1st Semester  2000

Lecturers :   Prabhas Chongstitvatana,  Boonserm Kijsirikul

This semester we have a mixed of participants : 2  2nd year PhD and  5 new comers.  To start out a new PhD I would like to stress the activity to be PARTICIPATION (rather than depth of knowledge), i.e. I expect all students to actively participate in discussing the subjects.

The way we are going to do it is to divide the time into several activities.  The first activity is the 'tutorial' of specialise subject.  I hope this will warm up students to be able to discuss the subject outside their field of specialiation (and broaden their view of research).  The schedule is as follows :

Week 1       Web Mining                Sukree
                Machine Learning        Nuanwan
Week 2       Cluster computing        Shisanu
                Object Orientation        Sunee
Week 3       Genetic Programming    Chaiwat
                  Genetic Algorithm         Yongthong
Week 4       Evolvable hardware        Chatchawit
                  Robotic Research          Prabhas

The second activity is decided to be 'getting to know the research labs of the department'.  The long term goal is to strengthen the tie between 7 research laboratories and hopefully foster the 'inter-lab' research.

Week 5       Machine Intelligence and Data mining lab  (MIND)     Sukree
                  Intelligent System lab (ISL)                                      Yongthong
Week 6       Software Engineering lab (SE)                                   Sunee
                  Computer Graphics and Image Processing lab            Shisanu
Week 7       Digital System Engineering lab (DIESEL)                   Chatchawit
                  Information System Engineering lab (ISEL)                Chaiwat