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UoE VICE CHANCELLOR DELIVERS
LECTURE AT CASP
Center for Advance
Studies in Physics (CASP) organized a lecture on “Preferred Orientation
in Microstructure’’. The lecture was delivered by Prof. Dr.
Faizal-ul-Hassan Vice Chancellor University of Education Lahore.
GCU Vice
Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad Khaleeq-ur-Rahman, Dean Faculty of Science
and Technology Prof. Dr. Ikram-ul-Haq, Prof. Dr. Zakaria Butt, Prof. Dr.
Hassan A Shah and CASP Director Prof. Dr. Riaz Ahmed were also present
on the occasion.
(12-01-2012)
Awards encourage teachers: GCU VICE
CHANCELLOR
Recognition through
awards encourage teachers to enhance their efforts in the fields of
teaching and research, said GCU Lahore Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr.
Muhammad Khaleeq-ur-Rahman while congratulating GCU Physics Department
Chairperson Prof. Dr. Hassan A. Shah on receiving the highest civil
award “Sitara-i-Imtiaz” and GCU Center for Advance Studies in Physics (CASP)
Director Prof. Dr. Raiz Ahmad who is awarded “Best University Teacher
Award” by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for his meritorious
services in field of education. The Vice Chancellor lauded the services
of the two awardees.
The Vice Chancellor
said awards create a healthy environment of competition among teachers,
and thus they exert their dedicated efforts for the improvement of
academic atmosphere and research culture in their respective
institutions. He said GCU would also initiate awards to motivate its
faculty members, stating that motivated faculty is the key to put the
university on path leading to the international acclaim.
(23-08-2011)
HEC best teacher award for Prof. Dr. Raiz Ahmad
Prof. Dr. Riaz Ahmad
Director CASP has been awarded the HEC Best Teacher for the year 2010
from GC University Lahore. The award consists of a certificate and cash
prize of Rs100,000. The award has been conferred upon him on July 12,
2011 in Best Teacher Award Ceremony held at HEC Auditorium Islamabad.
Senator Saleem Saifullah was the chief guest of the ceremony.
(22-08-2011)
CASP ORGANZES
LECTURE ON the Growth of Thin Film
A series of two lectures were organized by CASP on the
Growth of Thin Film. Prof. Dr. Arshad Saleem Bhatti, Dean of Sciences
COMSATS Islamabad delivered the lecture. All the PhD research scholars
and faculty members of CASP attended the lecture.
(22-08-2011)
Prof. Dr. Hassan A. Shah APPOINTED CHAIRPERSON PHYSICS
AND Prof. Dr. Riaz Ahmad DIRECTOR CASP
Prof. Dr. Hassan A. Shah has been appointed as the Chairperson of
Physics Department GC University Lahore with immediate effect while
incumbent Chairperson Prof. Dr. Raiz Ahmed has been transferred to the
GCU Centre for Advance Studies in Physics (CASP) as Director. Prof. Dr.
Hassan A. Shah has already served GCU Physics Department as Chairperson
for six years till 2008.
(01-07-2011)
Interactive Workshop on Learning Scientific Linux Lecturers, Tutorials
and Discussion 2nd, 3rd June, 2011
Interactive Workshop on Learning Scientific Linux
was held at Accelerator Laboratory, CASP
GC University Lahore on 2nd and 3rd June 2011.
This activity was successfully organized by Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry
Chair, GC University Lahore.
Mr. Zuhair Ali, Principal Scientist from
Instrumentation and Controlled Computer Complex (ICCC), Pakistan Atomic
Energy Commission (PAEC), Islamabad was the speaker and trainer of this
workshop.
Dr Shoaib Ahmad, Professor Rafi Muhammad
Chaudhry Chair inaugurated the session and delivered brief introductory
talk about workshop theme.
Mr Zuhair Ali delivered lecture on
introduction of Linux and Scientific Linux. Their lecture also comprised
of Introduction to latest version of Linux e.g. FEDORA 14, UBUNTU 10.5
and KNOPPIX etc.
Then practical demonstration about
installation and use of Linux and Scientific Linux was held in
Accelerator Laboratory.
Mr Zuhair Ali also delivered important
tutorials about all utilities and built-in tools of Scientific Linux
e.g. GIMP, WGET, Stable network Services, Graphical User Interface
Software like GNOME, KDE, YUM, APT etc.
Discussions were carried out throughout
Lectures and Tutorials.
Why Linux
Basic Linux Administration Course
Tutorials of Scientific Linux
(20-05-2011)
One Day Workshop on Laser Ablation and its Applications CASP
One
day workshop on laser ablation and its application was organized by
Centre for Advanced Studies in Physics on Thursday. In his welcome note
Dr. Ijaz Ghauri Director CASP said that scientific community is a
fraternity. Physicists of Pakistan have shown real brotherhood among
themselves for they have served the common goal and zest to achieve that
target of this great nation in defense and energy.
