desert bird

LUMS PhD programs in Economics and Mathematics also, have been on for quite some years now. There is a good Physics Department; particularly the High Energy Physics group which currently constitutes of Prof Faheem, Tasneem Zehra and Asad Naqvi is a pretty fine one and should be producing some PhDs pretty soon. Faheem Hussain have worked in the Group of Dr. Salam in Italy , one of the best and classical scientist of the history of Cambridge and 1979 Physics Nobel Laureate.He also remained the Director General of NCP, QAU, Pakistan. There were a couple of students already working with Sabieh Anwar for their PhD.



LUMS VPDT

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/vpdt.htm

desert bird

fasten your belts, Village, Copper n Kettle , Arsenal, Chelsea and live hot political debates are no more !


hehe...i pray for poor chicks and guys


http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/docs/background.pdf


http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/photos.html#32


LUMS SSE | Course Websites


Physics Lab 1

Welcome to Experimental Physics 1


Staff

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/physlab/staff.html



List of Experiments

List of Experiments - Experimental Physics 1


Photos

Photos

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how does LUMS rank globally?

desert bird

Usually global rankings consider all disciplines and programs etc. Its basically a business and IT school and recently started science and engineering school. In Asia , its ranked as 23 in business/IT schools.However, NUST is placed at 376 and UET as 592 globally .

Sources

http://www.admissionglobal.com/lums_mba.asp

http://www.thearynews.com/english/newsdetail.asp?nid=13812

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Lahore/21-Oct-2008/UET-ranks-592-among-world-universities



Brief Achievements of LUMS

http://www.newsweekshowcase.com/mba-...rsity-asia.php




LUMS so far has 9 Rhodes Scholars in 17 or 18 years and 3 Rhodes Scholar are at its Faculty.In 2005 LUMS snatched 12 Fulbright and both Rhodes Scholarships of Pakistan.3 rhodes scholars of LUMS faculty include 2 of Economics Department and one of Physics.Just for comparison King Edward Medical University, Lahore considred as Pakistan best medical university founded in 1861 and after independece from 1947 only have 3 Rhodes Scholars so far.


http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/econ/F_pr.php?name=Faisal%20Bari

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/econ/F_pr.php?name=Ali%20Cheema

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/sabieh/

desert bird

Giving to LUMS SSE
Funding the Future...

LUMS School of Science and Engineering aims to create an exceptional undergraduate and graduate experience which will nurture the best cutting edge research and teaching. You can have an impact on the school - and by extension, the nation - through your generous financial support and continued intellectual engagement with the institute. In doing so you will help us recruit the most distinguished faculty, provide scholarship assistance to the most deserving and talented students, build and create unique campus resources and top-ranked programs and above all ensure LUMS SSE's extraordinary standard of excellence.



United States Donor
The Friends of LUMS USA is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a non-profit 501(c)3 entity. Contributions made in the name of this entity are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the IRS. To contribute to SSE, please make out your check to The Friends of LUMS USA and on the check's memo field as well as on a cover letter that includes your address, please specify that it is intended for the LUMS SSE.

Please mail the check and cover letter to the following address:


Friends of LUMS USA
Attn: Joanna Laney
155 MOFFETT PARK DR STE P
SUNNYVALE CA 94089-1332
Tel: 408.752.8100

Please also email sseinfo@lums.edu.pk and jlaney@ver-sys.net that the check is on the way.
Once the check is successfully deposited, you will receive a receipt in an IRS-specified format acknowledging the amount of your donation.


To inquire about how you can help or pledge your support, please contact:
sseinfo@lums.edu.pk


SSE,LUMS so far have recieved about Rs. 2.038 billion ( 33.98 Million Dollars ) from differnt firms and individuals.The 3 largest contributors are:


Govt. of Punjab (Rs. in Million) 500.00

Tetra Laval (Rs. in Million) 385.00

Nestle Pakistan (Rs. in Million) 250.15




See complete list of Donors with amount here

http://sse.lums.edu.pk/giving_to_lums.htm

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Thanks divine light.
23 in asia aint too shabby.

Code_Red

I agree with Kaka Atom bomb. This is nice sharing Desert bird

We dont usually bother to go to website to see all the credentials

I see a link in the initial post and very valid topic for discussion in Career and Academics.

