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umair_iba · Apr 7th, 2009, 06:29 PM

Heartiest congratulations to the IBA City Campus team headed by Basim Waheed for attaining first position at Synergies 2009 Competition held at LUMS

The Entrepreneurship Society is indeed very proud of your victory!!!

Congratulations and great work!

A big shout out to LUMS for holding an awesome competition in all its complexities

Synergies 2009 - The sharpest business minds all under one roof!
IBA’s Entrepreneurship society’s blog

desert bird · Apr 7th, 2009, 06:45 PM

IBA smack down LUMS , SZABIST, Hailey etc

desert bird · Apr 8th, 2009, 08:19 AM

LUMS shines in the International Arena

07 April, 2009

The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) team won the “Outstanding Delegation” Award at the Harvard World Model United Nations Conference held from March 22 – 27, 2009 in the Hague, capital of Netherlands. The team comprised of 8 undergraduate students from LUMS sitting in the simulation of various United Nations committees.

The conference was attended by 2200 students from over 150 prestigious universities worldwide including Oxford, London School of Economics, Yale and UC Berkley among others. Of these, only two delegations were awarded the “Outstanding Delegation” awards on their performance ratio and LUMS, with 6 individual “Outstanding Diplomacy” awards out of 8, was one of them, the other being MUN Society Belgium.

The award marks the fourth continuous victory of the LUMS team at the Harvard WorldMUN Conferences which are organized by Harvard University and held in a different country every year. The LUMS team bagged the coveted “Outstanding Delegation” Awards in Beijing (2006), Geneva (2007) and Puebla, Mexico (2008) in the previous years, bringing Pakistan to the forefront of the largest and most prestigious student gatherings in the world, year after year.

Another LUMS team comprising of 13 students performed exceptionally at the Model UN Turkey Conference held in Izmir, Turkey from March 9 – 13, 2009 and attended by over 500 students from across the world. Ten out of thirteen students won “Outstanding Diplomacy” Awards and thus securing the only “Outstanding Delegation” Award of that conference.

It is noteworthy to mention here that the funds for these trips are raised entirely by the students of the LUMS Model UN Society themselves through organizing the prestigious annual All Pakistan Model United Nations Conference at LUMS which is the largest student gathering in South Asia.

WorldMUN 2009

http://www.worldmun.org/2009/

desert bird · Apr 11th, 2009, 04:57 PM

Prof. Richard Anderson and his team at Univ. of Washington has made a short video on our distance course between Univ. Washington, Microsoft Research (redmond) and LUMS on "Computing for the Developing-world" . We used the classroom presenter technology and tablet PCs to enhance interaction between students across three sites. The links to the video are given below (both streaming video and downloadable versions).

More information on the course appears in this CSCWD'09 paper

http://people.csail.mit.edu/umar/pub...rson-CSCWD.pdf

We have just completed a new classroom presenter video. This video shows how Classroom Presenter was used in a distance learning class taught between UW, Microsoft, and Lahore University of Management Science in Pakistan.

Below are links to the video.

Low Bandwidth

http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/vi...2K_320x240.asx

High Bandwidth

http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/vi...3K_640x480.asx

Downloadable versions:

Windows Media download

Low

http://videosrv14.cs.washington.edu/...2K_320x240.wmv

High

http://videosrv14.cs.washington.edu/...3K_640x480.wmv

MP4 download

http://videosrv14.cs.washington.edu/...demo_video.mp4

Umar Saif

Dr. Umar Saif received his academic training from LUMS, Cambridge and MIT. He did his BSc (Hons) from LUMS (1998), PhD from University of Cambridge (2001) and Postdoctorate from MIT (2002), all in Computer Science. Dr. Saif worked and taught at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as a research scientist for four years, where he was part of the group (O2S) that developed system technologies for project Oxygen -- a US$28 million project sponsored by the US Department of Defense (DARPA) and an industrial Alliance of world-class companies including Nokia, HP, Compaq, NTT DoCommo, Phillips, Acer and Delta.

