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Summary of ICTP Activities in Support of Science in Pakistan Summary of ICTP activities in support of science in Pakistan ICTP Public Information Office 13/09/2013 ICTP Visitors from Pakistan 1983-2012* 120 114 95 100 92 87 79 76 80 72 72 69 65 60 60 62 56 55 57 60 53 5452 Visitors 50 49 46 43 4142 42 40 40 38 Female** 40 26 20 0 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 *For the period 1970-1982, 293 visitors came from Pakistan; the total number of visitors is 2080. Average presence of women since 2001 is 20% of total visits 2001-2012. **Data on female visitors not available before 2001. } Scientific visitors from Pakistan ◦ 2080 (1970-2012) ◦ 170 women since 2001 (20%) } Pakistani participation in ICTP Programmes ◦ 18 Affiliates (From 17 Federated Institutes) ◦ 104 Associate Members (6 female) ◦ 39 Diploma Students (16 female) ◦ 31 Elettra Users Participants (4 female) ◦ 21 TRIL Fellows (3 female) ◦ 10 STEP Fellows (5 female) } Abdus Salam ◦ Member of Pakistani delegation to IAEA calls for creation of an international centre for theoretical physics at IAEA's 4th General Conference in Vienna in 1960 ◦ ICTP Founding Director 1964-1993 ◦ Nobel Laureate 1979 ◦ ICTP President 1994-1996 } ICTP Prize ◦ Abdullah Sadiq, 1987 } ICO/ICTP Prize ◦ Imrana Ashraf Zahid, 2004 ◦ Arbab Ali Khan, 2000 } ICTP Prize in Medical Physics, 2010 ◦ Shakera Khatoon Rizvi ◦ Muhammad Asif } Premio Borsellino, 2010 (from SIBPA) ◦ Fouzia Bano } Delegation from the Ministry of Science and Technology ◦ Visited ICTP in 2013 Akhlaq Ahmad Tarar, Secretary Farid Ahmad Tarar, Counsellor for Trade at the Pakistani Embassy in Rome } Delegation of COMSATS ◦ Visited ICTP in 2012 Imtinan Elahi Qureshi COMSATS Executive Director S.M. Junaid Zaidi Rector of the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology } Atta-ur-Rahman ◦ Visited ICTP in 2010 and 2007 "ICTP After 45"; G8-UNESCO World Forum President of the Pakistani Academy of Sciences 2003-2006 and since 2011 Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan 2002-2008 1999 UNESCO Science Prize in Chemistry } Tasnim Aslam ◦ Pakistani Ambassador in Rome } Tariq Zameer ◦ Pakistani Consul General in Milan Visited ICTP in 2008 } Ishfaq Ahmad ◦ Visited ICTP in 2007, 2004 and 2000 Current Federal Minister for S&T Chairman PAEC 1991-2001 Director of PINSTECH 1971-1976 Associated with IAEA since 1960's } Parvez Butt ◦ Visited ICTP in 2004 to sign MoU Chairman of PAEC 2001-2006 } Munir Ahmad Khan (1927-1999) ◦ Last visit to ICTP in 1997 Chairman of IAEA's Board of Governors 1986-1987 Chairman of PAEC 1972-1991 } Hamid Saleem ◦ Visited ICTP in 2010, "ICTP After 45" Director General of the National Centre for Physics (NCP), Islamabad, 2008 ICTP Associate since 2001 } Ashgar Qadir ◦ Visited ICTP in 2010, "ICTP After 45" National University of Sciences and Technology Abdus Salam Award in Mathematics 1997 } Riazuddin (1930-2013) ◦ Visited ICTP since the 1960’s in 2010, "ICTP After 45” in 2004, “ICTP 40th Anniversary Conference Founder and DG of NCP, 1999-2007 Fellow of American Physical Society, 2006 ICTP Associate 1972-1999 } Muhammad Younis ◦ ICTP Associate 2002-2008 } Mujahid Kamran ◦ ICTP Associate 1985-1996 Appointed Vice Chancellor, Univ. of the Punjab, 2008 Abdus Salam Prize in Mathematics 1985 } Ghulam Murtaza ◦ Director National Centre for Mathematics ◦ First Salam Professor of Physics Government College, Lahore ◦ ICTP Associate 1998-2003 } Pervez Hoodbhoy ◦ ICTP Associate 1993-1998 ◦ Abdus Salam Prize in Mathematics 1984 } Faheem Hussain (1942-2009) ◦ Head of OEA 1998-2004 ◦ Coordinator of HEP Diploma Programme 1990-2004 ◦ Member of HECAP section 1990-2004 ◦ ICTP Associate Member early 1980’s Affiliated Scientific Scholars/ Projects Networks Centres Meetings Consultants Department of Quaid-i-Azam Astrophysics, Physics Quaid-i- University, Relativity and Azam University Islamabad (1989), Cosmology Islamabad no longer active (BIPTUN*) (2001); (2009) at Department of 74 9 Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University no longer active GIK Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, (2005-2007) no longer active Ph.D. Programme at Salam Chair of Physics, Lahore (2001) *Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan NETWORK } First ICTP-NCP International College on Plasma Physics, Islamabad, 2013 } CIMPA-ICTP Research School on Local Analytic Geometry, Lahore, 2012 } 12th Regional Conference in Mathematical Physics, Islamabad, 2006 } MoU with COMSATS, 2012 } MoU with National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST-CAMP), 2010 ◦ To support professional development of faculty members and students in Mathematics and Physics } Agreement with Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS), Government College, 2008 ◦ To work with SMS for the development of advanced education and research in mathematical sciences } Agreement with PAEC, 2004 ◦ To enable 25 Pakistani scientists to visit ICTP each year to exchange faculty staff and students } MoU with National Centre for Physics, 2005 ◦ To create joint postdoctoral positions in basic physics and mathematics ◦ Setting up of Joint Regional Activities } MoU with I2IT, 2005 ◦ To set up training workshops in Asia in the area of wireless technologies } ICTP-Pakistan Chapter, 2002 ◦ Serves as a forum for the distribution of information on ICTP activities in physics and mathematics Current Secretaries of the Chapter are ICTP Associates, Mohammad Khaleeq-ur-Rahman and Arshad Saleem Bhatti Former Secretaries of the Chapter were ICTP Associates, Imtinan Elahi Qureshi and Anis Alam ◦ Presenter of the Abdus Salam Prize } ICTP Director met in 2005 with ◦ Pervez Musharaf, President ◦ Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister ◦ Riazuddin, DG National Centre of Pakistan ◦ Parvez Butt, Chairman PAEC ◦ Isfaq Ahmad, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister and former Chairman of PAEC ◦ Hameed Ahmed Khan, Executive Director of Commission on S&T for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) ◦ (continued…) } ICTP Director at Nathiagali College ◦ 30th International Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs, 2005 Event launched by ICTP Founding Director Abdus Salam in 1976 } The amounts shown on the following page give a lower-bound estimate of the financial support ICTP has provided to Pakistani science during the period 1996 to 2012. ICTP financial support to Pakistan Share by programme, 1996-2012 Financial support ICTP programmes in Euro Federation Programme 30,100 Federation Programme ICTP-Elettra Programme 61,800 Research Group Visitors 70,000 ICTP-Elettra Programme STEP Programme 72,400 1% Postdoctoral Fellows 115,400 3% 3% Research Group Visitors Associate Programme 261,200 3% Postgraduate Diploma 5% Programme 319,200 29% STEP Programme TRIL Programme 332,000 OEA Programme 417,200 11% Postdoctoral Fellows Conference Participants 695,700 TOTAL 2,375,000 Associate Programme 13% Postgraduate Diploma Programme 18% TRIL Programme 14% OEA Programme Conference Participants .
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