Dr. Sarmad Abbasi was born in Khairpur Mir's, Sindh, and finished his 12th grade from Public School Hyderabad. He continued studying mathematics and theoretical computer science first at the University of Georgia and then at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, eventually obtaining a Ph. D in computer science. For the past twenty years, he has taught at various universities in Pakistan. He has been keenly interested in science, the philosophy of science, and its teaching. He is currently launching Math-Cat, a YouTube channel to promote mathematics and theoretical computer science. Dr. Sarmad is also affiliated with Educative, an EdTech company. During his spare time, he conducts original research in both mathematics and theoretical computer science. He reads philosophy and literature, and at times lectures about them.

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Dr. Nabeel Aslam will be talking about “Quantum Sensing with Spins in Diamond” in the next Physics seminar on 22 October 2021 at 6pm.

Dr. Nabeel Aslam is currently associated with the Department of Physics at Harvard University, USA.

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About the speaker:

Dr. Nabeel Aslam was born and raised in Germany. He studied physics at the University of Mainz (Germany) and completed his studies in 2012. He then moved to Stuttgart (Germany) for his PhD in the institute of Prof. Joerg Wrachtrup. After earning his PhD degree in 2018, he joined the Department of Physics at the Harvard University as a Postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Mikhail Lukin and Hongkun Park.

Dr. Mansoor Ur Rehman will be giving a talk titled “Big Roll with a Super Cousin of Neutrinos” on October 15, 2021 at 3pm via Zoom.

He is currently associated with Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad as an Associate Professor of Physics.

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Dr. M. Benjamin Jungfleisch will be talking about “Tickling Nanoscale Magnets: Nanomagnonics with Artificial Spin Ice” on Friday, 8 October 2021 at 6pm PKST. Dr. Benjamin is currently working at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, USA.

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Speaker: Dr. Dalaver H. Anjum

PhD. Department of Physics, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Biography

Dr. Dalaver H. Anjum received his PhD Degree in Physics in the year of 2002 from the University at Albany-Sate University of New York, Albany, New York, USA. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics of Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His main research interests include characterizing the structure and properties of materials at nanoscales by using TEM. Overall, he has the experience of carrying out the TEM analysis of nanomaterials from both industry and academia. He has authored/co-authored 245 publications spanning various fields of Science & Engineering including Materials Science, Electronics & Photonics, Catalysis, Bioscience, Energy-Storage, Solar Cell, Polymer Science, and Water Desalination.

Fiza Mumtaz (PhD student) will be talking about “Manipulation of the Positive Temperature Coefficient of Resistivity and Double Schottky Barrier Formed at the Grain Boundary in Bifeo3 through Systematic Substitutions” in the next Student Seminar Series by the Department of Physics. The session will take place on Wednesday 29th September at 6 pm PKST via Zoom.

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Speaker:

Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad, Director Experimental High Energy Physics, National center for Physics

Biography:

Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad did his PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics on Atlas experiment at the University of Freiburg in Germany in February 2004. After that, at CERN, he worked on Atlas experiment for Academia Sinica Taiwan for a period of three years. From early 2007 till September 2012, he worked as research scientist at Stony Brook University. Since October 2012, he has been working on CMS experiment at NCP/Islamabad and was appointed as Director Experimental High Energy Physics Department in 2014. Dr. Ashfaq has been convener of the CMS single top quark physics group, convener of the electron/photon calibration group on Atlas experiment during the Higgs discovery era and member of the CMS Conference Committee. Currently, he is member of the CMS Theses Committee, member of the CMS Silicon Sensor Expert Panel and member of the CMS Tracker Upgrade Steering Group. For the benefit of young researchers, he has been regularly organizing particle physics activities in Pakistan and abroad such as School on LHC Physics and AEPSHEP (Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics).

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Biography

Ahsan Zeb is currently a full time faculty member at the Department of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) , Islamabad. Prior to joining QAU, he worked as Post-doc researcher at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, UK. Ahsan has also been associated with the National Centre for Physics, Islamabad 2007-2018.

Speaker:

Dr. Ahsan Zeb
Assistant Professor, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

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Biography

Prof Waqas Masood is currently the Chair of the Physics Department at COMSATS Islamabad. Waqas has been actively engaged in research in the field of theoretical Plasma Physics for the last fifteen years or so and has published more than 135 international papers in excellent journals and boasts a high citation count. He has won quite a few accolades for his research work. He was awarded Salam Prize for Physics in 2009 and Presidential award for the Pride of performance in 2011. He has been quite active on the National scene and has been on the technical and organizing committees of many scientific conferences. He has also been actively involved in teaching in various schools and workshops for science students and faculty training programs. He obtained his PhD from Queen Mary and West Field College, University of London in 2006.

Zoom:

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Centre for Water Informatics & Technology at LUMS is pleased to announce the next talk of the "Best of Water Systems Research" seminar series. The talk will be delivered by Dr. Ariel Dinar of UC Riverside and is titled "Dealing with Water Scarcity and Salinity: Adoption of Water Efficient Technologies and Management Practices by California Avocado Growers". 

About the speaker: Dr. Ariel Dinar is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside (UCR). His work addresses various aspects of economic and strategic behavior associated with management of water, land and the environment. Dr. Dinar received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then he spent 15 years in the World Bank working on water and climate change economics and policy. In 2008, Dr. Dinar assumed a professorship at UCR. Dr. Dinar founded the Water Science and Policy Center, which he directed until 2014. Dr. Dinar is an International Fellow of the Center for Agricultural Economic Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel since November 2010; a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2003; and was named a 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He authored and co-authored nearly 250 publications in peer reviewed journals, policy outlets and book chapters. He co-authored and edited 29 books and textbooks. He founded two technical journals (Strategic Behavior and the Environment, and Water Economics and Policy) for the latter one he serves at present as an Editor-in-Chief. He founded and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Global Issues in Water Policy.    
 
About the seminar series: The “Best of Water Systems Research” is a webinar series initiated by The Center for Water Informatics & Technology at LUMS. While our companion webcast series “Aab Beeti” is geared towards generating public awareness and meeting leading practitioners and opinion makers in Pakistan’s water sector, this new series (BWSR) is primarily meant for discussing serious scholarship on water resources. The series celebrates distinguished works in water systems research and is aimed towards researchers, practitioners, and technical experts in water-related areas. The list of speakers majorly consists of individuals who regularly deploy quantitative data-driven methods & systems thinking and have earned recognition via peer-reviewed research in top journals. Also, many of the speakers may or may not have a direct interest in the Indus or South Asia’s other basins.

The talks are (mostly) delivered bi-weekly on Wednesday evenings. A tentative schedule for the webinars can be found at https://wit.lums.edu.pk/BWSR2021 which also includes recordings of past sessions and information on future speakers.

A link for attending will be sent via email to registered individuals. Colleagues who register once can attend all future talks without the need to register again.