Regional Hands-ON:

Plans for regional events in the Hands-ON School Style

This school will provide interactive experiences with hands-on research involving table-top experiments with computer data acquisition and computational modeling. The laboratory experiences, lectures, and modeling will focus on complex systems in the physical and life sciences. The faculty will be eminent scientists who have conducted frontier table-top research published in leading international scientific journals.

TOPICS AND FACULTY:Neural Networks ! mathematical modeling (D Cai, Shanghai Jiao Tong U)

Boolean Networks ! network dynamics (DP Lathrop, U Maryland)

Animal Locomotion ! video image analysis (DI Goldman, Georgia Tech)

Diffusion and Transport ! tracking individual particles (E Weeks, Emory U)

Biological Tissue ! mechanical oscillations (EM Schoetz, Princeton U)

Cell Migration ! mechanisms from cell shapes (E Rericha, Vanderbilt U)

Granular Media ! packing and forces (J Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong U)

Nonlinear Optics ! dynamics and instabilities (R Roy, U Maryland)

Bifurcations & Chaos ! electrical oscillators (A Sen, Inst. Plasma Res.,India)

Synchronization ! chemical oscillators (K Showalter, West Virginia U)

Arduino Microcontrollers ! use in experiments (T Murphy, U Maryland)

Turbulence ! flow analysis by imaging particles (M Schatz, Georgia Tech)

Fluid Instabilities ! identification by spectral analysis (H Swinney, U Texas)

Modeling with MATLAB: dynamics and weather (BR Hunt, U Maryland)

Modeling with MATLAB: dynamics and fluid flows (B Storey, Olin College)

MATLAB and Molecular Dynamics (M Shattuck, City College of New York)

PARTICIPANTS:The School is intended mainly for young scientists and advanced PhD students from developing countries, working in areas such as chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and engineering. The school will be conducted in English and will be open to scientists from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO, or IAEA

There is no registration fee, and lodging and meals will be provided for all participants. Travel support is available for participants who are nationals of developing countries and are currently working in their home country, but every effort should be made by applicants to secure travel support from their home institutions. Participants are required to take part in all aspects of the school for the entire duration. More informationabout the Hands-On Schools is at www.handsonresearch.org

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Sponsored by Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physicsand Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Apply at http://cdsagenda5.ictp.it/full_display.php?email=0&ida=a11206

ARDUINO

Hands-On Research in Complex Systems

School Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio,

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics telephone: +39-040-2240284

fax: +39-040-224163email: smr2387@ictp.it

31 July 2011

APPLICATIONDEADLINE:

1 DECEMBER 2011

DIRECTORS:D Cai and HP Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong U),J Niemela (ICTP), R Roy (U Maryland), K Showalter (W Virginia U), HL Swinney (U Texas).

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS:M Schatz (Georgia Tech) and MShattuck (City College--New York)

Organizing Committee at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU): Hepeng Zhang (chair),Bing Dong, Hongru Ma, XuehaoShen, Xiaofan Wang, WenmingYang, Qinhao Ye, Xi Ye, Hong Zhou.

National Organizing Committee: David Cai (chair), Xianfeng Chen, and Xiangdong Ji(SJTU); Xiaofeng Jin (Fudan U); Kunquan Lu (Inst. of Physics, CAS); Yuqianq Ma (Nanjing U & Soochow U); Qi Ouyang(Peking U); Jian Shen (Fudan U); Wei Wang (Nanjing U); FuchunZhang (Zhejiang U & Univ. of Hong Kong);Weiping Zhang (East China Normal U); Luwei Zhou (Fudan U)

IndiaBangladeshSri Lanka

Nepal

Vivek Prakash

IndiaBangladeshSri Lanka

Nepal

Vivek N. Prakash

PhD student, Physics of Fluids, University of Twente,

The Netherlands.

M.S.(by Research), Engineering Mechanics Unit, JNCASR,

Bangalore, India.

e-mail: viveknprakash@gmail.com

2007 - 2009

2009 - present

IPR, First Hands-On School (2008)

Why Bangalore, India ?Science CapitalEducation Hub

Aerospace CapitalGarden City

in addition to being the “Silicon Valley” of india

JNCASRIndian Institute of Science (IISc)

NCBS - TIFR (Mumbai)NAL, HAL, ISRO, and other

govt. (DRDO) labs

Indian Institute of Management(IIMB)

IIITB, IIAP, ISI, NIMHANS

~ 100 Engineering Schools

JNCASR: Excellent location for a Hands-On school: Regional or Full-scale

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

(JNCASR), Bangalore, India

http://www.jncasr.ac.in/

• Multidisciplinary world-class research institute.

