A roundtable discussion was held on ‘the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Policy Making’ on 24th July in Kandy . This was an event conducted in partnership with the ‘AI4Covid’ project team https://covid.eng.pdn.ac.lk/ led by Prof. Janaka Ekanayake, Fellow, NASSL as part of an international conference. Minister Kanka Herath, Hon. State Minister of
The Annual Induction Ceremony of Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka This year’s Induction ceremony for eight new Fellows was held on 09th September 2023 at the Organisation of Professional Associations of Sri Lanka (OPASL). The ceremony began with the opening remarks of the President NASSL, Professor Nadira Karunaweera
REPORT Capacity building of teachers in chemistry hands-on small-scale experiments in high schools in Asia: Sri Lanka 19 to 20 July 2023, National Institute of Education, Maharagama, Sri Lanka The workshop on Small Scale Chemistry Training was held on 19 to 20 July 2023 in Colombo, Sri Lanka for Government secondary school teachers.
WE, the representatives of Science Academies meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 6-8 July, 2023: RECOGNISING the encouragement and support of the Inter academy Partnership (IAP), the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) and the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) towards Institutionalising Science Advice to Governments, AFFIRMING
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Guest speaker Prof. Janaka Ekanayake, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya did the presentation on “Challenges in meeting national targets of integrating Renewable Energy in the Power Mix”
Annexure I – Notice of the 44th Annual General Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka To: All Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka Agenda item – Election of New Fellows The Council, in terms of Rules 3.11 to 3.13, has recommended the following nominees as
The Induction Ceremony of new fellows to the NASSL was held held at the PGIS, University of Peradeniya on 21st January 2023, at 15:00 at Auditorium, Postgraduate Institute of Science University of Peradeniya. The following seven new fellows were inducted. D M P U K Ralapanawa, Professor in Medicine, University of Peradeniya Janendra
AGM for 2022 will be conducted electronically at 4:00 pm on Friday 16 September 2022. Election of Fellows will be by electronic voting. You will receive a weblink for this by email. Please see the following documents (click on link to open): Scientific achievements of all 22 nominees (one page each) – Annexure I
Dr A.M. Mubarak, President, National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka with Vice Premier Liu Yandong at the IAP for Health Conference and General Assembly held in Beijing in 27-29 September 2016.