FORUM MATEMATIK Siri 18 / 97 / 692 4 Februari 2014 / 4 Rabiul Akhir 1435 formatik@utm.my FM14.02

Norhaiza Ahmad (Ketua Editor) Tok Itam Zarina Mohamed Mohd Fauzi Md Arif

Bengkel Penutupan Akaun ISM-1 2012, 28 Jan 2014

Lunch-date JSM: Jamuan makan ten-gahari JSM akan diadakan pada hari Selasa, 18 Februari 2014. Inshaa Allah.

Sarapan pagi JSM: Bermula semester 2 2013/2014 , sarapan pagi JSM akan diadakan setiap hari Selasa jam 9 pagi Inshaa Allah. Untuk menjadi penaja sarapan, sila hubungi Dr. Zuhaila Is-mail.

Lejer Kewangan Tabung Kebajikan: JK Kebajikan mengucapkan berbanyak terima kasih atas sumbangan yuran staf JSM un tuk t abung keba j ikan JSM.Rekod perbelanjaan dan peneri-maan wang boleh didapati pada papan kenyataan di bilik aktiviti JSM.

Perbelanjaan Berhemah JK Kebaji-kan: Berikutan dengan kos barangan yang semakin tinggi JK Kebajikan JSM amat prihatin dan telah pun mengamal-kan pembelian berhemah untuk pembe-lian barangan makanan & minuman di bilik aktiviti JSM. Sebarang sumbangan berbentuk makanan ringan daripada staf untuk menambah stok sedia ada amat-amat dialukan.

Mesej Daripada JK Kebajikan JSM

Anak perempuan En. Che Lokman Jaafar telah masuk wad di Hospital Pakar Puteri JB pada 8-11 Dis 2013 yang lalu kerana demam denggi. Alhamdulillah, anak beliau telah sembuh.

Bengkel SPSS: Staf JSM Dr. Zarina Mohd. Khalid telah mengendalikan Bengkel SPSS untuk Pelajar Pasca Ijazah FKE, UTM pada 29 Dis 2013 di P02 FKE. Anjuran Postgradu-ate Student Society, Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektrik, UTM.

Ulasan Buku: PM Dr. Shamsuddin Ahmad telah memberikan ulasan buku bertajuk “Menjayakan UTM Global: Kesepakatan, Keterangkuman & Keterlibatan” pada 29 Jan 2014.

Professor Pelawat: Prof. Kok Lay Teo, Dis-tinguished Professor dari Curtin University, Australia, bidang kepakaran Optimization telah mengadakan perbincangan dengan staf UTM-CIAM dan Panel Operational Research JSM pada 29 Jan 2014 di Bilik Mesy Aras 4 C22. Staf terlibat: UTM-CIAM: Prof. Dr. Shaharuddin, Prof. Dr. Zainal, Dr. Zaitul, Panel OR: Dr. Rashidah, Dr. Syarifah Zyu-rina, Pn. Farhana, Dr. Nur Arina, En. Wan Rohaizat.

Pelawat JSM: Delegasi daripada Universitas Pasundan, Indonesia telah mengadakan per-bincangan dengan pensyarah JSM pada Khamis, 30 Jan 2014 di Bilik Mesyuarat Fa-kulti Sains dalam mengatur pelbagai usa-hasama antara kedua pihak. Wakil Univer-sitas Pasundan: Prof. Didi Turmidzi, Direktor Fakulti Pasca Ijazah; dan Prof Bana Kartasas-mita, Ketua Jabatan Matematik Pendidikan. Agenda lain dalam lawatan ini adalah menan-datangani Letter of Intent (LOI) dengan Fa-kulti Sains. Staf JSM terlibat: PM Dr. Rohanin Ahmad, Prof. Dr. Zuhaimy Ismail, Prof. Dr. Maman Djauhari dan Dr. Zarina Mohd Khalid.

Pelajar Pelawat: JSM akan terima dua orang pelajar di bawah skim Non-graduating stu-dents (NGS) dari Thailand daripada 9 Feb 2014 sehingga 22 Jun 2014. Mereka akan mengikuti kelas Optimal Control & Linear Programming di JSM dan akan diselia oleh Dr. Rashidah Ahmad.

Penceramah Jemputan: PM Dr. Nor Haniza Sarmin telah dijemput sebagai penceramah untuk majlis "Arah Tuju Masa Depan Pelajar CS113 & CS143" pada Khamis 23 Jan 2014 di UiTM Johor Kampus Segamat. Anjuran Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Matematik, UiTM.

BERITA

A. Erfanian, F. N. Abd Manaf, F. G. Russo and N. H. Sarmin, “On the Exte-rior Degree of theWreath Product of Finite Abelian Groups”, Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc. (2) 37(1) (2014), 25–36.

Publication

9 Jan 2014: Lawatan ke Forest Research Insti-tute Malaysia (FRIM) di Kepong Selangor. Staf: Prof. Dr. Zainal Abdul Aziz, Prof. Shaha-ruddin Salleh, Dr. Zaitul Marlizawati & Dr. Arifah Bahar.

28 Jan- 1 Feb 2014: Mathematics In Industry Study Group, MISG 2014 di Queensland University of Tech-nology, QUT Bris-bane Australia. Staf terlibat: PM Dr. Ali Hassan Mohamed Murid dan Dr. Norzieha Mustapha.

