LAHORE, March 16: The four-day international conference on physics concluded at the University of Engineering and Technology here on Thursday.

It was organised by the Pakistan Institute of Physics in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission, UET, the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, KRL, Nescom, the Pakistan Science Foundation and the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.

Speaking at the closing session, Nescom chairman Dr Samar Mubarkmand highlighted the importance of physics in science. He said without the base of physics no knowledge could be developed. He said the Nescom was developing into an institution of ultra high vacuum with good laboratories.

PIP secretary and head of the UET physics department Prof Dr M Khaleequr Rehman said the conference was a successful experience in which the advanced areas of physics, including nuclear physics and its positivism were discussed.

X.F. Han of China, Dr Feroz of Karachi University and Dr S Javed of Malaysia also spoke.

As many as 250 physicists and researchers from Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Germany, Nepal, France and India participated in it.

During the conference, some 19 oral and three poster sessions on emerging fields like lasers, Nano science and engineering, fibre optics, materials science, atomic and nuclear physics, particle physics, photovoltaic, plasma physics, medical and health physics and atmospheric, meteorology and environmental physics were held.