Conference Schedule: 5th International Conference on “Pragmatic Pathways to a Prosperous Nepal”

5th International Conference: “Pragmatic Pathways to a Prosperous Nepal” 

Nepalese Students’ Association, New Mexico State University (NeSA, NMSU) 

Las Cruces, NM, USA

Saturday, March 23, 2013

8:30 – 9:00      Registration

9:00 – 9:30      Opening Session

9:00 – 9:10      Preparation and Proceeding to Conference Hall

9:10 – 9:20      Welcome Speech by NeSA Advisor Dr. Ram Nath Acharya

9:20 – 9:30      Welcome Speech by NeSA President Gangadhar Acharya

9:30 – 12:10    Morning Session (Interdisciplinary Session)

9:30 – 9:50      Eshan Dahal (NMSU)1 How do the Physicochemical Properties of Nanoparticles influence their Biological behavior?

9:50 – 10:10    Malati Chaudhary (NMSU) Control Strategy for Low Voltage Ride through capability of permanent magnet synchronous generator.

10:10 – 10:30 Preston S. Keith (NMSU) The rising sea: A Touch of Buddhism in Cotemporary Algebraic Geometry

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:10 Om P. Dahal (NMSU) Unsupervised Clustering of Disturbance Events Recorded by Phasor Measurements Units.

11:10 – 11:30 Valeria Aguirre Holguin (NMSU) New information on the Provenance of Abraham Lincoln’s Arithmetic Copybook.

11:30 – 11:50 Phani Dhar Kukulta(NMSU) Metagenomic landscape of mosquito gut ecosystem

11:50 – 12:10 Tara Newar (NMSU) Journey towards synthetic quinine

12:10 – 1:00 Poster Session/Lunch Hours

Simplice Tchmna Kouna (NMSU) Completions of Noetherian Rings

Lokendra Prasad Paudel(NMSU) Approximation of Valuations and

Realization of Lattice-Ordered Groups Over Affine Domains

Deepak Basyal(NMSU) From ancient birch bark to modern puzzle book: A brief history of the 'Hundred Fowls' problem

1:00 – 4:30      Afternoon Session (Nepalese Diaspora Knowledge Network)

1.00 - 1.20       Rishi Sapkota (NMSU) Alzheimer’s Disease from the eye of a chemist.

1:20 – 1:40      Ramesh Pokhrel (UTEP)2 Unraveling the Rhetoric of Political Discourse in Nepal: A Complexity Theory Approach

1:40 – 2:00      Roshani Rajbansi (NMSU) In-vitro culture of Mentha Piperita L. through shoot tip and single node culture

2:00 – 2:20      Dadhi Adhikari (UNM)3 Does poverty disappear in Electric Light? The impact of lectricity consumption on Poverty in Nepal?

2:20 – 2:30      Dr. Anup Amatya (NMSU) “Alien” to Resident: My Experience

2:30- 2.50        Coffee Break

2.50-3.20         Guest Speaker: Tsering Yongom Sherpa,MD (GMRC)4 Social impact of taboo medical conditions.

3:20 – 4:10      Key Note Speaker: Dr. Shiva P. Gautam (HMS)5 How about A proposal for ICT use in Nepali Schools?

4.10- 4.20        Felicitation to the speakers

4:20 – 4:30      Vote of Thanks & Conference Conclusion by Conference Director Pradip Raj Aryal.

Acknowledgement: We are grateful to ASNMSU, NMSU Art and Science Council and NMSU Department of Mathematical Sciences for the financial support.

Organizing Committee:

Bishnu Dhakal

Deepak Basyal

Desh Raj Sonyok

Pradip Raj Aryal

Santosh Dulal

Tara Devi Newar

1NMSU: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; 2UTEP: University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX;

3UNM: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;

4GMRC: Gila Medical Regional Center, Silver City, NM,

5HMS: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.