INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE on

        “LOW COST HIGH PHYSICS AND APPROPRIATE
SOLUTIONS TO REAL LIFE PROBLEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES”.

Yaoundé 8-10 december 2009.

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Description

   An important problem faced by the majority
of Physicists from developing countries is that their research activities are
far from developmental goals of their countries. Those of them tackling
problems related to some local development objectives will not succeed in
publishing their results in good scientific journals. Meanwhile they need
publications in good international peer-reviewed journals for their academic
promotion and international visibility. 
Researchers carrying out publishable works in international journals
rely mainly on the theoretical aspects with sometimes experimental counterpart
carried out in developed countries laboratories thanks to various funding
institutions and individual contacts abroad. The decision-makers in developing
countries, either do not have sufficient fund, or do not find the necessity to
fund expensive equipment for research topics that have no direct and immediate
links to problems suffered by their population.

      This constitutes a big threat to the
development of physics activities and is certainly the most important cause of
lack of public and decision-makers awareness on the benefits that come from
research in physics. As a consequence, Physicists who want to maintain their
scientific standard generally move abroad to work in stimulating environment,
so the brain-drain. 

      Aware
of this fact, the Cameroon
Physical Society is launching a series of bi-annual conferences on the general
topic: “Low Cost High Physics and Appropriate Solutions to Real life Problems
in Developing countries”.  The
conferences will be the place for the presentation of scientific achievements
in physics that fulfil the following criteria:

   - Low cost research topics that can be
covered entirely (theory, experiment and application) with low funding,

   - 
High level scientific topics that have been published or are publishable
in good international journals,

  - Impact on the technological, economic and
social development in developing countries.

     The conferences will also be the place
where Physicists acquire knowledge for innovation and entrepreneurship. 

         The scientific areas for presentations
are not limited as far as they satisfy the above criteria. However, because of
the strong involvement of Cameroonian Physicists in some fields, the areas of
particular interest for the 2009 conference are:

-         
Statistical Physics and Complex systems,

-         
Material sciences,

-         
Atomic and Molecular Physics,

-         
Renewable energy.

   The conference will take place during a
period of three days and consists of lectures and case studies.