While at MIT, Dr. Saif also managed the multi-million dollar collaboration on future computing technologies between University of Cambridge and MIT sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and a consortium of hightech British companies.

Dr. Saif's research interests broadly span areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Distributed Systems, Mobile Systems, Network Protocols and Architectures and ICT for developing world countries. Dr. Saif has authored several influential publications and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Dr. Saif’s research has been featured in popular media, including BBC, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, Distributed Systems Online, and Dawn News. His research has received grants from Microsoft Research (MSR), Oxygen Consortium at MIT, Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), US State Department/USAID, HEC and PITB.

Dr. Saif was awarded the Mark Wesier Award at IEEE Percom'08, Digital Inclusion Award from Microsoft Research in 2006, Research Excellence award by LUMS for the year 2006 and 2008, and the IDG CIO Technology Pioneer Award in 2008. During his doctorate studies, Dr .Saif was a Trinity College Overseas Scholar and Commonwealth Scholar at University of Cambridge. He has been nominated for the MIT Technovator award and the TR100 award.

Dr. Saif has (co-)founded three technology startups: BumpIn.com (contextual chatting), SeeNreport.com (citizen journalism) and ChOpaal.pk (SMS social networking). Dr. Saif is the founder of one of the first startup incubators in Lahore, Pakistan, called SCI.

Research of Dr.Umar Saif

http://people.csail.mit.edu/umar/index.html

desert bird · Apr 13th, 2009, 11:59 AM

Received this email today

From: "Shahid Razzaq" <shikari7@hotmail.com>

I remember hearing from one of the students who had attended these lectures at Seattle that the lecture by Prof. Umar Saif was particularly exceptional, which made me feel pretty good to hear that about a Pakistani. Kudos to Prof. and LUMS.

Shahid Razzaq
ex-Microsoft-e
GIKI Alum

desert bird · Apr 21st, 2009, 11:28 AM

LUMS gets MIT Technovator Award for 2008

Published by Arsalan Mir on April 17, 2009 10:35 am

The MIT Technovators Awards, instituted in 2003, recognize and felicitate distinguished young innovators of South Asian origin working at the confluence of technology research and entrepreneurship. The awards emphasize the need to honor young, upcoming individuals; and focus on emerging technologies that are bound to have a far-reaching impact on the world as we know it today.

Dr. Umar Saif from LUMS (Lahore University for Managements Sciences) has won an award in Grassroot and Development Technology in MIT Technovators Award 2008.

Prof. Umar Saif is Associate Professor of Computer Science at LUMS, Pakistan and a social entrepreneur. He received his academic training from LUMS, Cambridge and MIT. He did his BSc (Hons) from LUMS (1998), PhD from University of Cambridge (2001) and Postdoctorate from MIT (2002), all in Computer Science. Dr. Saif worked and taught at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as a research scientist for four years, where he was part of the group (O2S) that developed system technologies for project Oxygen — a US$28 million project sponsored by the US Department of Defense (DARPA) and an industrial Alliance of world-class companies including Nokia, HP, Compaq, NTT DoCommo, Phillips, Acer and Delta. While at MIT, Dr. Saif also managed the multi-million dollar collaboration on future computing technologies between University of Cambridge and MIT sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and a consortium of high-tech British companies. Dr. Saif is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. He was awarded the Mark Weiser Award at IEEE Percom’08, Digital Inclusion Award from Microsoft Research in 2006 and the IDG CIO Technology Pioneer Award in 2008. His research has been featured in popular media, including BBC, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, Distributed Systems Online, and Dawn News.

