From: lix@yangtze.bu.edu (Xiaowen Li)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Summer workshop'93 in China __ Call for proposals
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:15:51 GMT
Organization: Boston University

I failed to post the following on SCC yesterday. There have been several
responses from AEIC-net, ACP-net, CPGIS-net. But it will not be too
late for SCC netters, hopefully. If you are interested in any topics
already proposed (see attachment), please join the original proposer
and work together. Competative proposals are also welcome.


         CALL FOR SUMMER '93 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

1. Background

Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has already agreed to sponsor 
10 workshops in the summer of 1993. About 500,000 RMB has been allocated 
by NSFC specifically for the purpose of 1993 summer workshops.

2. The Chinese Academic Link (CAL) is now calling for proposals for
the 1993 summer workshops to be held in China. The subject of a
proposed workshop should be related with the development of a particular 
field of science and technology, or application of science and technology 
to economy and society.
 
Each proposal should preferably contain brief descriptions of the following:
1) topics and reason for selecting it
2) tentative time and location 
3) sponsoring institute(s) and contact person
4) qualification of lecturers and suggestion of candidates
5) basic lecturing/experiment condition (if needed).
6) contact person for CAL or NSFC to further this proposal

We have suggested the following schedule for each proposal to NSFC: 1) First
call for participants: late Sept.; 2) Deadline for application: Nov. 30; 
3) NSFC determine lecturers and sponsor institute and inform 
participants the decision: January 15, 1993. 4) Announcement of topics, 
place, time of the workshops and names of lecturers: February 15, 
1993. NSFC in turn suggested CSS abroad to make our suggestion on workshop
topics before Sept. 20.

3. Please send the outline of a proposal to:

CAL, c/o Xiaowen Li
Center for remote sensing
725 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA02215

email (prefered): lix@crsa.bu.edu  

CAL would be glad to forward each proposal to NSFC and CAS.

Appendix: A sample proposal

TENTATIVE PROPOSALS FOR SUMMER '93 WORKSHOPS

Molecular Modeling: Fundamentals and Applications 

(1) Molecular modeling is a growing interdisciplinary field, facilitated
by the advent of high-speed computers and development 
of computer simulation methods, and driven by increasing demands for
the modeling of complex physical, chemical and biological systems. 
This workshop is intended to review recent developments in the 
theories and applications of molecular modeling methodology.

(2) Tentative time and location: Sept 1-7, 1993, Beijing. (After IUPAC
and IUCr conferences.) 

(3) Host institute: Peking University. Contact person: Dr. Lai Luhua

(4) Qualification: Ph.D and research experience preferred. 
    Candidates: open

(5) Equipment requirement: none.

(6) CAL contact person: Zhenqin Li (email and post address)

_____________End of the Call_________________

Attachment: Proposals received (abridged by Lix)

Mathmatics

>From the meeting with Prof. Zhang Gongqing from BeiDa and other
mathematicians in Princeton and Rutgers, two proposals may be generated.
One is on Geometric Partial Differential Equation, being held in Beijing
Univ. Another one is theory and computations in fluid
mechanics, to be held in NanKai Math Institute.

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Atmospheric Remote Sensing

(2) THe host is the Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing Lab., Chengdu
Institute of Meteorology. The Contact person Prof. Lisheng Xu, the chair of
that Lab..

If detailed budget is required for the proposal, I'd have to contact the contact
person, which'd take about a month.

(4) The guest lectureres to be arranged. He should be one of the most famous
scientist in the concerned field in the USA, Probably Prof Xu's ex-supervisor,
Dr. Smith, the remote sensing tycoon at Wisconsin or Dr Liou Kou Nenh
(Liao Guo Nan) at Utah.

(6) Contact person: Dr. Luo Gang, postdoc of Oregon State U.,
      <luog@ATS.ORST.EDU>

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Water resource and GIS

(1) Introduce Great Lakes program in USA and compare it to Poyang Lake and
Dongtin Lake projects in China.

(2) suggested by Dr. Lin Hui, SUNY Baffalo, a postdoc researcher in the
Great Lake program.

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NSFC Workshop'93 on Image Processing and Computer Vision

1. Goals and Topics:

	Computer vision and image processing are two challenging and 
	important areas of research. They are now both strongly related 
	and well-established disciplines. Any intelligent/autonomous 
	systems must incorporate vision or image processing as an integral 
	part. The perceived importance of computer vision and image
	processing can be understood by the variety of possible
	application domains such as: robot guidance, inspection, object
	tracking, document analysis, medical diagnosis and military-related
	applications.
	
	As a matter of fact, many oversea chinese researchers have
	significantly contributed to the advance of computer vision and
	image processing by their outstanding and remarkable scientific
	research works. Therefore, the goal of this workshop is to
	promote the communication of eminent research works in these
	two fields. The topics of this workshop will concern, not
	exclusively, following subjects:
	
		image compression
		character recognition
		image processing techniques and applications
		aerial image interpretation
		medical imaging and applications
		object recognition
		motion estimation
		dynamic/active vision
		remote sensing
		vision applications
		systems and architectures

2. Tentative time and location: 

		August 23-27, 1993, Beijing

3. Host institute: 

	National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition,
	Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
	
	Contact person: Dr. Song De Ma, Research Director in National Labo.
      of Pattern Recognition

6. CAL contact person: Dr. Ming Xie

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Operation of Small High-Tech Companies

(1) Small high-technology companies are the fastest-growing industrial
sector of the advanced nations. This workshop will review common
practices of funding, R&D, marketing, and management of small
high-tech companies. 

(2) Tentative time and location: open 

(3) Host institute: open 

(4) Qualification: work experience preferred. 
    Candidates: open

(5) Equipment requirement: none.

(6) CAL contact person: Zhenqin Li

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Other Suggested Topics


_ Computer networking

_ Chinese word processing

- Green China (Environment Protection and its challenges in S&T regards)
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