010(Wed), 3.00-4.00pm
Venue:  DK1, UTAR Setapak Campus, KL.

Attendance: All students and staff are welcome

Highlights: Brief history of vehicle safety and comprehensive introduction to real world crashes with a couple of examples (including motorcycle).

Tan Ching Seong
Chair, Centre for Vehicular Technology

CMS Seminar Series 7 May 2010

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Centre of Mathematical Sciences Seminar Series

Date: 7 May 2010 (Friday)
Time: 2 - 3 pm
Venue: Meeting Room, Block PD, UTAR PJ Campus

Speaker: Dr. Tan Aik Choon, University of Colorado

Title: Translational Bioinformatics: From Bytes to Bedside and Back

Abstract:

Cancer is driven by multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations, including changes in DNA sequence, aberrations of copy number, abnormalities of chromosomes, and modification of DNA methylation. Today's powerful and high-throughput technologies have enabled researchers: (1) to characterize these genomic abnormalities, which have largely been studied in isolation, within individual cancer genome; and (2) to survey these changes across large numbers of cancer genomes in great detail. Two major findings revealed from these studies: human tumors are heterogeneous and genomic alterations occur in specific pathways to drive cancer development and progression. These findings have major implication to oncology drug development and cancer treatment. In this talk, I will give an overview on how to develop and employ bioinformatics to integrate these massive data from diverse sources and translate them into meaningful clinical applications.


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Dear all,

This week CMS seminar is from Dr. Tan Aik Choon of University of Colorado.

Aik Choon Tan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at the Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. He also has a secondary appointment at the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health. He is a member of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Developmental Therapeutics Program and a faculty member of the Head and Neck Cancer Research Program.

Aik Choon's research interest is to translate the basic research into clinical trials for personalized cancer treatment by 1) developing novel bioinformatics approaches to integrate and interpret high-throughput and complex biological data sources for biomarker discovery, and 2) devising new computational strategies to identify aberrant signaling and metabolic pathways in tumors. He is the Director of the Translational Bioinformatics and Cancer Systems Biology laboratory (The Tan Lab). He is also the coordinator of the bioinformatics and biostatistics group of investigators working in developing new algorithms and statistical methods to analyze next-generation sequencing data at the UCD School of Medicine.

Aik Choon graduated from the University of Technology Malaysia with First Class Degree in Bioprocess/Chemical Engineering (2000). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science/Bioinformatics from the University of Glasgow in 2004. Subsequently, he received his post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering (2004 – 2007) and at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2007 – 2009) before he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 2009.

He is an editorial board member of the Cancer Informatics journal, and he is a regular peer reviewer for bioinformatics related journals. He is a member of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).


Thank you very much.

regards,
Kheng

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Assistant Professor / Deputy Dean
Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
University of Tunku Abdul Rahman
13, Jalan 13/6, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Tel: 03-7955-1511 Ext 105

TEDTalks : Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

Writing and Presenting Scientific Papers by Prof. Tu Bao Ho

Talk by Professor Binshan Lin on "The Publication Strategy in ISI-Ranked Journals For 2010"

We are pleased to inform your that FBF's External Examiner for
Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons), Professor Binshan Lin will
be giving a talk at our UTAR (Perak Campus). The brief details of the
talk is as follows :-

Date: 31/03/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm
Venue: Room IDK5, UTAR Perak Campus, Kampar.

Title: The Publication Strategy in ISI-Ranked Journals For 2010
Speaker: Professor Binshan Lin
Biography: Dr. Binshan Lin is the BellSouth Corporation Professor at College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He received his Ph.D. from the Louisiana State University in 1988. He is a nine-time recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award at LSUS. Dr. Lin receives the Computer Educator of the Year by the International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS) in 2005, Ben Bauman Award for Excellence in IACIS 2003, Distinguished Service Award at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (SWDSI) in 2007, SWDSI Outstanding Educator Award in 2004, and Emerald Literati Club Awards for Excellence in 2003. He has published over 210 articles in refereed journals since 1988.
Professor Lin currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Industrial Management & Data Systems, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer Information Systems.
Dr. Lin serves as President of Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (2004-2005), President of Association for Chinese Management Educators (2003-2004), President of International Chinese Information Systems Association (2000), Program Chair of IACIS Pacific 2005 Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Program Chair of Management International Conference (MIC) 2006 in Slovenia, General Chair of MIC 2007 in Slovenia and MIC 2008 in Spain. Professor Lin also serves as the Program Chair of Technology Innovation & Industrial Management (TIIM) 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand, and Conference Director of TIIM 2010 in Pattaya, Thailand and TIIM 2011 in Oulu, Finland. In addition, he serves as a Vice President (2007-2009; 2010-2012) of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).

Talk by Prof. Ivan Andonovic on "Evolution and Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks"

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the following talks:

Session 1:
Date: 24/3/10
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Venue: UTAR PJ Campus PD206

Session 2:
Date: 25/3/10
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue: UTAR Perak Campus A009

Title: Evolution and Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract: Advances in low cost wireless and processing hardware have stimulated a range of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) research and their subsequent deployment in a number of applications. Since cost is an essential factor in any development, their designs are driven according to issues such as restricted memory size, limited computation power and low power consumption. However advanced applications such as those demanded by the medical/health care, military and surveillance sectors require higher levels of network performance supporting time sensitive, guaranteed and secure high quality data delivery. These demanding applications drive the need to enhance first generation WSN concepts.

Speaker: Ivan Andonovic, University of Strathclyde, UK
Biography: Ivan Andonovic, Professor of Broadband Networks, graduated with a BSc (Hons.) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1978 from the University of Strathclyde. He received a PhD in ‘Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices’ in conjunction with neighbouring Glasgow University in 1982. He is presently the Head of the Centre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications Systems (CIDCOM) at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Strathclyde University.
He joined Strathclyde in 1985 following several years at Barr and Stroud where he was responsible for the design, manufacture and test of optical guided wave devices. He has held a two year Royal Society Industrial Fellowship, in collaboration with British Telecommunications (BT) Labs during which he investigated novel approaches to broadband networking. Professor Andonovic’s research interests centre on the development of broadband networks, access and home networking and wireless sensor systems. He has edited two books and authored/co-authored six chapters in books and over 230 journal and conference papers. He has been chairman on the IET Professional Group E13, held a BT Short Term Fellowship, Visiting Scientist status at the Communications Research Laboratories of Japan, Visiting Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and Princeton University, USA. He is Topical Editor for the ‘IEEE Transactions on Communications’ and was Technical Programme Co-Chair for the recent ‘IEEE International Conference in Communications (ICC07)’. Prof. Andonovic is a Fellow of the IET, holds Senior Member status within the IEEE and is member of the Optical Society of America.
He was co-founder, Director and Chief Technology Officer of Kamelian Ltd., a high growth technology start-up focussing on the design and manufacture of advanced semi-conductor devices. He was also a member of flagship Scottish Enterprise (government agency for economic growth) establishment team of the Intermediary Technology Institutes (ITIs), aimed at bridging the gap between basic research and company growth. Presently he holds the ITI Techmedia Sponsored Chair in Broadband Networks facilitating the interaction between fundamental research in communications technologies and digital media and pre-competitive development of technologies that will form the input to commercialisation activities in Scotland.

Map to FICT-PJ

TEDx Kuala Lumpur

Event: What Malaysia Needs

Date: 27th March 2010 (Saturday)

Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Venue: Microsoft Auditorium, Level 29, Tower 2, Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur

Cost: RM50 early bird registration at http://www.tedxkl.com/register/