Oman representatives at Lindau Nobel Laureate meet named

Oman Monday 20/May/2019 19:51 PM
By: Times News Service
Oman representatives at Lindau Nobel Laureate meet named

Muscat: Two young Omani scientists have been selected to represent the country in this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
The two scientists, Abdulrahim Rashid Al Balushi, a PhD student in Theoretical Physics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and Dr. Sausan Al Riyami, Renewable Energy Researcher at The Research Council (TRC) will have the opportunity to meet up with around 600 young scientists from 89 countries from around the world.
The 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to physics will take place from June 30 to July 5, 2019.
The key topics will be dark matter and cosmology, laser physics and gravitational waves.
Abdulrahim Al Balushi expressed his happiness on being selected for the Lindau Meeting. “I look forward to the event and I am thankful to TRC for the nomination and to the Lindau committee for its selection,” he said.
“Many areas in physics are seeing rapid progress in both theory and experiment. Attending this meeting is a great opportunity to learn about recent advances in physics research from the researchers making them, get valuable insights from the top scientists in the field, and be reminded about the relation of it all to other disciplines of enquiry and to society at large,” Abdulrahim added.
Dr. Sausan Al Riyami is looking forward to exploring the latest discoveries and developments in the field of physics, and to learn more about the topics under discussion.
“It is a great pleasure to be selected from high standard Omani candidate researchers to attend a prestigious event like the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting,” Dr. Sausan added.
TRC has been an academic partner to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings since 2015.
Eligible candidates must be under 35 years old, show a genuine interest in science and research, receive strong support for their application by their academic advisor and/or by internationally renowned scientists to qualify for selection.
Rahma Khalfan Saif Al Busaidiya, a demonstrator at the Department of Physics at SQU, was the first researcher to represent the Sultanate in the 66th Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to physics in 2016.