Daily Times

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), on Tuesday, invited the Pakistani students enrolled in physics and applied sciences to apply and register for Nobel Laureate Meetings.

A seminar was organized by the University of Management and Technology (UMT) regarding the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to the field of physics and other branches. The seminar was addressed by the officials of PIEAS including Dr Aftab Rafiq and Dr Kamran Safdar. Nuclear Scientist and Rector UMT, Dr Muhammad Aslam, who was also the former rector of PIEAS, also spoke on the occasion.

Shading light on the objectives of the seminar, Dr Aslam said that the Noble Laureate Meeting was a unique program of its nature that aimed at cultivating relations with the Nobel Laureates who hold meetings with the young and brilliant students from around the world. He said that the Pakistani students and the young researchers who were enrolled in physics and other applied sciences must get registered for the forthcoming meeting to demonstrate their talent and learn from the interaction of fertile minds. He further said that the seminar was aimed at raising awareness among the students and the faculty members about the application process of the Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Addressing the seminar, Dr Rafiq said that the Nobel Laureates show up to the meeting in Lindau, Germany on yearly basis and 30 to 40 Nobel Laureates and more than five-hundred students and young researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology from around the world interact with one another for a whole week.

He further said that Pakistan, through its Higher Education Commission (HEC), entered to this program in 2003 and since then many students had been selected for the interaction session purely on the basis of merit. He said that the participants were taken to Germany for two weeks to attend the annual meeting of the Nobel Laureates so that they learn from them regarding their respective fields.

It is worth-mentioning that this year’s Noble Laureate Meeting is dedicated to the field of physics only and all the higher education candidates who are not more than 35 years old can apply for the program that is being funded by HEC for the promotion of higher education and human resource development in Pakistan. As many as 15 teams of young scholars from Pakistan have already participated in the past fourteen annual meetings since 2003.

Published in Daily Times, August 29^th 2018.