LUMS SSE: Taking university education in Science and Engineering to new heights in Pakistan

It is quite sad to see moderators discouraging such a healthy topic of discussion

Value addition comes naturally once the contents generate interest. More than half threads contian copy paste material for general discussion, comments and opinion from members of online comunity.

Code_Red

I doubt that.

We have always believe that IBA karachi is best Business school in pakistan, followed by LUMS.
The disciplnes offered at NUST, GiKi are Engineering based mostly so they cant be compared with LUMS.

desert bird

Cerrtainly LUMS cannot be compared with NUST GIKI but in Business/IT its at No. 1 in Pakistan with total rank score of 57.2 as compared to IBA with 40.3 at No. 2


HEC University Rankings

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LUMS is currently ranked better than IBA

IBA was the first decent business school, with some great alliances. it was established in the 50s with support from Wharton. I believe for some time it also had some alliance with University of Southern California.

The institute was impoacted heavily starting in later part of the 80's and much of the 90's with the issues plaguing Karachi and its academic institutions.

It had to cut ties with Karacahu University in mid nineties because of that.

Things started stabilizing in late 90's and have been improving conmstantly, but there is a lot to be done.

The reason you think of IBA the way you do is how well its grads have done in Pakistan and internationally, it has a much richer heritage and history and stronger alumni base, so when we think of IBA thats what we think of and not the current academics.

you will find a huge difference of opinion about IBA from ppl who graduated in 80's or even early 90's than the ones who were there in mid-late 90's, and then the post 2000 crowd. ppl who graduated in early 90's had begun to see the drop in standards, the ones in mid nineties probably saw the place at its worst, and the ones in late 90's probably say it beginning to show some signs of revival, 2000 onwards it has been on course to reclaim its former glory.

lets see how well it does.

Spock

Looking at some of the alumni at LUMS, that's no longer true.. Even their CS students are remarkably well in some of the best companies in the world.

LUMS is now offering an electrical engineering program too. Most people in my A levels graduating class that stayed in Pakistan went to LUMS. Some (engineering oriented) people who didnt want to get into CS went to GIKi and NUST. I went to NUST for a short while too. However, I can tell you right away that NUST, even though it was ranked pretty highly by Asia times/newsweek (20th in Asia amongst tech schools) had a long way to go. Research back then was a non-existent concept over there. The system was also more suited to Matriculation/FSc students.

desert bird

Nice to see First Term students taking a Classical Mechanics Course with Asad Naqvi.Though course is not so difficult but its an inspirational move for the students to take it from Doctrate of MIT and certainly shape thier future goals with that aspect.He is also the member of High Energy Physics Group lead by Dr.Fahim Hussain and few PhD students about to complete thier Doctrates under this group soon.


Course Description:
Ph-101 is a first year physics course that introduces students to classical mechanics. This course will lay out the foundations and the logical framework on which the other science and engineering courses will build on. Our goal will be to convey the sense of wonder that a physicist feels in understanding nature at its most fundamental level. At the same time, we want to provide skills and knowledge that are required in any study of science and engineering.

Course Website
http://chand.lums.edu.pk/~bi101a08/




Asad Naqvi
Associate Professor, Physics,SSE,LUMS,Lahore
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Research Interests: String Theory

Asad Naqvi is currently a lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is a theoretical physicist with a PhD from MIT in theoretical particle physics (specializing in string theory); a BS with a double major in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT; and school degrees from Karachi. After holding Post-Doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Amsterdam, he joined the University of Wales, Swansea in October 2005.
New Disciplines - Asad Naqvi

String Theory Group
University of Amsterdam String Theory Group


PPARC Advanced Fellow and Lecturer in Physics
http://www.wimcs.ac.uk/members/math_physics/naqvi_a.html

desert bird

desert bird

Caring about education

Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Salal Humair


This newspaper’s editorial 'Whither and wither' of Jan 4 articulates two excellent questions about the direction of Higher Education in Pakistan, while expressing disappointment over the shelving of HEC’s plan to create world-class universities in Pakistan. The editorial asks: 'If you are poor and bright you have few options and 'abroad’ isn’t one of them. But what if 'abroad’ were somehow to be able to come to us? What if the benefits of a foreign education system could somehow get transplanted to Pakistan?' I believe those are well-phrased questions to which we may still find solutions, but we would need some visionary political leadership to do so.
There are three streams to my answer. First, how we may still import the benefits of a foreign education to Pakistan even though the government has backed out of the HEC plan, particularly for underprivileged bright students. Second, what support will it take from our government and society to make these other initiatives work. Third why should our government and society even care to invest in internationally recognized institutions of research and education.



