Write up about the Conference The 7th European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) was held at the School of Social and Political Science (ISCSP), University of Lisbon (formerly the Technical University of Lisbon), Portugal from 2 to 5 July 2013. The Conference was attended not only by European and Southeast Asian scholars doing research in various field of social sciences and humanities in Southeast Asia but also other scholars from other parts of the world who are doing research in topics relevant to Southeast Asia. Keynote speakers were Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal and the first United Nations […]
RDG Conference Report of Ronahlee A. Asuncion
Write up about the Conference The Symposium was attended by professors from various Universities. The papers presented focused on the key issues confronted by women who are either formally or informally employed. The symposium served as a venue to discuss and assess the situation of working women in the Pacific region and beyond. It also served as venue to foster collaborative pursuits among the participants from different Universities and organizations. Feedback on paper presented Considering the number of domestic workers in the country, it is high time that they be accorded with social protection. The paper deals with a very […]
RDG Conference Report of Maria Carmen V. Amarra
Write up about the Conference The conference had 97 participants, of whom 19 were from outside of China. There were 42 contributed talks over three days. The topics covered various applications of transitive groups on graphs, maps, designs and related structures. Feedback on paper presented The results presented by the grantee are part of her PhD. thesis. Since the conference honoree is her supervisor, the feed was generally good. Future directions of research presented The work done in the classification of symmetric diameter two graphs is far from complete. The grantee’s dissertation dealt with only few of the possible cases. […]
RDG Conference Report of Christian M. Alis
Write up about the Conference The European Conference on Complex Systems is a major international conference and event in the area of complex systems and interdisciplinary science in general. This year is the 10th time this conference was held. Two days of this year’s conference were reserve for satellite meetings, which covered a broad range of subjects on all aspects of Complex Systems. This year’s conference was organized by the The Complex Systems Society and complexitat.cat. Feedback on paper presented Several attendees found the paper to be very interesting. At least three attendees approached me to tell me that and […]
President Pascual to media: Scientific research in UP helps society
UP contributes to development with its high-quality research in science and engineering. This was the message that President Alfredo Pascual imparted to the media in a brunch reception held on February 13 in UP Diliman. Attended by 15 science journalists from 10 media organizations, the event showcased the university’s recent accomplishments in biotechnology, aerospace, and science education that have practical applications. Among these are the products of UP Los Banos which help address our growing need for food security and nutrition. President Pascual said that biotechnology is now “within the radar of media due to the Supreme Court’s decision to suspend Bt Talong field trials” but it is a ruling which unfortunately impacts on the […]
UP has 800 new awards for professorial chairs and faculty grants
About 800 new Professorial Chair Awards and Faculty Grant Awards will be available to all academic units of the University of the Philippines starting this year. This was announced by UP President Alfredo E. Pascual on 18 January to the chancellors and officials of the UP Diliman, UP Manila, UP Los Banos, UP Open University, UP Visayas, UP College Cebu, UP Visayas, UP Baguio, and UP Mindanao with the launching of the One UP Professorial Chair Awards and the One UP Faculty Grant Awards. The awards have a funding allocation of P100 million per year from the earnings of the […]
UP Gawad Pangulo Choral Competition
Malugod na inihahatid ng UP Tanggapan ng Presidente, UP Tanggapan ng Bise Presidente para sa Pang-Akademikong Gawain, at UP Kolehiyo ng Musika ang Gawad Pangulo Choral Competition sa darating na ika-4 ng Marso 2016. Idaraos ito sa UP Theater sa ganap na ika-6 ng gabi. May tema itong “One UP for the Nation and for the World.” Ang mga nakapasa upang magtagisan ng husay sa pag-awit ay ang sumusunod: UP Staff Choral Society(UP Diliman), UP Engineering Choir (UP Diliman), Public Health Artists Circle (UP Manila), UP College of Pharmacy Junior Ambassadors of Music(UP Manila), Sugbuanong Huni(UP Cebu), UP Open University […]
IPA Recipients for January 2016
Tina S. Clemente Asian Center UP Diliman “Spanish Colonial Policy Toward Chinese Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Philippines” in Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600-1980. Lin Yu-ju and Madeleine Zelin (editors). London, U.K: Pickering & Chatto, 2015 Louis Angelo M. Danao Department of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering UP Diliman “Visualising Dynamic Stall Around a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Blade Through Particle Image Velocimetry” in Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Gi-Chul Yang, Sio-long Ao and Len Gelman (editors). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2015 Nestine Hope S. Hernandez, Richelle Ann B. Juayong and Henry N. Adorna Department of Computer Science College of Engineering UP Diliman “On the Communication Complexity of […]
IPA Recipients 2016 Archives
January 2016 February 2016 March 2016 April 2016 May 2016 June 2016 July 2016 August 2016 September 2016 October 2016 November 2016 December 2016 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Baguio (Articles and Conference Papers) 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Baguio (Book chapter) 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Cebu (Articles) 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Cebu (Articles published in previous years) 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Cebu (Book chapter) 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Cebu (Book chapter published in previous years) 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Diliman (Articles and Conference Papers) 2016 IPA Awardees of UP Diliman (Articles and Conference Papers published in previous […]
