Minutes for the PRSCO Council Meeting, Loja
Date and time: Wednesday July 23rd, 2014, 15:00-16:00PMMeeting Place: Hostería "El Descanso del Toro" in Vilcabambaa) Apologies received, roll-call, and confirmation of Section representatives
Budy Resosudarmo referred us to the list.
b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in Atlanta, Thursday November 14th, 2013 (B.
Resosudarmo)
The minutes was accepted.
c) Report on the 13th PRSCO Summer Institute , 2014, Ecuador (Ronny)
Ronny reported this meeting was successful. 162 papers were submitted and 118 papers wereaccepted. 70% from Ecuador and 30 % from other countries. Budy says we appreciate the works ofthe LOC for the PRSCO Summer Institute.
d) The venue of the 14th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2016 (Shibusawa, Sutee Anantsuksomsri)
As a representative of the LOC of Thailand, Shibusawa presented a draft proposal. Two venues(Thammasat University and Chulalongkorn University) were proposed. Chair is Dr. Nij Tontisirin ofThammasat University. Proposed date is 20-22 July 2016. The proposal was approved. There are 2suggestions from the council, however. Haynes suggests that one venue is better and moreconvenient for participants. Jean think that the venue in Chulalongkorn University might be moreconvenient since it is in the middle of the city and it is surrounding with many hotels.
e) The venue of the 25th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2017 (B. Resosudarmo, Mohd Yusof
Kasim )
Budy reports briefly preparation of Malaysian section. Budy met and discussed about the meetingwith Kasim, Hajinoor, and Yusuf in Kuala Lumpur. They accepted to host the regular meeting in2017. The LOC intended to present a proposal at the canceled meeting in Ayutthaya. The LOC will
present a proposal at the next PRSCO Council Meeting in Washington D.C.
f) Discussion of venues of the PRSCO Conference and Summer Institute in 2018-2021 (B.
Resosudarmo)
Several places of the PRSCO Summer Institute 2018 were proposed, Philippine, Vietnam, Singapore,Peru, and Bolivia. Budy has a connection to Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. Budy says weshould continue to make contact with these countries. Hayes says Taiwan section had not held ameeting for a long time. Taiwan could be a possible venue for the PRSCO regular meeting in 2019.
g) Nomination of the PRSCO Representative for the RSAI Council for the term 2015-2017 (B.
Resosudarmo)
Patricio Aroca (2009-2011, 2012-2014), Jichung Yang (2013-2015)
Yuzuru Miyata (2014-2016)
Jean says Patricio cannot be extended since the maximum term to be as a PRSCO Representative for
the RSAI Council is 2 times. Jean will confirm this rule with the RSAI constitution. We discuss it
again in the next PRSCO Council meeting.
h) Nomination of the vice-president of the PRSCO, 2014-2015 (B. Resosudarmo)
Chilean section organizes the regular meeting in 2015. A vice-president will be nominated from theChilean section. Councilors of Chilean section did not come to this time, then we will nominate it in
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the next PRSCO Council meeting.
i) Establishment of the PRSCO Awards (J. Madden)
Budy explains a message from John Madden. John suggests that the Council sets up a committee for
deciding who will receive the Higano Award and who will receive the PRSCO Prize for Best Paper
by a Young Regional Scientist in .2015 Meeting in Chile.
For the Higano Award (PRSCO Award for Outstanding service), four committee members areproposed. The current PRSCO president as a chairperson (Budy) and the immediate-past president(Yang) were selected by the guideline. Budy and Haynes say the third is Higano and the fourth isRachel. Budy will contact Higano and Rachel asking their willingness to be in the committee.
For the PRSCO Prize for Best Paper by Young Regional Scientist, six committee members areproposed. Budy says John Madden (ANZRSAI) is Prize Committee Chairperson. Miyata (JSRSAI)
is a committee member as a Regional Editor of RSPP. Two others will be from the PRSCO Meeting
Scientific Committee in Chile and so we will pick up later after knowing who will be in PRSCO
Meeting Scientific Committee in Chile. For the last two, Haynes suggests the following options:
Poot (ANZRSAI), Luis (ACER), Richard (CRSA) and Roger (WRSA). We will check theiravailabilities and we will decide it in the next meeting.

j) Procedure for affiliation to the PRSCO (RSAI) of Ecuador Section
Budy explains the procedure and guideline for affiliation to the PRSCO. Jean also says the procedurefor affiliation to the RSAI. Ronny says Ecuador section will prepare some documents and submit
these documents together with a letter of request to be affiliated with RSAI to Jean. We will
confirm this affiliation in the next PRSCO Council meeting in Washington.
k) Any further business
1) The next PRSCO Council meeting at Washington D.C.
2) AMECIDER
Roberta Gonzales makes a report on meetings and activities in Mexico. In 2015, they plan tohave a large conference celebrating their 20th year anniversary.
3) RSAI Universal Membership

Thill says each section of the RSAI have to pay the universal membership fee. In PRSCO, three
sections do not pay.
4) We will ask SOCHER to present their plan for the next PRSCO Conference in the next PRSCO Council inWashington. Particularly we need the date of the next PRSCO Conference.

PresentBudy Resosudarmo (PRSCO president)
Jean-Claude Thill (RSAI president)
Kingsley Haynes (WRSA) and SpouseYuzuru Miyata (JSRSAI)
Akio Matsumoto (JSRSAI)
Roberto Gonzales (AMECIDER)
Ronny Correa Quezada (Ecuador)
Tangya Tandazo Arias (Ecuador)

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Gonzalo Leonardo Izquierdo Montoya (Ecuador)
Paul Cahen (Ecuador)
Hiroyuki Shibusawa (JSRSAI)
Apologies received:
Rachel Franklin (WRSA), Fu-Chuan Lai (CRSA-T), Jen-Jia Lin (CRSA-T), Anping Chen (China)
Jacques Poot (ANZRSAI), Yoshiro Higano (JSRSAI), Suminori Tokunaga (JSRSAI), Mohd Yusof Kasim (MRSA)
Sutee Anantsuksomsri (Thailand), Nij Tontisirin (Thammasat University, Thailand)
Mohd Shukri HAJINOOR (MRSA), Lay J. Gibson (WRSA), David Edgington (CRSA)Paul Dalziel (ANZRSAI), Yuyuan Wen (China), Chitta Ranjan Pathak (IRSA)
Patricio Aroca (SOCHER), Daigee Shaw (CRSA-T), Dusan Paredes (SOCHER)
Roger Stough (WRSA), Zeng Wang (China), Mohd Shukri HAJINOOR (MRSA)
Maisarah Ahmad (MRSA), Michael C. Carroll (Editor RSPP)
Jichung Yang(KRSA) , Yuyuan Wen (China), Geoffrey J.D. Hewings(NARSC)

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