International Scientific Spring starts today

Islamabad

The National Center for Physics (NCP and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy are jointly organising the International Scientific Spring (ISS) from March 7 to 11.

The ISS-2016 will be directed by H. R. Hoorani (NCP) and J. Niemela (ICTP).

Talking about the details of the event Dr. Hafeez Hoorani, Director General NCP said that the International Scientific Spring (ISS) which was started in 2009, has become a regular annual scientific activity of the NCP. Since 2012, AS-ICTP, Italy has become a partner of NCP for organising this scientific event in Pakistan. Now both these Centres organize a several scientific activities jointly in NCP every year including the ISS and the regional activities of ICTP. 

Dr. Hoorani said that after the discovery of God particle (Higgs Boson)at CERN,t his year event is more important because Dr. Tiziano Camporesi spokesperson of CMS detector of CERN, Switzerland is attending the event and he will discuss future prospects for scientific progression with this gathering. Prof. Yifang Wang who is director of Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), China is also attending this event with his team. His visit to Pakistan will open a new window for Pakistani scientists and researchers to work in large future scientific projects of this region. He also added that we have changed the name of this event from International Scientific Spring to International Scientific School to reflect the true spirit and essence of the event as this event provides a platform for the young researchers of the country to exchange the ideas.

Over three hundred young Pakistani MPhil/PhD students, researchers, university faculty and more than 20 foreign invited speakers and participants will take part in the deliberations of ISS. The idea of holding the International Scientific Spring (ISS) at NCP is to provide a platform forthe local and the foreign participants to exchange scientific knowledge and to generate enthusiasm for science and discovery. 

Dr. Hoorani added that each year, the topics (technical activities) of International Scientific Spring (ISS) are chosen keeping in view the present and future research interests of NCP, universities and national R&D institutions in Pakistan. The ISS consists of plenary and parallel sessions as well as tutorials and structured discussions relevant to various technical activities in the chosen topics. The plenary lectures contain mostly overviews of advances in the chosen areas for general audience while the lectures/talks in parallel sessions cover the recent research on the specific topics. Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter and Nano Sciences, Particle Physics & Cosmology, Plasma Physics are main topics of ISS-2016.