Last week’s Wednesday Lecture Series at SBASSE brought the global excitement of the 2025 Nobel Prizes to the LUMS’ Centre for Entrepreneurship (LCE) Auditorium, where students, faculty, and staff from LUMS Community gathered for an engaging set of short talks designed to make frontier science accessible to all.

Dr. Shaper Mirza, from the Department of Life Sciences, Dr. Muhammad Faryad from the department of Physics, and Dr. Qandeel Almas from the department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering curated a trio of 20 minute lectures, each distilling the essence of a Nobel-winning breakthrough and offering a glimpse into its scientific and societal significance.

Dr. Shaper Mirza opened the session with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, guiding the audience through the elegant logic of the immune system and the landmark discoveries that have shaped our understanding of immune regulation. Her engaging explanations provided a window into how foundational research continues to inform modern medicine.

Taking the stage next, Dr. Qandeel Almas unraveled the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, celebrating the pioneers of Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs). With clarity and enthusiasm, she illustrated how these extraordinary materials—capable of capturing gases, purifying water, and enabling novel applications from climate resilience to medicine—represent one of the most transformative scientific innovations of our time.

The final talk, delivered by Dr. Muhammad Faryad, delved into the Nobel Prize in Physics, tracing the journey from early quantum principles to the modern era of macroscopic quantum circuits. Through vivid examples and historical insights, he highlighted how quantization and tunnelling—once observed only in microscopic systems—now underpin technologies at the frontier of quantum computing.

The atmosphere throughout the afternoon was lively and inquisitive, with a strong turnout from across the SSE community. The session succeeded in its aim, offering a concise, thoughtful, and accessible exploration of why this year’s Nobel-winning work matters.

The Wednesday Lecture Series that we host at LCE Auditorium in SBASSE continues to be a vibrant space where science is not only shared but celebrated.