International Symposium on Aiming for Sustainable Society Towards Environmental Symbiosis and Regeneration by Sustainability Governance will be held on March 28
	13:00-16:45 on March 28, 2008 at Sapporo Center for Gender Equality (located in El-Plaza Building, Kita 8 Nishi 3) Keynote Lecturers: Ms Jenny Crawford, Royal Twon Planning Institute, UK and Prof Ali Parsa, University of Ulster, UK
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	COE Workshop on Material Characterization, Design, and Performance Evaluation of Concrete with Admixtures was held in collaboration with Tsinghua University, China
	March 2-4, 2008 at Tsinghua University, China

	2nd International Workshop on Durability of Reinforced Concrete under Combined Mechanical and Climatic Loads (2nd CMCL) will be held on February 21
	9:30-17:30 on February 21, 2008 at Keio Plaza Hotel Sapporo
	The major objective of the 2nd CMCL Workshop is to further contribute to the development of rational durability design by clarifying deterioration mechanisms under single action and combined actions (mechanical actions, multiple climatic actions, and simultaneous or consecutive mechanical and climatic actions) and to develop prediction methods for deterioration of materials and structures. In practice any structure is subjected to mechanical loads (actions). That means that durability of structures cannot be dealt with realistically when the influence of mechanical actions is neglected. Furthermore, knowledge on structural aspects (mechanics-related issues) and material aspects (durability-related issues) should be deepened and combined in the future. After the 1st CMCL Workshop, held in Qingdao in 2005, experts from all over the world will get together again to exchange latest information and to have in-depth discussions. For further information please click here

	English Intensive Course on Durability of Reinforced Concrete under Combined Mechanical and Climatic Loads will be held from February 15 to 29
	February 15-29, 2008
	Lecturers: Prof Folker H. Wittmann, Aedificat Institute Freiburg, Germany Prof Ha-Won Song, Yonsei University, Korea Prof Koji Takewaka, Kagoshima University, Japan Prof Zhao Tie-Jun, Qingdao Technological University, China Prof Tamon Ueda, Hokkaido University, Japan Dr Shingo Asamoto, Saitama University, Japan Dr Hiroshi Saito, former research specialist of Obayashi Corporation, Japan Dr Ellis Gartner, Lafarge Centre de Recherche, France Dr Dai Jianguo, Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan For further information please click here

	3rd International Conference on Sustainable Water Environment will be held on October 24 and 25
	9:00-17:40 on October 24 and 25, 2007 at Hotel Royton Sapporo
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	To read a report, please click here
	To see a group photo, please click here

	Trilateral Seminar on Chemistry and Microbiology in Civil, Resource & Environmental Engineering between Hokkaido University, University of Applied Science Karlsruhe and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe will be held on September 4
	9:00-17:40 on September 4, 2007 at Hokkaido University Conference Hall
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	Your active participation is recommended.

	COE Special Lecture will be held on July 20
	16:00 on July 10, 2007 at C-401 Your active participation is very much welcome.
	Lecturer: Professor Gary Amy, UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands
	Presentation Title: Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Characterization for Process Selection and monitoring (keynote talk given at the the Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies held in this past June in Singapore)

	Water Metabolic System Group organizes the workshop on "Technical Writing in English" on July 10 and 12
	15:00 - 16:30, July 10, 2007 15:00 - 16:30, July 12, 2007 at C-401. Please click here for the details.
	Lecturer: Prof. Adele Sanders B.A. & M.A. English Education in USA Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction (Univ. of Colorado) Teaching Experience to international students in the Engineering College at CU
	Those who wish to attend the workshop are asked to send their names, labs and contact information to Ms Kikuchi or Ms Kamada in advance.

	COE Intensive Course 2007 will be held from July 2 to August 31
	July 2 - August 31, 2007 Please click here for the details.
	COE Water Metabolic System group invites Prof. Gary Amy, a professor of UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education as a guest lecturer to the COE Intensive Course on Advanced Drinking Water Treatment Technologies. This time he kindly agreed to give introductory lectures on water treatment technologies. Those who are not majoring water/wastewater treatment technologies are more than welcome to attend.

	COE Special Semina will be held onJuly 3
	16:00-, July 3, 2007 at A-101 Room
	Lecturer; Professor Gary Amy, UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands－Drinking Water Practice in North America versus Europe, Guest; Professor Yasutomo Magara, Hokkaido University －Utility Management of Water Service Systems: Question and Answer Series

Memberlists of post-doctoral fellows and research assistants are updated

	The COE Special Lecture "Environmental Remediation and Risk Assessment" will take place on May 22
	May 22, 2007 I-204. Please click here for the details.
	Lecturer: Professor Joseph Eric Odencrantz, Visiting Professor, Kyoto University

	The COE International Seminar "Activities of Resource Recycling and Resources Engineering in Thailand" is held on April 6
	Apr. 05, 2007 A1-01. Please click here for the details.
	Keynoter: Dr. Quanchai Leepawpanth, Dr. Sa Nga Tangchawal, Dr. Jirawat Chewaroungroaj, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.