First, hope may lie in supporting select initiatives in the private non-profit sector to create options for the underprivileged, by importing the benefits of a foreign education system. The SSE aims to do exactly that. We hope to bring a world-class education to Pakistan by establishing a school of science and engineering modeled on some of the best research universities in the world (e.g. MIT/Caltech/Stanford etc). Even more importantly, we want it to be a doorway to opportunity for students from under-privileged backgrounds who would otherwise not get a chance to study at places like MIT. For this reason, our admissions are need-blind. We admitted our inaugural class this year (2008). From more than 7,000 applicants for 200 seats, we admitted some of the best students in Pakistan, without regard for their ability to afford their education. Approximately 56 per cent of our first class is on some form of financial aid, which equates to around 44 per cent of the students paying no tuition. Some of these students are from the most underprivileged segments of society.



Second, models like the SSE are resource-intensive, but can still be supported with far fewer funds than the recently shelved HEC initiative. These models are resource intensive because currently tuition is set at less than 50 per cent of what it costs the SSE to deliver a world-class research-based education. Many research universities like MIT, Caltech and Stanford do the same. The SSE must therefore operate in serious deficit even if it did not offer financial aid. This means that even though the SSE has raised significant resources through its Board of Trustees and private donors, it still needs an endowment of around $125-150 million to cover its deficit. However, this amount is significantly less than the cost of each university under the HEC plan (I believe that cost was $600-800 million per university). Even if the government were to not fund an endowment, it could help sustain the institution by offering scholarships to needy students. Such support would equate to around $10,000 per deserving student per year. In steady state, around 400 students would be on such scholarships at the SSE, which means the government would have to fund around $4 million per year. This is a pittance for a government if there is truly interest in establishing a research-based university in Pakistan.



Finally, why should society and government care to support institutions like the SSE. It should care if it cares to produce the leaders who will find solutions to our most pressing problems and if it wishes to create beacons of hope for the future of higher education in Pakistan. We see the SSE as a globally-visible peak in our higher education landscape which will be a catalyst of change. We believe it is essential to produce a class of people who are internationally competitive, yet deeply rooted in the local culture, and can help address some of our most urgent national problems. The SSE’s ambitious effort to import the MIT/Caltech/etc. model, we hope is a transition point for Pakistan, like Johns Hopkins University was in 1876; the first research university in the US. More importantly, we hope it creates a model of engagement for universities to contribute to national needs. That is why society should care.



The writer is an MIT alum (PhD ’01 in Operations Research) and currently an associate professor and associate dean at the LUMS School of Science and Engineering. This article is written in his private capacity. Email: salal@lums.edu.pk


Caring about education

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nice links.

desert bird

Dean, LUMS School of Science & Engineering

The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean in the newly established School of Science and Engineering (SSE). Founded in 1986, LUMS is Pakistan’s premier private university, renowned for the quality and impact of its graduates, 35% of whom are women. Its modern 100-acre campus in suburban Lahore provides world-class educational and residential facilities.


LUMS aims to become a globally competitive research university within the next decade, offering multidisciplinary programs in science, engineering, social science, humanities, law and management.


LUMS SSE is modeled on the best research universities in the world with programs in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering. Subsequent programs will include other engineering disciplines. In steady state the school will have 1200 undergraduate and 800 graduate students.


The Dean will assume a leadership role in building the first private world-class research school in Pakistan. As the administrative head of the school, he or she will be responsible for the School’s academic affairs and its strategic vision; help develop partnerships with industry and assist in raising funds for the SSE. As part of the senior University leadership, the Dean will work with other senior officers to realize the LUMS vision of becoming a research university.



The position offers a unique opportunity for personal and institutional impact. It requires candidates with exceptionally strong vision and leadership qualities. In particular, the successful candidate will have an outstanding record of scholarship and academic leadership; a broad awareness of conditions shaping higher education; excellent interpersonal skills, and strong networking ability locally and internationally. He or she will have demonstrable success in recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty, and guiding them towards establishing a high standard of excellence in research and teaching.



