Dr. Md. Didarul Alam Chowdhury is currently the Director of Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards Division of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) with a long background of scientific research mainly carried out at the Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology. He received B.Sc. and M. Sc. Degrees in Chemistry from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. After completing his M .Sc, he joined Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission in 1982 as a researcher. Dr. Chowdhury obtained his M. Eng. (1994) and Ph.D.(1997) degrees from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kagoshima University, Japan. He developed his research career in the areas Nuclear and Analytical Chemistry. His current research interests include Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) and nano-material deposition studies for fuel cell fabrication. Throughout his long professional career, Dr. Chowdhury supervised a large number of M. Sc. and Ph D students s and authored 46 scientific publications. He also works as a Guest Teacher and an Examiner for the Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka.

About 120 participants attended in that session.  Here is the gallery link. http://talk.zero2inf.com/flagallery/talks-gallery/#/4

‘Zero to Infinity Talks’ is a fortnightly lecture series arranged by monthly science magazine ‘Zero to Infinity’. The Program is powered by ET Tech Limited. Inspired by Open knowledge Foundation. Other partners are Ezze Technology, Fortune Tech, and Society for Science Popularization, Bangladesh.

What’s the best way to take control of your own life and push yourself against boundaries? How actually the brain of successful minds works? Is it like that, successful people tend to focus on growth, solving problems and self-improvement, while unsuccessful people think of their abilities as fixed assets and avoid challenges?  These were the hot topics of last ‘Zero to Infinity Talks’. The heading was ‘The Secret Pattern of Successful Minds’. Speaker Mahmudul Hasan Sohag, the Chairman of Onnorokom Group, is a successful entrepreneur who is the founder of 10 successful companies of Bangladesh.

The talk was held at 04 September, 2014 in Dhaka University Microbiology auditorium. Around 150 students of different universities was present there. The talks was divided in two session. In first session, speaker delivered his lecture around 40 minutes. In next 30 minutes an interactive Q/A session was going on. At the end of the program Mr. Abdullah Al Mahmud, the editor of Zero to Infinity awarded a crest to the speaker.

The previous episodes of Zero to Infinity Talks were on various topics. Such as particle physics – ‘Infinity to Zero: A Tale of Particle Physics.’ Speaker Dr. Arshad Momen, Professor & Chairman, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Dhaka. Dr. Arshad Momen completed his Ph. D. from Syracuse University, NY, USA, was a research fellow at Oxford University in the Theoretical Physics. Also a visiting scientist at CERN, ICTP.

Lectures also held on The Response of Bangladesh and Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta to Sea Level Rise. Speaker Dr. Dipen Bhattacharya is a Research Physicist at University of California, Riverside, and Professor at Riverside Community College, USA. He was also a former research fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

‘Zero to Infinity Talks’ is a weekly lecture series arranged by monthly science magazine ‘Zero to Infinity’. The Program is powered by ET Tech Limited. Inspired by Open knowledge Foundation. Other partners are Ezze Technology, Fortune Tech, and Society for Science Popularization, Bangladesh.