Participants of one
day workshop on laser ablation
The
chief guest Dr. Shoaib Ahmad, Professor R. M. Chaudry Chair GC
University dilated upon the importance of interaction among scientific
community that can possibly take place in such workshop. He encouraged
the young scientists to pickup some lessons of scientific commitments
and take the torch of research and scientific endeavors and realize the
dreams of nation to reveal the scientific truths and realities.
Dr.
Shazia Bashir, Dr. Arshad Mahmood, Dr. Abid Ali, Dr. Shahid Raffique and
Dr. Khurram Siraj also spoke on the title of the workshop in the
technical session.
(20-05-2011)
One Day Workshop on Laser
Ablation and its Applications at Centre for Advanced Studies in Physics
(CASP) GC University, Lahore May 19, 2011
Centre for Advanced Studies in Physics formally known as
high Tension Laboratory and Nuclear Research Laboratory was established
in 1954. The first accelerator (1.2 MeV Cockraft-Walton) of South East
Asia was installed by Dr. R. M. Chaudhri in this Centre, which made
significant contribution to promote science culture in Pakistan. The
CASP has emerged, in recent years, as hub of R&D activities at GC
University Lahore. Establishment of new research laboratories equipped
with state of the art equipment like Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM),
Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM),
Pelletron Accelerator, Universal Material Testing Machines and Advanced
Materials Fabrication facilities have made the centre distinct among
other departments of the University. In addition to these facilities
various state of the art UV, visible, and IR lasers with pulse width
ranging from nanoseconds to femtoseconds are also available in our
Centre including Nd:YAG, Excimer, Ti:Sapphire and laser-induced
breakdown spectroscopy systems. We are working in the field of
• Laser Ablation
• Laser Surface Modifications
• Thin Film Deposition by Lasers
• Ion implantation by laser-produced plasmas
• Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Patron-in-Chief:
Prof. Dr. Ikram-ul -Haq,
Vice Chancellor GCU
Chief Organizer:
Prof. Dr. Ijaz Mujtaba Ghauri, Director CASP, GCU
Organizing
Secretary:
Dr. Shazia Bashir
Organizing
Committee:
Ather Naeem Akhter, Naveed Afzal, Shahzad Saadat, Syed
Tahir Abbas, Khaliq Mahmood, Nazar Farid, Mahreen Akram, Rana M.Ayuub,
Sajjad Ahamd
PROGRAMME
19 May, 2011
09:00 am Registration
10:00 am Arrival of Chief Guest
10:05 am Welcome Address (Prof. Dr. Ijaz Mujtaba
Ghauri)
10:15 am Inaugural Address by
Dr. Shoaib Ahmad, Dr. R. M. Chaudhri
10:30 am Tea Break
Technical Session I
11:00am
Invited Talk by Dr. Arshad Mehmood
National Institute
of Laser and Optoelectronics, Islamabad
Surface and
Optical analysis of GeC prepared by reactive pulse laser deposition
11:30 am
Invited Talk by Dr. Arif Maqbool
Department
of Physics Quaid -i- Azam University, Islamabad
Synthesis of Ni nanoparticles by pulsed laser ablation
12:00
am Invited Talk by Dr Abid Ali and Mohammd Ashraf
PINSTECH
Islamabad
Deposition and
Characterization of HgCd and MgZnO films
12:40 am
Invited Talk by Dr. M. Shahid Rafique
Laser
Applications
Department of
Physics, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore
1:00
pm Invited Talk by Dr. Khurram Siraj
Pulsed
laser Deposition of Thin Films
Department of
Physics, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore
1:20 pm Working Lunch
Technical Session II
2:20 pm Practical Demonstration on Laser
Assisted Ablation and Deposition Techniques
4:20 pm Distribution of Certificates
(18-05-2011)
Prof. Dr. Tahir Hussain
passes away
Prof. Dr. Tahir Hussain, professor of emeritus at the Government
College University Lahore, has passed away on Monday at the age of 87.
GCU Vice Chancellor Prof. Khalid Aftab and faculty members have
expressed profound grief on the sad demise of Prof. Dr. Tahir Hussain...
(more)
(21-12-2010)
Vice Chancellor GCU LAHORE condoles on the death of Director CASP’s
Mother
Prof. Dr. Khalid Aftab Vice Chancellor GC University Lahore
and faculty members have offered their condolences on the sad demise of
the mother of
Prof. Ijaz
Mujtaba Ghauri, Director of Center for Advance Study in
Physics (CASP) GC University Lahore. In his condolence message to the
bereaved family, the Vice Chancellor prayed to the Almighty Allah to
bless the departed soul in eternal peace and grant courage to the
deceased family members to bear the irreparable loss with fortitude.
(25-05-2010)
GCU equipped to fabricate, test
advanced alloys
Prof.
