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IEICE Global Plaza Monthly community plaza in English for students, faculties and engineers

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	Your comments to improve IEICE Communications Society are most welcome ! - useful for your academic activities - Kunio Sawaya, Prof., Dr. Tohoku University President, IEICE Communications Society

It is my great honor to serve as president of the IEICE Communications Society (IEICE-CS) for the year until May 2010. Of the four societies and one group of the IEICE-the Engineering Sciences Society, the Communications Society, the Electronics Society, the Information and Systems Society, and the Human Communication Group-the IEICE-CS remains the largest, with more than 12,000 members including around 1,600 members overseas. The IEICE-CS is constantly active in improving the quality of services provided to society members. This article introduces the current activities provided by the IEICE and IEICE-CS.
The IEICE-CS covers a wide range of research fields related to communications systems, with 19 regular technical committees and 10 fixed-term technical committees. Each committee forms a professional community and supports the activities of the IECE-CS through the planning of many events such as keynote lectures, symposia, and panel discussions held at IEICE General and Society Conferences. Some committees formulate plans for international symposia in their respective research fields, and technical meetings held jointly with overseas institutions outside Japan.
Technical committees hold their meetings monthly or several times a year at various academic and research institutions in Japan, where the latest research developments achieved by universities, research institutes, and companies are presented and hot topics are discussed. The proceedings of each meeting are published as a “IEICE Technical Report,” which is very helpful for those looking to obtain information on recent progress in the research fields. The IEICE-CS recognizes the importance of “Technical Report” and plans to establish a website as a new service from which subscribers can download copies of “Technical Report.”
The IEICE General Conference organized by all societies and held in March, and the IEICE Society Conference organized by societies- excluding the Information and System Society-which is held in September, are also important activities of the IEICE. The total number of man-day participants of IEICE General and Society four-day Conferences is around 13,000 and 5,500, respectively. The IEICE-CS will soon establish a web page called “CS Archives,” which will provide the proceedings of these conferences for their participants. Proceedings published more than two years ago will be available for all CS members.
In the last IEICE Society Conference, the IEICE-CS held its first “Welcome Party” for new members of the CS, which is a new service intended to provide greater interaction and extended exchanges of information among young and established CS members.
The first activity of the IEICE-CS is the publication of the “Global News Letter” written in English, which was introduced in August 2002, as a service for overseas CS members as well as domestic members, which is published four times a year.
Another service, “CS Magazine,” was launched in August 2007, and provides interesting articles such as research history written by senior researchers, reports on international conferences, and review papers of the latest communications technologies. Unfortunately, CS Magazine is available only in Japanese and translation into English is desired for overseas members.
New activities of the CS include the Welcome Party held at Society Conferences, the creation of new websites for proceedings of technical meetings and domestic conferences as described above. In addition to these websites, “IEICE Explorer,” which provides proceedings of several recent international conferences organized by the IEICE, was started by IEICE headquarters in last September. These services will provide more information for domestic and overseas CS members.
Many efforts have been made by the members of the Steering Committee of the IEICE-CS to improve services for CS members based on the self-support accounting and independent system initiated three years ago. However, we know that there are issues remaining to further activate the IEICE-CS, such as tighter collaboration with overseas institutions-especially in Asia and Pacific regions-at the society level as well as at the technical committee level. We believe that the activities of the IEICE should be supported by members and technical committees in a bottom-up manner rather than a top-down manner. Comments and suggestions by the members of IEICE-CS are invited and highly appreciated to help the further future actions of the IEICE-CS.


	Evolving research and education activities at Hanoi University of Technology Dr. Vu Van Yem Head, Dept. of Telecommunication Systems, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Technology, VIETNAM

