November 5, 2003	Wednesday	Ramazan 9, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, Nov 4: Assistant Professor Mohammad Aslam Wasim of the Department of Maths and Stats, Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), on Tuesday announced the results of his research explaining that how he had devised a mechanism to study the behaviour of an object in space.

He was speaking at a seminar entitled “Permutation Representation of the Group” arranged at the Quaid-i-Azam University here.

Elaborating on the results, Mr Wasim said an object in space was associated with a group of information containing all the necessary data about it. He said a closer study of the group defined and explained the nature of that object.

He said there were several such groups but accessing the right one without wasting time was the real catch.

He said the Rubiks cube puzzle/game was a good example to understand what he was trying to explain. “Just as six to seven special moves are required to match the colours of the Rubiks cube, similarly this mechanism devised is very easy and systematic to obtain a class of useful groups. Once the right group is located, analysing and studying that group would eventually lead to the understanding of the object, its looks, its behaviour and other important characteristics without wastage of time.”

He said the implementation of this mechanism was useful in various mathematical and scientific studies.

The mechanism he added, would make the job easier for the students trying to detect the right answers in a systematic way.

For the last three decades such seminars have been part of important research activities of the mathematics department of the QAU. These seminars are a weekly activity and are attended by the faculty, PhD and M.Phil scholars.

Scholars and intellectuals from outside the university are also invited to speak on topics of general mathematical interest based on their researches. About 570 such seminars have been arranged on various topics. Most lectures have been on specialised topics from pure to applied mathematics.

Dawn has learnt that there are about 80 to 90 PhDs in Pakistan out of which very few are involved in research and advanced studies.

These handful of researchers have made important contributions and their research work has been printed in international journals.