*TRAVEL SPONSORSHIP SEMINAR*

The next RISC event on the calender is the travel sponsorship seminar.

EVENT ABSTRACT

If you are a:

• Prospective student planning on pursuing a postgraduate research degree
• A new student who has not yet been to an international conference
• Or you are an existing student who wants to participate in the international research community, this seminar will be of interest!

In this talk, Dr Arnan Mitchell will outline his own personal philosophy on conferences, why it is important to present, conference etiquette, what you should be aiming to do at a conference and some strategies to ensure you get the most out of them. Perhaps most importantly, the seminar will also outline a number of strategies for seeking funding for your conference travel, and will be identifying several conference travel grants that you can apply for. In particular, it will be outlining the newly established IEEE Victorian Section student travel grants. Arnan will also briefly talk about preparations for applying for postgraduate research scholarships. This will be dealt with more fully in a dedicated seminar in September 2008, however having already published at a conference can greatly enhance your chances of success.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor Arnan Mitchell is a researcher in photonics, integrated optics and microfabrication with the Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre (MMTC) at RMIT University and is a Chief investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellent for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices and Optical Systems (CUDOS). He has supervised numerous PhD students and is proud to have ensured that each of them presents to at least one international conference. He has organised several national and international conferences including the SPIE Smart Materials, Nano- and Micro-Smart Systems Conference: http://spie.org/smart-materials-and-sytstems.xml to be held at RMIT 9-12th Dec 2008 (get your abstract in now!).

Want to know where and when? Read On...

Time:	12:30 - 1.30pm
Date:	Wednesday 2oth August 2008
Location:	RMIT Building 10, Level 7, Room 27
Cost:	Free

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*COMING SOON*

RISC Field Trip 2008

The R.I.S.C. Team are busily organising a field trip to the Ford Engineering site and the Ford museum in Geelong. We hope to journey by bus to Geelong, tour the Engineering site, eat pizza by the beach, browse the Ford Museum and venture home. To help our team plan for the event please register your interest and fill in the required fields (marked with a star *)

* Name
* RMIT Student Number
IEEE Membership Number
Contact Phone Number
* Email

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*COMING SOON*

HTML Beginners Workshop 2008

Hyper Text Mark up Language

Workshop Objectives

This workshop is intended for beginners. The aim of this workshop is to:

• Offer students the chance to familiarise themselves with HTML and it's use.
• Provide a practical, step-by-step introduction to the basics of HTML.
• Introduce the inclusion of CSS, style sheets and embedded scripts.

More information regarding the HTML workshop will be posted soon

Standby for further details

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