Scientific events

Scientific events

HIAT takes part in several national and international events and plays an important role in organising and sponsoring the following event:

  • Arab School for Science and Technology: This is jointly sponsored by HIAST and other Arab institutions, and HIAST has a member in the steering board. Every year the school holds several conferences and workshops on specialied subjects of interest to the sponsoring bodies, where international experts give lectures on a carefully-chosen topic. The school is held at HIAST or in other member Arab states.
  • Sham Informatics Conference: This was launched in mid 1990s by HIAST and Syrian information society
  • Palmyra School of Physics, which was held for three years. HIAST was the main organiser and it presented several research papers.
  • International Conference for Communications technologies and Applications, which was held in Damascus on 19-23/4/2004
  • Science Week, which is held annually by the Ministry of Higher Education.