Abdus Salam School of Mathematics
| Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences | |
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68-B, New Muslim Town, Lahore, Punjab Province Pakistan |
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| Type | Research Institute |
| Established | 2003 |
| Affiliation | Government College University Lahore (GCU Lahore) |
| Website | www |
The Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, abbreviated as AS-SMS, is an autonomous research institute affiliated with the Government College University Lahore, Punjab province of Pakistan. The institute is named after theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Professor Dr. Abdus Salam.
Professor Dr. Abdus Salam, the only Nobel Laureate in Physics from Pakistan, played an influential role in the Science policy of Pakistan, as he was responsible for the establishment of numbers of research and educational institutes in his country, particularly the prominent institute, the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH). Salam, an alumnus of the Department of Mathematics of the Government College, played a major role in updating educational curriculum of the College and also taught Mathematics there.
At the end of 2003, the Government of Punjab created and led the establishment of a center of excellence for the Mathematical Sciences, under the aegis of Government College University. The idea behind it is to create a world-class doctoral research institute in mathematics, but rooted in a developing country like Pakistan. This school is exclusively dedicated to higher education with no undergraduate program.
The established Board of Governors appointed Professor Dr. A. D. Raza Choudary, an emeritus professor from Central Washington University, as the founding Director General of ASSMS. Dr. Choudary had spent several years in Romania and Germany as a Ph.D student and postdoc, and spent his career in Mexico and USA. Using the financial support from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (which at that time implemented the Foreign Faculty Hiring Program) and the Punjab Government, and fully exercised the autonomous status of ASSMS, Dr. Choudary made the important decision to look for Faculty entirely from outside Pakistan. Due to his extensive experience in Europe and America, Dr. Choudary managed to call a large group of very competent mathematicians, mostly from Eastern Europe. Some of the international scientists that have served as faculty in ASSMS are Josip Pečarić, Amer Iqbal, Alexandru Dimca, Olav Arnfinn Laudal, and Michel Waldschmidt.
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