Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS)
March 28 2013 2013
On March 28, 2013, a dinner-reception in honour of the Ambassadors of COMSATS’ Member States in Islamabad was hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Government of Pakistan, in connection with the upcoming 2nd meeting of COMSATS Consultative Committee (1st May 2013, Accra-Ghana). The Consultative Committee meeting will be hosted by the Ministry …
March 11 2013 2013
The three-day international event marked as the first Meeting of the Global Forum on Islamic Finance (GFIF) was organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Lahore, Pakistan, in collaboration with the Lancaster University, UK, on March 11-13, 2013. The theme of the Meeting was “Islamic Finance: New Realities, New Challenges”. GFIF aims at providing …
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 …
