Nomination
process
Please send nominations, including a justification (up to two
pages in length), and contact details of the proposer and the
seconder, to Professor W.K. Chow, bewkchow@polyu.edu.hk, by 28
October, 2010, 5 pm, Hong Kong time. Either the proposer or the
seconder must be a member of IAFSS. Self-nominations will not
be accepted. A nominee may or may not be a member of IAFSS. Each
nomination is confidential and should not be disclosed to a nominee.
Selection
considerations
The past recipients of the Kunio Kawagoe Gold Medal made significant
and lasting contributions to fire science and engineering through
innovation and impact of their publications. Their research findings
frequently led to paradigm shifts in fire regulations, in fire
standards and in practical applications of fire safety science
and engineering around the world. Some trained research students
and young fire safety engineers, produced important textbooks
and monographs and often dedicated themselves to fire safety education.
They were active in international fire safety community.
Selection
body
The recipient of the Award will be selected by the IAFSS Awards
Committee that consists of Professor Bogdan Dlugogorski (Chair,
The University of Newcastle, Australia), Professor W.K. Chow (The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China), Professor Jim Quintiere
(The University of Maryland, USA), Professor Takeyoshi Tanaka
(Kyoto University, Japan) and Professor José Torero (The
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). It is intended that the
recipient selected by the Awards Committee will be contacted in
March 2011.
Professor
Kunio Kawagoe
Professor Kunio Kawagoe pioneered the development and use of scientifically
based fire analysis, developing the relationship between the compartment
burning rate and the size of an opening (Rb
= 5.5•A•h0.5),
in a seminal paper on compartment fire modelling published in
1958. His contributions, especially on fuel-controlled compartment
fires and the structural analysis of the fire induced effects
in columns and beams, laid foundation to modern fire science and
engineering, and underpinned the early development of performance-based
fire safety design, especially in Japan. Professor Kawagoe was
the Director of the Building Research Institute between 1969 and
1973, when he was appointed Professor in the Faculty of Science
and Engineering at the Science University of Tokyo. His career
included appointments of the Deanship of the Faculty at the Science
University of Tokyo in 1980 and, in 1986, the Directorship of
the Centre for Fire Science and Technology. He served as an IAFSS
Vice-Chairman from its founding in 1985 until 1991. Professor
Kawagoe was a role model and dedicated teacher of young fire safety
engineers. He passed away in 1994. (Extracted from T Ishii, Fire
Science and Technology 14, 1994, pp i-ii, and from In Memoriam,
Proceedings 5th Fire Safety Symposium, 1997, p vii.)
Past recipients
The Medal was first awarded at the 4th IAFSS Symposium in Ottawa
in 1994. Its past recipients include
Dr Alexander
Robertson (1994, 4th Symposium, Ottawa)
Dr Philip Thomas (1997, 5th Symposium, Melbourne)
Mr Harold “Bud” Nelson (1999, 6th Symposium, Poitiers)
Professor Dougal Drysdale (2002, 7th Symposium, Worcester)
Professor Sizuo Yokoi (2005, 8th Symposium, Beijing)
Professor Geoffrey Cox (2008, 9th Symposium, Karlsruhe)
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Nomination
process
There is no nomination process, as the Award recognises the best
paper presented at the previous Symposium.
Selection
considerations
The five criteria used to identify the best paper are:
Pertinence Is the paper pertinent to the aims
of the Association? Does it epitomise “a forum dedicated
to all aspects of fire research and their application to solving
problems presented by destructive fire”?
Utility Are the results useful? Will this work
save lives? Will it enhance fire service efforts? Will it lead
to new areas of research? Will it be incorporated into standards
and codes?
Significance Does it add significantly to our
knowledge? Are there new results? Are they both accurate and important?
Rationality Does the paper link experiments and
theory? Have the results been both verified and explained? Does
the work display wisdom, logic and intellectual insight?
Eloquence Is the paper well written? Is there
a worthwhile story which is described in a concise yet readable
manner?
Selection
body
The best paper presented at 9th Symposium in Karlsruhe will be
selected by the IAFSS Awards Committee that consists of Professor
Bogdan Dlugogorski (Chair, The University of Newcastle, Australia),
Professor W.K. Chow (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK,
China), Professor Jim Quintiere (The University of Maryland, USA),
Professor Takeyoshi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) and Professor
José Torero (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK).
The Award will be announced at the 10th Symposium in College Park,
Maryland, USA, in June 2011.
Dr
Philip H Thomas
Dr Thomas worked in fire safety research at the Fire Research
Station (subsequently part of the Building Research Establishment)
for over thirty years, from the early 1950s to the mid 1980s.
