STAF REPORT ISB: The 40th International Nathiagali Summer College (INSC)


on Physics and Contemporary Needs has been inaugurated recently aiming at


broad coverage of topics at the frontiers of knowledge in Physics and allied


sciences. Every year one or two subjects of current interest and their applications


for technological development, with special reference to needs of the developing


world, are outlined.


President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain was chief guest of the inauguration


ceremony of INSC. He lauded the efforts of PAEC in promoting SandT culture in


Pakistan.


The topics that will be covered in this year`s INSC are Accelerator and Detector


Technology, Plasmonics and Metamaterials, 6th International Workshop on


Tokamak, 3D Laser Printing and its Application.


The sponsors of the INSC include Abdus Salam International Centre for


Theoretical Physics (ASICTP), US National Science Foundation, Chinese


Academy of Sciences, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)


and National Centre for Physics.


The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has been organizing the event


since 1976. The idea of holding these Colleges emerged from the distinguished


Nobel Laureate, Professor Abdus Salam who stressed the vital need of


communication, as well as for transferring and sharing scientific knowledge among


the scientific community of the Third World.

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