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About This Event

The Global Research Partnership (GRP) Technical Symposium, “Frontiers and Opportunities in Science and Engineering: The Contribution of the Global Research Partnership to KAUST, Saudi Arabia, and the World” marks the first global gathering of KAUST GRP award recipients.

The GRP serves as a primary mechanism for engaging science of the highest quality in support of KAUST’s development as a world-class graduate research university.

KAUST welcomes symposium participants to Saudi Arabia to present their views and latest findings in various fields of research, share ideas and establish a truly global network of scientific collaboration.

GRP Award Recipients

Investigators
Twelve scientists from six different countries create the inaugural group of Global Research Partnership (GRP) Investigator grantees. View the awardees

Centers and Centers-in-Development
KAUST awards grants for the establishment of four interdisciplinary research Centers and three international Centers-in-Development. View the awardees

Media Materials

Press Releases
• GRP Technical Symposium
• GRP Centers
• GRP Centers-in-Development
• GRP Investigators

Fact Sheets
• Kaust at a Glance
• GRP Fact Sheet

Media Contacts
Salah Sindi

 

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Related Resources
Global Research Partnership
Research at KAUST
Frequently Asked Questions

Speakers

His Excellency Minister Ali I. Al-Naimi
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia
Chairman
KAUST Board of Trustees
• "KAUST and the Economic Development of Saudi Arabia"
• Research Awards Presentation Keynote

Day One Speakers

Agenda

DAY ONE
Welcoming Remarks
His Excellency Minister Ali I. Al-Naimi
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia
Chairman
KAUST Board of Trustees

Professor Choon Fong Shih
President Designate
KAUST

Mr. Mark G. Yudof
President Designate
University of California

Research Awards Presentation
His Excellency Minister Ali I. Al-Naimi
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia
Chairman
KAUST Board of Trustees

DAY TWO
Opening Remarks
KAUST Research Directions
Professor Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Provost,
KAUST

Morning Panel Discussion
Part One: Resources, Energy & Environment
Part Two: Materials Science & Engineering

Afternoon Panel Discussion
Part One: Bioscience & Bioengineering
Part Two: Applied Mathematics &
Computational Science

Concluding Remarks
Dr. Mohamed E. Samaha,
Vice President, Research, KAUST

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  • KAUST leadership honors recipients of the Global Research Partnership grant awards in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees, speaks at the awards ceremony for the KAUST GRP grant recipients in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 27, 2008.
  • Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST, speaks at the KAUST GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 27, 2008.
  • Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST, speaks at the KAUST GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST GRP Centers-in-Development grant recipient Dr. Sulaiman Al‑Khattaf, associate professor, Chemical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Ahmed F. Ghoniem, professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST GRP Centers grant recipient Dr. Michael D. McGehee, associate professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST GRP Centers grant recipient Dr. James Arthur Calvin, professor, Department of Statistics, executive associate vice president for Research, Texas A&M University, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Centers grant recipient Dr. John Richard Ockendon, professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST GRP Centers-in-Development grant recipient Dr. Huang Bin-Juine, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Centers-in-Development grant recipient Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, professor, Department of Earth Sciences – Geochemistry, Utrecht University, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Anna Tramontano, professor, Biochemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Bengt Nordén, chair professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Brian Stoltz, professor, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator, Dr. Edward Hartley Sargent, professor, Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Nicholas Paul Harberd, professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Nobuyasu Ito, associate professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Yi Cui, assistant professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Paulo Monteiro, professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • H.E. Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman, KAUST Board of Trustees (second from right), recognizes KAUST Investigator Dr. Peter A. Markowich, professor, Applied Mathematics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, alongside Professor Choon Fong Shih, president designate, KAUST (left) and Mr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim president, KAUST (right) at the GRP Technical Symposium awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 27, 2008.
  • Mr. Mark Yudof, president designate, University of California gives the keynote speech at the KAUST GRP awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 27, 2008.
  • Participants listen to presentations at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • A participant presents research topics at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Participants meet with Dr. Mohamed Samaha, interim vice president for research, KAUST, at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Two participants enjoy discussion at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Attendees listen to a speaker at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • An attendee listens to a presentation at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Ahmed Al-Khowaiter, interim vice president for economic development, KAUST, speaks with an attendee of the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Fawwaz Ulaby, provost, KAUST, and Ahmed Al-Khowaiter, interim vice president for economic development, KAUST, speak with an attendee of the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Participants listen to a presentation at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • An attendee voices a comment at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • A speaker addresses a panel at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • A view of the GRP Technical Symposium panel in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • An attendee asks a question at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. John Richard Ockendon speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. James Arthur Calvin speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Nobuyasu Ito speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Professor Roland Chin speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Mohamed E. Samaha speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Professor Fawwaz T. Ulaby speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Ahmed F. Ghoniem speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Sulaiman Al-Khattaf speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Yi Cui speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Paulo Monteiro speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Michael D. McGehee speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Edward Hartley Sargent speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Emmanuel P. Gianelis speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. William J. Koros speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Nicholas Paul Harberd speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Phillipe Van Cappellan speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • [title]Dr. Brian Stoltz speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Anna Tramontano speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Karen A. Holbrook speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Peter A. Markovich speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Nobuyasu Ito speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. David A. Tirrell speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Yi Cui speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.
  • Dr. Huang Bin-Juine speaks at the GRP Technical Symposium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 28, 2008.

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