Tag: -Past Years-
WIP with Dr. Tinn Honghong
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Tembusu College
Work In Progress Seminar
6PM, Thursday
Venue: Common Lounge, Lobby
4th April 2013
Topic: Digital Electronic Computing, Econometric Models,and Economics-Planning Projects in Taiwan, 1964-1968
Speaker: Dr. Tinn Honghong
Register at: dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Abstract:
My presentation explores the relationship between computers and economics through the exploration of taiwan’s origins in using mainframe computers to boost econometric-knowledge production and economic-project planning. At the heart of the enterprise was a Cornell econometrician, Ta-Chung Liu, who visited Taiwan in 1964 to start an economic planning program for Taiwanese government agency, the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development.
Liu worked on producing inter-industry input-output analyses of taiwanese industries by using one of the first two available digital electronic computers in Taiwan. this computer was an IBM 1620, and it was installed at a Taiwanese university the same year through a United Nations technical-aid program.
Liu used the IBM 1620 to produce econometric models, by which the CIECD formed policies concerning the government’s investment in different industries. In sum, I plan representations of economic activities.
Elephant in the Room Series: Is Racial Harmony in Singapore an Illusion?
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Tembusu College Debate Society Presents:
Elephant in the room
2nd April 2013, 7.30pm
Tuesday, Week 11
Level 1, Common Lounge
Chaired by: Nafis Ahmed
Dr. Catelijne Coopmans
Dr. Azhar Ibrahim
Navin Wadhwani
Chen Junni
Is Racial Harmony in Singapore an Illusion?
WIP with Under The Tree
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Venue: Level 1 Common Lounge
Date: 7 March 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 7-9.30pm
Speakers
- Mr Lester Low: Veteran local songwriter; Director of VI Music, a local music publisher under Warner Music Group
- Mr Desmond Moey: Veteran local singer-songwriter and show producer; Director of Serendip Showbiz and Serendip Productions.
- Tran Van Minh
- Adeline Koh
- Haniel Soh En Han
- Caleb Chng
- Justin Hadinata
- Ko Sung Chan
- Shao Fei
- Priscilla Chew
- Ng Jia Mei
- Toh Yi Qian
- Cheng Lijie
Project Information:
On 19 January 2013, 11 aspiring songwriters came together with one goal in mind: to produce an original music album that records the wonderful memories they shared in Tembusu College.
Under the Tree is a songwriting project for students in Tembusu College, National University of Singapore. Participants will undergo a semester-long songwriting course, conducted by industry experts, and produce their very own music album! The music album, inspired by the student’s life in Tembusu College, will serve as an audio memory for both the students and the college.
We have so far completed half of the 8-weeks course and are ready to share our works-in-progress. In this seminar, the songwriters will share about our musical journey and inspirations for our composition. We will also perform our songs as-it-is at that moment, and gather comments from you all. We hope that the session will provide us with ideas and inspirations as we complete the last lap of songwriting, it is also an opportunity for us to engage everyone in the college as we produce our very first collection of audio memories.
For more information on the project, visit our website at http://tembusu.wix.com/underthetree
Open Science Barcamp
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“The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer
Open science and open research aims to make scientific research more transparent and accessible to anybody, amateur or professional, with or without academic affiliation. In many ways it is similar to free and open source software and creative commons movements. Researchers interested in open science strive to make clear and freely available accounts of their methodology, along with any original and derived data supporting research findings and claims. This approach permits unprecedented levels of collaboration and trust in the outcomes of scientific projects. Like all other social phenomena, open science has advocates and adversaries, truth and controversies, which we need to discuss in a barcamp style unconference. This barcamp invites all the members of the academic community to come, share and discuss their experiences, problems and ideas on how to support open science and open access to knowledge and data over various components: open lab notebook, open data, open source (scientific software), open access (to academic publications) etc. What should come next after openaccess archives and journals such as arXiv and the Public Library of Science (PLoS), collaborative blogs (MathOverflow), social networks (Mendeley, Academia, ResearchGate)? What are some new trends? How to support and improve open science?
Dates: 8th March 2013, 4pm – 10pm
Venue: Seminar Room 4 & 5 (Tembusu Learn Lobe, Tembusu College)
Registration: www.barcampsingapore.com
Fellow’s Tea with Prof. David Wilson & Dr. Harvey Whitehouse
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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea
Dr. Harvey Whitehouse & Prof. David Wilson
4pm, Monday
11th March 2013
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please register at:
dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Harvey Whitehouse is Chair of Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research at Cambridge in the 1980s was based on two years of ethnographic research in Papua New Guinea in the late eighties, focused on the role of ritual in binding groups together. He is currently Director of the Ritual, Community, and Conflict project, funded ny a five-year Large Grant from the ESRC (2011-2016), Which examines the causes and consequences of rituals in human societies.
David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, both in his own research and by directing programs designed to reform higher education and public policy formulation. He is known for championing the theory of multilevel selection, which has implications ranging from the origin of life to the nature of religion.
More information at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Fellow’s Tea with Dr. Jennifer Davey
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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea
Dr. Jennifer Davey
3pm, Tuesday
5th March 2013
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Jennifer Hope Davy was born and raised in New Jersey. She has studied and worked in Europe, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Texas and is now currently based in Berlin, Davy received her fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, her Masters in Art History and Criticism from the University of Texas and more recently completed her PhD at the European Graduates School where she is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow, focusing on contemporary art theory and practice. In addition to art and writing, Davy has functioned as a curator, editor, producer and professor of art and media studies.
During this Fellow’s Tea, Jennifer Davy will be discussing her latest work in progress, “Pedestrian Stories”, a new and an ongoing project that consists of a developing series osf short stories and images produced as a durational performance.
More information at tembusus.nus.edu.sg
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