November 2015 ~ Dr Ijaz ur Rahman Durrani

A successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol has been a long time coming. A previous attempt to shape a global agreement fell apart in 2009, at talks in Copenhagen. Now the world is ready to try again, and for the first time, all countries are poised to take action (see page 418). But the history here is sobering: the quest to build a global climate treaty has hit many obstacles over the past 25 years. Its dramatic story is chronicled in a comic starting on page 427.

Although the United Nations aims to limit global warming to 2 °C, a News Feature on page 436 reveals that this will be much harder than many studies have indicated....." End quote

As I see it, MiT's mediated second phase would be a great resource to those ready to assemble in Paris... If only.... For good measure, here is footnote TWO which I just inserted into this sec. of my present MS:

Lonergan’s radical generalization of data to include both those of sense and consciousness can also be called his theory-praxis revolution. One could claim that all of Lonergan's work in method is “praxis” in so far as it is concerned with the question of what we do when we know. Lonergan himself acknowledges a more transformative sense of praxis in which decision and action precede and ground a knowledge of value. This, too, presupposes his original blending of thetransformative nature of the data of sense and of the data of consciousness.[1] Taking our cue from this notion of a transformative praxis, this book deploys two transformative phases (mediating and mediated)[2] as outlined in Lonergan’sMiT. With Jim Kanaris, we stress GEM-FS’s decentering-recentering sides which lie at the core of human realities.[3]

[1] This transformative notion of praxis includes a hermeneutics of suspicion and of recovery as explained by Paul Ricoeur. See Alison Scott-Baumann,Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion (Bloomsbury, 2009).

[2] One may ask whether there is a pivot point for MiT’s kataphatic first mediating phase transitioning into the mediated phase founded on an apophatic. For possible affirmative answers, see Ian Bell, The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan’s Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology Series (American Univ. Studies, 2008) and Ivana Noble, The Apophatic Way in Gregory of Nyssa, http://www.iespraha.cz/node/28 retrieved Nov. 25, 2015.

[3] In Deference to the Other, Lonergan and Contemporary Continental Thought (SUNY, 2004, 28), Kanaris notes “the presence we have of ourselves is a constitutive presence because, not despite, the fact that it is a decentering presence. Our presence to ourselves as subjects is a constitutive presence of human subjectivity . . . in the sense “that it brings us closer to ourselves as engaged in a process which can provide us with access to the intelligible universe.” Kanaris rebuts claims of Continental thinkers that our presence to ourselves is another instance of the metaphysics of presence.” Lonergan helps us “surrender all of ourselves to the radically decentering of ourselves” so as to participate in transcendent meaning and values. Unlike Michel Foucault who questioned the notion of human nature, Noam Chomsky, like Lonergan, held that unless “there is some form of relatively fixed human nature, true scientific understanding is impossible.” As does Chomsky, GEM-FS builds on a human creative-foundational potential. Michel Foucault also sought the operational range of true values, but his presuppositions led him “fish around” in self-defeating circles. See Paul Rabinow, ed., The Foucault Reader (Pantheon, 1984), 3.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: IJAZ-UR-RAHMAN DURRANI

Father’s Name: FAROOQ HAIDAR DURRANI (Late)

Date of Birth: 04-05-1949

C.N.I. Card No.: 35202-5422108-5

Address:                                                   HOUSE NO. 52-D/I, GULBERG III,
                                                                LAHORE,
                                                                POST CODE-54660

Telephone No: +92-42-36667801 / 0300-8459029

Fax #: +92-42-35876889

E-Mail Address: drijazdurrani@gmail.com

Marital Status: MARRIED (2-CHILDREN)

I. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

EXAMINATION	SUBJECT	YEAR	BOARD/ UNIVERSITY	MARKS	DIV.
Matriculation	Science	1964	Lahore Board	846/1000	First
Intermediate	Pre-Engineering	1966	Lahore Board	747/1000	First
B.Sc.	Phys., Maths	1968	Punjab University Lahore	464/700	First
M.Sc.	Physics	1970	Punjab University Lahore	803/1100	First
M. Phil.	Theoretical Physics	1971	Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad		First
Ph.D.	Plasma Physics	1985	Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad

THESES TOPICS:

(i) M. Phil. “Dispersion Relation in Potential Scattering”

(ii) Ph.D. “Study of Modulational Instability of Ion Acoustic Waves in Plasma Using KBM Perturbative Technique”

II. SERVICE RECORD:

i) Joined Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) w.e.f. 03-05-1973.

ii) Promoted as Senior Scientific Officer w.e.f 01-12-1985.

iii) Joined Centre of Solid State Physics, (CSSP) Punjab University, Lahore as Research Associate on Contract w.e.f. 27-07-1991

(iv) Joined CSSP as Assistant Professor w.e.f 15-02-1993 (FN) (Relinquished charge from PAEC the same date).

(v) While in PAEC I was involved in Research and Development Projects relating to Studies of Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Plasma/Solid State Medium.

(vi) Joined CSSP as Associate Professor w.e.f 06-04-1995 (FN).

