Agenda of

 

The EIGHTEENTH CONFERENCE

OF ISLAMIC WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22nd to 24th October 2011

 

The Sheraton Hotel

 

Doha, State of Qatar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 22 October 2011

Time

Events

07:00-08:30

Al Habara Hall

Breakfast at Hotel

08:30-09:45

Dukhan Hall

Registration

10:00-11:15

Dafna 1 Hall (1)

 

Inaugural Session

 

A Recitation from the Holy Qur’an.

 

Welcome Address of H E Mr. Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud,

Deputy Premier and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Qatar.

 

─   Address of H E Prof. Abdel Salam Majali, President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, Jordan.

─   Introductory Remarks by H E Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Hon. FIAS, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia; Perdana Leadership Foundation, Putrajaya, Malaysia.

─   Message of H E the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Patron of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, delivered by his representative, Pakistan.

 

Address of H R H Prince El-Hassan bin Talal,

Founding Patron of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, Jordan.

 

─  Induction of new Fellows of the IAS (7), IAS-COMSTECH Ibrahim Memorial Award Laureates (2) and IAS Honorary Fellows (1).

 

11:15-11:35

Break.

11:35-13:15

Dafna 1 Hall (1)

 

 

Session 1: Keynotes

 

─   Chair: Prof. Abdel Salam Majali FIAS (Jordan).

─   Co-Chair: Prof. Ibrahim Saleh Al-Naimi FIAS (Qatar).

 

The Islamic World and the West:

Towards a Common Understanding through Development.

─   Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Hon. FIAS, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia; Perdana Leadership Foundation, Putrajaya, Malaysia.

 

Big Ideas Based on Science for Fast-Track Development:

Emphasis on the Case of Egypt.

─   Prof. Farouk El-Baz FIAS, Director, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, USA.

 

Building Bridges with the West through Knowledge Economy.

─  Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman FIAS, Former Federal Minister/Chairman, Higher Education Commission; Coordinator General, COMSTECH, Pakistan.

13:15-15:00

Dafna 1 Hall (2)

Lunch.

 

Time

Events

15:00-16:15

 

Dafna 1 Hall (1)

 

Session 2:

Islamic Science, Engineering and Technology (ISSTI V)

 

─   Chair: Academician Dato Lee Yee Cheong (Malaysia).

─   Co-Chair: Dr El Tayeb Mustafa (Sudan).

 

Muslim Contributions and the Turning Points

in the History of Classical Mathematics.

─   Prof. Roshdi H. Rashed, Emeritus Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Center for History of Arabic and Medieval Sciences and Philosophy, University of Paris 7, France.

 

Discoveries in the Islamic World.

─   Prof. Ahmed Djebbar, Professor Emeritus, University of Science and Technology, Lille, Algeria.

16:15-16:35

Break.

16:35-18:00

Keynote

Unravelling the Mystery of the Decline of Islamic Science:

Key Projections on Today’s World.

─   Prof. George Saliba, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, USA.

 

Ibn al-Haytham’s Contributions to European Civilization.

─   Prof. Charles Falco, UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

20:00-22:00

Dafna 1 Hall (2)

Official Dinner

Sunday 23 October 2011

Time

Events

09:00-10:45

Dafna 1 Hall (1)

 

 Session 3:

Global Perceptions of the Arab-Islamic World

 

─  Chair: Prof. Adnan Badran FIAS (Jordan).

─  His Excellency. Mohammed Bin Abdullah Bin Mutib Al Rumaihi, Foreign Ministers' Assistant for Follow Up Affairs (Qatar).

 

The Science and Technology and Human Rights Nexus

in the Arab/Islamic World.

─   Prof. Adnan Badran FIAS, Former Prime Minister of Jordan; President, Petra University, Amman, Jordan.

 

Revisiting the Issue of Media and Religion in the Arab/Islamic World.

─   Prof. S. Abdallah Schleifer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in Cairo, USA/Egypt.

 

A Prediction of the Second Wave of the Global Crisis

that has Turned out to be True.

─   Prof. Askar Akaev FIAS, Chief Research Scientist, Moscow State University, Russia; Former President of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan.

10:45-11:00

Break.

 

Time

Events

11:00-11:40

Dafna 1 Hall (1)

 

 

Session 4:

Science and Health

 

─   Chair: Prof. Abdallah Daar FIAS (Oman/ Canada).

─   Discussant: Prof. Uğur Dilmen FIAS (Turkey).

 

Keynote

Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP

in Cell Signalling and Their Role in Drug Development.

