786 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:29:59 -0500 From: Sultana Nahar To: ISMWS -- Aiman Fatima Physics-India , Alaa Abdelaziz Chemistry-Egypt , Alshaymaa Ramadan Special Physics-Egypt , Alya AB Azman Astronomy-Malaysia-USA , amaal6916@hotmail.com, ....... Yasmeen Hafiz Chemistry-Sudan , Yasmin Mostafa Pharmacology-Egypt , Zara Aftab Physics-India , zulkurnain.1@osu.edu Subject: Salam and Updates Parts/Attachments: 1 Shown 459 lines Text 2 OK 414 KB Image 3 OK 694 KB Image 4 OK 68 KB Image ---------------------------------------- - Our Motto: "Stay in Science (Basic or Applied)" - Our Practice: "Regardless of other commitments, of the 24 hours of the day, we save a few hours for ourselves for our scientific work" - ISMWS Website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~nahar/ismws.html Dear All, Assalamu alaikum. Pray all are well with everyone. In 2014, I started to work on a formal ISMWS newsletter, but had to postpone it due to work accumulated from travelings. Unfinished newsletter was one reason not to write to anyone. But I could not resist coming to you when I saw the news about Qudsia Quraishi being awarded as the "Woman Physicist of the Month" of APS in March 2015. Hearty congratulations, Qudsia! Please remember our motto and practice, visit ISMWS website for various information. I am appending some job news that came to me. I am very pleased to give the following news of our members. I believe there are more which I don't know. Please share your achievements for inspiration and happiness for other members using the email list-serve. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- News in 2015 -------------- 1. Dr. Qudsia Quraishi is the "Woman Physicist of the Month" of APS. See her at http://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/womanmonth/2015.cfm 2. Dr. Maria Bergeman of Max Planck Institute is the Chair of Scientific Oraganizing Committee of the International Conference on "Frontiers of Stellar Spectroscopy in the Local Group and Beyond" to held at Max Planck Institute during April 2015 3. A high profile Nature Letter, with Sultana Nahar as one of the 22 authors, on the solar opacity is published in January 1, 2015 issue. 4. Dr. Hoda Abou-Shady, professor in Physics of Cairo University, wrote: "I am also pleased to inform you that i was chosen as the first woman scientist on the presidential advisory council on science and education in egypt and the first woman deputy assistant minister of higher education. Beside my working load and the fact that i am still teaching and supervising 9 students of phd. My groupe has published four research papers last year two of them in reputable journals and one on line and the last in a conference." 5. Rahla Naghma has received her Ph.D. and is working in Department of Applied Physics Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India 6. Mussarat Jahan recevied her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Toledo and is working at Ford Motors. She wrote: "I have something to share with the group too. I have just finished my PhD from The University of Toledo, Ohio. My research work was on the structural optimization of wind turbine blade so it can extract most energy from the wind at minimum cost.  SAE is going to publish my paper on reliability on their April, 2015 summit. And I accepted a position at Ford Motor Company (head quarter) in Michigan as their safety CAE engineer and started working." News in 2014 ------------ 1. Ariba Ali has graduated from Aligarh Medical School 1. Khadije Younes Bazzi has received her Ph.D. from Wayne State University 2. Dr. Qudsia Quraishi has got a permanent position in defense lab in Washington DC 3. Noore Zahra presented invited talk at OSU and Vanderbelt University conference on mathematical model of neo-networking. She is a faculty at Sharda University near Delhi and has a family with two kids. She wrote: "1.  Noore Zahra attended 2014 ICIAM BOARD MEETING on 17th May2014  hosted by Mathematical Bioscience Institute (MBI),Colombus,USA  and  delivered an invited talk  on“Vanishing point Detection algorithm using curvelet to denoise MR images” at 2014 ICIAM Scientific Workshop on 15-16th May2014,Ohio State University,Ohio, Colombus,USA Noore Zahra presented another talk  on “Edge detection of brain tumor using curvelet transform” in the international conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis 5 that is being held at Vanderbilt University from19- 23rd May ,2014, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA." 4. Hala and Nida Rehmani of Aligarh Muslim University have received Obama-Singh awarded STEM Fellowship at the Ohio State University. Hala is working with me. 5. Prof. Laila Babsail was a most wonderful host at King Saud University during my visit. She is moving to innovative teaching. 