Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC) 2003

Second International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts

1. ORGANIZATIONS

   Coastal Engineering Committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
   Chinese Ocean Engineering Society
   Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
   

   • COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS (to be extended)

   Coastal, Oceans, Ports & Rivers Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
   International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR)
   Oceanographic Society of Japan
   The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science
   The Japanese Society of Fisheries Engineering
   

2. COUNCIL

   Byung Ho Choi (Sungkyunkwan Univerity, Korea)
   Yoshimi Goda (Coastal Development Institute of Technology, Japan) (Chair)
   Koichiro Iwata (Nagoya University, Japan)
   Dahong Qiu (Dalian University of Technology, China)
   Shileng Xie (First Design Institute of Harbour Engineering, China)
   

   • INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE (to be extended)

   Liang Cheng (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
   Byung Ho Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
   Allen T. Chwang (The University of Hongkong, China)
   Wataru Kioka (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
   Yucheng Li (Dalian University of Technology, China)
   Ming-Chung Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China)
   Kazuo Nadaoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
   Hitoshi Nishimura (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
   Shan-Hwei Ou (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China)
   Chong Kun Pyun (Myongji University, Korea)
   N. Jothi Shankar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
   Tomoya Shibayama (Yokohama National University, Japan)
   Kyung Doug Suh (Seoul National University, Korea)
   Suphat Vongvisessomjai (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
   Xiping Yu (Tsinghua University, China)
   Qihua Zuo (Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, China)
   

3. THEME
   • PROMOTE technological progress and activities, international technical transfer and cooperation, and opportunities for engineers and researchers to maintain and improve scientific and technical competence.

   • EXCHANGE experience of coastal and port engineering development, and coastal environmental problems among Asian and Pacific countries.

   • INTERNATIONAL FORUM for the academic and technical activities, cooperation, opportunity and fellowship among researchers and engineers.
4. TOPICS (tentative)
   • Coastal oceanography and meteorology (waves, currents, tides, etc.)
   • Coastal sedimentary processes and their control measures
   • Design and investigation of coastal and harbor structures
   • Coastal environmental problems and marine ecology
   • Coastal fishery problems and resource management
   • Global environmental problems
   • Coastal zone management and planning
   • Remote sensing / laboratory and field measurement techniques
   • Miscellaneous coastal problems
5. CALL FOR PAPERS

   Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of an abstract in English to Secretariat of APAC 2003 or one of Steering Committee Members no later than November 30, 2002. Total length of the abstract should not exceed two A4 pages, including figures, tables and references. Abstract should emphasize the significance of the results and/or originality. Abstract must include the paper title, the affiliation and mailing address of the author(s), as well as an email address, telephone and fax numbers for the corresponding author. (On-line submittal of abstract will be made available.)
   

6. DATE AND VENUE

   The conference will be held on 7-11 September 2003 at Makuhari Messe (http://www.m-messe.co.jp), Chiba, Japan.

   APAC 2003 PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

   Sunday 7   September	Registration & Welcome Reception
   Monday 8   September	Opening of conference, Technical sessions
   Tuesday 9  September	Technical sessions
   Wednesday 10 September	Technical sessions
   Thursday 11  September	Technical visits

   (Four parallel sessions will allow 176 paper presentations.)
   

   
   
7. REGISTRATION FEE

   	By 5 June 2003	After 5 June 2003
   General participants	JPY 40,000	JPY 45,000
   Students	JPY 25,000	JPY 30,000
   Spouse/Guest	JPY 10,000	JPY 10,000

8. TIMELINE

   Abstract submittal	November 30, 2002
   Notification of abstract acceptance	January 10, 2003
   Submittal of full paper for review	March 15, 2003
   Submittal of final paper	June 5, 2003

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APAC 2003 SECRETARIAT
Professor Kazuo Nadaoka
Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552 JAPAN
Email: nadaoka@mei.titech.ac.jp
Fax: +81-3-5734-2650