By Jinu Jacob
doha: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) has granted $3m for the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) -Exception Project on the development of novel exitonic materials for solar energy applications, Dr Abdul Sattar Al Taie, Executive Director of QNRF, said yesterday.
He was addressing the PHOTONICS - Middle East Conference 2015 which opened yesterday at Texas A&M University.
“Qatar’s aim is to realise the goals of its ‘Vision 2030’, a strategy designed to transform the country’s economy from a hydrocarbon to a knowledge-based economy. QNRF has supported more than 30 research projects in the field of Photonics addressing either basic or applied objectives.
“Photonics is not only about physics and basic sciences, but it is an interdisciplinary research, as it crosscuts many fields of sciences and technology through a variety of applications. Photonics underpins technologies of daily life from smart phones to laptops to the Internet to medical instruments to lighting technology. The 21st century will depend as much on photonics as the 20th century depended on electronics,” he added.
PHOTONICS — Middle East Conference 2015 is organised to mark the International year of Light and Light-based Technologies proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its 68th Session back in December 2013, which started at the beginning of this year. This is the first conferences to be held in Qatar in photonics. It’s a three-day event which includes lectures and poster presentations that will continue till tomorrow.
Featured speakers include Prof W Ketterle, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001; John D MacArthur, Professor of Physics at MIT (USA); Prof J M Dudley, past president of the European Physical Society and Prof P Russell, president of the Optical Society of America.
As a side event to this, Qatar University is organising ‘Ibn Al Haytham Days’ on tomorrow and Wednesday at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Centre which is open to all teachers and students.
The Peninsula
By Jinu Jacob
doha: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) has granted $3m for the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) -Exception Project on the development of novel exitonic materials for solar energy applications, Dr Abdul Sattar Al Taie, Executive Director of QNRF, said yesterday.
He was addressing the PHOTONICS - Middle East Conference 2015 which opened yesterday at Texas A&M University.
“Qatar’s aim is to realise the goals of its ‘Vision 2030’, a strategy designed to transform the country’s economy from a hydrocarbon to a knowledge-based economy. QNRF has supported more than 30 research projects in the field of Photonics addressing either basic or applied objectives.
“Photonics is not only about physics and basic sciences, but it is an interdisciplinary research, as it crosscuts many fields of sciences and technology through a variety of applications. Photonics underpins technologies of daily life from smart phones to laptops to the Internet to medical instruments to lighting technology. The 21st century will depend as much on photonics as the 20th century depended on electronics,” he added.
PHOTONICS — Middle East Conference 2015 is organised to mark the International year of Light and Light-based Technologies proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its 68th Session back in December 2013, which started at the beginning of this year. This is the first conferences to be held in Qatar in photonics. It’s a three-day event which includes lectures and poster presentations that will continue till tomorrow.
Featured speakers include Prof W Ketterle, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001; John D MacArthur, Professor of Physics at MIT (USA); Prof J M Dudley, past president of the European Physical Society and Prof P Russell, president of the Optical Society of America.
As a side event to this, Qatar University is organising ‘Ibn Al Haytham Days’ on tomorrow and Wednesday at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Centre which is open to all teachers and students.
The Peninsula
