Promoting Green Technologies Worldwide
Thursday 17 March 2011
Professor Ravi Silva of the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) has just returned from a UK Trade and Industry (UKTI) visit to Japan, where he took part in a UK – Japan Nanoelectronics Workshop sponsored by the British Embassy, Tokyo and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).
The meeting, attended by over fifty leaders in academia and industry, addressed and discussed key issues in carbon based nanoelectronics. A joint meeting report prepared as a result will feed into the bilateral science programmes to be discussed later this year by the Chief Scientists of the two countries.
Within the last year, Professor Silva also took part in the visit to India, by Prime Minister, David Cameron where, trade, industry and academic affairs of a bilateral nature were discussed. He then accompanied Gregory Barker, the Minister of State from the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change on a visit to BP Solar, Bangalore and took part in scientific discussions.
In November 2010, Professor Silva was the keynote speaker of the National Science and Technology Awards in Sri Lanka presided over by the Hon. Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (pictured on the right). He addressed the gathering with a presentation titled “Science, Technology and Innovation for a Prosperous Sri Lanka” that advocated the use of green technologies for manufacturing the world out of recession.
