From: mahin@physics.ubc.ca (Mahin Bahrami)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Call for Papers
Date: 6 Jan 1993 02:09:38 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
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The following was emailed to me and I think this is an appropriate place

to have it posted.



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 Dear friends:
 
     The Iranian Association of Columbia University is sponsoring an
 engineering conference which will be held at Columbia University, NYC,
 on June 24-25, 1993.  The key topic of the conference is technology in
 Iran.  The Call for Papers will also be sent to Iran to make sure that
 there will be papers from the country discussing their needs.  Please
 send this call for paper to any Iranian professional engineer you are
 aware of and ask them to send us their EMail address or mailing
 address to be added to the mailing list for future correspondence.
 The goal of this conference is to get together experts outside the
 country with those inside and to give those experts outside Iran a
 chance to help accelerate technological advancements in that country
 in addition to other developing countries.  This is a purely technical
 conference, but it is aimed to be more of an overview than specifics
 in a narrow problem.
  
 (This conference is in no way linked to any political groups and its goal
  is solely the technological advancement of developing countries to provide
  a better life style in those countries.)
 
 
 
 
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                             Call For Papers
 
             Technological Advancement in Developing Countries
                Columbia University in the City of New York
                             July 24-25, 1993
 
                               Sponsored by
               the Iranian Association of Columbia University
 
 
     The aim of this conference is to bring together technical experts to
 discuss optimal methods for the acceleration of technological advancement in
 developing countries.  We hope to achieve this objective by exchanging and
 concuring the views of those familiar with the requirements of these
 countries with those of the experts familiar with the state of the art
 technology.
 
     Papers should, therefore, address one or both of the following issues:
 
     1) The technical needs of developing countries and/or the available
        resources.
     2) Analysis of existing or developing technologies. Papers should
        avoid low level technical details, but instead present an overview.
 
     Papers in the following fields will be considered:
     1) Infrastructure (Civil, Structural and Architectural Engineering)
     2) Telecommunications and Computer Science (Networking, Hardware and
        Software Enginering)
     3) Energy and Mineral Resources (Petroleum, Chemical, Nuclear,
        Power and Mining)
     4) Industrial and Production Engineering (Automation, Manufacturing
        Engineering and Operational Research)
     5) Environmental Issues.
 
     Extended abstract of 500 words should be received by March 1, 1993.
 Authors will be notified of the decision by mail before March 31,
 1993. The camera ready version of the paper should be prepared on 8.5" x 11"
 paper and be about 5 pages long including a short biography of the
 author(s) (A charge of US $45 will be made for each page in excess of
 5 pages). The final draft of the paper should be received by May 31,
 1993.  The Registration fee will be US $65 for non-student authors and
 US $45 for others.  The fee includes a copy of the proceedings, dinner and
 refreshments.
 
 Abstracts should be sent
 by email to:
     sassan@ctr.columbia.edu or beigi@watson.ibm.com
 or by mail to:
     The Iranian Association of Columbia University
     Earl Hall
     Columbia University
     New York, NY 10027
 
 (N.B.: Please do not use any mailing facilities which require a signature
        on the receiving end)