The appointment is for an initial three-year term beginning September 1, 2009 or on a mutually agreed date. A concurrent faculty appointment, either term or permanent, will provide a base for continuing active personal scholarship. Internationally recognized scholars with a strong research background are especially encouraged to apply.

Review of applications and nominations will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Applications and nominations, including a letter describing the candidate’s qualifications and accomplishments, should be sent to the Chair of the Dean Search Committee. Applicants should provide a Curriculum Vitae.

Applicants and nominators are strongly encouraged to communicate by email.

Chair, Dean Search Committee
Email: ssedeansearch@lums.edu.pk

LUMS is an equal opportunity employer.

Sector U, DHA, Lahore Cantt 54792, Pakistan
Tel | + 92 (42) 572 2670
Fax | + 92 (42) 572 2694










Dean Search Committee Members

Dr. Hassan Ahmed

Mr. Abdul Razak Dawood

Dr. Robert Jaffe (Committee Chair)

Dr. Sohaib Khan

Dr. Abubakr Muhammad

Dr. Asad Naqvi

Dr. Anjum Nasim









The LUMS School of Science and Engineering (SSE) solicits nominations from LUMS alumni, students, faculty, staff and supporters for the school's Dean. We invite all to submit names of strong candidates who can realize the SSE's vision of becoming a competitive research school.



When suggesting potential candidates, please include all relevant and useful information about the individual, or a source (such as a website) which allows the information to be obtained. Specific non-public information (e.g., based on your personal experience) is also very helpful.


Please send this information to the Dean Search Committee at ssedeansearch@lums.edu.pk. All information you send will be kept strictly confidential. Applications will be processed starting March 9, 2009, but nominations will continue to be accepted until the position is filled.

We realize it takes time and effort to collect and send nomination information, but your suggestions can significantly impact the efficiency of the search. Thank you for your participation in this very important process.

LUMS is an equal opportunity employer.


http://sse.lums.edu.pk/dean.htm

desert bird

Plz. all you who are in US..UK..Europe..Canada etc ..you can email any good name in your knowledge to search committe but the name should be Exceptional by all means as in above post to meet the standards . Plz.provide web links, information etc alongwith.It will be kept strictly confidential




I have only 3 names...


1.Dr.Atta ur Rehman former HEC Chairman but he is Drector HEJ ,Karachi presently

CV

http://www.iccs.edu/update%20web/Pro...20at%20HEC.pdf





2.Dr.Hoodbhoy ..he is also Chairman Physics QAU presently and one of the founder of this school

Pervez Hoodbhoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia






3.The Giant Dr.Bukhari presently at OSU




I have emailed the Dean Search Committee for Dr.Bokhari anyhow. He is asset of Pakistan and make this school one of the best in world.But I am not sure he will listen to Search Committe Offer due to his 'free nature' personality.He even refused to listen Dr.Atta ur Rehman when he personally telephoned hin mot to leave Pakistan in 2005 but he stood on principals.






Credentials of Dr.Bokhari



Reserach Pages and Citations

SH Bokhari - Google Scholar




Pakistan only ISI highly cited Reseracher

[ISI Highly Cited Researchers Version 1.5]




Homepage

Shahid Bokhari’s webpage at BMI




Bioinformatics @ OSU

OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics




Wikipedia


Shahid Hussain Bokhari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

desert bird

A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste Multiply that with 160 Million

By Athar Mian
Director of Business Development
Global NorthStar Inc.
Northstar Club Management System - The New Standard in Club Software
Redwood City, CA


We, ex-students of Prof. Shahid Hussain Bokhari , are keen to express our admiration for our mentor. Sadly, Prof. Bokhari decided to retire from UET on October 3rd, 2005 after a brilliant 25-year local teaching and global R&D career. His selfless devotion to teaching on a subsistence pay ($5000 yearly) while refusing prestigious US-based alternatives is truly remarkable.


