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true2006-06-30T07:33:00+05:002006-06-30T02:37:25Z2006-06-30T02:35:47Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-115163494797467526Recollection of Salman Hameed's lecture on "Search for Life in the Universe", 26 June 2006
So far, we only know one planet, in the entire Universe that has life. Search for life in the Universe is an extremely difficult task first, because we have only one example that can tell us what life is. Second, the Universe is a huge place, hundreds of billions of light years across, having billions offalse2006-06-04T21:16:00+05:002006-06-04T16:16:59Z2006-06-04T16:16:59Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114943781946150988Second IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2006)
Peshawar, N-W.F.P, Pakistan,
November 13 ~V 14, 2006,
URL: www.icet2006.orgfalse2006-05-24T10:25:00+05:002006-05-24T05:26:55Z2006-05-24T05:26:55Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114844841535525680Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, Chairman of the Higher Education Commission in Pakistan and formerly Federal Minister for Science and Technology, has been elected for his internationally renowned work in the field of natural product chemistry the study of chemical substances produced by living organisms. He has also brought aboutfalse2006-05-08T20:26:00+05:002006-05-08T15:28:34Z2006-05-08T15:28:34Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114710211403484435Science Echoes - a free science information website
In order to have an independent and respectable voice in the international community of science, an international science magazine is being launched in January 2006 as 'Science Echoes'. Young Pakistani students as well as experts can benefit from it at the same time at no cost. At its earliest stage an aggressive brain storming is required infalse2006-05-03T12:22:00+05:002006-05-03T07:29:20Z2006-05-03T07:29:20Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114664136039660522Highlights from Dr. Ahmed Shuja's lecture on Nanostructures (29 April 2006)
Report prepared by Ali Abbas, Convener KSS Chapter, UET, Lahore
Lecture Title: Nanoengineering and fabrication of intelligent devices
Lecturer: Dr. Ahmed Shuja (COMSATS IIT)
Venue: Faisal Shaheed Library, UET, Lhr.
Chief Guest: Dr. Noor Muhammad Sheikh (Dean Elec. Dept. ,uet, Coordinator KSS UETfalse2006-04-27T04:38:00+05:002006-04-26T23:46:21Z2006-04-26T23:46:21Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114609518195003368Question about petrol and diesel ignition temperatures
Menan Desai, an engineering student from India asked us the following question:
Could you please furnish me with the values of the ignition temperatures of petrol ( gasoline) and diesel, because petrol is highly volatile, it may explode if exposed to very high pressure and temperature then how gasoline injection works? If u can plzfalse2006-04-23T20:39:00+05:002006-04-23T15:43:06Z2006-04-23T15:43:06Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114580698677641314Highlights of Sabih-ud-Din's lecture in Nanotechnology Research in Pakistan
Presentation:
During the presentation Mr Sabih introduced us to his team at PINSTECH and also mentioned other people and institutions in Pakistan doing research on Nanotech. The discussion followed up in detail, on Fullerenes and Carbon nanotubes, their synthesis, fragmentation and sepration using different processes. Hefalse2006-04-20T23:29:00+05:002006-04-20T18:32:28Z2006-04-20T18:32:28Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114555794875266282Review of Dr. Arshad Bhatti's lecture on Nanostructures, 20 March 2006
I'm very pleased to inform you that Dr. Arshad's lecture on carbon nanostructures, their self assembly and then their various applications was a great success Alhumdullilah. About 40-50 people attended the lecture and the lecture was followed by a nearly 20 minutes of Q and A session which depicted the involvement and thefalse2006-04-18T05:08:00+05:002006-04-18T00:14:55Z2006-04-18T00:14:55Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114531929597050726Corridor in Linköping University, Sweden named after Khwarzimi
"...in our University their are corridors and rooms that are named after popular scientists and one of the corridor and room is named after Khwarzimi..."
-message sent by Saad Rahman, student at Linköping.false2006-04-18T00:47:00+05:002006-04-17T19:50:40Z2006-04-17T19:48:13Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707932.post-114530329303095726Video of Solar Eclipse in Pakistan
Video of Solar Eclipse (4MB) in Pakistan, 29 March 2006, prepared by Umair Asim, KSS.false