Hanoi University of Technology (HUT), established in 1956 and located in the south-east center of Hanoi city, is the top university of technology in Vietnam with 2,100 academic staff and 35% of them obtained Ph.D. degree. There are 13 faculties and 8 schools in our campus; those are Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Management, Faculty of Textile, Garment Technology and Fashion Design, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Foreign Language, Faculty of Part-time Training, School of Engineering Physics, School of Environmental Science and Technology, School of Biological and Food Technology, School of Heat Engineering and Refregeration, School of Transportation Engineering, International Training Institute for Materials Science (ITIMS), School of Nuclear Engineering and Environmental Physics, Hanoi Advanced School of Science and Technology - HAST. HUT is providing training programs for over 40,000 undergraduate students, master students and PhD candidates following 67 undergraduate majors, 37 master majors, and 57 doctoral ones. For more details, please see the HUT homepage at http://www.hut.edu.vn/web/en/home.
Over more than a half century of development and growth, HUT has established and would like to establish long - term cooperative ties with many educational and research institutions, international organisations, and industrial enterprises in the world. HUT has cooperative training and research programs with more than 200 international universities, research centers, institutes and educational institutions of 32 countries such as Japan, U.S.A., France, Belgium, Italy, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Singapore, Finland, Australia, Germany, China, Laos, Russia, Korea, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden, Ukraine Thailand etc. and it is a member of eight international university networks as Association of Universities of the Francophonie (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, AUF), Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific - AUAP, The Austrian South-East Asian University Partnership Network (ASEA-UNINET), ASEAN University Network (AUN)/Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network(SEED - NET), Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN), The Greater Mekong Sub-region Virtual University (GMSVU).
With the rapid increase of scientific and technological progress in recent years and in order to realize its strategic goal of becoming not only a multi-disciplinary, multi-domain, and high quality training center but also an international and national advanced scientific research and technological transferring center, HUT has extended its communications and collaborations with more and more institutions of higher education all over the world. Cooperative activities include exchange of students, faculty and researchers, collaborative research projects, joint/dual degree education programs and co-organization of international conferences and workshops. Many international conferences have been organized at HUT or by HUT, such as APSITT’97 (1997 Asia Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies) that was organized by IEICE and HUT in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of HUT. Please see http://www.ieice.or.jp/cs/c4p/APSITT97/.
Following this Symposium, the international conference on communications and electronics ICCE-HUT has been organized by HUT twice in 2006 and 2008. Further, ICCE2010 will be held in the beautiful and historical city on the south central coast of Vietnam, Nha Trang in 2010. Please see http://www.hut-icce.org/.
The best way for HUT to reach an international level in order to make greater and more effective contribution to national industrialization and modernization is to open its port for international students as well as for international partners. HUT is an attractive address for investors from industry, a best choice for students to pursue higher knowledge and a believable partner in collaborations to progressive universities and institutions over the world.

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Hot Topics

NOLTA 2009 will be held in Sapporo, on October 18-21
Subsociety of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, IEICE Engineering Sciences Society

The 2009 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA 2009) will be held at Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo Hotel & Spa Resort, Sapporo, Japan, on October 18-21. The scope will be focused on the latest results in nonlinear theory and its applications. Plenary talks will be given by Prof.Toshiyuki Nakagaki(Hokkaido University) and Dr.Ferdinand Peper(NICT). The registration due date is September 15. Please see details at http://lalsie.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/nolta2009/.

APSITT 2010 will be held in Malaysia next June!
IEICE Communications Society

The 8th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies, APSITT 2010 was decided to be held in Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak State located in East Malaysia, on June 15-18 in 2010. It will be sponsored by IEICE Communications Society and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society. Details will be informed in coming issues. Please see details at http://www.ieice.org/cs/in/APSITT/2010/.

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News Corner

This corner provides the updated information from public organizations related to overseas academic activities or studying in Japan with their kind supports.

- JSPS News -

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) opened
"Japan-Asia Research Community Network (JARC-Net)"

Japan-Asia Research Community Network (JARC-Net)is a database of researchers and experts who are interested in the research cooperation between Japan and other Asian countries/areas. By registering, you will be able to search and browse other members' profiles and subscribe JSPS information service (e.g. news on JSPS programs and events).
JSPS welcomes your registration!
Tageted Users:
i)Asian researchers and experts who have studied and/or stayed in Japan
ii)Japanese researchers and experts who have interests in research cooperation with countries/areas in Asia
* JSPS welcomes registration by other interested people, such as current graduate students, staffs of universities/ research institutions, and policy experts. People from other regions of the world are also welcome.
For more detailed information and registration, please visit following website at http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-astrategy/jarcnet.html.

- JASSO News -

Japan Education Fairs started !

Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) holds the annual Japan Education Fairs for students who wish to study in Japan. It was held in Kaohsiung and Taipei, Taiwan last month. In Asian countries, it will be held  according to the following plan:
September 12-13: in Republic of Korea
October 3-4        : in Indonesia
November 21-22: in Vietnam
November 27-28: in Thailand
Another program of Japan Education Fairs (International Education Fairs) will be held according to the following plan as well:
October 24-25   : in China
December 12-13: in Malaysia
In parallel with the Fairs, JASSO also will hold Japan Education Seminars, in Thailand, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines and Singapore  in cooperation with Japan almuni associations and Japanese overseas establishments abroad. For more information, please see the details at http://www.jasso.go.jp/study_j/2009fair_e.html#_1.

Question/Answer Corner

This corner introduces questions or constructive opinions from IEICE members or general readers, and the corresponding answers of IEICE.

Q. Can we overseas members pay for our total membership fees to some multiple fiscal years at once so that we do not need pay the expensive bank commission fee required every wire transfer?
(from an overseas member)

A. Absolutely, you can, in advance, except Supporting Members according to Article 9 of IEICE Regulations. This rule is already available.

Messages from IEICE-TFIPP, Organizer of IEICE Global Plaza
We are looking forward to your questions!

IEICE Task Force for International Policy and Planning (IEICE-TFIPP) in charge of IEICE Global Plaza also plans the improvement of overseas membership services. Whenever you have questions or difficulties on IEICE matters, please do not hesitate to contact Prof.Kenzo Takahashi, IEICE-TFIPP at global@ieice.org.
Your constructive opinions for the overseas membership service improvement are most welcome. Most articles of this issue will be published by IEICE Journal as well about two months later.

Edited by Prof.Kenzo Takahashi / IEICE-TFIPP //EOT

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