First ISOPE Sloshing Dynamics & Design Symposium Earned

The 2009 Session Organizers of the Year Award:

Frederic Dias, Ray Kuo, Yonghwan Kim and Masashi Kashiwagi

Cupertino, California, August 28, 2009 ¾ Jin S. Chung, Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chairman, announced that the co-recipients of the ISOPE-2009 Session Organizer of the Year Award are Prof. Frederic Dias, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, Cachan, France, Dr. Ray Kuo, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., Houston, Texas, USA, Dr. Yonghwan Kim, Seoul National University, Korea and Prof. Masashi Kashiwagi, Osaka University, Japan.

They together initiated the First (2009) ISOPE Sloshing Dynamics & Design Symposium.  One of the 2008 Session Organizer of the Year Award winners, Dr. Emmanuel Fontaine, AMOG Consulting, Australia presented the Award plaque to Prof. Dias at the Annual ISOPE Conference Banquet, Osaka International Convention Center, June 24, 2009.

The Session Organizer of the Year Award was established in 1997 by the Society’s Board of Directors to recognize an individual’s selfless effort and contribution to the organization of sessions at ISOPE conferences, and to encourage others to view that individual as a role model. At the annual banquet, the TPC chair of the ISOPE conference or a chair-designated TPC member presents the Session Organizer of the Year Award to a session organizer who has successfully invited the largest number of papers or successfully established and organized a new technical field of the Society in the prior year.

The Symposium papers are included in the Proceedings of 19th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE (ISBN 1-978-1-880653-53-1; ISSN 1098-6189). All conference papers are peer-reviewed for inclusion in the Proceedings of 19th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference. Some 890 participants enjoyed technical fellowship and knowledge exchange. Some 70% of the participants from 50 countries traveled to Japan.

From the ISOPE-2009 Technical Program Committee, meetings@isope.org