கடல் கடந்து கொடி கட்டி ஆண்ட இனம் நம் தமிழினம்

மேலைநாட்டவர் வெறும் வாணிபத்துக்காகவே கீழைநாடுகளை நாடிக்கொண்டிருந்த நாட்களில், கடல் கடந்து கொடி கட்டி ஆண்ட இனம் நம் தமிழினம். காம்போஜம்(கம்போடியா), ஸ்ரீவிஜயம்(சுமாத்திரா), சாவகம்(ஜாவா), சீயம்-மாபப்பாளம்(தாய்லாந்து), கடாரம்(மலேசியா), நக்காவரம்(நிக்கோபார் தீவுகள்), முந்நீர்ப்பழந்தீவு(மாலைதீவு) போன்ற தூரதேச நாடுகளிலெல்லாம், தமிழ் மூவேந்தரில் ஒருவரான சோழரின் புலிக்கொடி பறந்து அந்நாட்டவரெல்லாம் தமிழருக்கு திறை செலுத்தி பணிந்துநின்ற ஒரு பொற்காலம் சரித்திரத்தில் இடம்பிடித்திருக்கிறது. அவ்வாறு சிறந்திருந்த சோழப்பேரரசு தொடர்ந்து நீடிக்காததன் காரணம், போருக்கும் ஆக்கிரமிப்புக்கும் தொடர்ந்து ஆதரவளித்ததும் ஏனைய தமிழரசரான சேரர்-பாண்டியருடன் ஒற்றுமையின்றி இணங்கி நடக்காமையுமே என்பது அதே சரித்திரம் நமக்கு தரும் பாடம்.

வரலாறு சுட்டிக்காட்டிய அதே தவற்றை, மீண்டும் மீண்டும் இன்று வரை தொடர்ந்து நாம் செய்துகொண்டிருப்பதுதான் மீண்டெழ முடியாத ஆழத்தில் நாம் வீழ்ந்துகிடப்பதன் காரணம்.

ஒற்றுமையின்மை…..!!!

PHD POSITIONS IN OPTIMISATION at NICTA VRL, VICTORIAN UNIVERSITIES, AUSTRALIA

PHD POSITIONS IN OPTIMISATION at NICTA VRL, VICTORIAN UNIVERSITIES, AUSTRALIA==============================================================================================================================

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is Australia's Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence. NICTA is offering scholarships for exceptional PhD students working in the priority area of Optimisation at a number of Victorian universities. NICTA offers both full and top-up scholarships on top of base scholarships at Victorian Universities.

Optimisation
The optimisation research group at NICTA VRL, led by Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck, at the University of Melbourne, is recognised as a world-class team with pioneering contributions in fields such as constraint programming, hybrid optimisation, and planning. The group currently offers attractive PhD scholarships for high-calibre students interested in contributing to their research effort. The group focuses on grand challenges in disaster management, future energy systems, and multi-modal supply chains. Fundamental and applied research is conducted in continuous and discrete optimisation, decision making under uncertainty, simulation and 3D-visualisation, and algorithmic decision theory. Optimisation and decision-support platforms are being developed that will bring unprecedented support for decision making in complex environments.

NICTA Optimisation Research Group homepage:http://www.nicta.com.au/research/optimisation

For further information please contact Pascal Van Hentenryck, Optimisation Research Group Leader: pvh@nicta.com.au<mailto:pvh@nicta.com.au>

Application procedure:

Please follow the instructions at http://www.nicta.com.au/education/scholarships/victoria_research_lab

Applications and questions should be directed to vrlschols@lists.nicta.com.au<mailto:vrlschols@lists.nicta.com.au>

Elisabeth Wejsflog Paintings

 Artist Elisabeth Wejsflog

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		A devoted artist for more than 30 years. Polish born Elisabeth currently lives in Sweden since 1976… Beneath follows a brief description of her background and work. "The studio is located in the street level of a more than hundred years old house near the Saint Pauli Church in the park avenue Kungsgatan in Malmoe, Sweden. She works with prints as well as oil and acrylic on canvas and watercolours. 'I wanted to be a musician once', Elisabeth says. It is airy and has to be caught in the flight. Elisabeth uses watercolour crayons as a compliment to the colours to be able to work fast and light-handed. The art critic Stig Åke Stålnacke gives the following words about Elisabeth Wejsflog in a catalogue: 'Emotion is the only thing that counts to this woman, who is mighty of creating such dramatic paintings. Everything else has been cleaned out, and what remains is a woman travelling through life with Passion as her only luggage.'" Chopin is her favourite composer. She and the composer have this in common, that both left their home country Poland in their youth. If Chopin painted with music, then Elisabeth paints music. She has been well known through her visits with paper and watercolours at the rehearsals of the Malmoe Symphonics. A large number of her works has been created right there. The paintings contain both figurative and abstract elements. What the eye can see can be transformed into hints of the environment. What the ear hears and the heart feels are turned into forms, movements, colours, a kind of conclusion of the tone impressions. 'I do not paint the musicians', she says, 'It is the Music'. It is not possible to grip it, keep it, and then paint it Scope