{"id":8847,"date":"2013-12-23T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=8847"},"modified":"2015-05-21T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T10:42:52","slug":"maths-the-basis-of-sciences-says-vc-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/december-2013\/maths-the-basis-of-sciences-says-vc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maths The Basis of Sciences, Says VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2013%2Fdecember-2013%2Fmaths-the-basis-of-sciences-says-vc-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=8847&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"contentheading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsitem_tools\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\">MONDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2013 00:00<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/ICMS3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Shahiddan Saidi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KUALA LUMPUR, 17 Dec 2013 \u2013\u00a0 The mathematical sciences are subjects of key global importance, underpinning developments in most areas of science and technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice-Chancellor Prof Tan Sri Dato&#8217; Seri Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin said the growing concern on the transfer of mathematical sciences knowledge demands the enhancement in the competency of this discipline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opening the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, ICMS3 2013 at a dinner here today, Prof Sharifah Hapsah said applying mathematical sciences to challenging problems of the real world has made the field bustling with excitement and satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-day conference was organised by the the\u00a0School of Mathematical Sciences,\u00a0Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) together with the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society (PERSAMA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other universities taking part were the &#8220;Lucian Blaga&#8221; University of Sibiu, Universitatae Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca and &#8220;1 Decembrie 1918&#8221; University Alba Iulia (UAB)\u00a0from Romania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Sharifah Hapsah called on mathematical academics to forge close links as well as nurture the understanding and collaboration amongst the regional and global scientists and practitioners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She urged academicians, researchers, professionals, students to submit qualified and state-of-art research papers in all aspects of mathematical sciences from basic science to practical applications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Proceedings of ICMS3 will be indexed in ISI\/SCOPUS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among those present at the dinner were the rector of UAB Prof Dr \u00a0Valer Daniel Breaz, himself a mathematician and researcher,the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology UKM, Prof Dr Shahrim Ahmad, the chairman of ICMS 2013 Prof Dr Anuar Mohd Ishak, and PERSAMA president Prof Maslina Darus who is also chairperson of the school of mathematical sciences UKM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last \u00a0May, \u00a0UKM and UAB signed a memorandum of understanding to explore various collaborative efforts including joint conferences, joint researches and supervisions, joint publications, academic staff exchanges and short summer courses.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/ICMS3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2013 00:00 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Shahiddan Saidi KUALA LUMPUR, 17 Dec 2013 \u2013\u00a0 The mathematical<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/december-2013\/maths-the-basis-of-sciences-says-vc-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1236,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8847","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8847\/revisions\/8848"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}