A symposium is taking place in Calgary on June 12, 2015, 3-5:30pm, Science Theatre 140,

University of Calgary, Canada.

 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Abdus Salam

admission is free. for more information call Mr. Iqbal Haider: 403- 862- 2629

Electrodynamics, Quantum Field Theory to Nobel Prize in Physics: Scientific Contributions of Professor Abdus Salam.

Program

Symposium Chairs : Mr. Ryden Armstrong, &  Ms. Tara Janes

3:00 pm             “The Eternal Quest ” – Iqbal Haider

3: 1 5 pm           “Abdus Salam: The Grand Unifier ” – Dr. Barry Sanders

3: 4 5 pm        “From Particle Physics to High -Energy Astrophysics:

                           Contributions of Professor Abdus Salam ” – Dr. Rachid Ouyed

4 :15 pm          “Understanding Antimatter: The Global Connection” – Dr. Robert I. Thompson

4:45 pm         “My Personal Encounters with Dr. Salam ” – Dr. Per wez Perwazi

5 : 1 5 pm       Closing Remarks – Dr. Naweed I. Syed

Reception to follow in the foyer

SYMPOSIUM HIGHLIGHTS • Scientific Contributions of Professor, Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize Winner) in the field of Physics. • Role of community engagement in promoting major scientific breakthroughs . • Role of historians in promoting scientists and scholars who have been the ‘game changers’ to the collective – regardless of their religion, race, or gender.

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Professor, Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani Theoretical Physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to electroweak unification.

He was the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize. Salam was a science advisor to the Government of Pakistan from 1960 to 1974, a position from which he played a major and influential role in Pakistan’s science infrastructure. Salam was responsible for not only major developments and contributions in theoretical and particle physics, but also for promoting scientific research in his country. Salam was the founding director of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), and responsible for the establishment of the Theoretical Physics Group (TPG) in Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).

As a Science Advisor, Salam played an integral role in Pakistan’s development of peaceful use of nuclear energy. For these contributions, he is viewed as the “scientific father” of this program in the views of the scientists who he mentored – both in Pakistan and globally. Salam’s major and notable achievements include the “Pati –Salam ” model, magnetic photon, vector meson, Grand Unified Theory, work on supersymmetry and, most importantly, electroweak theory, for which he was awarded the most prestigious award in physics – the Nobel Prize. Salam made major contributions in the field of quantum physics and towards the advancement of Mathematics at Imperial College London.

With his trainees and collaborators, he made important contributions to the modern theory on neutrinos, neutron stars and black holes, as well as the work on modernizing the quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. As a teacher and science promoter, Salam is remembered as a founder and scientific father of mathematical and theoretical physics in Pakistan during his term as the chief scientific advisor to the president. Even until his death, Salam continued to contribute to physics and tirelessly advocated for the development.

 Zakaria Virk with Dr. Abdus Salam, Madison, Wisc USA 1982

 Book in Urdu by Zakaria Virk on Dr. Salam, India 2010