Qatar- TAMUQ hosts first Photonics Middle East Conference 2015

12/27/2015 9:52:51 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) DOHA: Over 80 of the world’s leading photonics experts gathered in Doha for the Photonics Middle East Conference (PMEC) 2015 hosted by Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) and the Qatar Nonlinear Science Initiative for the first forum in the country.

Photonics is the science of harnessing light and plays a major role in driving economic growth and employment throughout the world. It is helping solve societal challenges in information and consumer technologies renewable energy health manufacturing and security said Dr Milivoj R Belic PMEC Chair and Al Sraiya Holding Professor TAMUQ.

“It is the first conference on photonics in Qatar and one of the last to celebrate International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies designated by the United Nations General Assembly for 2015.

“We are proud to have hosted the conference to raise Qatar’s visibility and international profile in photonics research and produce impact on the status and direction of photonics research in Qatar in general and at Qatar Foundation research institutes in particular” he added.

The forum featuring talks by 30 researchers was co-organised by the TAMUQ Science Programme and the Initiative and sponsored by Qatar National Research Fund US Department of Navy Science and Technology Coherent OptoSigma Europe Quantel Laser and Qatar Airways.

Speakers included Prof J M Dudley past president European Physical Society; and Prof W Ketterle winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001; and John D MacArthur Professor of Physics MIT.

Dr Mark H Weichold Dean and CEO TAMUQ said “The nature and characteristics of light have revolutionised nearly every field of science and we are still only at the threshold of new discovery.

The conference has provided an important forum to challenge conventional thinking and expand our knowledge and application of light in myriad ways.”

The event was held in conjunction with Ibn Al Haytham Days organised by QU at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Center.

Ibn Al Haytham was a notable 11th-century scientist and scholar known as the father of optics. He made extraordinary inventions in the fields of vision optics and light.

The Peninsula

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