This workshop aims to unite and empower UGM young faculty members and teacher assistants to create innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching projects as the basis for innovative Interdisciplinary curriculum, leading to a sustainable innovative community able to foster international top-level science. To this end, a series of three annual workshops are planned with continuous implementation during the year.
Targeted participants:
This workshop is intended for 20-25 young faculty/lecturers that have hands-on role in teaching yet carry out/research projects as well. By investing in this ‘sub-population’, our workshop is a making a ‘sure bet’ with regards of catalyzing the change and propagating new practices. Majority of the participants will be from UGM different faculties. To participate in this workshop, interested UGM faculty members should send an application email to Dr. Gea O.F. Parikesit at geaofp@yahoo.com (not later than Thursday 30 November 2011), with a two-page Curriculum Vitae. Selection by organising committee will be performed based on motivation, leadership, research level and potential long-term commitment.
Expected outcome:
1. Concrete road map for integrating Interdisciplinary Education through Education curriculum.
2. Doable projects to be launched at the UGM with potential partenrship with the CRI network.
Note: Decision makers, potential supporters and all students are invited to the plenary opening session and final presentation sessions. A specific session will be devoted to restricted number of students (20-25) selected by the faculties
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This workshop is held under the auspice of Gadjah Mada University rector Prof. Surjawadi, Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Dean of Faculty of Biology.
The venue:
Center of Excellence on Computational Sciences (CoECS)
Auditorium of The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Room A1.06 and Room A1.07, 1st Floor
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Gadjah Mada University
Kampus Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta
The dates:
20 – 23 December 2011
International Organisers:
Dr. Ariel B. Lindner – Head
Dr. Stephane Douady
Dr. Dule Misevic
Dr. Luping Xu
Antoine Decrulle
(Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity – Paris Descartes University)
Dr. Lea Geontoro (California Technology Institute – pending confirmation)
Dr. Rizal F. Hariadi (University of Michigan – pending confirmation)
Dr. Eva-Maria Schoetz (Lews-Sigler Institute, Princeton University)
Local Organizers
Dr. Retno Peni Sancayaningsih (Dean, Faculty of Biology)
Dr. Chairil Anwar (Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Sri Wahyuni (CoECS)
Dr. Gea Parikesit (Dept of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering)
Sponsors:
General of Higher Education (DIKTI), Indonesian Ministry of National Education Directorate
Center of Excellence on Computational Sciences (CoECS), Gadjah Mada University
Office of International Affairs (OIA), Gadjah Mada University
Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Paris Descartes University
French Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia
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The program:
Based on numerous successful workshops previously organized in France, Indonesia (Bogor), China (Peking University), Sweden, Croatia and Ecuador, the intensive program is based on coupling state-of-the-art examples from the world with efficient brainstorming sessions and community building activities:
1. Poster session where each participant presents his work, challenges in research and education, and future plans. Selected abstracts will be given timeslots for brief presentations.
2. Speed brainstorming – teams of 3 participants have 20 minutes to come up with a project idea and present it as ‘graphic abstract’ on board as a point of departure for 2nd round of brainstorming where participants are re-grouped to advance the project seeds.
3. From objects to experiments – brainstorming in small groups (3-4), each receiving random objects that participants bring with them (anything from lab objects to daily life objects). Objects serve as idea seeding for doable experiments.
4. Core workshop activity – Starting from a SciFoo session (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Foo_Camp), long brainstorming in groups to make projects that:
-) is based on a pertinent scientific challenges
-) involve motivated students from different domains (and even ages)
-) research doable with existing budget/materials (or straightforward way of getting those) yet addressing a questions that answering it may yield a peer-reviewed research article.
-) scaling-up possible (e.g. through crowd-sourcing for instance)
-) clear and sound scientific education goals.
-) evaluation of the project is addressed as a research project by itself (e.g, controls for efficiency over traditional teaching etc) and can lead to publication as well. These projects will be presented at the plenary session at the end of the workshop.
5. Lunch break will be devoted to discussions on the interplay between science education and society.
6. Sharing of novel practices developed in the UGM and the CRI (interdisciplinary project-based curricula and teaching approaches for undergraduate, master and PhD level; web-based community building/WISER).
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For more details, please contact:
Dr. Gea O.F. Parikesit
Microfluidics Laboratory
Department of Engineering Physics
Faculty of Engineering
Gadjah Mada University
Yogyakarta
Indonesia
geaofp@yahoo.com
http://sites.google.com/site/geaari/microfluidicsugm
http://tf.ugm.ac.id/