Dr. Saif currently leads the Dritte.org initiative (Dritte) for bridging the digital divide. Funded by Microsoft Research, USAID/US State Department, Higher Education Commission and the Punjab Information Technology Board, Dritte focuses on developing both hardware and software infrastructure, specifically designed for the physical, social and economic realities of developing countries. Dr. Saif’s recent work on Poor Mana’s Broadband and Donatebandwidth.net are aimed at developing a radical new Internet architecture for the developing-world. Poor Mana’s Broadband and Donatebandwidth.net enable users in the developing-world to access Internet at a much higher speed than is possible in the developing-world. Using Dr. Saif’s technologies, users can dynamically donate the bandwidth of their dialup connections to help those with low-bandwidth connections to download data faster.

Dr. Saif has successfully commercialized some of his technology solutions for the developing-world. His venture ChOpaal.pk (chOpaal - Free Group SMS) enables a mailing-list style communication over the cell-phone SMS service. Often dubbed the Twitter of Pakistan, ChOpaal is currently the largest mobile social network in Pakistan and routes millions of SMS per month for many communities including political activists, rescue workers, health workers, NGOs, student groups etc.

Likewise, Dr. Saif is a co-founder of See`n`Report (See'n'Report - People Powered News) — Pakistan’s largest citizen journalism service, which became the de facto place for the civil society to report news and voice their opinions during times of political unrest, emergency and media bans in Pakistan.

Telecompk.net congratulates Dr. Saif for this achievement.

Source

Global Indus Technovator Awards

Judges

Global Indus Technovator Awards

desert bird · May 8th, 2009, 11:46 AM

SNGPL donates 100m for LUMS

May 8,2009

LAHORE: The Managing Director of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited {SNGPL}, Mr. Rashid Lone presided over the SNGPL Plaque Unveiling Ceremony held at the LUMS School of Science and Engineering (SSE) to commemorate their generous contribution of Rs. 100 million for a Biology Teaching Laboratory at SSE.

Also present at the event were Pro-Chancellor, Syed Babar Ali, Vice Chancellor, Dr. Ahmad Jan Durrani, and members of the SSE faculty and SNGPL management team.

The SSE Laboratory designs are based on extensive first-hand research of some of the world's finest laboratories at top ranking universities and incorporate vibration control safety and environmental protection measures with guidance from leading US based architectural and engineering firms.

Corporate News

desert bird · Jun 4th, 2009, 10:59 AM

King Edward signs MoU with SSE LUMS

Wednesday June 3 , 2009

By Our Correspondent

LAHORE

THE King Edward Medical University (KEMU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the School of Science and Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences ( LUMS SSE ) for imparting education at undergraduate and graduate levels and conduct research in basic and applied sciences.

According to a press statement issued on Tuesday, KEMU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Zafar Ullah Khan and LUMS Vice Chancellor Prof Ahmed Jan Durrani signed the MoU. According to the MoU, both universities agreed to establish and conduct cooperative and collaborative research projects and educational programme to complement and supplement efficiency and performance of each other.

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VPDT

LUMS SSE | VPDT

desert bird · Jun 17th, 2009, 08:43 AM

Huner-Kada

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

Inrenships

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

News

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

Experiments

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

Pictures

http://physlab.lums.edu.pk/index.php/The_Physlab

Dr.Abidi with Sabieh

Biology, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Physics - Asad A. Abidi

desert bird · Jun 17th, 2009, 08:44 AM

Huner-Kada

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

Inrenships

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

News

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

Experiments

Welcome to Experimental Physics - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

Pictures

The Physlab - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

Dr.Abidi with Sabieh

Biology, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Physics - Asad A. Abidi

desert bird · Jun 19th, 2009, 12:48 PM

Research and Development

Research and Development - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

desert bird · Jun 19th, 2009, 12:54 PM

Distributed Sensing and Control Lab

Post-doctoral Researchers in Applied Mathematics & Computation

Recent or graduating PhDs in mathematics, computer science, physics or engineering are invited to apply for a one year postdoctoral research position. Interested candidates should have a strong foundation in one or more areas related to dynamical systems, geometry and topology, quantum information, spectral theory, optimization and control, graph theory, analysis of PDEs or information theory. Responsibilities will primarily concern research in collaboration with other faculty members at LUMS SSE.

