World Association of Young Scientists

Location

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on

“LOW COST HIGH PHYSICS AND APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS TO REAL LIFE PROBLEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES”.　　
Site web: www.scp-web.org
Description
An important problem faced by the majority of Physicists from developing countries is that their research activities are far from developmental goals of their countries. Those of them tackling problems related to some local development objectives will not succeed in publishing their results in good scientific journals. Meanwhile they need publications in good international peer-reviewed journals for their academic promotion and international visibility. Researchers carrying out publishable works in international journals rely mainly on the theoretical aspects with sometimes experimental counterpart carried out in developed countries laboratories thanks to various funding institutions and individual contacts abroad. The decision-makers in developing countries, either do not have sufficient fund, or do not find the necessity to fund expensive equipment for research topics that have no direct and immediate links to problems suffered by their population.
This constitutes a big threat to the development of physics activities and is certainly the most important cause of lack of public and decision-makers awareness on the benefits that come from research in physics. As a consequence, Physicists who want to maintain their scientific standard generally move abroad to work in stimulating environment, so the brain-drain.
Aware of this fact, the Cameroon Physical Society is launching a series of bi-annual conferences on the general topic: “Low Cost High Physics and Appropriate Solutions to Real life Problems in Developing countries”. The conferences will be the place for the presentation of scientific achievements in physics that fulfil the following criteria:
- Low cost research topics that can be covered entirely (theory, experiment and application) with low funding,
- High level scientific topics that have been published or are publishable in good international journals,
- Impact on the technological, economic and social development in developing countries.
The conferences will also be the place where Physicists acquire knowledge for innovation and entrepreneurship.
The scientific areas for presentations are not limited as far as they satisfy the above criteria. However, because of the strong involvement of Cameroonian Physicists in some fields, the areas of particular interest for the 2009 conference are:
- Statistical Physics and Complex systems,
- Material sciences,
- Atomic and Molecular Physics,
- Renewable energy,
- Medical Physics.
The conference will take place during a period of three days and consists of lectures and case studies.