Nidhal Guessoum is Professor of Astrophysics at American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. He is a science communicator and a public intellectual author of two books: 'Islam's Quantum questions' and 'Young Muslim's guide to modern science'. 

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Mr. Abdullah Irfan graduated with a BS Physics from LUMS in 2021 and came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a PhD in Physics. He is working in Wolfgang Pfaff's lab on experimental quantum information. His area of research broadly falls into quantum networks with superconducting qubits. 

Effective teaching and learning of science and math requires the alignment of various components of a course such as course content, learning outcomes, instructional strategies, and assessment methods. This alignment impacts students’ learning and informs the teachers’ teaching. In addition, it is crucial to know how teaching and learning work cognitively. 

In this talk I will introduce a new course whose primary audience is graduate and undergraduate students of science and math who see themselves as future educators. 

Additionally, work on Teaching Certification Program geared to our graduate students is in the works. preliminary thoughts on this certification shall also be shared in this talk. 

The study of phases of matter and transitions between them is a central theme of condensed matter physics. In this regard, Landau’s symmetry-breaking theory has been hugely successful. More recently, it has been found that there are phase transitions in (topological) materials which fall outside the paradigm of Landau’s theory. Ideas borrowed from topology have played a vital role in this understanding. In this talk, I will begin with an overview of topological materials and their phase transitions. I will also relate these ideas to some of our recent work in a class of 2D materials.

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Quantum Mechanics is at the very core of fundamental physics. In this talk, I will briefly discuss the Quantum mechanical methods used to calculate the properties of more than two-body systems. I will also describe quite a simple technique one can use to calculate the decay rates of these states. 

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Faisal Ali Mubarak (M’12) was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1982. He received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Rijswijk Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Rijswijk, The Netherlands, in 2006 and an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2009. In 2009, he joined the VSL-Dutch Metrology Institute, Delft, where he is currently leading the RF & Microwave measurements group as a Principal Research Scientist. His current research interests include RF component measurement techniques up to millimetre-wave frequencies. In 2017, he was one of the co-founders of Vertigo Technologies, Delft, a company developing innovative measurement techniques and instruments. Mr Mubarak is a member of the International Consultative Committee for Electricity and Magnetism Working Group on Radiofrequency Quantities and the European Association of National Metrology Institutes technical sub-committee on Radiofrequencies and Microwaves (WG-RF). He is also a member of the IEEE MTT-11 Technical Committee. He was a corecipient of the Outstanding Group Achievement Award of the Delft University of Technology and the Ritsema van Eck Prize for designing and launching the first Dutch university satellite in 2007.

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Joao is the chief troublemaker at the CERN Media Lab. He has a background in physics but spends most of his professional time conceiving interactive applications for science visualization and education. Over the years, his 3D animations, simulation images and scientific illustrations have been frequently featured in several major media outlets worldwide.
His main approach for science communication is the creation of visual and personalized metaphors for complex scientific concepts. Joao has been key in establishing state-of-the-art multimedia installations for science centres and visit points at top research institutions worldwide. He regularly collaborates with artists developing science-inspired pieces, coaches scientists on public outreach and mentors many students. One of his big side projects is “Phantom of the Universe”, an award-winning planetarium show about Dark Matter viewed by over 10 million people in more than 500 planetariums in 82 countries and 22 languages.

Neurovascular coupling(NVC), the close spatial and temporal relationship between neural activity and hemodynamics, plays a central role of regulating the cerebral blood flow and maintaining normal brain function. However, the quantitative relationship between changes in hemodynamics and neural activity, particularly the spatiotemporal variations within the evoked brain region, remains murky. More importantly, although a broad spectrum of neurological and cerebrovascular diseases are known to affect neurovascular coupling, the quantitative change of the coupling function and its dependence on the severity or the time course of the disorders remain largely unknown. Here, we integrate large-scale ultraflexible NeuralThreads (NET) with functional optical imaging for simultaneous mapping of laminar neural activity at multiple locations, cerebral blood flow, and oxygenation. This novel multimodal neural platform enables quantification and tracking of neurovascular coupling in a spatiotemporally resolved manner and over chronic periods.

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Ali Raza Mirza is a senior Ph.D. student in the Physics department at LUMS. In 2010, He is awarded a Gold Medal from "The University of Gujrat" in BSc annual examination. He has done a master's and M.Phil. from QAU Islamabad and GCU Lahore respectively. He has worked as a visiting lecturer at Riphah International University for a semester. In 2021, during his Ph.D., he has been awarded a scholarship namely the 'International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) and worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Manchester. Ali Raza Mirza does calligraphy in his leisure time.