LUMS SSE offers highly competitive salaries. Salaries will be commensurate with the candidate's abilities and experience.

Interested individuals should electronically submit their CV, listing their academic achievements, detailed course work, publications, research projects and references, to:
abubakr@lums.edu.pk

Research Assistants

Recent graduates with a B.Sc. in engineering, computer science, mathematics or physics are invited to apply for renewable short appointments as research assistants. Interested candidates should have a taste for mathematical investigations and numerical computation. Students with practical hands-on experience in signal processing, control systems and other areas of systems research are also encouraged to apply. Responsibilities will primarily concern aiding in fundamental research as well as helping establish a laboratory in distributed sensing and control. Successful applicants may also be offered to continue as Masters/PhD students at LUMS on the basis of their performance.

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~abubakar/docs/Muhammad_CV.pdf

desert bird · Jun 26th, 2009, 03:57 AM

First Fly Epigenetics Lab in Pakistan

Post-Doctoral Position

A post doctoral position is available from August 2009 in Dr. Muhammad Tariq’s newly established group at the LUMS School of Science and Engineering.

We seek to identify the molecular mechanisms regulating the plasticity in epigenetic cellular memory in response to genetic as well as environmental variation using Drosophila. The successful candidate will use genetic, molecular and cytological methods to dissect genetic and molecular architecture underlying phenotypic plasticity

He/she will also actively contribute in establishing the First Fly Epigenetics Lab in Pakistan as well as assist regularly in teaching undergraduate studentsCandidates should have a PhD in molecular biology or related disciplines. Experience with fly genetics, epigenetics, biochemistry, transcriptomics, or imaging will be considered advantageous. Candidates who are close to finishing PhDs are also encouraged to apply.Interested candidates should send a CV, a description of research interests and achievements and names and contact information of 3 referees to Muhammad Tariq at the following email address: muhammad.tariq@bsse.ethz.ch

Dr.Muhammad Tariq

http://extranet.lums.edu.pk/SSE/List...orm.aspx?ID=21

Research and Citations of Dr.Tariq

http://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar...r=&btnG=Search

desert bird · Jun 26th, 2009, 04:17 AM

1.Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, Rector GIKI and Member Planning Commission, Pakistan visits the Physlab and offers valuable suggestions on improving the experiments and offers ideas for new experiments in the forthcoming years

2.The Physlab borrows an indigenously developed setup for determining the Curie point of a ferromagnetic alloy to the freshmen physics lab at the GIKI

3.A delegation from the Institute of Space Technology IST comprising the Vice Chancellor, Dean of Materials Science and other faculty members visits the Physlab and expresses overwhelming interest in reproducing these experiments in the undergraduate curriculum at the IST. IST is the educational face of the country's space agency, SUPARCO

4.A group of teachers and Ph.D. students visited the lab on 26 November 2008. The visitors came from various departments of the Punjab University ,Lahore, COMSAT Lahore and UET Lahore. They saw the lab in session and observed the performance of students. They returned highly inspired!

24 A-level students from the Lahore Grammar School (LGS) visit the lab on 26 February 2009 and keenly perform our freshmen experiments

WSS

SSE-wide seminar series - Physlab.lums.edu.pk

desert bird · Jul 7th, 2009, 11:44 AM

"Muslim response to twentieth century science"

Notes of speech delivered at Islamic College for Advanced Studies, London, 19 May 2004.

http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/sabieh/science-islam.pdf

Re-writing the History of Science in the Islamic Civilization

Report of Dr Saliba's visit to Lahore

FairyTale · Jul 7th, 2009, 02:15 PM

Desert Bird do you study in LUMS?

