Welcome to the May edition of the CSRP Newsletter. If you wish to have anything included in future editions of the newsletter, please e-mail Tony Rickards at tony.rickards@csrp.com.au or Clare Walton at clare.walton@csrp.com.au .
The request to publish and standard acknowledgement forms are located on Centric. Staff are reminded that any article or presentation that contains information from or references to CSRP projects must have a request to publish form sent to the Program Leader then on to CSRP HQ, and that standard acknowledgements are to be used. These documents can be downloaded from CRC Centric. For any questions regarding this process please contact Tony Rickards.
We welcome BlueScope Steel to the CSRP as a New Associate Participant and look forward to collaboratively working on projects that support the sustainability of processing steel and steel products. See also their website at: http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/
On May the 8 th and 9 th the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) Meeting was held in Brisbane at the University of Queensland. Program leaders and CSRP CEO and staff engaged in strategic planning and reporting sessions over 2 days. The meetings included a CSRP program wide teleconference and reporting session and a review of all project activities.
CSRP Program leaders and CSRP CEO Stevan Green
During May 16 th – 18th the 12 th Annual CRCA conference was conducted at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. CSRP staff participated in all conference sessions including specialist workshop and collaboration sessions for CEO’s, Education and Training Managers, Business Managers and Communications Managers. CSRP also provided an exhibition stand with GeoPolymer demonstration samples and information about the CSRP.
If you are interested in more information about the conference or would like to listen to podcasts of keynote presentations from the conference, they are available at the CRCA web site at: http://www.crca.asn.au/conference/ (click on the “media” link for Podcasts).
Congratulations to Rorie Gilligan, Patrick Hassett and Matthew Livingston who were all presented with CSRP Extractive Metallurgy Academic Awards at Murdoch University on Friday 11 th of May.
CSRP Chief Executive Mr Stevan Green presented the awards in a ceremony that was also attended by other CSRP staff, Rio Tinto graduate recruitment staff and Murdoch University staff.
| Rorie Gilligan | Patrick Hassett | Matthew Livingstone |
On Tuesday May 22 nd, Kent Street High School hosted a Triple S Science Fair to demonstrate, amongst other activities, extractive metallurgy and minerals processing as a career. Western Australia’s Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley officiated on the evening.
CSRP HQ Administrative Assistant Megan Goldspink provided these photographs of the evening. The Triple S group hosts 2 free Science fairs each year for students, parents and community members.
Ken Seymour (CSRP), |
Megan Goldspink |
The CSRP conference for participants in CSRP activities will be held in Melbourne this year. The aim of the conference is to bring together all CSRP members and to exchange ideas and learn about projects in the many areas that we work in. The conference also seeks to showcase staff and student research from each project area of the CSRP community including industry partners.
The dates for this conference are November 21 st and 22 nd, 2007.
Please put this date in your diaries.
The 3rd International Symposium on Energy, Informatics and Cybernetics: EIC 2007, Orlando, USA, 8 th-11 th July, 2007.
Details are available at http://www.iiis-cyber.org/wmsci2007/Website/Default.asp?vc=9
If you are aware of any upcoming conferences that would be of interest to other CSRP members, please e-mail the details to Tony Rickards. Links to these conferences (where available) will be published in the newsletter each month.
Listed below are publications received this month, more will be added into the next newsletter as it has been a busy month for activities. It would be wonderful to keep our publications lists up to date. If you have anything that has been published as part of CSRP (including conference presentations), could you please send Tony Rickards a copy of the paper and/or the reference for the publication?