 

─   Prof. Ferid Murad Hon. FIAS, 1998 Nobel Prize Laureate (Medicine), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George Washington University, USA.

 

 

Sessions 4A & 4B

 

 

Session 4A: Science and Health

Sheraton Hotel: Salwa 2 Hall.

 

 

Session 4B: Nuclear Energy

Sheraton Hotel: Salwa 3 Hall.

 

 

Chair: Prof. Uğur Dilmen FIAS

(Turkey).

Discussant: Prof. Abdallah Daar FIAS

(Oman/ Canada).

 

 

Chair: Prof. Ibrahim Saleh Al-Naimi FIAS (Qatar).

Discussant: Prof. Munir Nayfeh FIAS

(Jordan/ USA).

 

11:45-13:15

The Ibrahim Memorial Lecture I

Wartime Surgical Judgment.

Dr Faris Gavrankapetanovic, General Manager, Clinical Center, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

11:45-13:15

Special Presentation

Nuclear Energy for World Peace.

Prof. Abdul Qadeer Khan FIAS, Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Pakistan.

Energy Security in the Islamic World: Is Nuclear Power the Answer?

Prof. Mehmet Ergin FIAS, Vice – President, IAS, and Prof. Reşat Uzmen, Extractive Metallurgy Coordinator, AMR Minerals and Minor Metals Inc., Turkey.

The Ibrahim Memorial Lecture II

Molecular and Genetic Basis of Human Deafness in Pakistani Population.

Dr Saima Riazuddin, Adjunct Associate Professor, National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), Lahore, Pakistan.

Nanosciences-Nanotechnology: An Ultimate STI Platform for the Developing World.

Prof. Malik Maaza FIAS, Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, iThemba LABS-National Research Foundation of South Africa, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Bridging the Gap between Islamic Countries and the West in Research and Development through Partnership and Networking.

Prof. A L Ibrahim FIAS, Director, Institute Bio-IT Selangor, Malaysia.

Energy Education and Research, a Forum for Cooperation between Lebanon and European Institutions.

Prof. Nesreen Ghaddar FIAS, Associate Provost, Qatar Chair in Energy Studies Professor of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

13:15-15:00

Dafna 1 Hall (2)

Lunch.

 

 

Time

Events

15:00-16:40

Dafna 1 Hall (1)

 

 

Session 5:

Roles of Academies of Sciences in Bridging

 

─   Chair: Prof. Abdul Hamid Zakri FIAS (Malaysia).

─   Discussant: Prof. Mohamed H A Hassan FIAS (Sudan).

 

Keynote

Bridging Political, Cultural and Religious Divides:

The Role of Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

─   Prof. Pieter Drenth, Honorary President, European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), The Netherlands.

 

Role of Academies of Sciences in Bridging the US- Islamic World Divide:

The Approach of the US National Academy of Sciences.

─   Dr Michael Clegg, Foreign Secretary, US National Academy of Sciences, USA.

 

The Science, Technology & Innovation Initiative for the Islamic World.

─   Mr Ellis Rubinstein, President and CEO, New York Academy of Sciences, USA.

 

Role of Academies of Sciences in Bridging Political Divides.

─   Prof. Yves Quéré, Former Co-chair of InterAcademy Panel (IAP), French Academy of Sciences, France.

16:40-17:00

Break.

17:00-18:30

 

 

Role of the National Academies in International Issues:

The Russian Academy of Sciences.

─   Prof. Robert Nigmatulin FIAS,Member of Presidium, Russian Academy of Sciences; Director, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

 

The Academy of Sciences of Albania:

Towards the Achievement of International Standards.

─   Prof. Gudar Beqiraj, President, Academy of Sciences of Albania, Albania.

 

Building Bridges between the Islamic World and the West:

The ASM & ISTIC Approaches.

─   Dato’ Dr Samsudin Tugiman, Secretary General, Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Malaysia.

 

ALLEA and Its Science Policy Work on International Scientific Collaboration.

─   Dr Rüdiger Klein, Executive Director, ALLEA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

18:30-19:00

Dafna 1 Hall (1)

 

 

Closing Session

 

─  Chair: Prof. Abdel Salam Majali FIAS (Jordan).

─  His Excellency. Mohammed Bin Abdullah Bin Mutib Al Rumaihi, Foreign Ministers' Assistant for Follow Up Affairs (Qatar).

─  Rapporteur: Moneef R. Zou’bi (DG/IAS).

 

IAS 2011 Doha Declaration

on The Islamic World and the West:

Rebuilding Bridges through Science and Technology.

 

19:30-22:00

Dinner at Souq Waqif (Traditional Market).