UTM-CIAM

FRIM: Staf UTM-CIAM bersama Tan Sri Dr. Salleh bin Haji Mohd Nor dan Prof. Dr. Mohd. Ismail Abd Aziz

Ahli JK Tertinggi Institut Statistik Malaysia dan Delegasi Universiti Malaysia Pahang bersama JK ISM-1 2012 di Bilik Mesyuarat & Persembahan C22 Jabatan Sains Matematik.

Climate Change Group is one of the 12 research groups at JSM. This group, headed by PM Dr. Fadhilah Yusof, is one of the research groups affiliated to UTM Water Research Alliance. At Water RA, our research mainly revolves around integrated water resources management (IWRM) involving climate studies and various strands of water research studies such as river discharge monitoring. Similar to other RAs, Water RA also has a network of collaborators both local and foreign. One of its foreign collaborators is the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) or Gakushin for short, is a non-profit organisation whose operations are funded largely by subsidies from the Japanese government. One of its operations includes promoting international scientific cooperation.

In 2011, the Japanese and the Malaysian government, started a collabora-tion called Asian Core Program (Integrated water management) funded by JSPS. The objectives of this JSPS-ACP program are to create world-class research hubs in selected fields within the Asian region, to foster the next generation of leading researchers and to conduct exchanges based on a principle of equal partnership. These exchanges take the form of joint research, seminars and other specific meetings and research exchanges. This 6-year planned program (2011-2016) is coordinated by Kyoto Uni-versity and University of Malaya, supported by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sara-wak .

The members for this program are a mixture of researchers consisting of Engineers, Environmentalists, Statisticians, Chemists, Biologists, Law-yers, Policy Makers, and even Linguists. There are four focus groups spe-cific for this program. Group 1- Hydrology (JSM Climate Change group members belong to this group); Group 2-Water Quality; Group 3: Risk Assessment; Group 4: Governance. The steering committee for each group consists of representatives from Japan and Malaysia. Each team works on similar aspects of research based on their focus group on their own coun-try’s respective watershed. Watershed can be defined as an area or ridge of land that separates water flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas. For the Malaysian team, three watersheds are investigated. They are Sungai Selan-gor (UM), Sg Langat (UKM) and Sg Johor (UTM). The Japanese water-shed area is mainly on Lake Biwa in Honshu.

Each year, a symposium is held to gather all members from the two coun-tries to present and share their findings. The venue for the symposium alternates between Japan and Malaysia. In October last year, several mem-bers from the climate change group, namely PM Dr. Fadhilah Yusof, Dr. Shariffah Suhaila, Dr. Zalina Daud (Razak School UTM) and I were in-vited to attend The 3rd Comprehensive Symposium of JSPS Asian Core Program "Research and Education Center for the Risk Based Asian Ori-ented Integrated Watershed Management" held at Uji Ohbaku Plaza, Kyoto University from 28-30th October 2013. The symposium was a two-day event and the last day was reserved for the Malaysian participants especially to plan their own activities. Excerpts for the following para-graphs were taken from the JSPS-ACP website.

The symposium drew 130 participants, a majority of them are Malaysian. Prior to the trip, the participants were asked to prepare a scientific poster . On the first day, the event started with a show of montage displaying the program memorabilia in photos of previous JSPS-ACP successful events. The welcoming note was made by Prof. Masao Kitano, Dean of the Gradu-ate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. This is followed by opening addresses by the coordinators of the program, Prof. Yoshihisa Shimizu from Kyoto University and Prof. Nik Meriam Nik Sulaiman from Univer-sity of .Malaya.

Dr. Yuichi Sato, researcher from Lake Biwa Environmental Research In-stitute (LBERI), delivered the invited lecture on "The History of Environ-ment in Lake Biwa and Recent Conservation Efforts - Focusing on Mother Lake 21 Plan and Modeling Approach". In the afternoon, poster sessions were held, only 74 participants presented their posters.

Afterwards, two keynote addresses were delivered. "Transboundary Water Assessment Program (TWAP) and Integrated Lake Basin Management

(ILBM): Global Challenge and Asian Prospect" delivered by Prof. Masa-hisa Nakamura, Shiga University, and "Observation and Prediction of Heavy Rainfall due to Severe Storms and Related Disaster Prediction in Urban Areas Using the Latest Weather Radars in Japan" delivered by Prof. Eiichi Nakakita, Kyoto University.

On the second day, four research workshops were held concurrently: Hy-drology, Water Quality, Environment Risk and Governance. Each group discussed research activities and delivered summaries.

The coordinators of the program emphasized the importance of fostering the next generation of leading researchers, while contributing to the better-ment of life for mankind through research activities. Thus, in accordance with the purpose of the symposium, a competition for posters presented by researchers below forty years old were judged. Dr. Sharifah Suhaila did an excellent job for her poster and received one of the awards for "Outstanding Poster Presentation" at the closing ceremony. The next day, we met Ariff Admon, one of our JSM staff who is studying for a PhD at Osaka University. We were honoured that he took the time to travel from Osaka to Kyoto to meet us. He came with a friend who was incidentally my ex-student from FKM aeons ago.

On a personal note, this Nihon trip has been different from my last trip in 1998. Then, I was travelling all alone, on a totally different platform (non-academic), to work on a pollutant source company (automotive), and 15 years later I came with great travelling companions, on an academic plat-form to work on improving the sustainability of the environment. A com-plete opposite. But I am definitely at a better place. Alhamdulillah. ◙

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JSPS Asian Core Program- Integrated Watershed Management: Climate Change Group Experiences Norhaiza Ahmad

Dr. Sharifah Suhaila holding up her award certificate at JSPS-Asian Core Program Kyoto University, Japan