Tag: 2013
Fellow’s Tea with Dr. Janet Lin & Mr. Eric Stewart
Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea
Janet Lin & Eric Stewart
3pm, Monday
18th November 2013
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Dr. Janet Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago and has and Affiliate appointment in the Division of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health. She is also the Director of Health Systems Development in the Center of Global Health. Dr Lin heads the International Emergency Medicine fellowship pro gram which trains post graduate physicians to be able to practice and do research in a variety of international settings, including providing access to healthcare in rural settings, teaching medical skills to developing hospitals, providing humanitarian assistance and emergency medicine development within a framework of public health. Her work has led her to pursue activities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. She conducted formative work in rural Guatemala working with health promoters. Currently, she is working in Haiti to address disaster preparedness through community engagement and in Uganda, working with Engeye Health to improve health access and healthcare delivery through medical care, education and research.
Mr. Eric Stewart is the Director of Operations for Steele International, a San Francisco, California firm that provides security and advisory services to its corporate clients around the world. Major Stewart is a retired United States Army Officer, having spent over twenty years with U.S. Army Special Forces, and also serving as a Foreign Area Officer specializing in Latin American affairs. He served with great distinction in over thirty different countries, having worked within the highest levels of his government’s military and intelligence communities. As a civilian, Mr. Stewart has provided both security and emergency medical services to many of the world’s leading media outlets. He has specialized in providing security operations and consultancy within high-threat areas such as the Middle East, as well as international disaster zones such as Haiti, the Gulf Coast of the United States following the BP Oil Spill, and post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. He has provided similar specialized services to the CBS television reality show, The Amazing Race, as well as countless corporate and private clients around the world.
At the time of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Mr Stewart was working for CNN and was with one of the first international news crews to arrive in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake. As an Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Janet Lin was tasked with running the remnants of the Hospital of the State University of Haiti (HUEH) directly after the disaster.
Book Signing Session
Book haven
University Town, NUS
2 College Ave West, #01 -07 (Stephen Riady Center), Singapore 138607
Tel: Tel: 66944346 www.facebook .com/bookhavenUtown
Book-Signing Session, the Tommy Koh reader Favourite Essays and Lectures by Professor Tommy Koh
on 27 November 2013, Wednesday, 1pm – 2pm at BookHaven, University Town, NUS (view the map)
Professor Tommy Koh is Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rector of Tembusu College, Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies, and Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.
He is one of Singapore’s most renowned and celebrated public figures and us recognized for his meritorious public service and achievements. He has been conferred many honours both locally internationally, including the recent “Harvard Great Negotiator Award 2014’.
His new book, The Tommy Koh Reader: Favourite Essays and Lectures is a rich collection of Professor Koh ‘s favourite essays and lectures, and provides insights into is illustrious academic and diplomatic career. This volume includes memorable photographs and his essays on diplomacy, international law, art, culture, heritage, nature and environment issues.
We are proud to have Professor Koh with us at BookHaven for a book-signing session on Wednesday, the 27th of November 2013 from 1pm – 2pm. Join us at BookHaven and have your copy of The Tommy Koh Reader autographed by Professor Koh.
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WIP with Dr. Hallam Stevens
Work in Progress Seminar
The dynamics of Big Data: an example from biology
Dr Hallam Stevens, Associate Professor, NTU
14th November 2013, 6pm
First Floor Common Lounge
Register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
In 2008, Kelvin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired magazine, argue on his blog that the web had fundamentally changed what would count as valuable in the future. Since the Internet is very good at making and proliferating copies of information, copies become more or less worthless: information becomes free. Accordingly to Kelly, what remains valuable is that which cannot be copied: access, personalization, interpretation, and authentication. Although Kelly was writing about economic value, the notion of the Internet as a giant copy machine has consequences for knowledge too. This talk will use a database called ‘Ensemble’ as an example of how data is used in biological work. This database, maintained at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK, shows how data is manipulated and ordered in order to become valuable for biological work. Kelly’s insights can helps us to understand how working with Big Data can produce useful scientific knowledge.
