Newsletter February 2001
20.2.2001
To the National Delegates of Commission 2
To the Academic Members of FIG
To Corresponding Members
Dear Colleagues,
I want to wish you all good for the year we started already some time ago. I
hope that everybody has at least a short break between the terms. I believe that
for most of us the new teaching period is just starting and we are busy I making
new plans. In education we have a rapid development just going on, especially in
teaching and learning methods. Everybody seems to talk about virtual academies
and interactive teaching. Also in Commission 2 we have activities to that
direction.
In this newsletter you will find the following topics dealt with: Seoul PC
and Working week, Seminar on Virtual Academy organized by Commission 2 and the
report from Rosario symposium organized by the vice chair Pedro Cavero.
Seoul PC and Working Week
May 6.-11.2001
The Commissions and the Organizing Committee for WW 2001, after extensive
elaborations, have assembled a program consisting over 150 papers into two
plenary sessions and more than 30 technical sessions and workshops. Commission 2
has three technical Sessions on Virtual Academy and Surveying Curricula.
In addition to technical and business sessions and meetings Working week
seems to offer a lot of things to see and enjoy. I citate the letter of the FIG
President, who already visited Seoul : "An evening at traditional Korea House, a
day trip to a Korean folk village or a post-conference tour to Chejudo Island,
among other possibilities, will afford many wonderful memories of this exotic
country. "
The technical and administrative programmes for Seoul are
now almost finalised. The programme is now posted on the FIG web site for the
public (see Appendix 1)
http://www.ddl.org/figtree/pub/proceedings/korea/programme.htm
The programme for administrative meetings is available at:
http://www.ddl.org/figtree/pub/proceedings/korea/admin-programme.htm
Authors have already received more detailed information. Please, remember
that the full papers as well as the two page extended abstracts are expected
before February the 28th.
(see Appendix 2)
We will, of course have a Commission meeting in Seoul. One main topic
for discussions is how we could activate the use of SEDB (Surveying Educational
Data Base). A huge amount of work has been done for the data base, updating is
continuous work - but how we could utilize the SEDB best in the future? Also we
should start preparing Washington Congress and our reports from WG:s. So, I wish
very much that as many delegates as possible would participate in Commission
meeting on Monday, the 7th of May at 15.30 in the Magnolia hall.
Seminar on Virtual Academy
Finland, Otaniemi, 5.-8.June, 2001
Working group on Virtual Academy has prepared a seminar which will take place
in Helsinki next June. In this letter you will find a brochure and
invitation to the seminar. Professor Henrik Haggren together with Mrs. Marjaana
Laurema are organizing the seminar. The seminar will be in two parts: the first
part is actually a workshop where a smaller amount of people are
intensively working on the theme - anybody having a virtual academy application
is invited to demonstrate it during this two day workshop. The latter part is
a seminar for a bigger audience and for the seminar we already have some
invited papers but the program is still "open" - so if you are interested to
give a presentation, please contact us. And finally, we invite everybody to
join the seminar!
Commission 2 Symposium in Rosario, Argentina
18.-20. October, 2000
A Commission seminar was organized in South America, Argentina, last October.
The seminar was a success and opens new possibilities for FIG in the Latin
America. Many thanks for prof. Pedro Cavero for organizing this with the
Argentinan colleagues! Appendix 3 contains the
report of vice president of Commission 2, Pedro Cavero.
Next future
Everybody is now concentrating on Seoul Working Week. Let us hope that it
will be a good week with lots of communication. I wish everyone of you warmly
welcome to Seoul and I am sure the local organizers will do their best in
organizing a memorable time for us.
I wish to see as many of you as possible in Seoul.
With my best regards
Kirsi Virrantaus
