CALL FOR PROPOSALS – MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH GRANTS CYCLE 1/2016 (FRGS, PRGS, TRGS, LRGS)

Dear UTM Researchers,

We are pleased to inform that Ministry of Higher Education has announced the call for proposals for research grants cycle 1/2016 of the following :-

Research Grant	Proposal Submission in Mygrants
Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)	1 Feb 2016 – 29 Feb 2016
Prototype Development Research Grant Scheme (PRGS)
Trans-disciplinary Research Grant Scheme (TRGS)
Long term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS)	1 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 2016

All proposals must be submitted through MyGrants Portal. Please refer to the workflow schedule attached. The latest Guidelines can be downloaded from RMC portal at the following website address

http://rmc.utm.my/download/

A briefing session will be held on the 14th Feb 2016 at UTM JB, and 17th Feb 2016 at UTM KL. Further details of the events will be announced soon.

For enquiries please contact the research officer of your respective Research Alliance:

Research Alliance	Research Officer	Phone Ext Number	Email Address
Resources Sustainability	Ms Umussaadah	31022	umussaadah@utm.my
Innovative Engineering	Ms Nurarbainah	31034	nurarbainah@utm.my
Health and Wellness	Ms Nurarbainah	31034	nurarbainah@utm.my
Frontier Materials	Mr Razis	31012	razis@utm.my
Smart Digital Community	Ms Sapiah	31026	sapiah@utm.my

or RMC :-

khairilanuarmh@utm.my (ext 37870)

hazida@utm.my (ext 37806)

hasmayati@utm.my (37770)

eitaeusof@utm.my (37822)

ziana@utm.my (37824)

Thank you.

Prof. Madya Dr. Shukor Abd Razak

Timbalan Pengarah Pengurusan Projek

Pusat Pengurusan Penyelidikan

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Tel:(6)07-5537803

Fax:(6)075566177

http://www.rmc.utm.my – RMC Portal

http://www.rmconline.utm.my – RMC Helpdesk

https://radis.utm.my – Research and Development Information System

Call for Participants: Workshop on Application of -omics Technologies for Understanding Microbial Response to Environmental Stress

The Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES) at Universiti Malaya, in collaboration with UPM, is organizing a workshop entitled “Application of -Omics Technologies for Understanding Microbial Response to Environmental Stress”. The workshop will be held on 15-18 March 2016, at the Institute of Graduate Studies, UM Kuala Lumpur.

We are pleased to invite postgraduate students and early career researchers who are interested in stress response and the application of transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and metagenomics in microorganisms, particularly in the context of ecological and environmental studies.

Local and international experts will give introductory lectures and guidelines on designing experiments, as well as provide a hands-on training session on the isolation and identification of soil microfungi, which are key players in the soil ecosystem.

Please refer to the attached brochure for more information on the programme, list of speakers and fee structure. For further inquiries, you are welcome to email the Secretariat (microb.omics.workshop@gmail.com).

MEOW2016 registration form

2-DAY WORKSHOP ON INTRODUCTION TO SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATION TO OPTIMISATION BY PROFESSOR ANDRIES ENGELBRECHT

We are pleased to inform you the state-of-the-art workshop on “Introduction to Swarm Intelligence and its Application to Optimisation” by Professor Andries Engelbrecht, Professor in Computer Science, Pretoria University, South Africa.

Workshop Dates : 11 & 12 Apr 2016 (9.00 am to 5.00 pm)

Venue : Parkroyal Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Fee : RM1,990.00 pp (RM1,890 pp for group of 3 or more)

(We accept Local Order)

Why attend this workshop:

fundamentals of swarm intelligence
particle swarm optimization, ant algorithms, artificial bee colony optimization, bacterial foraging optimization, firefly optimization, fish school optimization, and others
optimization theory, specifically different classes of optimization problems including constrained optimization, optimization in dynamic environments, multi-objective optimization, and multimodal optimization
how to apply the computational swarm intelligence algorithms to solve optimization problems of the different optimization problem classes
how to apply the computational swarm intelligence algorithms to train neural networks, to cluster data, to perform DNA sequence alignment, and to train neural networks, amongst other problems.

The workshop participants need no knowledge of any programming language or knowledge of artificial intelligence or computational intelligence.

The workshop will provide participants with practical exercises on applying particle swarm optimization algorithms to solve optimization problems. Participants are expected to bring their laptops to the workshop.

Workshop Leader:

Andries Engelbrecht is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Pretoria, and serves as Head of the department. He holds the position of South African Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, and leads the Computational Intelligence Research Group. Prof Engelbrecht is very active in the international community, annually serving as reviewer for over 20 journals and 10 conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and the Swarm Intelligence Journal.

The workshop is developed from his vast experience in swarm intelligence, and is mostly based on book entitled Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelliegnce, 1^st Ed, Wiley, 2005.

Workshop Brochure:

Details on the workshop contents and registration fees can be found on the workshop brochure(please ctrl+click).

Registration:

You may register by emailing me your personal particulars or the completed registration form (please ctrl+click)

Kindly forward this email to your associates/colleagues who may (also) benefit from this professional development programme.

