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NCP Watch | Physics News | IT News International Conference on Global Change Jointly Organized by AS-ICTP and NCP, the International ENDEAVOUR A Newsletter of National Centre for Physics Vol: 4 No: 4 October – December 2006 http://www.ncp.edu.pk/newsletters/ In This Issue NCP Watch | Physics News | IT News International Conference on Global Change Jointly organized by AS-ICTP and NCP, the International Conference on Global Change was held from November Editor-in-Chief 13 - 17, 2006. Its main objective was to address two Prof. Riazuddin Editorial Board phenomena of particular concern to mankind worldwide, Adeel-ur-Rehman(CS) M. Jamil Aslam(Physics) namely: Earthquakes and Global Climate Change. Ijaz Ahmed(Physics) Details on Page 2 5th Particle Physics Workshop The National Centre for Physics (NCP) has organized 5th Particle Physics Workshop during November 20-25, 2006 in Collaboration with European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of this workshop was to give an exposure to the participants to the current research in particle physics around the world. Details on Page 4 Nobel Prize shared for cosmic microwave background studies John C Mather and George F Smoot have won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. The discovery has provided very strong evidence that the Universe was created in a massive explosion called the Big Bang. Details on Page 6 National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. NCP Watch International Conference on Global Change Jointly organized by AS-ICTP and NCP, the International Conference on Global Change was held from November 13 - 17, 2006. The main objective of this conference was to address two phenomena of particular concern to mankind worldwide, namely: Earthquakes and Global Climate Change, and to take a stock of our knowledge to model and predict them and their associated consequences. The catastrophic Muzaffarabad earthquake of 2005 has brought the realization that disaster prevention is as important as disaster response. The conference aimed to highlight the different scientific aspects of earthquake studies that could help in understanding this natural hazard, their prediction and prevention. Global Climate Change resulting from an increasing concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is now generally considered as the greatest challenge to confront mankind in the 21st century. According to the scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the average surface temperature of the earth has increased by 0.6 oC over the past century and is expected to increase further by 1.4 – 5.8 oC during the current century, with an associated increase in precipitation worldwide. These changes will not be uniform in various parts of the world with the result that, while some regions may experience much larger warming, the others may undergo cooling instead. Likewise, the precipitation may also increase or decrease in different regions to varying extents. These climate changes are likely to have profound impacts (generally negative) on various socio-economic sectors like water resources, food production, human health, etc. One especially worrisome consequence of the global climate change is an expected large increase in, both, the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events such as floods, draughts and hurricane/tornadoes/tropical storms, etc., with an associated increase in their devastating consequences. In the wake of the above, the last two days of the conference have been devoted to the modeling and predictability aspects of: (i) Climate and Climate Change at the levels of World Regions and Sub-regions and (ii) Climate Variability and Occurrence of Climate Extremes, with focus on the South Asia region. Endeavour October-December 2006 2 NCP Watch Numerous scientists and physicists from all over the world contributed their talks in the fields such as: • Seismic Parameters and Microseismicity • Paleseismolgy • Modeling of Seismic Waves Hazard Assessments • Climate Variability and Extremes • Regional level Modeling of Climate and Climate Change The summary of the speakers are as follows: H. Al-Shukri (Arkansas), A. Ismail-Zadeh (Karlsruhe), V. Keillis-Borok (Los Angles), A. Kijko (Pretoria), V. Kossobokov (Moscow), Fabio Romanelli (), F. Roth (Postdam), A. Solov'ev (Moscow), N. Toksoz (Cambridge), I. Vorobieva (Moscow), M. Ashfaq (GCISC), Erasmo Buonomo (UK), Hong CHEN (China), J. Christensen (DMO), N. Diffanbaugh (West Lafayette), B. N. Goswami (Pune), Fei HU (China), R. Jones (Hadley Centre), K. Kamala (Pune), R. K. Kolli (Geneva), F. Kucharski (Italy), K. Krishna Kumar (Pune), N. Nicholls (Melbourne), R. K. Pachauri (Delhi), Jeremy Pal (USA), Savita Patwardhan (Pune), S. F. Saeed (Islamabad) & Zhenghui XIE (China). The International Advisory Committee for the conference consisted of: F. Giorgi (ASICTP, Trieste), V. Keilis-Borok (UCAL, Los Angles), R. K. Kolli (WMO, Geneva), G. F. Panza (ASICTP and University of Trieste, Trieste), L. A. Stevenson (APN), A. Solov'ev (MITP, Moscow) & N. Toksoz (MIT, Cambridge). The local Advisory Committee was constituted with: Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhary (PMD, Islamabad), Arshad M. Khan (GCISC, Islamabad), Shahid A. Khan (MSSP, Islamabad), Azam Ali Khawaja (QAU, Islamabad), MonaLisa (QAU, Islamabad), M. Qaisar (MSSP, Islamabad), Riazuddin (NCP, Islamabad) & M. Munir Sheikh (GCISC, Islamabad). Endeavour October-December 2006 3 NCP Watch 5th Particle Physics Workshop The National Centre for Physics (NCP) has organized the 5th Particle Physics Workshop during November 20-25, 2006 in collaboration with European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of this workshop was to give an exposure to the participants to the current research in particle physics around the world. The workshop has been attended mostly by students working towards their Ph.D in particle physics or related fields. The faculty and young researchers involved in particle physics research from various Pakistani universities were also invited. The number of participants was limited to a small number of 30 from outside Islamabad. A limited participation allows close contact and productive discussions between the speakers and the participants. Generally each speaker delivered 2-3 lectures of one hour duration, starting with the introduction to the subject during the first lecture and gradually moved to a current research topic in particle physics. All lectures have been scheduled in the morning with the discussions followed in the afternoon. Some time has also been reserved in the afternoons for seminars by the students and as well as by the faculty. The workshop had provided a forum for Ph.D students to present their topic of research in afternoon seminars where their research work could have been discussed by the leading experts in the field. A number of renowned scientists from CERN, Switzerland shared their knowledge and expertise in the areas such as Flavor Physics, Neutrino Physics, Linear Collider, Accelerator Physics, Standard Model, Heavy Ion Physics, LHC Detector, Gaseous Detector etc. The names of the speakers were: Robert Fleischer, Alain Blondel, Hans Braun, Walter Wuensch, Oliver Buchmuller, Federico Antinori, Rinaldo Santonico and Andreas Hoecker. The organizing committee consisted of some eminent scientists of Pakistan along with few Ph.D. students of NCP including: Dr. Riazuddin (Chairman), Dr. Hafeez Hoorani, Dr. Faheem Hussain, Dr. Fayyazuddin, Dr. Pervez Hoobhoy, Dr. Jamila Butt, Mr. Ijaz Ahmed and Mr. Jamil Aslam. A special session on 21st November on the occasion of 10th death anniversary of Prof. Abdus Salam has been taken place. Dr. Riazuddin, Dr. Mujahid Kamran, Dr. Fayyazuddin and Dr. Faheem Hussain delivered their talks in the session. Endeavour October-December 2006 4 NCP Watch Return of an NCP Employee from CERN One member of the Central Computing Facility Group of NCP, Mr. Usman Ahmad Malik (working as the System Administrator) went to CERN, Switzerland to work with TDAQ Sys- Admin group at ATLAS Experiment in the end of August. The purpose of the visit was to learn ways and techniques to be able to manage large computing farms in an experimental environment. He studied the TDAQ computing system and worked on various tools and technologies which include high availability clusters and management of online processing farms, network monitoring tools, and remote management using IPMI etc. He setup a high availability cluster offering various network services ensuring zero downtime for users. These tools and technologies are equally beneficial to NCP as it is planning to expand its computing infrastructure, ramping up for the LHC data by the end of year 2007. He has had different meetings and exchange of views with IT experts at CERN, in which he discussed various aspects and issues about expanding the computing infrastructure at NCP, which include setup of a data centre, storage and network management solutions. The outcome of these discussions was shared with group members at NCP, which proved quite helpful in defining the future directions of computing infrastructure at NCP. Mr. Usman has arrived back at the end of December. Endeavour October-December 2006 5 hysics News Nobel Prize shared for cosmic microwave background studies 3 October 2006 John C Mather and George F Smoot have won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. The discovery has provided very strong
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