Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture Series
Celebration of Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam - Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture Series
The Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering initiated the Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture Series, on January 29, 2015. Since then, a series of lectures, geared towards a non-specialist audience, is organized every year to a pay tribute to the legacy of one of Pakistan’s most distinguished scientists, exhibiting our School’s unwavering commitment to highlighting and celebrating the advancing frontiers of scientific knowledge. Here is a compilation of the lectures held so far:
Ninth Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
Abdus Salam and the growth of science and physics in Iran
Speaker: Professor Yousef Sobouti, IASBS, University of Zanjan, Iran
Date: Friday, February 16, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM Pakistan Time
Venue: NIC Auditorium, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering
Eighth Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
A Personal Exploration of the Molecules of Life
Speaker: Dr. Shahid Khan (Senior Scientist - Molecular Biology Consortium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Date: Friday, February 25, 2022
Time: 3:00 PM Pakistan Time
Venue: 10-201 SBASSE building
Seventh Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses
Speaker: Dr. Donna Strickland (Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018)
Date: Friday, April 9th, 2021
Time: 8:00 PM Pakistan Time
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Sixth Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
Good of Science
Speaker: Prof. Robert Stoner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Date: Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Venue: 10-201 (SSE Building)
Fifth Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
The Peculiar Story of Chirality
This story of our understanding of fermion chirality
Speaker: Prof. David Kaplan (University of Washington)
Date: Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Venue: 10-201 (SSE Building)
Fourth Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
The Time of Your Life (and other times).
Speaker: Prof. Rober L. Jaffe (Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA)
Date: January 30, 2018
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Venue: 10-201 (SSE Building)
Third Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
Abdus Salam at Imperial College
Reminiscences by a former graduate student of the life and times of Abdus Salam at Imperial College London.
Speaker: Prof. Michael Duff (Imperial College, London)
Date: Thursday, February 02, 2017
Time: 5-6 pm
Venue: 10-201, SBASSE Complex, LUMS
Second Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
Symmetries: From Abdus Salam’s Universe to Quantum Information Technologies
Discussion by Prof. Barry Sanders on Salam’s contributions to Physics as well as to science in developing countries.
Speaker: Dr. Barry Sanders (University of Calgary, Canada)
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016
Time: 5 pm
Venue: B-3, Suleman Dawood School of Business, LUMS.
First Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture
Cosmic Inflation, the Higgs Boson and the Future of Fundamental Physics
Inaugural session of Abdus Salam Memorial lecture series at Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), LUMS.
Speaker: Dr. Fernando Quevedo (ICTP, Italy)
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2015
Time: 5 pm
Venue: B-3, Suleman Dawood School of Business, LUMS.
