3. "Global Warming and Its Impact on Life", Sultana N. Nahar, Seminar on {\it Global Warming and Food Crisis", Department of Management Studies, Chittagong University, Chittagong, Bangladesh, August 3, 2008
2. "The Iron Project: Radiative Atomic Processes in Astrophysics" (keynote speech), 3rd international conference on {\it Modern Trends in Physics Research}, Cairo University, Egypt, April 6-10, 2008
1. "Perspectives of a woman scientist on problems and inspiring women
to science", Sultana N. Nahar (Guest of Honor), {\it World Women's Day
observation}, organized by the Progressive Forum in New York, New York,
March 18, 2006
18. "BLACKHOLES, THE SUN, and THE EARTH", Sultana N. Nahar, {\it
NASIC International workshop on GENDER PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT
OF SCIENCE}, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 26-28, 2009 (cancelled for
political reasons)
17. "SOLAR IRRADIATION OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE", S.N. Nahar,
"International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in
South Asia", Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 25-30, 2008
16. "ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY: ASTRONOMY TO BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE", S.N. Nahar,
Theory Session honoring Professor R. Pitzer in 63rd annual
"International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy", Ohio State U.,
Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 16-20, 2008
15. "PHOTOIONIZATION, RECOMBINATION, AND RADIATIVE DECAYS OF ATOMS AND
IONS", Sultana N. Nahar, conference of "New Quests in
Stellar Astrophysics. II. Ultraviolet Properties of Evolved Stellar
Populations", Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on April 16 - 20, 2007
14. "Superhot atoms around blackholes", Sultana N. Nahar,
in Seminar session "Science \& Technology", 20th annual convention of
{\it Federation of Bangladesh Associations in North America (FOBANA)},
Atlanta, Georgia, September 1-3, 2006
13. "The Iron Project: Atomic Radiative Processes in Asrophysical Plasmas",
Sultana N. Nahar, Abstracts in the joint international
IP/ITAMP workshop {\it High Accuracy Atomic Physics in Astronomy} in
honor of Michael Seaton, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(CfA), Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 7-9, 2006, p. 38
12. "Photoionization and Recombination of Na~IX, Na~X, Mg~X, Mg~XI",
Sultana N. Nahar, Abstracts in the joint international IP/ITAMP
workshop {\it High Accuracy Atomic Physics in Astronomy} in
honor of Michael Seaton, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, August 7-9, 2006, p.39
11. "Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in Fe XIX", Sultana N. Nahar,
Abstracts in the joint international IP/ITAMP workshop {\it
High Accuracy Atomic Physics in Astronomy} in honor of Michael Seaton,
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 7-9, 2006,
p.40
10. "NEW RADIATIVE ATOMIC DATA", Sultana N. Nahar, {\it International
Astronomical Union XXVth General Assembly}, Sydney, Australia, July
13-26, 2003
9. "The Iron Project and non-LTE Stellar Modeling", Sultana N. Nahar,
{\it Stellar Atmosphere Modeling Workshop}, Tuebingen, Germany, April
8-12, 2002, $http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/~rauch/ATMOS\_2001\_index.html$
8. "Photoionization and Recombination Experiments", Sultana N. Nahar,
workshop on {\it ASTROPHYSICAL AND LABORATORY APPLICATIONS OF THE IP AND
THE OP}, Goddard, NASA, Maryland, Feb 22, 2002
7. "Atomic processes in planetary nebulae", Sultana N. Nahar,
{\it International Astronomical Union Symposium 209 Planetary Nebulae},
program p.25, Canberra, Australia, November 19-23, 2001,
$http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~pn\_symp/$
6. "Photoionization, transition probabilities and opacities",
Sultana N. Nahar, {\it 12th APS Topical Conference on Atomic Processes
in Plasmas}, Reno, Nevada, March 19-23, 2000
5 "Photoionization and Recombination", Sultana N. Nahar, workshop on
{\it Atomic Data Needs for X-ray Astronomy}, Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, December 16-17, 1999
4. "Electron ion recombination", Sultana N. Nahar, {\it The International
Symposium on Bose Statistics and Recent Advances in
Physics}, Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 8-9, 1995
3. "Unified recombination rates for astrophysically abundant atoms and
ions", Sultana N. Nahar, {\it The Conference on Model
Nebulae}, Lexington, Kentucky, May 10 - 14, 1994
2. "Electron-Ion Recombination in the Close Coupling Approximation",
Sultana N. Nahar, the workshop of {\it Future Directions in
Electron-Ion Collision Physics}, Atlanta, April 9- 10, 1992
1. "Atomic Data-Bases for Astrophysical Applications", Sultana N. Nahar,
{\it 180th AAS Meeting}, June 7 - 11, 1992, Columbus,
Ohio. Bull. Am. Astro. Soc. 24, 32.05, 780 (1992) \\
10. "Xray Spectroscopy: Astronomy to Bio-medical Science", Sultana N.