Dr. Bokhari, a 1978 PhD from UMass-Amherst, USA, is a Fellow of both the IEEE and the ACM (global engineering and computer societies), major honors that resulted from his numerous refereed publications, including a book and pioneering papers on computer architecture, graph theory and Linux software. He is also on the coveted list of Highly Cited Researchers published by the Institute for Scientific Information. After graduation, he has had regular sabbaticals at top R&D institutes in the US and Japan. His industry contributions include multi-million dollar revenues from addressing the Y2K problem in 1999, NASA research (1985-1995), and co-founding a Silicon Valley start-up (2000). His first undergraduate paper was published by the IEEE in the 1970s, while he was enrolled at UET.



Dr. Bokhari himself funded a new computer laboratory at UET via alumni and corporate donations in the late 1990s. This center has educated hundreds of undergrad and grad students and put Pakistan on the global technology map having the 2nd largest Linux teaching laboratory in the world. Dozens of cutting edge refereed and journal publications by well-mentored students, some of whom were working with Silicon Valley US companies, are a great instance of intellectual value-add (as opposed to plain vanilla call center) outsourcing.


His ex-students now include tenured professors, executives, and entrepreneurs both in the US and Pakistan. Dr. Bokhari will certainly be offered tenure at a leading US university given his current active research into new areas. Unluckily the young and talented in Pakistan will miss his mentoring.



Prof. Bokhari’s sudden retirement has been linked to his teaching and R&D policy disagreements with UET and the national HEC (Higher Education Commission) bureaucrats. His suggestions on faculty training and hiring, and a balanced higher education policy were ridiculed and he was forced out of UET’s research council years ago. Even though many new centers and universities (public and private) have sprung up in Pakistan over the years as government and high-tuition funding has flowed in, the results to date have been disappointing. Little genuine research has resulted, but the well-connected with scant credentials have benefited by way of lucrative assignments. Since Prof. Bokhari’s IEEE Fellow status a decade ago, Pakistan has had no other resident Fellow.

As neighboring India, with 1.2 billion people, has absorbed all the technology limelight with its growing outsourcing business (2004 estimates of $14 billion), Pakistan, with a 140 million population, hardly accounts for an annual $200 million today. Given this bitter reality, Dr. Bokhari’s single-handed contributions stand out. We hope that Pakistan can do better with genuine long-term education policies that could raise its global profile from the current shallow one. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Multiply that by 160 million.

Opinion








Cray MTA-2 and XMT Supercomputers


Exploring the Performance of Massively Multithreaded Architectures

Shahid Bokhari and Joel Saltz


Abstract
We present a new scheme for evaluating the performance of multithreaded computers and demonstrate its application to the Cray MTA-2 and XMT supercomputers. Our scheme is based on the concept of clock cycles per element, C, plotted against both problem size and the number of processors. This scheme clearly shows if an implementation has achieved its asymptotic efficiency and is much more general than (but includes) the commonly used speedup metric. It permits the discovery of any imperfections in both the software as well as the hardware, and is expected to permit a unified comparison of many different parallel architectures. Measurements on a number of well-known parallel algorithms, ranging from matrix multiply to quicksort, are presented for the MTA-2 and XMT and highlight some interesting differences between these machines. The performance of sequence alignment using dynamic programming is evaluated on the MTA-2, XMT, IBM x3755 and SGI Altix 350 and provides a useful comparison of the capabilities of the Cray machines with more conventional shared memory architectures.


This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0703139. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Access to the Cray MTA-2 and XMT provided by Cray Inc. Access to the Cray XMT provided by the Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software–Multithreaded Architectures (CASS-MT) hosted at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Access to the SGI Altix and IBM x3755 provided by Ohio Supercomputer Center.


Report of Cray MTA-2 and XMT Supercomputers

http://bmi.osu.edu/~shahid/mtaxmt/bokhariSaltz09.pdf



List of Papers on Cray and XMT Supercomputers

Shahid H. Bokhari






Over the past two years, I have been collaborating with Dan Janies on
developing techniques for analyzing the evolution of segmented viruses,
such as influenza. A paper describing our work “Reassortment Networks
for Investigating the Evolution of Segmented Viruses,” is to appear in the
IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Digital Library






Slides from a talk on Nanopore Sequencing that I have presented at
Penn State, Virginia Tech, William & Mary and the Univ of Virginia.

http://bmi.osu.edu/~shahid/bokhariPSU.pdf










NASA Langley Reserach Centre

http://search.nasa.gov/search/center...nclude=bokhari

Amour

and you are lums marketing??? whats your point of this post and where are mods?

desert bird

Angoor khattai hai