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Newsletter for THE UNIVERSITY of NEWCASTLE INVITED PAPER Professor Don Parkes, Assoc. Professor in Geography, has been invited to present a pap­ er to the Seventh Internation­ al Commonwealth Conference on man Ecology and Development. e conference wi 11 be hel din ) rwin, Alice Springs and Arm­ ldale from January 29 to Febru­ ary 12 next year. The regional focus is the Northern Territory and invited "jPers on human behaviour in lation to settlements, land if e, mining, tourism and comm­ unication, as well as human and animal health and di~ease. will be presented as "current position" papers and "futures" papers. The conference is organis­ Itp,ItP ed by The Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (London), The After Architecture Ie students made their balloons they ~ere University of New England and launched at University No.2 Oval. The survival rate was very The University of Northern Ter­ satisfactory and a feW travelled long distances. One of the baZZoon8~ however~ disappeared. Another went as far as Car­ ritory Planning Authority. diff. The object of the balloon project was to indicate that Field studies and worksho~s, as well as papers will be off- form follows funotion (namely flight) and to obtain an immed­ i.ate ass-e8sment of the -success of a design. _Mr. R. Donald80n~ ~d. Delegates from a number Lq,at:ll'el' in Arehitecture, was the supervisor of the projeet. j Commonwealth Countries are expecte"d to attend. The confer- enee demonstrates the growing Parkes wiil be discussing re­ convergence of interdisciplin­ search developments with spec­ ary research related to human ial reference to the role of behaviour and regional sciences time in environmental percept­ Don Parkes has also been ion studies and in particular invited to contribute to two their relation to human behav­ sessions of a workshop on In­ iour in remote arid regions of ternational Development of En­ Australia. vironmental Perception Research Don Parkes told the NEWS and Applications, the first at that the Academic Plan initiat­ the University of Nebraska, ive to consider introduction lincoln, United States of Amer­ of interdisciplinary research-.. ica and the second at the Uni­ institutes as centres at the versity of Colorado, Denver, in University of Newcastle would April, 1983. The objective is go a long way to facilitating to "gather together represent­ advances in behavioural and re­ Itives from a number of differ­ gional science research of this ent countries to discuss the sort, for which there was quite level of development of resear­ clearly an international do­ ch in this field in their coun­ main of interest and to which try and throughout the world". a number of disciplines, in­ Apart from a general re­ cluding psychology, medicine, view of contributions related architecture and mathematics; Don Papkes to Australian res"earch Don could contribute in particular. llN§llD 18 = WllILD IPllG M18A T llND U§TRY? VOLUME 8 NUMBER 14 August 19 to September 2 CONFERENCES STOPPING CUTBACKS The university will host two The Australian Vice-Chancellors! major engineering conferences. Committee is mounting a camp- one on the Mechanics of Struct­ ai gn to dissuade the Federal ures and Materials and one on Government from making more Control and Computational Sys­ cuts in research funding. tems. The Committee, which rep­ The conferences will in­ resents Australia!s 19 univer­ volve about 200 delegates from sities, has released a booklet Australia and overseas. aimed at stimulating interest The Eighth Australasian in -- and support for -­ Conference on the Mechanics of research in universities. Structures and Materials will The 52-page publication run from August 23 to 25; the describes a number of recent Second Conference on Control and current research projects Engineering will be held from in 11 universities, and makes August 25 to 27. a plea for the reinvigoration The Conference on the of the nation!s research prog­ Mechanics of Structures and ram. Materials will bring to New­ Mr. Frank Hambly, Secret­ castle,about 50 engineers~· ary of the AVCC, said that the academlcs and consultants rep­ AVCC was moved to produce the resenting universities, the booklet because of deepening CSIRO, the Faculty of r~ilitary concern over the state of re­ Studies. Duntroon. consulting search funding in Australia to­ engineering firms and research day. institutes. !!Our case is directed to Professor N. -Trahair, of both governments and private the Uni vers ity of Sydney, wi 11 enterprise!!, Mr. Hambly said. dlSCUSS the communication of "There is no question that re­ research findings to practis­ search in Australia today is ing engineers in his invited at risk. The booklet sets out address at 9.45 am. to identify the problem, and The Control Engineering to encourage collaborative Conference has been organised effort to remedy it". by the National Committee on Topics covered in the book Control and Computational Sys­ range from the measures taken they do serve to illustrate tems of The -Institute of Eng­ to counter the box-jellyfish something of the nature and ineers, Australia. menace in the far north, to breadth of the work being done It will be a gathering the much-discussed in vitro work that in all respects of about 150 engineers, scien­ fertilisation program in Mel­ compares favourably with re­ tists and technologists who bourne, to comparative stud­ search carried out in compar­ are interested in current dev­ ies of the memory skills of able overseas universities!'