6. Dr. Maria Bergemann at Max-Planck Institute visited OSU twice and presented a seminar once. 7. Nigma Mostafa of Ohio State University has moved to auto company with a better position. She is a member of Sultana's family through her nephew Imran Jahan, Aviation management engineer. Both graduated from OSU and served as BSA president at different times. 8. Prof Subuhi of Mathematics from Aligarh Muslim University wrote: "1. I have deliverd  M. K. Singhal Memorial Lecture as Chief Guest of National Mathematics Day Celebrations 2014 at B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra, India on 22nd December 2014. (The title of my talk was “From Ramanujan’s Work on Bernoulli Numbers to Mixed Type Numbers”) 2. I have deliverd an invited talk in International Conference on Special Functions & Their Applications (ICSFA- 2014) (13th Annual Conference of SSFA) & Symposium on “Applications of Mathematics in Engineering Sciences” held at School of Mathematics & Computer Applications, Thapar University, Patiala, India, 16th-18th October, 2014. (The title of my talk was“Certain Special Polynomial Families Related to Sheffer Sequences”)  3. I have ddelivered a Contributory Talk in 4th International Conference on Mathematics & Information Science (ICMIS 2015), held at Zewail City of Science and Technology, Cairo, Egypt, 5th-7th February, 2015. (The title of my talk was “Some Properties of Mixed Appell Sequences and  Related Numbers”). Also I have published six research papers (with my research scholars) four of which are published in reputed Mathematical Journals like  Journal of Mathematical Analysis & Applications and Applied Mathematics & Computation of Elsevier publications. " 9. Prof Dr. Ibtesam Badhrees of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, KACST wrote: "I would like to share with you that I have been awarded as the Physicist of the month, August 2014. I am in Canada now and It will be pleasure to be part of any coming activities." 10. Professor Lotfia El Nadi of Cairo University and NILES organized international conference on "Modern Trend in Physics Research (MTPR)" held both in Cairo University and in Luxor in 2014 Lotfia was honored with "Lifetime Achievement" award by Physics Department of Aligarh Muslim University. Lotfia received two additional highest honor awards from Cairo University. 11. Sultana Nahar spent about two months in India for the Obama-Singh faculty training project: - taught at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and University of Delhi, - acted as a convener of Aligarh Nano-IV International conference - gave presentations at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Jain University, University of Kashmir - received 4 recognitions Prof Lotifia El Nadi, Prof Mona El Bkr presented at Alligarh Nano-IV international conference and received momentos. Prof Biqees Siddiqui, Prof Qudsia Tahseen, other ISMWS members of Aligarh Muslim University, and Sultana articipated International Women's Day at AMU and number of them were recognized Sultana led OSU delegation at IECHE conference in Saudi Arabia, gave mulitiple seminars at four universities, and receifed 2 recognition Sultana received the Distinguished Alumni Award 2014 from Wayne State University Sultana spent one month in Bangladeshe and worked on physics research recoginition for scientists in Bangladesh, presented multiple seminars, worked with 11 institutions Sultana, along with a number of ISMWS members in Egypt, participated MTPR conference in Egypt and they received MTPR recognitions. She also worked with Cairo and Al-Azhar Universities, received shield of Al-Azhar University and medal of Cairo University --------------------------------------------------------------------- With all the best, - Sultana _______________________________________________________ Dr. Sultana N. Nahar Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University 140 West 18th Avenue, McPherson Laboratory Columbus, OH 43210, USA Tel: 1-614-292-1888, Fax: 1-614-292-2928 Email: nahar@astronomy.ohio-state.edu, nahar.1@osu.edu (preferred) Website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~nahar Associate Director: Obama-Singh project on STEM Education and Research Faculty Training ISMWS: Founder & President _______________________________________________________