Thank you and kind regards

E K TOH
Principal Consultant
TEKBAC (M) SDN BHD (626265-P)
Unit 12-07 Menara TJB, No. 9 Jalan Syed Muhd Mufti

80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

Tel: 07-2214877 Email: tekbac@singnet.com.sg

SEMINAR KEKELUARGAAN ISLAM 2016

Pusat Islam akan menganjurkan program ‘SEMINAR KEKELUARGAAN ISLAM’ pada 20 Februari 2016 (Sabtu). Program ini terbuka kepada semua staf UTM dan masyarakat Awam. Berikut adalah maklumat program :

Tarikh : 20 Februari 2016 (Sabtu)

Masa : 8.30pagi hingga 4.30 petang

Tempat : Dewan Utama Menara Razak

Link : https://www.facebook.com/PusatIslamUTMKL/photos/a.212858252124648.52775.212843468792793/951412408269225/?type=3&theater

Yuran ;

Masyarakat Awam : RM85

Staf UTM : RM70

Pelajar : RM50

Penceramah :

Ucaptama : Datuk Dr. Zulkifli bin Mohamad Al-Bakri (Mufti Wilayah Persekutuan)

Ustazah Zawiyah Hassan (penceramah bebas)

Dr. Rohana binti Hamzah (Timbalan Pengarah Pusat Kaunseling dan Kerjaya, UTM)

Tn. Hushim bin Salleh (Pakar Motivasi & Kaunseling)

Prof. Madya Dr. Salasiah Hanin Hamjah (Timbalan Dekan Penyelidikan & Inovasi, UKM)

Sehubungan itu, Pusat Islam mengalu-alukan kehadiran beramai2 ke Program kami bagi menjayakan program yang di anjurkan ini.Kepada yang berminat boleh mendaftar dengan kami segera kerana tempat sangat terhad. Sila dapatkan borang penyertaan di Kaunter Pusat Islam UTM Kuala Lumpur atau hubungi sambungan 1606/1604/1605 untuk kami emailkan borang penyertaan.

Sekian terima kasih

Nuage

Les nuages.

I-PEINX 2016 : EXTENDED DATELINE FOR REGISTRATION

Y Bhg. Prof/Assoc. Prof./Dr ,

Assalamualaikum w.b.t & Salam Sejahtera,

The registration for I-PEINX 2016 is extended to 15th February 2016. The categories available are :

a) Social Science
b) Science & Technology
c) School (Secondary School) – CLOSED

For more information please visit our website : http://educ.utm.my/ipeinx2016/

Official email : ipeinx2016@gmail.com

SECRETARIAT I-PEINX 2016

Dayana Farzeeha Ali: 0199317150 / Marlissa: 0124752078

Y Bhg. Prof/Assoc. Prof./Dr ,

Assalamualaikum w.b.t & Salam Sejahtera,

The registration for I-PEINX 2016 is extended to 15th February 2016. The categories available are :

a) Social Science
b) Science & Technology
c) School (Secondary School) – CLOSED

For more information please visit our website : http://educ.utm.my/ipeinx2016/

Official email : ipeinx2016@gmail.com

SECRETARIAT I-PEINX 2016

Dayana Farzeeha Ali: 0199317150 / Marlissa: 0124752078

Tazkirah Budaya Quran 3 Februari 2016

Sukacita dimaklumkan bahawa program Tazkirah akan dijalankan seperti biasa pada hari Rabu, 3 Februari 2016, jam 8.30 pagi hingga 9.30 pagi. Berikut adalah senarai Penceramah bagi setiap PTJ :

Hema & PHB :Ust. Shaharina Shaharuddin

Pendaftar, CASIS,

AUTODESK, PSZ, :Us. Mohd Azhari Yusof

Makmal

UTM SPACE (PPD) : Us. Shahrizal Shahidan

Bendahari (bermula 8.15 pg) : Us. Khairudin Ramli

Canseleri, HEK, IBS, AIS,

Perdana School, Razak : Us. Fadhil Noor Abd Ghaffar

School,SPS, UTM

International & MJIIT

CICT, Akedemi Bahasa : Us. Wan Ali Wan Jusoh

ICC,RMC & Ko-ko

Semua staf dengan segala hormat dijemput menyertainya. Kerjasama semua juga amatlah diharapkan untuk sentiasa MENEPATI MASA.

Sekian, terima kasih

Shaharina binti Shaharuddin

Pegawai Hal Ehwal Islam

Pusat Islam

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra (Jalan Semarak)

54100 Kuala Lumpur

Office : 03-22031610 I Mobile : 019-6743954

Emel : shaharina.kl@utm.my

Friends

UTM ranked 3rd place for Malaysian Universities by Webometrics

Johor Bahru, 31 Jan: UTM has been ranked the third highest among Malaysian Universities listed by the Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities, for the Jan 2016 listing, Calculations for the ranking has been subjected to a few changes compared to the previous calculation methodology.

PRESENCE. Total number of web pages, according to Google, excluding pdf files. Weight: 10%
VISIBILITY. Recover larger value of the two inlinks providers (Ahrefs & Majestic), instead of using the average. 20 top linking domains and their corresponding backlinks the values to be excluded. Weight: 50%
OPENNESS. Total number of .pdf files according to Google. Weight: 10%.
EXCELLENCE. The Scimago data (top 10% most cited papers by discipline) for the five year period 2009-2013. New Weight: 30%
(source: Webometrics)

Since 2004, the Ranking Web (or Webometrics Ranking) is published twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of January and July for being public at the end of both months), covering more than 24,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide. The main objective of this ranking is to motivate both institutions and scholars to have aweb presence that reflect their activities accurately