Rajesh BALAN, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, presented a paper, mFerio: The Design and Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer Mobile Payment System, at the 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2009) in Krakow, Poland from 22 to 25 June 2009.

Daniel BALLIET, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ivy LAU, Practice Assistant Professor of Psychology, Angela LEUNG, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Norman LI, Associate Professor of Psychology, Jennifer TONG, Assistant Professor of Psychology and William TOV, Assistant Professor of Psychology presented papers at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention in San Francisco, USA from 22 to 25 May 2009.

Rashmi BARUA, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented a paper at the Society of Labour Economics 2009 Annual Meetings in Boston, USA from 8 to 10 May 2009.

CHANG Pao L, Assistant Professor of Economics, authored a chapter, The Evolution and Utilization of the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism, in the book Trade Disputes and the Dispute Settlement Understanding of The WTO edited by James C. Hartigan (February 2009).

Mark CHONG, Practice Associate Professor of Corporate Communication, spoke at The Chronicle of Higher Education moderated forum Beyond Rankings: Building a Global Identity, as part of the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) conference in Beijing from 14 to 17 April 2009.

Davin CHOR, Assistant Professor of Economics, had his paper on Innovation, Intellectual Property Protection and Globalization presented by his senior co-author Dr Edwin Lai (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) at the Fifth Asia-Pacific Trade Seminars held in the University of Hong Kong from 29 to 30 June 2009.

CHOW Hwee Kwan, Practice Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics, presented a paper at the 20th Annual NBER-East Asian Seminar on Economics (EASE) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong from 26 to 27 June 2009.

CHUNG Wai Keung, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented a paper at the 39th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in Yerevan, Armenia from 11 to 14 June 2009 on China at the Crossroads: Institutional Changes from Socialism to Capitalism.

Robert DENG, Professor of Information Systems, was an invited speaker on The Future of Password at the Cryptology and Information Security Conference (CISC2009) in Taiwan from 4 to 5 June 2009.

Tomoki FUJII, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented a paper at the Fifth Australian Development Economics Workshop in Melbourne, Australia from 4 to 5 June 2009.

Henry GAO, Associate Professor of Law, was key speaker at a World Bank workshop co-organised with the Government of China in Beijing from 20 to 21 May 2009. He provided advice to Chinese government officials on negotiating strategies in free trade agreements.

Aurobindo GHOSH, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented a paper at the First Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting at Seoul University, South Korea from 28 June to 1 July 2009.

Brishti GUHA, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented papers at theNorth American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society in Boston, USA from 4 to 7 June 2009 and the Eighth Louis- Andre Gerard-Varet Conference in Public Economics in Marseille, France from 15 to 16 June 2009.

HOON Chang Yau, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, presented papers at The Fourth International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China from 9 to 11 May 2009 and at the 3rd South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion in Bali, Indonesia from 3 to 6 June 2009.

HUANG Fali, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented a paper at the International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) 2009 Conference in UC Berkeley, USA from 18 to 20 June 2009.

Annie KOH, Dean of Executive and Professional Education and Associate Professor of Finance, spoke at The VinaCapital Foundation’s Roundtable Seminar at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 13 May 2009 where a nine-day course, jointly taught by SMU, was launched to train Vietnamese business leaders.

Norman LI, Associate Professor of Psychology, has been conferred tenure with effect from 1 July 2009.

LUAN Shenghua, Assistant Professor of Psychology, spoke at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany from 3 to 11 June 2009 on Estimation Without Integration: How Humans Learn and Use Correlated Cues.

MA Dan, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, spoke at Cloud@SG Summit, GridAsia 2009 (Singapore) from 13 to 17 April 2009 on The Economic Value Analysis of Cloud Computing.