Nahar, Physics Department, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, August
20, 2008
9. "Atomic Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas", Sultana N. Nahar,
Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Bangladesh,
August 16, 2008
8. "Physics of Astronomical Objects", Sultana N. Nahar, Department of
Physics, Chittagong University, Chittagong, Bangladesh, August 3, 2008
7. "Atomic Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas", Sultana N. Nahar,
Department of Physics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 20, 2005
6. "Theoretical Predictions of Photoionization Cross Sections of
Low Ionized Iron", Sultana N. Nahar, LIXAM, University of Paris-Sud,
Orsay Cedex, France, July 1, 2005
5. "ATOMIC RADIATIVE PROCESSES", Sultana N. Nahar, Department of
Physics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 31, 2003
4. "Radiative Atomic Processes in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas",
Sultana N. Nahar, Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of
Nevada, Reno, Nevada, April 24, 2000
3. "Atomic astrophysics : what it does for you !", Sultana N. Nahar,
A colloquium, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University,
December 9, 1999
2. "Transition probabilities from the Iron Project", Sultana N. Nahar,
Atomic Physics Seminars, Dept of Physics, Notre Dame University, Notre
Dame, Indiana, October 8, 1998
1. "Unified electron-ion recombination of ions", Sultana N. Nahar,
Weekly Colloquium at East Carolina University, Greenville, North
Carolina, Feb 27, 1998
2. Guest of S-TV educational program "Jana-Ajana" (known-unknown), New
York, broadcasted both in the US (May 2006) and in Bangladesh (June, 2006)
1. N-TV educational program "Tiffiner Faake", Bangladesh, August 2005
6. "Photoionization and Electron-Ion Recombination of Cr~I", Sultana
N. Nahar, the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and
Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), July 22 - 28, 2009, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
(https://www.icpeac2009.physics.wmich.edu/pdffiles/Nahar1235772293.pdf)
5. "THE IRON PROJECT AND THE RMAX PROJECT: Photoionization, Electron-Ion
Recombination of Fe~XVII and Oscillator Strengths for Fe~XXII", Anil K.
Pradhan, Sultana N. Nahar, Werner Eissner, the International Conference on
Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), July 22 - 28, 2009,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
4. "Benchmarking the Resonances in Photoionization of O II",
Maximiliano Montenegro, Sultana N. Nahar, Werner Eissner, Anil K.
