CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE

Centre of Excellence of Environmental Monitoring at Gdańsk University of Technology, Chemical Faculty together with the Baltic Chapter of the Polish Association for the Club of Rome offers a series of lectures and seminars devoted to the issue of CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE.

In the academic year 2004/2005 the following lectures and seminars are being offered to the PHD and engineer level students of the Chemical Faculty (students from other faculties, in particular from management, architecture and civil construction are most welcome) :

 

No Visiting Professor / Lecturer Subject Topics Issues to be discussed  Time/no of hrs Available Web resources
1 Prof.dr Michael Jischa

Chairman of the German Association for the Club of Rome

 Sustainability
and Technology		 Sustainable development: Environmental, Economic and Social Aspects  

10.01.2005

4 hrs

 www.itm.tu-clausthal.de 
www.springer.de (Harausforderung Zukunft Spektrum 2003)
Sustainable development (SD) and Technology Assessment (TA)  

11.01.2005

4 hrs

  
How to teach SD and TA  

12.01.2005

4 hrs

  
Research concerning SD and TA  

13.01.2005

4 hrs

  
2. DI Joachim Malecki

The Head of City Planning and Construction Authority of the Land Government of Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, visiting professor of the Vienna TU, Institute of Landscape Planning

 Sustainable and Multifunctional Land Use Policy in Metropolitan Cities and Regions  Introduction      
Sustainable Spatial Development of the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg - city; land use; floods, goals and strategies, policy challenges and projects in the context of demographical challenges   In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
Hafencity Hamburg
Concepts of free Land Use		   In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
The Green Rings of tourist and recreation space in the City of Hamburg - Planning and Implementation    In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
Projects of Eco Buildings and Sustainable Settlements
International Garden Show Hamburg 2013, Shanghai's project 		   In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
3.  Dr. Ulf Skirke
Chairman of the Council of Future 
City of Hamburg		 Scientific, Philosophical and Methodological Aspects of Complex Dynamical Processes Introduction : Complex dynamical processes Basic Definitions; Itinerary about a New Continent of Science and Ways of Thinking 4.11.2004
1 hr		  
Main Characteristics of Complex Dynamic 1.Self-Organization: Significance, Definition, Examples
2.Non-Linearity: New View on the Reality
3.Chaos and Fractals: Strange Attractors and Butterfly Effect
4. Self-Organization and Evolution: the Chain of Universal Complex Dynamical processes
5. Self-organized Criticality: Critical Complex Phenomena and Scale- Freedom		 In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
Self-Organization and Technology 1.Complexity and Artificial Life: Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks
2.Scale-free Networks: e.g. The World Wide Web
3.Self-organization: Model for a new Type of Technology ?		 In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
Philosophical and Methodological Aspects 1.Out of Mechanic World View : a Holistic Concept
2.A New Pattern of Perception: Possibilities of a Transdisciplinary Approach		 In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
Self-Organization and Sustainability 1.Complex Dynamic of Sustainable Processes: Integration of Social, Ecological and Economical Matters
2.Quo Vadis Evolutio? How to Form Our Future ?		 In summer term - March (?) to be agreed
4 hrs		  
The lectures will be introduced by the Chairman of the Baltic Chapter of the Polish Association for the Club of Rome Ms Elzbieta Goncz.
ELZBIETA GONCZ, BALTIC CHAPTER OF THE POLISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE CLUB OF ROME
81-530 Gdynia, Wrocławska 129, Poland; 0501-052-527; (048 58) 664-86-42; fax: 664-67-08; email: egoncz@gnu.univ.gda.pl 

ANNOUNCEMENT

 

CHEMOMETRIC ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS 

summer school

Centre of Excellence in Environmental Analysis and Monitoring (CEEAM) carrying out its works at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University o0f Technology, would like to announce an invitation to participate in the summer school entitled CHEMOMETRIC ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS. The event will be held next summer (01-07.08.2004).

The application should include:
- Recommendation letters from the university/department, 
- Request of admission to the summer school, 
- List of publications, 

The application form should be send via Internet on the following e-mail: patrycja@chem.pg.gda.pl up to 31 April 2005. On the basis of the received application the Director of the Centre will carry out the selection based on equal opportunity principle.

The event is planned on one week time duration. Lectures, seminars, and poster session are planned, along with a moderate social programme. We intend to invite international and Polish specialists in the field of chemometry and application of AI in the environmental analysis and monitoring.
Working language of the summer school is English.

Organizers are covering subsistence expenses and accommodation costs. Participant are obliged to prepare a poster and the poster abstract which will be published in the materials from the summer school.
We intend to receipt 50 young scientific workers and laboratory staff from Poland and Europe. We strongly encourage you to send your application.

INTERNATIONAL Ph.D. STUDIES PROGRAMME

Addressees:

International Ph. D. Studies Programme is aimed at young scientists coming from East and Central Europe (the Newly Associated States and States of former Soviet Union).

 

Objectives:

 

  1. Promotion of cooperation and integration with the European Research Area.

  2. Attracting promising young researchers and promoting their careers in the field of environmental analytics and monitoring.

  3. Aiming specific problems in the field of environmental analytics, monitoring and biomonitoring, particularly sample preparation (preconcentration and/or isolation) from the environmental samples.

  4. Increasing cooperation with leading research centres from Poland and neighboring states.

 

Principles:

 

  1. Centre of Excellence in Environmental Analysis and Monitoring gives the opportunity to admit one foreign Ph.D. student per every year of CEEAM’s activity.

  2. Participant of this International Ph. D. Studies Programme can be a person, who has already began his/her research work in the field of his/her Ph. D. thesis and the participation in CEEAM’s project will enable him/her to intensify the work through the support of the equipment of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology.

  3. Duration time: 4-6 months

  4. Travel costs are covered by the “sending” side (the maternal university).

  5. Accommodation costs (in academic hostel) and the scholarship in amount of 800 PLN (amount received by polish Ph.D. students) are covered by the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology.

 

Application form:

 

The application should include:

  • Curriculum Vitae (CV),

  • Request of admission to the International Ph. D. Studies Programme,

  • List of  publications,

  • Recommendation letters from 2 professors,

  • Opinion from the direct superior or Ph. D. supervisor,

  • Framework of future work to be carried out at the Gdańsk University of Technology (the Department’s profile should be taken into consideration in this matter).

Facilities:

 

Indispensable  information are available on the Department’s web site (http://www.pg.gda.pl/chem./katedry/analityczna/analit.htm), including:

  • Main directions of the research activities,

  • List of recent publications,

  • List of apparatus in possession of the Department.  

Attention

For candidates who are interested in continuing the studies at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, after its financing by the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Analysis and Monitoring, we offer assistance in obtaining European Union scholarships.