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The 13th IEEE International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP) will be held in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, from 28th September to 1st October, 2008. This Conference is one of the premier international conferences in this field. The Conference strives to present research work of academic and technical excellence in the area of power quality and welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners and students worldwide. The Conference will feature special sessions and tutorials by world-leading experts. The Conference will be hosted by the Integral Energy Power Quality and Reliability Centre (IEPQRC) which has attracted extensive industry recognition and funding since 1996 and continues to be vigorously involved in power quality research and development activities. The members of the IEPQRC are attached to the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering within the University of Wollongong and have been active campaigners in establishing strong power engineering teaching and research programs not only at the University of Wollongong but also at a national level. Wollongong is located by the sea approximately 1.5 hours south of Sydney, Australia's largest city. Located on a coastal plain between the Illawarra escarpment and the sea Wollongong offers many attractions from the natural pristine beaches and forests through to fine dining. Wollongong has a mild, sunny coastal climate with winter temperatures averaging 17 degrees celcius and a summer average of 27 degrees celcius tempered with sea breezes. The venue for the conference is the University of Wollongong whose main campus occupies a site of 82.4 hectares, nestled between the escarpment of Mount Keira and the nearby Pacific Ocean. The environment is open, spacious and extensively landscaped, with native vegetation and water gardens being a feature. The University is located approximately 5 minutes from Wollongong city centre. For more information on the University of Wollongong see the university homepage. For all enquiries regarding ICHQP 2008 please email ichqp08@elec.uow.edu.au
Airport Transfers For those delegates electing to take up airport transfers, information regarding bus departure times has now been added to the Airport Trasfers page. Local Transfers Transport will be provided for delegates to and from the conference from local hotels for the duration of the conference. The schedule for morning pickups for travel to the conference venue is as follows:
Transport back to hotels will also be provided at the conclusion of each day with buses departing from outside building 40 from 5:30pm. Note buses depart at 4:30pm on Wednesday 1st October ICHQP Tutorials Two tutorial session are scheduled to accompany ICHQP2008. These tutorials will take place on Sunday 28th September 2008. The first tutorial is on Power Quality Measurement, Reporting and Standards and will be presented by Math Bollen, Robert Koch, Vic Gosbell, Robert Barr and Sean Elphick. The second tutorial is on Harmonics Modelling and simulation and is presented by Gary Chang, Paulo Ribeiro and Wilsun Xu who are members of the Task Force on Harmonics Modelling & Simulation. Detailed information about the tutorial can be found on the tutorial page PSCAD Course A 2 day course on Mitigation Methods of Power System Quality Problems using PSCAD/EMTDC presented by LK Technical is to be held in conjunction with ICHQP at The University of Wollongong. This course is scheduled for immediately after the conference on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd October 2008. For more details about the course and to register download the course flyer here.
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