BPP UGM holds UASC (UGM Annual Scientific Conference) again this year for the 6th time. The first conference as a part of UASC is ICST (International Conference on Science and Technology). Due to pandemic COVID-19, ICST 2020 is being held virtually on September 7-8, 2020. As an annual international conference, the committee has maintained the quality and quantity of manuscripts submitted to be credible, as well as the speakers invited and the publications later.
In his speech, the Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng., D.Eng., IPU, ASEAN Eng. stated that he was proud that UGM is such a great platform to accommodate the spread of sophisticated cross-disciplinary research through UASC. It proved that UGM is consistent in keeping a good international academic relationship so that it creates a scientific network, improves Indonesian researchers’ writing skills globally, and highlights UGM as a standard-bearer of scientific development. This year, ICST presents the scientific and technology experts from Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. They are:
- Prof. Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo (Chiba University, Japan),
- Prof. Keisuke Ohto (Saga Univerity Japan),
- Prof. Pitoyo Peter Hartono (Chukyo University, Japan),
- Dr. Fatwa Firdaus Abdi (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany),
- Dr. Hui Luo (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), and
- Prof. Nalan Kabay (Ege University, Turkey).
The conference preparation faced obstacles in many ways. The scope of origin of the conference participants was even wider, namely from 20 countries, like USA, India, The Philippines, South Africa, Singapore, Russia, United Kingdom, Egypt, Myanmar, Mexico, Thailand, Qatar, Australia, France, China, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Germany, and Indonesia. The committee was hoping that the conference did not lose the ambiance, especially for those who are going to be the presenter. In particular, the committee had installed the ZOOM webinar application and ensure the connection network so that the conference runs well. The number of participants this year ICST has increased, which are 428 articles. Unfortunately, there are only 260 articles that were accepted. The participants are classified into 6 symposium, they are:
- Computer and Information Technology symposium
- Electronics, Power, Communication, Control, and Instrumentation symposium
- Life Sciences, Materials, and Applied Chemistry symposium
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering symposium
- Remote Sensing and Geomatics symposium
- 1st Geoscience and Environmental Management symposium.
The output of this year’s conference will be published in journals and proceedings indexed which cooperated with ICST 2020, which are: 1) IEEE Xplore Digital Library, 2) Scientific.Net, and 3) E3S Web of Conferences. Â Since it was held in 2015, the outputs had been published in various reputable journals and proceedings, such as AIP Conference Proceeding; IEEE Conference Proceeding; ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering; IOP Proceeding Series; Journal of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics; International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology; Proceeding of The Pakistan Academy of Science; IJ Geography; TransTech Publication; Applied Mechanics and Materials; UGM Digital Press; IJ Biotech; IJ Chemistry; E3S Web of Conferences; dan Material Science Forum. [Adinda]
Check https://icst.ugm.ac.id/2020/ for details