• Focus Areas: Materials Science, Fluid Mechanics and Biology

JNCASR, Bangalore, IndiaFounder and Honorary President

KR Sreenivasan

Distinguished Fellow

JNCASR, Bangalore, India

Possible Local Organizer for Hands-On School:

Prof. K.R. SreenivasAssociate Professor,

Engineering Mechanics Unit, JNCASRe-mail: krs@jncasr.ac.inA number of table-top fluid dynamics

experimental Hands-On demonstrations possible:

Example: Modeling mantle convection (with Vivek Prakash)

Participate actively in the

upcoming regional activity

which is targeted to be in India

Collaborate with Universities

from neighboring countries and

also from developed countries

( try to initiate a faculty and

student exchange program in

this sector)

Nepal

Other Initiatives

AcknowledgementsProf. Rajarshi RoyDr. Gautam Sethia

Dr. Mitesh Patel

Special Thanks to the organizers of this wonderful Hands-On school

• IPR to be involved with the organization of the Hands-On school in JNCASR, Bangalore.

Follow up activities :

• University of Hyderabad - Prof. Rajarshi Roy

• Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai - Rupali Laxman Sonone

• Contacting science popularization groups in India - Dr. Sudipto Muhuri

Palestinian TerritoriesJordan

EthiopiaKazakhstanUzbekistanPakistan

Johnny Stiban

Middle East &

North Africa

• Representatives from:

• Palestine

• Jordan

• Ethiopia

• Kazakhstan

• Uzbekistan

Hands-On Middle East & North Africa Johnny Stiban, Ph.D.

Birzeit University, Palestine

Our vision and goals

• The Middle East and North Africa have quality students who do not always get enough hands-on experiences due to a variety of reasons

• We feel it is our duty to bring such kind of science, international experience and expertise to the region

• We plan to replicate this hugely successful hands-on school with a focus on participants from our region

Where? • The faculty of science

• University of Jordan, Amman

• September or October 2013

• Ample time for preparation

• The start of school year in the Middle East

• The best weather

• Contact university administrators about the workshop

• Obtain some funding obligation from the university

• Seek funding options from external local (e.g. telecom companies) and international agencies (e.g. ICTP)

http://www.ju.edu.jo/home.aspx

When?

How?

Structure of the Workshop

• 7 day workshop focusing on hands-on, table-top interdisciplinary experiments

• The interdisciplinary theme of the meeting integrates simple and inexpensive experiments in the physical, chemical, biological and computational fields

• The goal is to bridge these basic sciences together

Target participants

• A maximum of 40 students/postdocs are welcome to participate

• Quota: 30 participants from the region and 10 from around the world

• Mainly run by faculty from the region

• Teaching and research assistants from the regional universities can be used

• Highly distinguished international researchers and assistants are recruited (at least 2 professors and 4 assistants)

Faculty

Another thing I’ll take from this school

At Birzeit University

I will propose to the dean of Science (a physicist) to incorporate the ideas learned from this workshop to:

• Build new experiments and demonstrations

• Engage undergraduate and graduate students

• Form an active club including students from the different disciplines in the faculty of science

• I propose the name of the club to be:

ysics IS un

PhilippinesVietnamThailand

Hannah Forio

VIETNAM-THAILAND-

PHILIPPINES

REGIONAL GROUP

Regional Hands-On Workshop of Complex Systems

Details: Hands-On Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems with accompanying Table-top Experiments

Duration: 4-7 days

Expected num of participants: 30-50 selected participants

Date : 2-3 years from now

Regional Hands-On Workshop of Complex Systems

Some Possible Topics:

–Bio-medical Physics

– Environmental Physics

–Molecular Physics

– Economy Physics

Regional Hands-On Workshop of Complex Systems

Venue: TBA

Prospect venues:

University of the Philippines

Vietnam National University

FUNDING?

ASEAN Research center

ICTP

Privatecompanies

MalaysiaIndonesia

Agfianto Eko Putra

Hands-on Low Cost Science Teaching Tools for High School

Teacher

Organized by

UGM, ITB, UIN and UNSOED

Indonesia

Background and Motivation

• To introduce low cost science teaching tools to improve teaching methods for secondary school teacher.

• Indonesia has many cultures, languages, ethnics, from Sabang to Merauke!

Instructor to Participant Ratio

Instructors, Assistants, and Faculty members

Hands-on Materials...

Local Wisdom in Teaching...

Ing ngarsa sung tulada

Ing madya mangun karsa

Tut wuri handayani

[Taman Siswa’s Philosophy]

Teachers should...

be a role model,

give iniative,

provide support.

Funding Support

• Directorate General of Secondary Education, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

• Local governances • Local Universities • Sampoerna Foundation • Bakrie for Indonesia • Kalla Foundation • Habibie Center • Other CSR div. of the local

companies

ChinaMongolia

Xiaqing Shi

Mongolia

China

Regional Hands-on in the future: China-Mongolia

QQ groups for hands-on 2012:

240876374 195876107