A giant step forward: Notes from the Aboriginal Talking Circle

The text was adapted from the closing plenary presentation by John B. Zoe, who shared a perspective on key messages from the Aboriginal Talking Circles

Results and Perspectives in HEP, vis-a-vis Lattice QCD

I review in this presentation some aspects of phenomenology in High Energy Physics which are related to recent and possibly future progress in lattice QCD. In particular, I cover (i) the extraction of CKM matrix elements from B physics, (ii) the determination of epsilon'/epsilon, as well as (iii) some issues emerged in the physics of high energy jets produced in hadronic collisions, where input from non-perturbative calculations would benefit our capability to perform better theoretical predictions.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, 9 figures. Plenary talk delivered at the XVIIth International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Pisa, Ital

CP Violation Beyond the Standard Model

Recent developments concerning CP violation beyond the Standard Model are reviewed. The central target of this presentation is the $B$ system, as it plays an outstanding role in the extraction of CKM phases. Besides a general discussion of the appearance of new physics in the corresponding CP-violating asymmetries through $B^0_q$--$\bar{B^0_q}$ mixing $(q\in\{d,s\})$, it is emphasized that CP violation in non-leptonic penguin modes, e.g. in $B_d\to\phi K_{S}$, offers a powerful tool to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. In this respect $B\to\pi K$ modes, which have been observed recently by the CLEO collaboration, may also turn out to be very useful. Their combined branching ratios allow us to constrain the CKM angle $\gamma$ and may indicate the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Invited plenary talk given at the 7th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics, Santa Barbara, California, 7-11 July 1997. To appear in the proceeding

9th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Melbourne, Australia, July 30-August 3, 2002

The Ninth World Congress of Accounting Historians, held at the Rydges Hotel in Melbourne, Australia from July 30 through August 3, 2002, began with a visit to The Louis Goldberg Collection where conference attendees were treated to a private viewing of the library and a presentation by B. Potter on The Louis Goldberg Collection at Deakin University: Conserving a Lifetime of Scholarly Endeavour. The conference was officially opened by Professor Pip Hamilton, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Deakin University. Throughout the conference plenary sessions, paper presentation sessions, workshops and panels were offered

Regional technical workshop, Lusaka, Zambia. 17-19 Jun 2008. Workshop report

The WorldFish Center and FAO are implementing a regional programme entitled "Fisheries and HIV/AIDS in Africa; investing in sustainable solutions", funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main purpose of the workshop was to bring together partners on the programme to share ideas and current research proposals, to strengthen these research proposals by taking into account cross cutting issues such as ethics and gender, and to determine arrangements for ongoing collaborative support.Fisheries, AIDS, Public health, HIV, Nutritive value

Final Report: Conference in Paris on 29 June 2012 - How to Communicate About the European Citizens' Initiative?

The 29 June 2012 conference, entitled "How to communicate about the European Citizens' Initiative?" falls within the ambit of a project launched by our partner ECAS (European Citizen Action Service). Since 2010, Toute l'Europe has gone into partnership with ECAS, in order to contribute to the creation of the European Civil Society House which aims to make available to European citizens, both physically and virtually, an assistance platform for the following tools:The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI);The European Parliament's system of petitions;The referral of cases to the European Ombudsman;The complaint procedure before the European Commission; andAccess to the documentary resources of the European institutions

Life Sciences Institute for High School Students and Teachers

A two-day institute will be developed and presented on campus in late fall or early spring semester for selected high school students and teachers. The program content and activities will be designed to focus on a theme within the Life Sciences. Each year a theme will be selected in consideration of all the programs and schools associated with the Life Sciences Initiative at VCU. This includes biology, genetics, health-care sciences, the behavioral sciences, and the integration of arts and social sciences as feasible. The institute will lead to high school students earning one undergraduate credit and teachers will earn one graduate credit for continuing education or advanced study. The program is designed to attract students to attend VCU for the Life Sciences. The high school teachers will serve as student sponsors and potential recruiters for students at their local high schools. The learning experiences will be designed so teachers can incorporate Life Sciences’ content into their high school classrooms. Given the team’s vision and mission, the proposed project is designed to enhance collaborative efforts among the Life Science disciplines and university outreach to high schools within and outside of Virginia

BAICE Thematic Forum:Challenging deficit discourses in international education and development

Research and policy in international education has o en been framed in terms of a deficit discourse. For instance, policy debates on women’s literacy and education have begun by positioning women as a group who need to ‘catch up’ on certain skills in order to become more active in development. Rather than recognising the skills and knowledge that participants already have and prac se in their everyday lives, researchers who adopt this deficit perspective on learning and education may find that the research agenda and questions will already be shaped to a large extent by the providers’/ policy makers’ standpoint. This BAICE Thematic Forum aimed to deepen understanding around how deficit discourses have shaped the questions and objectives of international educational research. As well as deconstructing and gaining greater knowledge into why and how these dominant deficit discourses have influenced the research agenda, we also set out to investigate and propose alternative conceptual models through two linked seminars. The seminars were intended to explore and challenge dominant deficit discourses that have shaped the way researchers/policy makers look at specific groups in development and thematic policy areas