Dr. Khalid Aftab Vice Chancellor inaugurated Materials Fabrication and
Characterization Laboratories for fabricating and testing advanced
alloys at CASP. The Vice Chancellor Dr Khalid Aftab inspected the
working of the machinery. The laboratories established with a cost of Rs
80 million are one of most high-tension facilities available to any
educational institution in Pakistan. The Higher Education Commission has
provided funds for the purchase of the high-tech machinery whereas the
engineers from China, Japan, England and Singapore provided the
technical support for the establishment of the laboratories.
Prof. Dr Khalid Aftab inspects automatic
RF-Induction Furnace after inaugurating Materials Fabrication
and Characterization Laboratories at CASP.
Speaking
on the occasion, the vice chancellor said that GCU has always encouraged
innovative and qualitative research and would provide all facilities to
its students for this purpose. He called on the researchers to work for
the self-reliance of the country in the field of science of technology.
He also issued directions to the centre management to always keep the
equipment operational, so that the maximum researchers can draw benefit
out of them.
CASP
Director
Prof. Dr. Ijaz
Mujtaba Ghauri briefed the Vice Chancellor about the working
various equipments at the laboratory and research projects being carried
out through these equipments. He said that the laboratory houses
transmission electron microscope which provides high magnifications to
view distances of few angstroms (10-10 meters). The scanning electron
microscope greatly magnifies the surface of a sample to study the
effects of various treatments the sample has received. Talking about the
Universal Testing Machine Laboratory,
Prof Ghauri
said that 50 and 150 Kilo Newton Universal Testing Machines in this
laboratory can perform tension and bending tests under thermostatically
controlled temperature environment ranging between -180 °C to 600 °C.
“The operation of these machines is fully software controlled,” he
added. In Non-Destructive Testing Laboratory, imperfections and defects
in materials are discovered using acoustic emissions, fluorescent dyes
and other similar techniques.
(16-04-2010)
DR SAMAR MUBARAKMAND INaugurates
Rs 110m atomic accelerator, laser labs at CASP GC UNIVERSITY LAHORE
Renowned
Nuclear Scientist, Member Planning Commission of Pakistan on Science and
Technology Dr Samar on Saturday inaugurated the recently-installed Rs 70
million high-tech 4 MeV Pelletron Accelerator and Rs 40 million Laser
Laboratories at the GC University, Lahore Centre for Advanced Studies in
Physics (GCU CASP). GCU Vice Chancellor Dr Khalid Aftab was also present
on this occasion.
Speaking
on the occasion, Dr Samar gave wake-up call to the national scientists,
saying Pakistan is extremely rich in minerals especially coal, copper
and gold and what it needed is indigenous technology for exploitation
of these resources. We should not let the foreigners to exploit our
resources and pay us peanuts in form of royalty. He said that Pakistan
had gold and copper reserves of trillions of dollars in Balochistan.
“The gold will become so cheap in Pakistan if we mine it indigenously”
he said. He also highlighted the importance of Thar coal projects of
Pakistan.
Dr. Samar Mubarakmanad inspects Atomic Accelerator
along with Vice Chancellor and others
Dr Samar
who remained associated with Pakistan’s Nuclear and Missile Programme
for 42 years called on the national scientists to design their research
projects on a par with the industrial and economic needs of Pakistan. Dr
Samar who studied at the Government College Lahore for 6 years (1956-62)
placed a great emphasis on organising on national and international
science conferences and seminars so that coordinated efforts can be made
develop new technologies indigenously. He remembered that he as Director
GC High Tension Laboratory from 1974 to 1977 invited a large number of
scholars to the research facility and produced about 20 research papers
in a short period of 3 years.
Dr Samar
talking to GCU Vice Chancellor Dr Khalid Aftab made liberal offers for
help by the Planning Commission in installation more high-tech
equipments at GCU CASP for research. The Vice Chancellor also sought
the help of the Higher Education Commission and the Pakistan Planning
Commission in its faculty development programmes.
Earlier,
Director CASP Dr Ijaz M Ghauri briefed Dr Samar about the recently
installed high equipments at CASP including Materials Testing Lab,
Materials Fabrication Lab, Transmission Electron Microscopy Lab,
Scanning Electron Microscopy Lab and Sample Preparation lab. The
Materials Testing Laboratory houses 50 kN and 150 kN Universal Testing
Machines which can perform compression, tension and bending tests from
180 to 600 degree Celsius. The Director CASP said that the Centre was
established in 1954 as Nuclear Research Laboratory. The principal
research facility here was 1.2 MeV Cock Craft Walton Accelerator which
is still operational. Hoe, however, said new accelerator can be used
for production of isotopes, nuclear reaction studies, mass spectrometry,
atomic collisions and modification of materials.
Later
Dr. Samar visited the various sections of CASP and lauded the Centre’s
research facilities. GCU Rafi Chair Professor Dr Nisar Ahmad also
briefed Dr Samar about the research project of GCU science scholars.
(04-01-2010)
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