Is Singapore a Model City?
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PROGRAMME:
6.30pm: | Registration opens |
6.45pm: | Audience to be seated at Tembusu College Multi-purpose Hall |
6.50pm: | Arrival of speakers at Tembusu College Multi-purpose Hall |
7.00pm: | Dr Margaret Tan will introduce the Tembusu Forum |
7.05pm: | Prof Koh will introduce the speakers |
7.15pm: | Speaker1 |
7.30pm: | Speaker2 |
7.45pm: | Speaker3 |
8.00pm: | Speaker4 |
8.15pm: | Question and Answer session with students |
9.00pm: | End of Forum |
Speaker Biographies:
Dr Cheong Koon Hean is currently the CEO of the Housing and Development Board (HDB) overseeing the development and management of some 1 million public housing flats in 23 towns. Since joining HDB, she has formulated a roadmap to develop better designed, more sustainable and community centric towns. She is concurrently the Deputy Secretary (Special Duties) in the Ministry of National Development.
An architect-planner, Dr Cheong was also formerly the CEO of the Urban Redevelopment Authority from 2004 to 2010, in charge of strategic land use planning, conservation of built heritage and the real estate market. She initiated the Architecture and Urban Design Excellence Programme to uplift design standards and played a key role in the planning and development of major growth areas, including Marina Bay.
Dr Cheong is currently on the Boards of the HDB, Jurong Port Pte Ltd, the National University of Singapore as well as the International Federation for Housing and Planning; and served previously on the boards of JTC, NHB and the international Urban Land Institute. She sits on several international advisory panels advising on sustainability and strategic planning issues and is a nominating committee member of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize.
A Colombo Plan scholar, Dr Cheong holds a 1st class honours degree and University Gold Medal in Architecture and a Doctor of Architecture honoris causa (Newcastle University), Masters degree in Urban Development Planning (University College London) and has completed Harvard’s Advanced Management Programme. She has been conferred the Public Service Medals (Silver & Gold), the Meritorious Service Medal for outstanding public service, the Convocation Medal for Professional Excellence 2010 (Newcastle Alumni) and the International Women Forum’s Woman Who Make a Difference Award 2011 (Washington DC, USA).
Prof Heng Chye Kiang is the Dean of School of Design and Environment (SDE) at the National University of Singapore. In 2009, he set up the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities at SDE, of which he is the current advisor. He studied architecture at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, and urban design at the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de I’Etat. He did his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley.
Prof Heng has been a visiting scholar at the Tsinghua University and the Kyoto University. He was also a visiting professor at Hanyang University (Korea) and Keo University (Japan) and the Huaying Visiting Professor at the Southeast University in Nanjing. He has served as a jury member in a number of international design competitions and on several editorial boards of international journals.
Prof Heng was board member of Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority till 2012 and currently board member of the Centre for Liveable Cities, JTC and BCA. His research covers areas of sustainable cities, urban design, heritage and history of Chinese cities. He publishes widely in these areas, and was awarded the NUS Outstanding Researcher Award in 1997. His most recent book, On Asian Streets and Public Space was published by the NUS Press. His book, Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats, is being used as the textbook in leading universities in the US and UK. In 2006, China’s Architecture and Building Press published his digital reconstruction of Chang’an during the Tang period, both in the form of a book and interactive software package. The software is currently a permanent exhibit at the Xi’an City Museum. He was awarded the Public Administration (Silver) and the Public Service medals in 2011 by the Singapore government.
Mr Khoo Teng Chye is currently the Executive Director for the Centre for Liveable Cities, Ministry of National Development, Singapore.
He has previously been the Chief Executive of PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, Chief Executive Officer/Chief Planner at the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Chief Executive Officer/Group President of PSA Corporation, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mapletree Investments and Managing Director (Special Projects) of Temasek Holdings.
