As a chair of Organizing Committee, I am glad to announce that our Kyoto Conference, APISTVS2018, concluded successfully as total number of registered participants reached 93 and additional 12 accompanying persons.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to all attending participants including accompanying persons, chairpersons, program committee members, and organizing committee members.
There are two news related to officers of ISTVS and fellow memberships from the Board of Directors meeting held on July 10 in Kyoto.
We elected with a confident vote of unanimous support Mr. Massimo Martelli, current ISTVS National Secretary of Italy, as the next General Secretary of ISTVS. I hope Massimo can smoothly take over position of General Secretary from Lutz Richter a year from now.
Moreover, three ISTVS Fellows were newly approved based on the nominations of regular members of ISTVS. We congratulate and thank the following for their years of contributions to the work of ISTVS:
- Prof. Kyeong Uk Kim, who worked as an editor of the Journal of Terramechanics, organized 18th International Conference of the ISTVS in Seoul in 2014, and is the current National Secretary for South Korea.
- Prof. Vilas M. Salokhe, who served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Terramechanics, organized Asia-Pacific Conference of ISTVS in 2001, and is the current ISTVS National Secretary for Southeast Asia/Pacific.
- Prof. Keiji Watanabe, who was the Deputy General Secretary for Asia-Pacific for many years and served as chair of the organizing committee for the 15th International Conference of the ISTVS in Hayama, Japan, in 2005.
Hiroshi Nakashima
Chairman, Asia-Pacific ISTVS Conference 2018
Associate Professor, Agricultural Systems Engineering Lab
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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