In that time he published numerous Fire Research Notes and over
thirty journal papers on fire phenomena, many of which are still
regularly cited today. Since retiring from the Fire Research Station
in 1986 he has remained active in fire research and continues
to publish in Fire Safety Journal and elsewhere. The importance
of his contributions to the field cannot be overstated. It was
once said that he worked on almost every problem related to fire
from spontaneous ignition, to wildland fires and from statistical
analyses to fire modelling. He was a convener of TC 92 in ISO
and W14 for the CIB. He was the founding Chair of IAFSS. He worked
at a time when journal publications were not so numerous, but
his writing mostly contained in Fire Research Notes show his prolific
nature and his boundless interests. The new researcher to fire
would be lacking not to have read the works of P H Thomas.
- Past
recipients
The Medal was first awarded at the 2nd IAFSS Symposium in Tokyo
in 1988. Its past recipients, titles of their papers, and Symposia
at which the Awards were presented, are listed below
1988: Y Hasemi, “Thermal Modeling of
Upward Flame Spread” (2nd Symposium, Tokyo)
1991: H Baum and B McCaffrey, “Fire Induced
Flow Field – Theory and Experiment” (3rd Symposium,
Edinburgh)
1994: A Atreya and M Abu-Zaid was entitled
"Effect of Environmental Variables on Piloted Ignition
(4th Symposium, Ottawa)
1997: B Dlugogorski, J Mawhinney and V Duc,
"The Measurement of Heat Release Rate by Oxygen Consumption
Calorimetry in Fires” (5th Symposium, Melbourne)
1999: R Rehm, K McGrattan, H Baum and K Cassel,
"Transport by Gravity Currents in Building Fires”
(6th Symposium, Poitiers)
2002: J Garo, P Gillard, J Vantelon and A Fernandez-Pello,
"On the Thin Layer Boilover" (7th Symposium, Worcester)
2005: D Weinert, T Cleary, G Mulholland and
P Beever, “Light Scattering Characteristics and Size Distribution
of Smoke and Nuisance Aerosols” (8th Symposium, Beijing)
2008: T Korhonen, S Hostikka and O Keski-Rahkonen,
“A Proposal for the Goals and New Technique of Modelling
Pedestrian Evacuation in Fires” (9th Symposium, Karlsruhe)
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Student Travel Awards for the 10th
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These
Awards are sponsored by the International FORUM of Fire Research
Directors (http://fireforum.org/), a group of the Directors of
fire research organisations throughout the world, which aims to
reduce the burden of fire (including the loss of life and property,
and effects of fire on the environment and heritage) through international
cooperation on fire research. The award recognises excellence
in an IAFSS symposium paper in the field of fire safety science
by a student making a significant contribution to that paper.
Award eligibility and its privileges
Each
FORUM Student Travel Award consists of a plaque and a US$1,250
cash payment to assist the recipient with travel-related expenses
toward their attendance at the 10th IAFSS Symposium in Maryland,
USA. It is intended that four awards will be offered, for a total
of US$5,000, with one award in each of the following broad areas
of fire research:
•
Fire Physics and Fire Modelling
• Fire Chemistry and Fire Toxicity
• Test Development, Diagnostics and Large Scale Experiments
• Human Factors and Risk Assessment
To
be eligible, a student needs to be enrolled in an academic course
of study at the time the paper is required to be submitted to
the Symposium Program Committee (30 September 2010). Recipients
must also present their papers at the Symposium.
A
student will normally be the lead author on the paper accepted
for presentation at the 10th IAFSS Symposium. If a student is
not named as the lead author, a letter from the senior author
is required to itemise the student’s contribution to the
paper. Such a letter is to be forwarded to Professor Takeyoshi
Tanaka, Awards Committee, at takey@tomi4620.mbox.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp,
by the due date for submission of revised manuscripts.
Nomination
process
The corresponding author needs to indicate at the time
of paper submission that the paper is to be considered for the
FORUM Student Travel Award, and that a nominee is the lead author.
Selection
considerations
The
winners will be selected by the IAFSS Awards Committee from papers
accepted for presentation at the 10th IAFSS Symposium. A list
of student papers will be provided to the Awards Committee by
the Symposium Program Committee. The Award Committee may decide
at its discretion not to select winners in all areas, increasing
the amount of the awards available in the remaining areas. The
Awards ommittee will judge the papers on their quality; i.e.,
on the originality, clarity, and potential impact on practical
or theoretical applications of fire safety science. Consideration
may also be given to students who would not be able to attend
the Symposium without additional support, and who will travel
to attend the Symposium from remote regions.
The
winners of the FORUM Student Travel Awards will be announced approximately
a month after the authors receive notification of acceptance of
their papers for presentation at the Symposium. The recipients
will be honoured at a ceremony held during the 10th IAFSS Symposium
in June 2011, with the Awards formally presented at that time.
Selection
body
The
recipient of the Award will be selected by the IAFSS Awards Committee
that consists of Professor Bogdan Dlugogorski (Chair, The University
of Newcastle, Australia), Professor W.K. Chow (The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, HK, China), Professor Jim Quintiere (The University
of Maryland, USA), Professor Takeyoshi Tanaka (Kyoto University,
Japan) and Professor José Torero (The University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK).