(vii) Sought and received premature retirement from CSSP on 02-06-2001

(viii) Served as General Manager, M/s Royal Fans, Gujrat, from 03-06-2001 to 23-08-2002

(ix) Joined Trust Leasing and Investment Bank Limited as Manager (Administration & Human Resource) wef 24/08/2002 and resigned on 29/10/2005.

(x) Appointed Principal, Trust Model School, Jalalpur Jattan on Contract for Six Months wef 01/11/2005 to 04/05/2006

(xi) Served as General Manager, M/s Royal Fans, Gujrat, from 05-05-2006 to 18-02-2007

(xii) Appointed Director, Faculty of Sciences, University of Gujrat w.e.f 19-02-2007-to 25-09-2011

(xiii) Resigned wef 26/09/2011

(xiv) Private entrepreneurship from 27/09/2011---17/11/2001

(xv) Joined University of South Asia, Lahore as Vice Chancellor wef 18^th November:2011.

(xvi) After completing the one year contract as above , I joined NDA( PK) Lahore as a Project Manager wef 19/11/2012to 12/04/2015

(xvii) Joined Aitichison College, Lahore as Consultant ( Academics) wef 13/03/2015 to April30, 2015.

III. RELATED INFORMATION/SCHOLARSHIP/AWARDS

RECEIVED/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ATTENDED

1. Scholarship holder throughout, Certificate of Merit and Roll of Honour from Government College, Lahore.

2. Conferences attended at ICTP Trieste, Italy.

i) 17-09-1973 to 12-12-1973 Autumn College on “Mathematical and Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics”

ii) 26-01-1977 to 10-04-1977 Winter College on “Atomic/Laser Spectroscopy and Kiev Conference on Plasma Physics”

iii) 26-05-1989 to 21-06-1989 Spring College on “Plasma Physics”

iv) Participated in ICTP (Trieste) Italy Scientific Activities from 27-06-1993 to
07-09-1993

· Third School on Non-Accelerator Particle Astro-Physics
(28-06-1993 to 09-07-1993).

· Mini Workshop in Nonlinearity and Chaos in Mesoscopic system
(26-07-1993 to 08-08-1993).

· Defects/Mechanical Properties in Materials
(26-08-1993 to 04-09-1993).

v) Participated in ICTP (Trieste) Scientific Activities from 06-08-1994 to
18-09-1994 related to Condensed Matter Physics.

3. British Council Scholar in the Department of Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Rd. Oxford, U.K. 1983-1984.

4. Taught Plasma Physics Course in Physics Department, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad for the period September 1985 to March 1988.

5. Assignment at IFSI/CNR Frascati/Italy under the ICTP Trieste Training and Research Scheme from April 1988 to June 1989, “Worked on TSS (Tethered Satellite System) and related problems”.

6. Participant Summer School on “Plasma Physics and Thermo Nuclear Fusion” held in Culham, U.K. in August 1984.

7. Participant in Summer School on “Laser Plasma Interactions” held at St. Andrews, U.K. in August 1988.

8. Post Doctoral Research Associateship at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Wisconsin University, U.S.A. for a period of one year in 1989 to work in the area of “Fusion Physics”.

9. Post Doctoral Research Associateship at the Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern, Ireland, U.K. for a period of three year to work in “Laser Spectroscopy”.

10. The Following certificates / medals were awarded to me at an Investiture ceremony held in Oxford, UK during the World Forum arranged jointly by the IBC. Cambridge / UK and ABI / NC / USA.

i) The Archimedes Award – 2006

ii) Commemorative medal awarded to 100 Top scientists of 2006.

IV. REFERENCES:

1- Professor Dr G Murtaza, Salam Chair Professor- Physics Department GCU-

Lahore

2- Dr. SA Durrani, ( HEC Foreign Faculty Professor): 3 Selly Close, Selly park, Birmingham B29 7 JG, UK

3- Dr SH Durrani, 17513 Lefayette Drive, Olney, Maryland, USA

4- Professor Dr M Nizamuddin, Vice Chancellor---UOG

V. BOOKS/ARTICLES:

1- Seven popular articles have appeared in the National Dailies on the subject of physics during 1994-95.

2- Fractals: National Book Foundation, Pakistan, (1999): 40 pages.

3- The Fractal Factor: Vdm-Verlag Publishers( Germany) ( 2011) : 140 pages. ISBN:978-3-639-36533-7

4- Solitonic Dreams: Vdm-Verlag Publishers ( Germany ) (2011)ISBN : 978-3-639-36881-9, 135 pages.

5- Book titled” Empowering Climate Change Strategies in collaboration with Dr John Raymaker ( Published by AUP , US; released on December, 2014) ISBN13:978-0761865124.

8- VI. MEMBERSHIP:

1. Selected as an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), USA (1996).

2. Nominated for inclusion in Marquis “Who’s Who in the World (1996), USA”.

3. Selected as a member of “National Geographics” USA (1996).

4. Selected in the “Dictionary of International Biography”, Cambridge, UK (1996).

5. Selected member of “The Planetary Society”, USA (1996).

6. Selected for “Outstanding Achievement Award” by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK (1997) [This citation is awarded to 2,000 outstanding people of the 20^th Century].

