The World Congress
on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2011) is a multidisciplinary
congress, Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter.
The WCST bridges across the natural, social and engineering
sciences, the environment and development of communities. The
congress covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to
sustainability, which includes technical and non-technical
research areas. It also encourages sharing new knowledge in the
field of sustainable technologies and the environmental impacts.
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The mission of
WCST-2011 is to provide the opportunities for collaboration and
reflection that have the potential to greatly enhance the
infrastructure and capacity for conducting and applying art,
science and technology for sustainability. The WCST bridges the
gap between academia and industry by creating awareness of
current development in sustainable technologies.
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The topics in
WCST-2011 include but are not confined to the following areas:
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Sustainable
Energy Technologies:
Bio-energy and
Geo-energy
Energy ******
Energy in
Transportation Systems
Energy Efficiency
in Utilization
Environmental
Issues
Energy Harvesting
Energy Storage
Systems
Energy Storage
Systems
Energy Market,
Management and Economics
Energy Resources
for Portable Electronics
Energy Efficiency
in Utilization
Geothermal energy
Intelligent Energy,
Power Transmission Distribution, Interconnects and
Protection
Materials for
Energy Resources
Nanotechnology in
Energy
New Enabling
Technologies
New Materials for
Energy Resources and RF and Magnetic Field Energy
Devices
Component level
power management, e.g., memory, disk.
Power aware
networking
Smart Grids
applications
Technology as Green
Enablers (Grid, Cloud, Data Centers, Virtualization)
Sustainable Building
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Building Design
and System
Creative
Industries
Industrial
Developments
Low and zero
energy houses and buildings
New Insulation
materials and techniques
New building
materials and recycling
Photovoltaics
and Solar Thermal
Sustainability
and Policy:
Sustainable
Applications
Sustainable
Development Policy
Sustainable
Innovations
Sustainable
Technology Programme
Waste Management:
Agricultural wastes
Industrial waste
management
Medical wastes
Mining and mineral
wastes
Nuclear and
hazardous waste
Waste from
electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE)
Waste water
treatment
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Keynote Speakers
Professor Robert
M. Kalin academic and professional interests are focused on
Environment Science and Engineering to underpin the global
sustainability agendas. His work ranges from hydrogeology and
palaeohydrology of local to regional scale groundwater systems,
and study of global biogeochemical cycles and climate change, to
site specific biogeochemistry of water treatment, contaminated
land and groundwater (including engineering design of
sustainable remediation methods), development of new enhanced
chemical and physical treatments of oil and water that manage
sustainable risk.
Professor Kalin, as Director of the David
Livingstone Centre for Sustainability, is working to underpin
Sustainable Environmental Development including the move to a
carbon neutral society. This is a core concept that most of the
World aims to address in the Decade 2005 to 2015. Professor
Kalin through his scholarship clearly acknowledges the
Millennium Goals and aims to make a significant impact to help
humanity achieve sustainability through four complementary
topics:
************************* ****** i.*********** Carbon and Water
Footprint Management
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Management
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for a Carbon Neutral Society
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Forensics and rebuilding of Environmental Capital
His work on sustainable environmental development
is driven by an engagement with interdisciplinary focused
problem and knowledge transfer, drawing in particular on the
insights of environmental science and engineering and extending
research endeavours found in other disciplines (e.g.
environmental planning, environmental governance, paleo-ecology,
environmental economics, environmental law, agriculture and land
use change).
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Nik Bessis is Head of DISYS
(Distributed and Systems) research group and a full Professor of
Computer Science (Chair) at the School of Computer Science and
Mathematics, University of Derby, UK. He is also associated with
the Department of computer Science and Technology, University of
Bedfordshire, UK. He obtained a BA (1991) from the TEI of Athens
and completed his MA (1995) and PhD (2002) at de Montfort
University (Leicester, UK ). His research interest reside within
the next generation data technologies and include data
integration, data push, resource discovery and scheduling, data
grids, clouds, web 2.0, social networking, crowd sourcing and
collective intelligence. Professor Bessis has also an interest
in disaster management. He has involved in (xx2m) and led
(xx0.6m) a number of funded research and conferences, served as
a Conference Chair, Editor of 3 books, editor of several issues
and the editor-in-Chief of the International journal of
distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST).
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Ian Williams is Professor of
Applied Environmental science at the University of Southampton.
He has published two books and over 90 peer-reviewed papers on
waste and environmental issues, as well as over 90 commercial
projects. He has held position on the scientific and organizing
committees of several international conferences and has
extensive experience of managing Research Council, EU, ESF, ERDF
and Landfill Tax projects, as well as research and commercial
projects, and is a Trustee of the charity KBT-Waste. His work at
Southampton has focused on waste issues. Current and recent
waste-related projects include: Zerowaste in industrial
networks; Carbon footprinting of cities and waste industry;
transport and logistics of WEEE collection and disposal; Bulky
waste and furniture recycling/reuse; The development of waste
strategies for medium-sized enterprises; The Environmental
impacts (especially emissions to air and water) of organic
wastes; and Recycling behaviours in medium- and high-density
housing.
Ian regularly reviews academic papers for a range
of journals and is on the Editorial Board of Waste Management.
He has received three recent awards for his research activities:
the Institution of Civil Engineers Baker Medal in 2010 and two
awards from the Charted Institute of Waste Management (Waste
Regulation Award 2010, James Jackson Award 2006). He is a
fanatical fan of “the Scarlets” rugby team.
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more information please contact: info@wcst.org.
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Call for participation: World Congress on Sustainaible Technologies, London, 2011
