Academin Symposium 2008

i am stealing assignment time Y.Y that is the life of a university student.assignments assignments assignments.most of you know that last Saturday on the October of 11th, the Psychology Department had an Academic Symposium.This is the second Symposium and i felt that this time round, it was more packed?resourceful?useful?relevant?awesome?ok awesome then.

it started off with registrations and the arrival of guests of honor and participants.
small talks before the opening of symposium..this was at Audi 7
* snap snap*
Guests of Honor
Professor Charlie Lewis, our keynote speaker for the symposium
and the students listening attentatively

from the other side..after the talk,we had our first tea break..and poster presentation..then talks again where paprticipants get to choose which paper they would want to listen to..there's like 6 choices of paper in the first round of talks..then we had lunch and poster presentation again..then we had another round of talks with 5 choices of paper..then we had tea break again and poster presentation..and then it was the closing talk. One of the speaker, Maziar,a third year student..presenting his research on handedness
after every presentation..there's a 5-10 minutes of Q&A session
Jessie presenting..ah ha the title is there in the pic!
and Ms Cheung presented too on the impact of parental relationship in predicting depression in youth

then Dr Teoh gave a presentation on a comparison of how headache and non-headache sufferers measure mental health problems
CRZ,2nd year student also had a chance in presenting..his was on the effectiveness on imagery,controlled breathing, and combination of both methods in reducing biofeedback reading..
and Ms Grace, one of the lecturers, presented a research that discussed the influence of self esteem and locus of control on a person's body shape dissatisfaction
participants in Audi 5 paying full attention
and yes this symposium covered many grounds in terms of research paper..ranging from Children,Health,Youth,Social and Human Resource and Cognition and Perception =)

this is how it looks like when it's tea break time
there were two rooms allocated for poster presentation..and i love the blueberry tart!
participants having tea and engaging in conversations

Poster presenters get a chance to showcase the results of their research to other participants

they also gave explanations when clarification of the research is needed
i think it's a good opportunity for participants and presenters to exchange ideas
haha even giving the juniors an idea on how interesting the road ahead of them would be *smirks*
*puts on reporter voice* seen here,is a student explaining her research to a lecturer
group pic..batch 8 and 9

below are some of the poster pics taken

poster pic 1
poster pic 2
poster pic 3
and yess group pic again..standing round the curry puffs
i didn't know how to end this post cause there's no group pic of everyone who were present there..and so i end with a pic of what i had for lunch..cause apparently i heard lunch was good =)

and i certainly did had fun..who would have thought that academic stuff could be fun?donotthinkofassignments and i am looking forward to next year's Symposium!are you?hehe do drop some feedbacks if you have some to share.