ICTP - Trieste

Finally I have a time to write about my last academic trip this year. I went to Italy, to be precise I went to ICTP in Trieste and I loveee it. It was so beautiful there. My trip happened to be around June-July and guess what, it was during summer. It wasn't freezing and it wasn't that hot either.

I was there for a Math summer school. The title of the school was Computational Methods in Dynamics. I learned a lot there. I met new friends from around the world and it was such an experience.

One thing I like about ICTP is that this institute is dedicated for people from third world countries. We are able to get support from the institute to come for a short visit for either a conference or a school or just an academic visit.

I really hope that I can come to ICTP in the near future.

Accreditation

I am now working at UPH, one of universities in Indonesia, and I happened to be working now in Math Dept. This is a new department as it started in 2005. At the moment we are preparing for 'the' Accreditation which is the act of getting recognition for an educational institutional that maintains suitable standards. The question is what standards are we using? The standard we are using is from The Ministry of Education run by Indonesian Government. Actually, I am wondering whether or not this accreditation needs to be done in other countries?

I am not the only one in this Department doing this accreditation. There is a team for it, and the main reason there is a team is the fact that there are lots and lots of work. I am part of the team and we have to make a book that explains that our Math Department really conducts its job according to 'the standard'. We started at August this year and until now (November 2011) it hasn't been finished, you can imagine!

One of the main points why we are working very slow is because we do not have a record of what we have done for the past 6 years. I joined this dept since 2010 so i have nothing to say, but I promise myself that I will always write a record (might be in this blog) about what this department has achieved and done in the future.