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Qadir became the dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences from 1999 to 2000. Recently, he moved to National University of Sciences and Technology as the director of Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics.
In 1998, Qadir came back to Pakistan and re-joined Quaid-e-Azam University as an Associate professor of Mathematicsn. In 1999, Qadir became the dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences which he continued till 2000. In 2004, he served as the head of the Department of Mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Recently, he moved to Rawalpindi and joined National University of Sciences and Technology as the director of Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics.


==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==

Revision as of 04:42, 5 February 2011

Asghar Qadir
Born (1946-07-23) 23 July 1946 (age 78)
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, British Indian Empire, Present-day India
NationalityPakistani
CitizenshipPakistan
Alma materUniversity of London
Imperial College London
Known forHis work on the Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, General Relativity, Introduction to general relativity, Cosmology
AwardsHilal-i-Imtiaz (2008)
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1999)
Fulbright Award (1979)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNational University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Quaid-i-Azam University (Qau)
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
University of Texas at Austin (UTA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
Doctoral advisorRoger Penrose
Other academic advisorsOliver Penrose
Notes
A close friend of physicists Riazuddin and student of Dr. Roger Penrose

Asghar Qadir (July 23, 1946), HI, SI, FPAS, is a renowned Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialized in Mathematical physics and Physical cosmology. He is considered as one of the top mathematicians in Pakistan. He is the Chairman of the Mathematics Department, and the director of Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics (CAMP) at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST).[1]

He is a distinguished student of English mathematical physicist Dr. Roger Penrose. He made extraordinary efforts and published numerous papers in the fields of Mathematical physics, Cosmology and Mathematics. Qadir has made important and significant contributions to the fields of differential equations, theoretical cosmology and the mathematical physics. He has written and edited a number of books, mainly focusing on mathematical sciences and mathematical physics.

He is author of the book "Relativity: An Introduction to the Special Theory" which has been translated in several different languages and is widely read by science students in colleges throughout Asia.[2] He has attended more than 100 International and National Conferences and Seminars in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science.[3] He has supervised two Master of science programs, twenty nine M. Phil, twelve Ph.Ds and two-joint Ph.D. students during his career. He has published more then 140 research papers. He is the author of 12 books, 22 research level articles, 7 teaching journal papers, 32 popular articles, and 48 research preprints. He is renowned for his work in mathematics and mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology.[4]

Biograghy

Education

Qadir gained his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with (Honors) in Mathematics from University of London, United Kingdom in 1967 under the distinction of Oliver Penrose. The same year, he became an Associate of the Royal College of Science and also obtained his B.Sc. in Physics and DIC in physics. Qadir later pursued his M.Sc. in Mathematics, followed by Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mathematical physics and Theory of relativity with the specialization in Twistor theory, under the supervision of Dr. Roger Penrose.[5]

Rutherford High Energy Laboratory

Qadir became a research associate and fellow at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where he continued his research in the field of advanced computational mathematics. However, in early 1971, he came back to Pakistan and joined Quaid-e-Azam University as a research associate. In 1982, he became associate professor and then subsequently became a chairman of the department of mathematics in 1986.

Academic career

While in the Pakistan, in the midst of the Indo-Pak War of 1971, Qadir was serving as a research associate at the University of Islamabad. In January of 1972, the clandestine nuclear research project was started. Qadir, a close friend of Dr. Riazuddin, was invited by him to continue and carry out his research at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. As an eminent and noted mathematician, Dr. Qadir was given task to calculate critical mass and the physics cross section calculations[6]. Qadir, at first, adopted the Monte Carlo method for evaluating complicated mathematical integrals that arise in the theory of nuclear chain reactions[7]. The mathematical calculations were brought up to Dr. Riazuddin, but Dr. Riazuddin already adopted the method earlier. Despite of Riazuddin's and his calculations, Dr. Qadir then approached onto a better method to develop the fission device.

He then suggested to adopt the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm using the Monte Carlo integration that arise in the theory of nuclear fusion and thermonuclear fission that can improve the intensity and frequency of the highly compressed shock waves, using the uranium reflector in a nuclear device[8]. Then, Qadir opted the Pati-Salam model for solving the fission problem and suggested that the Salam's model can be used to developed an effective boosted fissionable reflector in a device[9]. Qadir then continued to developed mathematical models and theorems to evaluate critical mass problems.

Prof. Qadir later joined Quaid-e-Azam University where he joined the Mathematics faculty. In 1988, after researching in International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Qadir re-joined QAU and became full professor of Mathematics. From 1993 to 1994, he was personally asked by the President, Ghulam Ishaq Khan (late), to teach in the then-newly founded research institute at Topi, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. In 1994, he went to Saudi Arabia where he visited his life-long friend Dr. Riazuddin where, on his friend's recommendation, joined King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals where he served as a chairman of departments of mathematics and statistics.[10]

In 1998, Qadir came back to Pakistan and re-joined Quaid-e-Azam University as an Associate professor of Mathematicsn. In 1999, Qadir became the dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences which he continued till 2000. In 2004, he served as the head of the Department of Mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Recently, he moved to Rawalpindi and joined National University of Sciences and Technology as the director of Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics.

