Prof. Abdelnaser Tawfik

Biography:

2012, Doctor of Science, Physics and Mathematics, Uzbekistan National University, Uzbekistan. 1999, Doctor of Natural Sciences, High Energy Physics, Philipps-Universit�t zu Marburg, Germany. 1. Founder Director of the World Laboratory for Cosmology and Particle Physics (WLCAPP) http://wlcapp.net/ 2. Founder Director of the Egyptian Center for Theoretical Physics (ECTP) http://www.mti.edu.eg/mti/page.aspx?pageID=95 3. Professor at the Modern University for Technology and Information (MTI University) http://www.mti.edu.eg/ 4. Research Team Leader of the Egyptian Groups of Scientists engaged to the ALICE Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 5. Research Team Leader of the Egyptian Group of Scientists engaged to the STAR Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) BNL, USA 6. Research Team Leader of the Egyptian Group of Scientists engaged to the NICA Facility at the Joint-Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Dubna, Russia 7. Deputy-Director of the Egyptian Network for High-Energy Physics (ENHEP) of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), Cairo, Egypt

Abstract:

The terminology �Public Engagement with Science and Technology� is mainly expressing the relation to the attitudes, behaviors, opinions and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization. This would be seen as a new approach tackling exploring the multitude of relations and linkages that science and technology have among the public. There was an old definition focusing on augmenting public knowledge of scientific topics, in line with the information deficit model of science communication. The discrediting of the model has led to an increased emphasis on how the public chooses to use scientific knowledge and on the development of interfaces to mediate between experts and lay understandings of an issue. In this lecture, we focus on Arab or Islamic communities and a series of specific fields � Public controversies over science and technology � Science communication in the mass media, internet, radio and television programs � Science museums, aquaria, zoological parks, botanical gardens, � Fixed and mobile science exhibits � Science festivals and science fairs in schools and social groups � Science in popular culture, text books and classrooms.