ISLAMABAD, June 22: President General Pervez Musharraf will inaugurate the “27th International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs,” on Monday.

The annual scientific activity will bring together about 300 scientists from various countries of the developing world and from advanced scientific institutions of the developed one.

The event is being organized every year since 1976 by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), the idea of holding these colleges came from the distinguished Nobel laureate, Professor Abdus Salam, who emphasized the need of communication, as well as for transferring and sharing scientific knowledge among the scientific community of the developing countries.

The college is being organized by the National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, and the PAEC.

The regular sponsors of the college include the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy), the US National Science Foundation, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, (CERN) and some local and regional organizations.

The primary aim of the summer college is to promote interaction of the scientific community of the world. The scientific activities of INSC aim at broad coverage of topics at the frontiers of knowledge in physics and allied science.