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.
The first four lectures were organized by Dr. Sabieh Anwar of the Physlab, and the fifth by Dr. Muhammad Faryad. Hers is a compilation of the lectures held so far:
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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.
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