The Research & Innovation (R&I) week started with an exclusive seminar held at the UIU campus in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Prof Dr Md Abul Kashem Mia, vice chancellor of UIU, presided over the ceremony.
Prof M Zahid Hasan, Eugene Higgins professor of Physics at Princeton University and fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, was present as the special guest in the program.
Besides, Professor Emeritus Dr M Rezwan Khan, executive director of IAR, UIU and chairman of Power Grid, Bangladesh, Prof Dr Hamidul Haq, dean, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, UIU, Prof Dr Hasan Sarwar, dean, School of Science & Engineering, UIU, and Dr Md Zulfiqur Rahman, registrar of UIU, were present in the program.
The welcome address was delivered by Professor Dr Khandaker Abdullah Al Mamun, director of the Institute of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Commercialization (IRIIC), UIU.
In the program, Prof M Zahid Hasan conducted an exclusive seminar on “Fourth Industrial Revolution and Future Society: The Transformative Impact of Changing Technologies”.
He said: “The quantum technology will be the most powerful thing in future in the world. The human life and structure have evolved from this technology.”
He also discussed the implications of AI, quantum science, and other scientific advancements in the seminar.
Prof M Zahid Hasan has written over 280 peer-reviewed journal articles being the most cited experimenter in the research areas - the search and discovery of novel phases of matter, emergent new particles, novel quantum effects, exotic superconductivity, quantum magnetism, and Ultrafast & Nanoscale quantum phenomena among others.
He worked at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator as well as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and also is the recipient of the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award.
He has received the American Competitiveness & Innovation Fellowship “for leadership in the field of physics” by the US National Science Foundation. He is listed in the “World's Most Influential Scientific Minds List” from 2014 onward.
The heads of departments, directors, faculty members, researchers, officials and students, among others, were present in the program.
