BAQ 2004

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BAQ 2004

• Memorable Moments and Special Awards ?

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BAQ 2004 Awards

• Fun awards for special recognition
• Clean Airhead awards for important contributions
  to BAQ 2004

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Special Recognition Awards

• BAQ 2004 Secretariat would like to acknowledge
  the following for their superhuman commitment,
  never-ending enthusiasm, ridiculously large
  presentations, and unbelievable bad luck .

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Perseverance Award

• Mao Zhongan
• and Chen Kuanmin
• Better late than never!

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Quick on the feet Award

• Sumi Mehta
• was requested to fill in for someone who did not
  make it and was told at 900 to make a
  presentation at 200 and she was ready!

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Time Keeper Award

• Tim Kasten
• For finishing his talk well within the time limit
  (10 mins)

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BMB awards(Big Megabyte)

• Walter Hook
• 168 MEGABYTES!!!
• (eventually reduced to only 86 MB and only 71
  slides)

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Most Number of Emails Award

• Shahana Akhter
• Also wanted to attend all the side events

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Fastest Speaker Award

• B. Sengupta
• His slides went by soooo fast that you needed a
  photographic memory to absorb it all

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First at Lunch Award

• The Flies
• Permanent residents of the Spice Lawn and Tennis
  Court

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Most Colorfully Dressed Award

• Katherine Grover
• The American lady in a fashionable Indian sari
  and bindi

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Treasure Hunt Award

• BAQ Brochure and the Jaypee Palace Hotel
• You need to run through the maze of the hotel for
  the right room, and hunt for the food plates at
  the Tennis court.

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Memorable Transport Award

• ECO Rent-a-Car
• (a.k.a. the bus)
• You understand what we mean

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Most Enthusiastic Lunch Host Award

• Alfred Lawrence
• For distributing the lunch vouchers with so much
  enthusiasm. ?

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Largest Number of Participants Award

• PAPA Project and the World Bank
• For sponsoring the most number of participants in
  BAQ 2004

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Most Emotional Presentation Award

• Poster Warning Breathing Can Be Injurious to
  Your Health - HyderabadAir

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Confusing Name Awards

• R. Kumar (Rajesh)
• R. Kumar (Rakesh)
• R. Kumar (Raj)
• N. Kumar (Naresh)
• N. Kumar (Neeteshawar)

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Confusing Name Awards

• A. Kumar
• E. Kumar
• M. Kumar
• V. Kumar

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Clean Airhead Awards

• Most Enthusiastic and Inspiring Speech
• NGO Dedication
• Academia Dedication
• Government Agency Dedication
• New Trend Starter
• Best Poster
• Incentive Award

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Most Enthusiastic and Inspiring Speech

• Enrique Peñalosa
• Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia

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NGO Dedication

• Anil Raut
• CAI-Asia Nepal

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Academia Dedication

• Prof. Frank Murray
• Chairperson of the BAQ 2004 reporting committee

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Government Agency Dedication

• Pune Municipal Corporation
• Represented by Srinivas Bonala

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New Trend Starter

• Adam Chambers
• He was qualified for a registration fee waiver,
  but he chose to pay it anyway to allow more
  participants from Asia to be sponsored in BAQ 2004

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Best Poster Presentation

• Source Apportionment and Characterization of
  Ambient Fine Particles in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,
  and Chandigarh
• By Zohir Chowdhury, Mei Zheng, Lynn Salmon,
  Rebecca Sheesley, James Schauer, Glen Cass, and
  Armistead Russell

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Incentive Award

• Indonesian Ministry of Environment and the City
  of Yogyakarta
• To encourage them to organize the best BAQ ever
• in 2006!