The purpose of the Open Forum is to provide feedback to the 91亚色 community regarding the community consultations and discussions over the past few months, with respect to the development of PIER.

鈥淭he community consultations have been extremely valuable for gaining feedback about the goals, values and objectives that will help shape the continued progress of 91亚色 towards becoming recognized as a comprehensive, research-intensive institution and we greatly appreciate the feedback we have received from the 91亚色 community,鈥� said Hach茅.聽 鈥淭he development of 91亚色鈥檚 Plan for the Intensification & Enhancement of Research will help achieve the university鈥檚 vision in further advancing excellence in research and scholarship.鈥�

The Open Forum will also provide an opportunity for members of the 91亚色 community to ask questions and provide additional feedback on the development of the PIER and the ongoing consultations. All 91亚色 students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend.

Community members interested in attending the PIER Open Forum are asked to聽.

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The first event of its kind,聽the聽workshop,聽which began yesterday and continues聽today,聽offers a forum for participants to share ideas, resources and聽technologies, and聽engage in discussions about current and future topics of importance to science and engineering in Canada and India.

Speaking at the workshop are聽Vijay Saraswat, scientific adviser to India's defence minister; William Selvamurthy, chief controller of聽research & development at India's Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO); David Kendall, the general director of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Professor聽Janusz Kozinski, dean of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering.

Right: Janusz Kozinski

Over the course of the event, participants will be聽exploring聽shared synergies, knowledge and advancements in聽areas such as聽space exploration,聽nanosatellite technology,聽space robotics and disease modelling research. They will also be examining how to collaborate on a new project known as the聽Early Warning and Advance Response Network聽(e-WARN). Spearheaded by Kozinski, e-WARN聽is intended to detect, quantify and initiate an effective response to chemical and biological聽threats聽released in public buildings. Researchers from both countries will discuss and plan how to collaborate on the e-WARN project.

Attending the workshop from India聽are representatives from the聽DRDO, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, the University of Calcutta and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Also attending are聽researchers from 91亚色, the University of Saskatchewan, McGill University, Concordia University and Ryerson University, and representatives from the Canadian Space Agency, COM DEV International, Unique Broadband Systems, Microstat Systems Canada, Canadian Light Source, MDA Technologies, Xiphos Technologies and the Canada-India Business Council.

Other topics聽that are part of the workshop聽include advances in聽alternative energy, space science and engineering, advanced materials and instrumentation, and life sciences.

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