7. Editor, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, India.

8. Life member of the following societies:

Pakistan

Physical Society.

ii. Pakistan Institute of Physics.

iii.

Pakistan

Semiconductor Society.

VII.(A) COURSES TAUGHT AT M. PHIL. LEVEL AT THE COE in SSP, P.U. LAHORE:

a) Mathematical Methods in Solid State Physics.

b) Plasma Physics.

c) Defects in Solids

VII.(B) COURSES TAUGHT AT THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT—

Physics Department, UOG:

(a) Quantum Mechanics, I and II ( MSc level)

(b) Plasma Physics (MSc –level)

Relativity and Cosmology (MSc—level)

(d) Electrodynamics ( M Phil—level)

(e) Introduction to NL-Physics ( M Phil—level)

(f) Non Linear Physics—II (M Phil –level)

VIII. M.PHIL. STUDENTS SUPERVISED, THESES TITLES:

1. Study of Some Nonlinear Effects in Relativistic Plasma (1994).

2. Solution of Korteweg deVries (KdV) equation using Inverse Scattering Technique, (1995).

3. The Fractal Nature of Dislocation Multiplication Process (1995).

4. Chaotic Phenomena in Dislocation Multiplication Process (1995).

5. The Study of KdV equation in some Physical Systems (1996).

6. The sine Gordon (sG) equation as applied to Solid State Physics. (1996).

7. Some topic in Nonlinear Evolution Equations (1996).

8. Nonlinear Dynamics in Fractal Structure (1998).

9. A Study of Transport Phenomena and Fluid propagation in Fractal Media (1998).

10. MHD Shock Waves (1999)

11. Two Dimensional Navier Stokes Equations (1999)

12. Application of Green’s Function to the wave propagation in the cerebral cortex (2K).

13. Modelling of Oscillation Death in cardiovascular system (Thesis submitted, February :2011)

14. Perturbation Analysis of Optical Solitons in a non Kerr Law medium (Thesis submitted in March 2011)

15. Stability analysis of Davydov solitons in alpha helix protein. (Thesis submitted in April,2011) )

IX. M.Sc. STUDENTS SUPERVISED, THESES TITLES

1. The Soliton Solution of KdV Equation (1995)

2. A Perturbation Method to Solve KdV Equation (1 996)

3. Some Problems in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (1997)

4- N Soliton solutions to the NLS Eq. ( 2009)

5- Two soliton solution to the KdV Eq. ( 2009)

6- Study of micro instability in magnetically confined plasma ( 2011).

7- Electromagnetic radiation in magnetically confined plasma(2011)

8- ‘ A new perspective on cold fusion’ ( 2011)

9- ‘ Stability analysis of macroscopic instabilities in magnetically confined

plasma’ (2011)

10- ‘ The nonlinear Boussinesq equation—derivation, solution and application’

(2011)

X. PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

I have been involved in a Project awarded by the PSF in collaboration with Prof. N. Ikram entitled “Theoretical and Computational Studies of Fractals in Materials” (1996-1999). Eight publications and one book resulted from this project.

XI. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:( Publications in Journals with Impact Factor)

1. Effect of ionic temperature on the moduhational instability of ion acoustic waves in a collisionless plasma: Physics of Fluids, 27, 791(1979).

2. Modulational instability of ion acoustic waves in the presence of density gradient: Can. J. Physics, 57, 642(1979).

3. Modulational instability of nonlinear wave propagation in relativistic plasma: Plasma Physics, 22, 716(1980).

4. Modulational instability of ion acoustic waves in a piezo electric semiconductor: J. Physics C, L 21, 123(1988).

5. Effect of ion streaming on the onset of modulational instability: Physics of Fluids B, 2, 4(1990).

6. Nonlinear helicon wave propagation in a layered medium: Phys. Rev. B, 47, 1988 (1993).

7. Effect of simultaneous presence of collisions and ion temperature on modulational instability of ion acoustic waves: J. Plasma Physics, 56, 221(1996).

8. Effect of ion temperature and inhomogeneity of modulational instability on ion acoustic waves: J. Plasma Physics, 56, 229(1996).

9. A new nonlinear equation for electron whistler waves: Physica Scripta, 50, 290(1994).

10. A study in universality during dislocation regeneration: J. Mat. Sci. & Tech. 12, 1(1996)

XII. CORRESPONDENCE COURSES

Successfully completed two correspondence course offered by LSJ, UK titled

a) ‘Short Story Writing’

b) ‘Writing Best Seller – Thrillers’

{ Dr Ijaz ur Rahman Durrani }

Four decades of teaching and research experience; worked in various capacities at PAEC, CoE SSP, PU; UOG and finally as VC/USA. Author of 10 international articles and three internationally published books. Retired from all government and semi government service with effect from November 17:2012.

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