Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS)
January 11 2011 2011
A four-member delegation of COMSATS participated in the 14th General Assembly Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH), held in Islamabad from 11-13 January 2011. As a Ministerial Standing Committee, all the 57 member states of the OIC are members of COMSTECH, out of which 12 are …
January 04 2011 2011
In preparation for his visit to Sri Lanka in February 2011, the Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, along with the Director General (I.A), Mr. Tajammul Hussain, called upon the Sri Lankan High Commissioner for Pakistan, Air Chief Marshal (R) Jayalath Weerakkody, on 4th January 2011. The meeting was held in Mr. Weerakkody’s office …
December 30 2010 2010
The Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, was invited to visit Marmara Research Centre (MRC) in Istanbul (Turkey), which is one of the major R&D centres operated by TÜBİTAK – the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. The TÜBİTAK MRC has been affiliated with COMSATS as its Centre-of-Excellence since 1994. The visit was …
December 21 2010 2010
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)-Abbottabad organized the 8th Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT-2010) in Islamabad, on December 21–23, 2010. The event was organized in collaboration with IEEE’s Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, Inter Islamic Network on Information Technology (INIT) …
December 21 2010 2010
A preparatory meeting of the COMSATS’ Thematic Research Group on Information and Communication Technologies was held on the sidelines of the International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) in Islamabad (Dec. 21-23, 2010). The meeting was chaired by the Rector CIIT, Dr. S. M. Junaid Zaidi, and …
November 26 2010 2010
The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) in collaboration with one of its Centres of Excellence in Pakistan, the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), held the foundation meeting of COMSATS’ thematic research group on ‘Natural Product Sciences’, on November 26, 2010, in Karachi. ICCBS hosted this …
November 20 2010 2010
The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) and the International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences (ICCES), Beijing, China, jointly held the Foundation Meeting of COMSATS’ Thematic Group on ‘Climate Change and Environmental Protection’, on November 20, 2010, in Beijing, China. This meeting was held in conjunction with CTWF …
October 22 2010 2010
The Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, on his recent visit to Malaysia representing COMSATS at the 5th Islamic Conference of Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research (ICMHESR), paid a visit to the International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation (ISTIC) located in the premises of Academy of Sciences Malaysia. The visit …
October 19 2010 2010
A delegation of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), headed by the Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, attended the 5th Islamic Conference of Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research (ICMHESR) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 19th to 21st October 2010. The Conference was hosted …
October 19 2010 2010
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) and the Universiti Kabangsaan Malaysia (UKM) for cooperation in the field of renewable energy, on the 19th of October 2010. The MoU signing ceremony took place in conjunction with the inauguration of UKM’s ‘Ultra Low …