Mr. Khoo graduated with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering from Monash University, Australia. A President-cum-Colombo Plan Scholar, he also holds a Master of Science in Construction Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers,Singapore. He attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School and Raffles Institution.
He was awarded the Public Administration (Gold) in 1996 and the Public Administration (Silver) in 1987 by the Singapore government. He was also conferred the Meritorious Service Award by the National Trade Union Congress in 2008 for his contributions to the Singapore Labour Movement.
Prof Ian F.C. Smith received his PhD from Cambridge University, UK in 1982. His research interests are on intersections of computer science with structures and urban systems. Applications include biomimetic structures and sensed infrastructure. In 2003, he co-authored the text book Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley) and the 2nd Edition has just appeared this year.
Prof Smith is the founder (in 1993) and Past-Chair of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering and the Past-Chair of the Global Center for Excellence in Computing of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 2004, he was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and in 2005, he received the Computing in Civil Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Prof Smith is currently at the Future Cities Laboratory, researching on using sensor data to improve the performance of simulations.
Parking lots are available at the basement of the Edusports Complex. Charges apply.
Singapore as a Company?
SINGAPORE AS A COMPANY?
A SPECIAL SEMINAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH “SINGAPORE AS A ‘MODEL’ CITY?”
WHEN?
WED 6TH NOVEMBER @4.00 P.M
WHERE?
MASTER’S COMMON LOUNGE
ASSOC PROF VICTOR RAMRAJ (FACULTY OF LAW)
& SIX TEMBUSU COLLEGE STUDENTS
Discuss Singapore’s association with the company from the time of the East India Company to the present. At stake are the relationship between state & citizen, the role of law in society, Singapore’s status as a nation & a widening income gap.
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Fellow’s Tea with Dr. Anup Sam Ninan
Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea
Dr. Anup Sam Ninan
3pm, Friday
8th Nov 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
Dr. Anup Sam Ninan is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (Austria). He works on an anthropology of climate change, especially of carbon markets. This work allows him to observe the multi-sited and networked practices that shape and create a global carbon economy. He traces the emergence of “carbon” at the intersection of emission reduction projects, energy and food. Dr Ninan for many years has been working across continents, studying at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), and completing his Phd at the University of Bremen (Germany). But he has been active outside academia, too: he has promoted a pharma biotech; had tryst with alternative media and films; been a dot com junkie; been in the fringes of political activism; functioned as a (successful) election campaign manager; written copies for advertisements; and been with (oxymoronic) corporate social research. Currently, in addition to academic writing, he is working on a photography project and a novel.
hosted by Dr. Ingmar Lippert
2013 Art/Science Residency Programme
SUNDAY SHOWCASE
In November, explore transdisciplinary works and engage in conversations based on the themes of climate change, environmental futures and contemporary Asian and future cities at ArtScience Museum™.
FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
Sunday, 10 November 2013
1:00pm – 7:00pm
ArtScience Galleries, ArtScience Museum
Explore these projects and more from 2013 Art/Science Residency Programme (a partnership between Artscience Museum and National University of Singapore Arts & Creativity Laboratory), Tembusu College and Singapore-ETH Centre’s Future Cities Laboratory
Urban Food Growing Lab
Artist Michael Doherty presents a working aquaponics unit consisting of water, fish , and plants, contained within vessels made at the Dragon Kiln in Singapore. Also on offer: a hydroponics workshop, on the hour, every hour from 2pm.
The Apocalypse Project
How will our lifestyle change as climate change continues to detrimentally affect the planet? Artist Catherine Young asks some key questions through a series of interactive presentations, games and activities.
Bamboo – The New Steel
The tropical belt of our planet contains one of the most neglected building materials in the world: bamboo, which is also one of the fastest growing, affordable and locally available natural resources. Find out about this remarkable plant and how, with the right treatment, it becomes stronger than steel.
Tembusu Models Climate Change and The Urban Intervention Projects will showcase select Tembusu College student works which explore urbanism and environmental change, through hands-on and interactive projects.