Past recipients
Winners
of FORUM Student Travel Awards at 9th IAFSS Symposium in Karlsruhe
were
•
Sebastian Ukleja, The University of Ulster, UK
•
Sung-Han Koo, The University of Edinburgh, UK
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Best
Thesis Award “Excellence in Research”
Award,
eligibility and its privileges
IAFSS Best Thesis Award “Excellence in Research” recognises
best research dissertation at PhD and Masters levels, in the field
of fire safety science and engineering. There are three such Awards
for the three IAFSS regions, Europe and Africa, Americas, as well
as Asia and Oceania.
To be eligible for nomination, the nominee’s thesis must
have been submitted for
examination between Jan 2008 and Jan 2011 and nominated for the
Award by the nominee’s supervisor, as described below.
Each recipient must deliver, at the 10th Symposium, a paper drawn
from his/her thesis.
Preferably, this will be a paper accepted for presentation in
the regular peer-review
submission process. However, if no such paper is available, the
recipient will be asked to prepare a paper, as per submission
guidelines of the 10th Symposium, based on the material included
in the thesis.
The Award consists of a plaque, a grant of US$2,000 to
cover travel and subsistence related to the recipient’s
attendance at the 10th Symposium in College Park, Maryland, USA,
and a free registration at the Symposium.
Nomination process
The following documents need to be submitted by email by the nominee’s
supervisor to Professor José Torero, The University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, j.torero@ed.ac.uk,
by 6 March 2011, 5 pm, UK time:
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A letter of recommendation by the nominee's supervisor not
to exceed 2 pages;
A pdf copy of the thesis (preferably in English; if not available,
in its original
language);
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An abstract of the thesis in English (no longer than three
pages);
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A list of publications. The list should comprise journal articles
(including those that have been submitted for publication,
whether accepted or not), and conference publications (indicating
the form of review; no review, by Abstract, by full paper).
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Publications in preparation or draft should not be listed;
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Pdf preprints or reprints of up to three best papers derived
from the nominee’s thesis (conference papers can be
included).
Only one thesis can be submitted for Award from a given University
or Institution. When more than one thesis is of sufficient
quality for submission for the Award, a preliminary selection
must be carried out locally and the nominee's supervisor needs
to explicitly describe in the letter of recommendation the
local selection process. If more than one thesis is submitted
by a single institution the nominators will be asked to withdraw
the submissions voluntarily and explain the reasoning behind
the selection. If more than one thesis remains submitted by
13 March (5:00 pm UK time) then none of the
submissions from that institution will be considered. All
submissions will be confirmed upon reception.
Selection considerations
The four criteria used to select the best thesis include:
Pertinence Is the thesis’ subject matter
within the scope of the field of fire science
and engineering?
Impact Have the results of the thesis been disseminated
broadly in top ranked peerreviewed
international journals and conferences?
Significance Do the results of the thesis add
to our present knowledge? Are there
new, accurate, useful and important?
Quality Are the methodologies applied in the
thesis sound and correct? Is the thesis
well written?
Selection body
The recipients of the IAFSS Best Thesis Award “Excellence
in Research” will be selected by the IAFSS Awards Committee
that consists of :
Professor
Bogdan Dlugogorski (Chair, The University of Newcastle, Australia),
Professor W.K. Chow (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK,
China),
Professor
Jim Quintiere (The University of Maryland, USA),
Professor Takeyoshi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Professor José Torero (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK).
The
recipients will be contacted by the first week of April
2011. The Awards will be formally announced at the 10th
Symposium in College Park, Maryland, USA, in June 2011.
Past recipients
IAFSS Best Thesis Award “Excellence in Research” was
first presented at the 8th IAFSS Symposium at Tsinghua University
in Beijing in 2005. Its past recipients are listed below:
2005:
(Europe and Africa) Susan Lamont, The University of Edinburgh,
UK, PhD Thesis;
(Americas) Amnon Bar-Ilan, University of California, Berkeley,
USA, PhD Thesis;
(Asia and Oceania) Weng Wenguo, Waseda University, Japan, PhD
Thesis
2008:
(Europe
and Africa) Markus Knobloch ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, PhD Thesis;
(Americas) Ali S. Rangwala, University of California, San Diego,
USA, PhD Thesis;
(Asia and Oceania) Johannes A.W. Dimyadi, The University of Canterbury,
NZ,
Masters Thesis
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2011
AWARDS COMMITTEE
Prof
Bogdan Dlugogorski: Chair,
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Prof W.K. Chow Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China:
Chair Kunio Kawagoe Gold Medal*
Prof Jim Quintiere The University of Maryland, USA: Chair
IAFSS Best Thesis Award
Prof Takeyoshi Tanaka Kyoto University, Japan:
Chair Forum Student Travel Award
Prof José Torero University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK: Chair IAFSS Best Thesis Award
The IAFSS
Awards Committee is assisted by:
Prof
Edwin Galea: University of Greenwich, UK
Prof Tuula Hakkarainen: VTT, Finland
Prof Patrick van Hees: Lund University, Sweden
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COMMITTEES
