Invitation to TWAS Webinar 4: Engineering Sciences, Mathematics & Physics : 16 SEPTEMBER @ 1pm (Rome time)

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Distinguished scientists,  Dear colleagues,

On behalf of TWAS President, Prof. Mohamed H. A. Hassan, and of TWAS 
Council, we are pleased to invite you to the fourth webinar of the 2020 
TWAS Awards Webinar Series.
The series consists of five webinars taking place online between 10 June 
and 29 October 2021, leading to TWAS Fifteenth General Conference, which 
will be also held virtually from 1 to 4 November. The webinars are 
focused on the winners of TWAS awards and of awards in honour of TWAS 
Fellows. The series will resume next year to comprise presentations by 
those TWAS Awards winners that were not able to convene in 2021.
This is the fourth event of the 2020 Awards Webinar Series that gives an 
opportunity to TWAS Award winners to deliver brief presentations on 
their accomplishments. A question-and-answer session takes place after 
each presentation, allowing participants to ask presenters their questions.

*The fourth webinar will take place on 16 September, at 1 p.m. (Rome 
time) and will focus on engineering sciences, mathematics and physics.*

Presentations will be made by:

Ahmad Fauzi ISMAIL of Malaysia, Co-winner of the 2020 TWAS Award in 
Engineering Sciences;
Noemí Elisabet ZARITZKY of Argentina, Co-winner of the 2020 TWAS Award 
in Engineering Sciences;
Abdon ATANGANA of South Africa, Winner of the 2020 TWAS-Mohammad A. 
Hamdan Award; and
Ajith PARAMESWARAN of India, Winner of the 2020 TWAS-CAS Young 
Scientists Award for Frontier Science.

More information about each scientist can be found below.

To register in advance, please, use: 
https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WpQN3B2aSeG0EQRQXQy-rA

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information about joining the webinar.

To join the live event via YouTube, please, use: 
https://youtu.be/jHUG9Wwq1oE

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We look forward to seeing you online,


Prof. Romain Murenzi
TWAS Executive Director
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UNESCO-TWAS
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in 
developing countries
Trieste, Italy


Ahmad Fauzi ISMAIL

Ahmad Fauzi Ismail is a Professor at the School of Chemical and Energy 
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 
(UTM). Currently, he is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and 
Innovation at UTM, and the founder of the Advanced Membrane Technology 
Research Center. His research interests include the development of 
polymeric, inorganic and novel nanocomposite membranes for water 
desalination, wastewater treatment, gas separation processes, membrane 
for palm oil refining, photocatalytic membrane for removal of emerging 
contaminants, development of haemodialysis membrane and polymer 
electrolyte membrane for fuel cell applications.

He was awarded "[f]or his outstanding contributions in the area of 
membrane technology and nanotechnology for desalination, wastewater 
treatment, gas separation and hemodialysis."
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Noemí Elisabet ZARITZKY

Noemí Elisabet Zaritzky is currently a Full Professor of transport 
phenomena in the Chemical Engineering Department, National University of 
La Plata, in Argentina, but she also teaches food preservation in 
undergraduate and postgraduate courses of many universities in 
Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Colombia, Chile and Mexico. 
She earned a PhD in chemical sciences from the Faculty of Exact and 
Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her major 
research interests include the application of chemical engineering 
principles to the design and optimization of food processing and 
preservation, and wastewater treatments.

She was awarded "[f]or her fundamental contribution to the understanding 
of food and environmental engineering problems."
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Abdon ATANGANA

Abdon Atangana is a Full Professor at the Institute for Groundwater 
Studies, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science, University of the 
Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Due to his outstanding 
achievements, at UFS, he was first promoted to Associate Professor 
(September 2016) and then to Full Professor (March 2017). In January 
2020, he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at the China 
Medical University, Taiwan, China. He is the founder of many 
mathematical operators, including the Atangana-Baleanu fractional 
differential and integral operators, the fractal-fractional differential 
and integral operators, a three-dimensional set of complex number, 
global derivatives and integrals. These concepts have been used in many 
fields of science, technology and engineering in the past years.

He was awarded "[f]or his contributions to fractional calculus and 
fractal-fractional calculus: theory, methods and applications to 
real-world problems."
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Ajith PARAMESWARAN

Ajith Parameswaran is an astrophysicist at the International Centre for 
Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental 
Research (TIFR), in Bangalore, India, where he leads the Astrophysical 
Relativity group. Parameswaran did an impactful work on several aspects 
of gravitational-wave and astronomy—in particular, in the theoretical 
modelling of gravitational-wave signals from binary black holes, the 
probes of black-hole astrophysics and the nature of strong gravity using 
gravitational-wave observations. He pioneered a phenomenological method 
for the modelling of gravitational waves from coalescing binary black 
holes, by combining analytical calculations with supercomputer 
simulations. He has been a member of the US Laser Interferometer 
Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration since 
2004 and is currently a member of its Program Committee.

He was awarded "[f]or his pioneering contributions to the development of 
phenomenological models of gravitational-wave signals from coalescing 
binary black holes."