Minutes of preliminary meeting

The preliminary meeting of the Asiatrib International Steering Committee was held at the Quality Hotel - Room "Port Island", Kobe, Japan on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 at 12:00-13:30

1. ATTENDANCE AND APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Attendees Australia Gwidon W. Stachowiak Professor, The University of Western Australia China Si-Wei Zhang Professor, University of Petroleum President, Chinese Tribology Institution of CMES Korea Chang-Ho Kim President, The Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Seok-Sam Kim Professor, Kyungpook National University Chairman, International Advisory Committee, the 2nd Asiatrib Singapore Seh Chun Lim Professor, National University of Singapore Japan Motohiro Kaneta Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology President, Japanese Society of Tribologists Masato Tanaka Professor, National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation Chairman, International Affairs Planning Committee, JAST Nobuo Ohmae Professor, Kobe University Chairman, International Tribology Conference, Kobe 2005 Yoshitaka Uchiyama Professor, Kanazawa University Chairman, Asiatrib 2006 Kanazawa (the 3rd Asiatrib) Akira Iwabuchi Professor, Iwate University Member, International Advisory Committee, the 2nd Asiatrib Teruo Murakami Professor, Kyushu University Member, International Advisory Committee, the 2nd Asiatrib Shinya Sasaki Chairman, Steering Committee, JAST Hitoshi Hattori Vice-Chairman, Steering Committee, JAST Minoru Kibukawa Secretary General, JAST Masakuni Hirata Executive Director, JAST Apologies Malaysia Masjuki Hassan　 Professor, University of Malaya Andrew Batchelor Associate Professors, Monash University No Reply Brunei A.O.Olofinjana Professor, University of Brunei Darussalam India C Mishra (Former) President, Tribology Society of India

2. Statutes of the Asiatrib International Steering Committee

PROPOSED: That the term "congress" should be replaced by the term "conference". AGREED: That the amended Statutes of AISC (attached_1) would be validated from the 1st of June 2005, and also that the possibility of reverting to the term "Congress" could be discussed at the AISC meeting to be held during the 3rd Asiatrib Conference, based on the number of participants.

3. Decision procedure for the 2nd next Asiatrib

AGREED: That the 2nd next Asiatrib host would be decided in accordance with the procedure proposed (attached_2). NOTED: That, when the chairperson of AISC for an Asiatrib Conference ends the term of national or regional president before the Conference ends, the successor would take over and remain the chairperson of AISC until the end of the Conference, and also that the fact of the succession should be noticed to each vice-chairperson of AISC without delay. NOTED: That the host of the 2nd next Asiatrib should be decided so that it could be formally announced during the next Asiatrib Conference

4. Any Other Business

Membership of AISC AGREED: That Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam would be members of AISC. Co-Sponsorship of Asiatrib Conference AGREED: That non-host countries or regions would co-sponsor the next Asiatrib Conference at the written request from the Chairperson.