Conference on Space Science

Published October 4, 2013
a Ph.D student at ISPA looks through a telescope hoping to catch the the Venus transit on a cloudy day in Karachi. - Photo by Sara Faruqi/Dawn.com
a Ph.D student at ISPA looks through a telescope hoping to catch the the Venus transit on a cloudy day in Karachi. - Photo by Sara Faruqi/Dawn.com

KARACHI, Oct 3: The Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics (ISPA), Karachi University, will hold a two-day national conference on Space Science at the HEJ auditorium, it was announced on Thursday.

The main theme of the conference, which will be organised by the ISPA with the collaboration of the Higher Education Commission and Suparco, is ‘Exploring the Universe’.

More than 60 research papers will be presented by scholars from local and foreign universities during the conference being held to celebrate World Space Week 2013.—PPI

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