. elopments in industrial auto­ desert Aborigines and white The booklet, entitled mation. children in Western Australia. University Research 1982, has Mr. Greg Shinsky, from Mr. Hambly said the top­ been sent to all parliamentar Foxborro, Massachussetts, ics were chosen by a sub-comm­ ians, Commonwealth and State United States of America, an ittee of the AVCC from among to members of the governing , authority on process control hundreds ~uggested by the uni­ bodies of all universities, to and energy systems~ will del­ versities. the media, and to influential iver the keynote address on "They could hardly be groups and individuals through­ August 25 at 10.50 am in the sai d to be 'representati ve' of out the country. Engineering lecture Theatre. the vast range of research pro­ A copy is held by the P . jects going on around the cou­ 1 i ci ty Offi ce, Room G60 in tt,_ ntry today", he said. !'But McMullin Building. Film Festival returns and The Travelling Film Festi-val, BLOOD WEDDING (Carlos Saura) now in its eighth year, will (Carlos Saura) Spain. WASN'T THAT A TIME return to Newcastle in Sept­ (James B. Brown) United States ember to provide audiences of America. with a selection of films BYE BYE BRAZIL from this year's Sydney Film (Carlos Diegues) Brazil/ France. Festival. MUDDY RI VER The festival will offer a variety of films from several (Kohei Oguri) Japan countries which would not us­ TI CKET TO HEA VEN ually be screened in non-metro­ (Ralph L. Thomas) Canada. politan centres. VERONIKA VOSS The feature films to be (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) screened at the Civic Theatre Federal Republic of Germany On September 24, 25 and 26: WageJe tfJ-4t 3 .. '~ When the Vice-Chancellor ref­ ( erred to the proposed amalgam­ ! .. ation of the University with the Newcastle College of Ad­ vanced Education he informed Senate that in a letter he had " written to the Principal of the CAE he had referred to two questions on which the Council had particularly re­ quested that further discuss­ ion take place: the composit­ ion of the first Council and higher degrees in the College ,1 sector. The Vice-Chancellor in­ formed the Senate that he had received the revisions to the original Statement of Agree­ The University PLanner, Mr. Don Morris, the Director of the ment on Broad Principles .for Computing Centre, Mr. John Lambert, and Assistant Planner, Mr. the amalgamation of the Uni­ Bob Co-wdroy, take advantage of the -wager. Photo: Arth:ur Johnston. V~sity and the College prop- d by the Coll ege Counci 1. j appeared that it would not De possible to accommodate the The wager between the Proper­ ing new air-conditioning equi­ differing views and the Uni­ ty Division and the Computing pment and putting in a false versity Council would have to Centre over the date of com­ floor as has been done in the decide what advice it wished pletion of extensions to the new Computer Room. ')giVe to the Federal and Computing Centre was worth a A two-storey extension to • c" te- Ministers for Education. bottle of champagne • the McMullin Building, provid­ The Property Division ing a plant room on the lower lost and bought the champagne, ground floor and the enlarged ® but had no regrets because the Computer Room on the Ground The Vice-Chancellor also re­ margin of time was very close. Floor, when completed is anti­ ported that there had been dis­ Moving day was Friday, cipated to cost approximately cussions with Mr. Parry. Chair­ August 13. The University's $140,000. man of the HEB. It was very main computer was transferred The overall project was likely that the legislation to into the new accommodation necessary to establish in the effect amalgamation would not provided adjacent to the Com­ Computing Centre a dust-free be submitted in 1982 and con­ puting Centre in the McMullin operating environment and stab­ sequently the situation would Building. le temperature and humidity be very confused in November It is proposed to make a conditions and to give space and December. start very soon on remodelling for the second VAX 11/780 com­ After the Deputy Chairman the space vacated, that is, puter to be delivered in Dec­ 10rted that he had discussed removing the ceiling, install- ember.

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