I had received a fwd e-mail few months ago, and it said Cultural Day or something in LUMS. But the dresses the boys and gals were wearing didnt seem to be Pakistani at first place. And the poses they had made for the pics were kind of very indecent. I was quite shocked to see those pics. Not sure if you too received that e-mail. If yes, was that really a cultural day at LUMS?
If no, do you want me to show you few pics ? May be you can recognize from the background of pics if thats really LUMS bldg or some other college.

wonder_eyed · Jul 7th, 2009, 04:25 PM

salam alaykum

desert bird,

do you have any info on the Social Sciences Dept of LUMS?i want to study from this very talked about teacher called Sheikh Kamaluddin Ahmed..if u have more info on him..it would be appreciated!

kakaballi · Jul 8th, 2009, 04:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FairyTale

Desert Bird do you study in LUMS?

I had received a fwd e-mail few months ago, and it said Cultural Day or something in LUMS. But the dresses the boys and gals were wearing didnt seem to be Pakistani at first place. And the poses they had made for the pics were kind of very indecent. I was quite shocked to see those pics. Not sure if you too received that e-mail. If yes, was that really a cultural day at LUMS?
If no, do you want me to show you few pics ? May be you can recognize from the background of pics if thats really LUMS bldg or some other college.

It was an Indian college in Jaipur. No worries there, any indecent desi picture or video is attributed to LUMS.

desert bird · Jul 8th, 2009, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairy Tale

Desert Bird do you study in LUMS?

I had received a fwd e-mail few months ago, and it said Cultural Day or something in LUMS. But the dresses the boys and gals were wearing didnt seem to be Pakistani at first place. And the poses they had made for the pics were kind of very indecent. I was quite shocked to see those pics. Not sure if you too received that e-mail. If yes, was that really a cultural day at LUMS?
If no, do you want me to show you few pics ? May be you can recognize from the background of pics if thats really LUMS bldg or some other college.

I dont study in LUMS.The thing which you are saying is also to be seen for KCites , NCA , Punjab University Fine Arts Department and other private buisness schools of Gulberg and Liberty.Not defending this culture but pepsi burger class is everywhere , may be a bit more in LUMS specially in business program etc.Just for information , Allama Iqbal Medical College from 2 or 3 years arranging Holi where students throw colours on each other.Same cultural shocks can be seen at King Edward Medical College where cultural functions are arranged and in the first year couples are formed and start planning thier post-marriage discussions , how to cling around USMLE after the graduation and finally run from Pakistan and earn 300K+ in US and UK and live as a 3rd class citizen there but happy that instead of serving Pakistan Health System , these Traitors prefer to live as 3rd class citizens.

This thread is basically about SSE (School of Science and Engineering) , a newly initiated project and raw talent came here ( some gold and silver medalists of FSC of Lahore,Gujranwala and Faisalabad boards who have been given generous scholarships) . Some NSTC stiuents also which are considered very bright and genius students. For second batch of this school , test was conducted on March 1, 2009 and about 7000+ students gave the test and only 180 are short listed and most of them are from conservative and moderate families , not ultra class.Here is a link to NSTC

Welcome to Official website of STEM Careers Project

Quote:

Originally Posted by wonder_eyed

salam alaykum

desert bird,

do you have any info on the Social Sciences Dept of LUMS?i want to study from this very talked about teacher called Sheikh Kamaluddin Ahmed..if u have more info on him..it would be appreciated!

Sorry , I dont study there.May be from thier website , some info. would be available.

DOVE · Jul 13th, 2009, 04:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desert bird

a newly initiated project and raw talent came here ( some gold and silver medalists of FSC of Lahore,Gujranwala and Faisalabad boards who have been given generous scholarships)

My bro was studying at G C University Lahore for his FSc ( Pre-Engg ). The guy who topped in Lahore Board as well as all over the Punjab in 2008 was his class fellow. The Gold Medalist of Lahore joined LUMS SSE but he is no more on the rolls of SSE. He probably could not survive there inspite of securing 1024 marks under Pakistani FSc System.
Last year my bro took LUMS SSE Test and he failed to qualify. This year I took it but i failed too.