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A Report on the 6th Lux Pacifica Conference in Bangkok

Hajimu NAKAMURA

Chairman of the Lux Pacifica Committee in Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan

1. Introduction

Lux Pacifica is the lighting conference organized by the Pacific Rim lighting societies. It has been originally named �Pacific Basin Lighting Congress�. This conference came to be well known as a good opportunity for international exchange to which lighting designers, researchers, educators, engineers, etc in the countries of the Pacific Rim countries meet together, and perform the announcement of a result, discussion, information exchange. The Lux Pacifica has the goals of assisting developing countries and emphasizing that good lighting design based on science and engineering is important.
The member lighting societies of Lux Pacifica are:

Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia & New Zealand
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan
China Illuminating Engineering Society
Indian Society of Lighting Engineers
Illuminating Engineering Society of Russia
Thai Illuminating Engineering Association
Illumination Engineering Society of South Africa

The first Lux Pacifica was held in 1989 in Shanghai, with successive conferences being in Bangkok in 1993, Nagoya in 1997, New Delhi in 2002 (rather than 2001) and Cairns in 2005. The 6th Lux Pacifica was held in Bangkok, capital of Thailand from 23th to 25th April 2009. (It was originally to be held in Khabarovsk in Russia on the same dates. However, the world financial crisis made it unable in January 2009.) The Chair of Lux Pacifica, Prof. Warren Julian hosted this important regional conference in Bangkok with the kind assistance of the Thai Illuminating Engineering Association.
The theme of the conference was �Light without Borders! �, giving plenty of scope to cover most topics in lighting art and science. Lighting designers, researchers, educators, engineers, etc were invited to present papers on examples of good design, experimental results on science, engineering, etc. An interesting social and accompanying person's program complemented the scientific and design sessions.

2. International Organization Committee

The officials that were appointed at the meeting of the International Organization Committee held 24th April 2009 at the Holiday Inn Silom are listed in Table 1.
The meeting decided that the 7th Lux Pacifica Conference would be held in 2013 by Thailand of host country. India was thought of the second host country. The conference venue will quite likely be in the place except Bangkok, for example, Chiangmai, Puket. Henceforth, we will work toward it with the International Organization Committee listed in Table 1. The International Organization Committee invites those researchers, engineers and designers who read this paper to participate in the 7th Lux Pacifica Conference to be held in 2013.
The Chair of Lux Pacifica was consecutively assumed by Prof. Warren Julian, and I, as a representative of Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan, was appointed vice-chairman. The next meeting of International Organization Committee will be held in 2011 probably in South Africa at the location of the next CIE Conference.

Table 1 International Organization Committee of Lux Pacifica (2009: Bangkok)

Functions Countries Names Societies
Chairman Australia Warren Julian Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia and New Zealand (IESANZ)
Vice Chairman Japan Hajimu Nakamura Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan (IEIJ)
Committee member U.S.A James Jewell Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA)
Committee member India Avinash Kulkarni Indian Society of Lighting Engineers (ISLE)
Committee member China Song Xian Jie China Illuminating Engineering Society (CIES)
Committee member Thailand Utis Chanchenchop Illuminating Engineering Association of Thailand (TIEA)
Committee member Russia Alexey Bartsev Illuminating Engineering Society of Russia (IESR)
Committee member South Africa (Gustav Kritzinger) Illumination Engineering Society of South Africa (IESSA)
Observer President of IESANZ New Zealand Roy Speed Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia and New Zealand (IESANZ)

( )No attendance


Fig.1 Meeting of International Organization Committee on 24th April
(This photo was provided by Stephanie Julian)

3. Arrangement for the 6th Lux Pacifica Conference

As we have known, February this year the IESR got it unable to host Lux Pacifica in Khabarovsk because of the world financial crisis. This is very unfortunate news, especially as only two months before the Conference. An enormous effort has been made by the Chair of Lux Pacifica, Prof. Warren Julian and the concerned, especially his wife, Stephanie Julian to relocate the conference to Bangkok. As a result, the Chair has completed the organization of an alternative venue in Bangkok on the same dates as in Khabarovsk.
The new website for the 6th Lux Pacifica in Bangkok was released on 27th February 2009. It showed the deadline of paper contribution was put off until 14th May. Thereafter, it enabled to register and to contribute paper easily for the Conference.
The papers from Japan were reviewed by the members of Lux Pacifica Committee in IEIJ. Some applicants were requested to apply corrections to their papers. Then, the 24 papers after corrected were sent to Prof. Warren Julian before 14th March 2009 as PDF and Word on a CD. The results of selection by the Lux Pacifica committee in IEIJ were received by the applicants in same time.

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