Awards and honors

Fellowships and memberships

  • Senior Research Fellow at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), from 1980–1994
  • Joint Secretary at Al-Kindi Society for the Advancement of the Philosophy of Science, Islamabad, Pakistan, (1980)
  • Associate Member and Senior Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1980–1999
  • Life member and Vice-President, Albert Einstein Society (Pakistan Chapter) (1985 to date)
  • Life Member, Joint Secretary and Secretary, Pakistan Physical Society. (1992 and 1993)
  • Life Member and President, Fulbright Alumni Association, (1992–1993)

Books

  • International Symposium on Experimental Gravitation (1994) by Munawar Karim and Asghar Qadir
  • 5th International Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs (1990)
  • Relativity: An Introduction to the Special Theory by Asghar Qadir
  • 12th Regional Conference On Mathematical Physics (2008) by Aslam, M Jamil, Hussain, Faheem, Qadir, Asghar
  • Gravitational Wave Sources May Be "Further" Than We Think by Asghar Qadir
  • On Quantum Effects Near a Black Hole Singularity (2008) by Asghar Qadir, Asghar, Azad A. Siddiqui
  • Mathematical physics: proceedings of the 12th Regional Conference by Riazuddin, Asghar Qadir, Faheem Hussain, Hamid Saleem, M. Jamil Aslam.

Conference papers

  • Gravitational Waves Sources May be "Further" Than We Think, Dr. Asghar Qadir, Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics (CAMP)- National University of Sciences and Technology
  • Riazuddin, as I know him, Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics (CAMP)- National University of Sciences and Technology

Research papers

  • Primordial Black Holes in Phantom Cosmology (2009) by Mubasher Jamil, Asghar Qadir
  • Gauss-Type Quadrature Rules Based on Identity-Type Functions (2009), M. A. Bokhari, Asghar Qadir
  • Approximate Noether Symmetries of the Geodesic Equations for the Charged-Kerr Spacetime and Rescaling of Energy (2009) by Ibrar Hussain, F. M. Mahomed, Asghar Qadir
  • A Proposal for Determining the Energy Content of Gravitational Waves by Using Approximate Symmetries of Differential Equations (2009) by Ibrar Hussain, F. M. Mahomed, Asghar Qadir
  • Gravitational Wave Sources May Be "Further" Than We Think (2009) by Asghar Qadir
  • Approximate Symmetries of Lagrangians for Plane Symmetric Gravitational Wave-Like Spacetimes (2009) by Ibrar Hussain and Asghar Qadir
  • Another Representation for the Maximal Lie Algebra of sl(n+2,ℝ) in Terms of Operators (2009) by Tooba Feroze, Asghar Qadir
  • Weyl collineations that are not curvature collineations (2008) by Ibrar Hussain, ,Asghar Qadir and K. Saifullah.
  • Charged Black Holes in Phantom Cosmology (2008) by Mubasher Jamil ,Muneer Ahmad Rashid, and Asghar Qadir
  • Black Holes in Bulk Viscous Cosmology (2008). Francesco De Paolis, Mubasher Jamil, Asghar Qadir
  • Comments on "Charged particle dynamics in the field of slowly rotating compact star" (2008) by Jamil Mubasher and Asghar Qadir
  • Second-Order Approximate Symmetries of the Geodesic Equations for the Reissner-Nordstr\"om Metric and Re-Scaling of Energy of a Test Particle (2007) by Hussain, Ibrar, Mahomed, Fazal M., Qadir, Asghar
  • Use of Complex Lie Symmetries for Linearization of Systems of Differential Equations - I: Ordinary Differential Equations (2007) by Ali S. F. M. Mehmood, Asghar Qadir
  • Use of Complex Lie Symmetries for Linearization of Systems of Differential Equations - II: Partial Differential Equations (2007) by F. M. Mehmood, and A. Qadir.
  • Uniqueness of the McVittie Solution as Plane Symmetric Sourceless Electromagnetic Field Spacetimes", Tooba Feroze, Asghar Qadir and M. Ziad, Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 23, No. 11 (2008) 825-828.
  • Gauss-Bonnet and Lovelock gravities and generalized second law of thermodynamics, M. Akbar and A. Qadir, Chinese Physics Letters 26 260402, 1-4.(2009)

See also

References

  1. ^ CAMP, Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics (Wednesday, June 16, 2010). "Asghar Qadir". National University of Sciences and Technology University Press. National University of Sciences and Technology. Retrieved 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ http://www.ciit-atd.edu.pk/CCIS/Symposium_2007.html#04
  3. ^ http://www.ciit-atd.edu.pk/CCIS/Symposium_2007.html#04
  4. ^ http://www.ciit-atd.edu.pk/CCIS/Symposium_2007.html#04
  5. ^ "Computation Complexities and Innovation Solutions". Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology. 2009. Retrieved 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  6. ^ Long Road to Chagai, A Story of Mathematician, pp.61, Shahidus Rehman
  7. ^ Integration of Function Satisfying a Second Order Differential Equation, Asghar Qadir, Mathematics Mechanics (The Nucleus (journal), Vol:55 pp:802, (1973)
  8. ^ "Diffraction of planetary waves by two parallel semi-infinite plates, Asghar Qadir, Munir Ahmad Rashid, Mathematics Mechanics (The Nucleus (journal), Vol:23 pp:pp:339-348 , (1977)
  9. ^ Equivalence of the theories of reciprocity and general relativity, Asghar Qadir,Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol: 15(1976) pp. 25-30
  10. ^ "Fellows of the Academy". Pakistan Academy of Sciences. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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