KAU
Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Professor
Adnan Hamza Muhammad Zahed, was in the meeting with the Fields Medalist
Efim Zelmanov from the University of California at San Diego (Fields
Medal in Mathematics is equivalent of Noble Prize in other sciences) and
Distinguished Professor S. K. Jain from Ohio University.
The
meeting was also attended by a number of Consultants from the office of
the Vice President of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research.,
Professor
Zelmanov is among the top mathematicians who has earned many
international awards, is a member of United States National Academy of
Sciences, member of numerous international committees for selection of
awards like Fields Medal, Abel Award, and on the advisory boards of
institutes. He has been awarded honorary degrees by several institutes
throughout the world. He had been instrumental and founder of Institutes
of Advanced studies in Mathematics in South Korea and China. Professor
S. K. Jain is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, had been the
founder of the Ohio University Research Center in Ring theory and its
Applications, is the founder of a prestigious ISI- listed journal and a
founder of another highly rated journal in mathematics. He has
extensive experience in supervising excellent doctoral students. He has
directed 23 Ph.D students and a number of them have remained active in
research.
Professor
Zahd talked about the KAU goal to create high class research
environment in which the distinguished scientists and talented students
at KAU can flourish freely and become internationally known through
their innovative and cutting edge research, leading to receiving
prestigious international awards, including Faisal, Noble Prize, and
Fields Medal. It was suggested by Professors Zelmanov and Jain that KAU
is in much better position now to achieve its goal with the present
distinguished scientists program. Besides engaging local distinguished
faculty with the Distinguished Adjunct Professors, the undergraduate and
graduate students should be involved . Realistically, this should
begin when the students join KAU through lectures , say, once a weekly
distinguished local faculty on the material recommended by the Visiting
Distinguished Adjunct Professors. This is being done in South Korea and
China to bring out the best talent. Both Russia and USA have special
schools. There is a plenty of literature on the material given to such
students as pointed out by Prof Zelmanov.
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