Roberto S. MARIANO, Dean, School of Economics and Professor of Economics, participated in the 12th Annual Financial Risk Roundtable at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA, from 28 to 29 May 2009 on Re-designing Financial Risk Management: Regulatory and Private Sector Perspectives and a conference on Modeling Retail Credit Risk after the Sub-Prime Crisis organised by the Wharton Financial Institutions Center from 11 to 12 June 2009.

Steven MILLER, Dean, School of Information Systems and Practice Professor of Information Systems, was co-chair of discussion sessions and delivered a workshop at the Technology & Operations Council Annual Meeting at the Asian Banker Summit 2009 in Beijing, China from 11 to 13 May 2009 where the School of Information Systems, SMU was a university partner.

Steven NEY, Assistant Professor of Political Science, has published a new book Resolving Messy Policy Problems (London, Earthscan Publications) in April 2009.

PANG Yang Hoong, Vice Provost (Undergraduate), Dean, School of Accountancy and Professor of Accounting, has been appointed by the Ministry of Education to the Singapore Polytechnic Board of Governors from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2012.

PHANG Sock Yong, Professor of Economics, co-authored Supply Elasticity of Housing with K.H. Kim and Susan Wachter, a chapter in the book International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. She also authored Collaboration between the Public and Private Sectors for Urban Development, a chapter in the book World Cities – Challenges of the 21st Century. She presented a paper at the European Real Estate Society Conference 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden from 24 to 27 June 2009.

Clara PORTELA, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented a paper at the 11th Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association in Los Angeles, USA from 23 to 25 April 2009 on A European Nuclear Deterrent? European and National Rationales in Public Discourse.

Brian RODRIGUES, Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods, has been appointed Associate Dean (Faculty and Research), Lee Kong Chian School of Business with effect from 1 July 2009.

Christie Napa SCOLLON, Associate Professor of Psychology, has been conferred tenure with effect from 1 July 2009.

Eugene K.B. TAN, Assistant Professor of Law, presented at the Human Rights and Justice in Immigration: National and International Perspectives conference at the Minerva Centre for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 25 to 27 May 2009. He also delivered a paper at the International Symposium on Ethnic Minorities in Asia: Subjects or Citizens? At the NUS Asia Research Institute (Singapore) from 25 to 26 June 2009.

Bussarawan Puk TEERAWICHITCHAINAN, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2009 in Detroit, USA from 30 April to 2 May 2009 on The Role of Abortion in Explaining Ethnic Fertility Differentials in Vietnam.

Ann VOGEL, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented at the 3rd Annual Conference on Cultural Production in a Global Context: The Worldwide Film Industries in Cass Business School, London, UK from 11 to 13 June 2009 on The Nature and Effect of Film Festival Strategies by Film Producers.

Andrew WHITE, Associate Professor of Law, presented a seminar on Islamic Law Basics for Finance and Commerce to the Kuala Lumpur Bar Association and Bar Council in April 2009. In May 2009, he presented a seminar for faculty and students on Islamic Dispute Resolution in the Context of Asian Islamic Finance as Visiting Professor at Universitas Islam Indonesia; and a workshop for judges, lawyers, faculty and students on Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Context of Commercial Disputes: Its Challenges and Opportunities as Visiting Professor at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta.

Ken YAMADA, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented at the 2009 Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting in Kyoto, Japan from 6 to 7 June 2009.

YU Jun, Professor of Economics, spoke at the Tsinghua Conference in Econometrics in Tsinghua University, China from 31 May to 1 June 2009. He also presented on Information Loss in Volatility Measurement with Flat Price Trading with Peter PHILLIPS, Distinguished Term Professor of Economics, at the second annual conference of the Society for Financial Econometrics from 10 to 12 June 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.

ZHANG Haiping, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented at the North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society in Boston, USA from 4 to 7 June 2009.

Q Forrest ZHANG, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented at the 2009 Spring Meeting of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility in Renmin University, Beijing, China from 14 to 16 May 2009 on Gender Differences in Self-employment in Urban China, 1996: Gender Segregation and Gendered Pathways.