Pradhan, the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and
Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), July 22 - 28, 2009, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
3. "STUDY OF ENHANCED ABSORPTION OF X-RAYS BY NANOPARTICLES IN CANCER
TREATMENT", M. Montenegro, S.N. Nahar, A.K. Pradhan, {\it Spring
Educational Symposium of the Ohio River Valley Chapter of AAPM}
(American Association of Physicists in Medicine), University of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 7, 2009
2. "Resonant X-ray Irradiation of High-Z Nanoparticles For Cancer
Theranostics" (refereed presentation), A Pradhan1 , S Nahar2 , M
Montenegro3 , C Sur4 , M Mrozik5 , R Pitzer6 , E Silver7 , Y Yu8 *,
(1) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, (2) Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH, (3) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, (4) Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH, (5) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH,
(6) Ohio State University , Columbus, OH, (7) Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, (8) Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA,
SU-GG-J-212, 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physicists in Medicine in Houston, TX from July 27 - 31, 2008
(Joint Imaging-Therapy General Poster Discussion)
1. "Computational Methodology For Resonant Nano-Plasma Theranostics
For Cancer Treatment", Prof. Anil K Pradhan, Dr. Yan Yu, Dr. Sultana
N Nahar, Dr. Eric Silver, Prof. Russell Pitzer, {\it 15th International
Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy}, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, June 4-7, 2007
13. "Photoionization and Electron-Ion Recombination of Cr~I", Sultana
N. Nahar, the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and
Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), July 22 - 28, 2009, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
(https://www.icpeac2009.physics.wmich.edu/pdffiles/Nahar1235772293.pdf)
(to be presented)
12. "THE IRON PROJECT AND THE RMAX PROJECT: Photoionization, Electron-Ion
Recombination of Fe~XVII and Oscillator Strengths for Fe~XXII", Anil K.
Pradhan, Sultana N. Nahar, Werner Eissner, the International Conference on
Photonic, Electronic and
Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), July 22 - 28, 2009, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
(to be presented)
11. "Benchmarking the Resonances in Photoionization of O II", Maximiliano
Montenegro, Sultana N. Nahar, Werner Eissner, Anil K. Pradhan,
the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and
Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), July 22 - 28, 2009, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
(to be presented)
10. "X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES", Sultana N. Nahar,
Maximiliano Montenegro, Anil Pradhan, R. Pitzer, {\it 64th
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy}, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, June 22-26, 2009
9. "PHOTOIONIZATION AND ELECTRON-ION RECOMBINATION OF NEUTRAL Cr USING
THE UNIFIED METHOD", Sultana N. Nahar, {\it 40th Annual Meeting of
the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, \& Optical Physics (DAMOP)},
Charlottesville, Virginia, May 19-23, 2009
8. "Nebular Element Abundances and Recombination Lines - O II", Sultana N.
Nahar, Werner Eissner, Maximiliano Montenegro, Anil K. Pradhan, "Recent
Directions in Astrophysical Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation
Hydrodynamics", Boulder, CO, March 30 - April 3, 2009
7. "BLACKHOLES, THE SUN, and THE EARTH", Sultana N. Nahar, {\it
NASIC International workshop on GENDER PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT
OF SCIENCE}, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 26-28, 2009 (cancelled)
6. "SOLAR IRRADIATION OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE", S.N. Nahar,
"International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in
South Asia", Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 24-30, 2008
5. "ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY: ASTRONOMY TO BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE" (invited talk),
S.N. Nahar, Theory Session honoring Professor R. Pitzer in 63rd annual
"International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy", Ohio State U.,
Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 16-20, 2008
4. "Photoionization and Electron-Ion Recombination: Fe~XVII, S~XIV
AND S~XV Using Unified Method", Sultana N. Nahar, in the {\it 39th
Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, \& Optical
Physics (DAMOP)}, May 27-31, 2008; State College, Pennsylvania, Bull.
Am. Phys. Soc. I6.00002
3. "THE IRON PROJECT AND THE RMAX PROJECT: Radiative and Collisional
Processes of Iron Ions - Fe~I, Fe~II, Fe~XVI, Fe~XVII", Maximiliano
Montenegro, Sultana Nahar, Anil Pradhan, Chiranjib Sur, in
the {\it 39th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular,
\& Optical Physics}, May 27-31, 2008; State College, Pennsylvania,
Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. L2.00056
2. "Resonant X-Ray Attenuation by Highly Ionized Ions of High-Z
Elements", Anil Pradhan, Sultana Nahar, Yan Yu, C. Cur, M.
Montenegro, M. Mrozik, R. Pitzer, in the {\it 39th Annual Meeting of
the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, \& Optical Physics}, May 27-31,
2008; State College, Pennsylvania, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. B6.00001
1. "The Iron Project: Radiative Atomic Processes in Astrophysics"
(keynote speech), 3rd international conference on {\it Modern Trends
in Physics Research}, Cairo University, Egypt, April 6-10, 2008
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