Plenary Sessions

Symposium on Agriculture & Food Security
Symposium on Disaster Risk Reduction
Symposium on Environment Pollution
Symposium on Financial Reform
Symposium on Infrastructures: Hydropower, Transportation and Utilities
Symposium on New Frontiers in Physical Sciences & Prosperity
Symposium on Social Security
The Abstract of papers to be presented to the conference shall be submitted to the Conference Organizers in advance. Following are the submission deadlines.
Abstract submission open: 1st August 2018
Abstract submission deadline: 31 August 2018
Notification of acceptance of abstract: 15 September 2018
Registration: 30 September 2018
The convention organizing committee invites all interested participants and/or contributors to register and submit their abstracts via the convention website (https://www.knowledge-nrna.org).
Please submit your contributions to a specific symposium session listed above. These contributions will be considered for contributed talks or rapid-fire presentations in the symposium sessions, or poster presentations.
The registration fees will be waved for invited speakers and discounted by 50% for student presenters.
Dr Hem Raj Sharma, the University of Liverpool, UK (Programme)
Mr. Kumar Panta, Non-Resident Nepali Association, Germany (Management)
Member Secretary: Dr Hari Dahal, American Physical society, USA
Nepal Government’s Liaison Officer:Dr Damaru B Paudel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr Ambika Adhikari, Arizona State University, USA
Prof Bhagawan Koirala, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Prof David Gellner, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Dinesh Bhuju, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Nepal
Dr Drona Rasali, Provincial Health Services Authority, Canada
Er Ganesh Shah, Nepal Science Olympiad, Nepal
Dr Kayo Devi Yami, Former Chief of NAST Science Faculty, Nepal
Prof Kedar Bhakta Mathema, Former VC, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Mr Mahabir Pun, National Innovation Centre, Nepal
Prof Michael Hutt, University of London, UK
Mr Naresh Koirala, Nepal Library Foundation, Canada
Dr Pramod Dhakal, NRNA Academy, Nepal
Dr Raju Adhikari, RMIT University, Australia
Dr Shobhakar Dhakal, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Dr Yub Raj Pokharel, South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Agriculture and Food Security
Dr Drona Rasali, Provincial Health Services Authority, Canada
Dr Keshav Adhikari, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, TU, Nepal
Disaster Risk Reduction
Mr Ajaya Dixit, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Nepal
Dr Netra Prakash Bhandary, Ehime University, Japan
Education
Dr Pramod Dhakal, NRNA Academy, Nepal
Dr Tejendra Pherali, University College London, UK
Environment Pollution
Dr Maheswar Rupakheti, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany
Dr Durga Poudel, University of Lousiana at Lafayette, USA
Financial Policy and Investment
Mr Keshab KC, Nepal Rastra Bank, Nepal
Mr Ranjeet Mahato, Neapolis University Paphos, Cyprus
Health Education and Policy
Dr Archana Amatya, Global Health Department, Institute of Medicine, Nepal`
Dr Binod Shah, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
Hydropower, Transportation and Utilities
Dr Arun Timalsina, Institute of Engineering, TU, Nepal
Mr Naresh Koirala, Nepal Library Foundation, Canada
New Frontier in Physical Sciences and Prosperity
Dr Hari Dahal, American Physical Society, USA
Prof Narayan Adhikari, Central Department of Physics, TU, Nepal
Social Security
Mr Prakash Dahal, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Nepal
Mr Kiran (Ron) Sitoula, Department of the Treasury, USA
Sustainable Energy
Dr Ambika Adhikari, Arizona State University, USA
Dr Subodh Sharma, Kathmandu University, Nepal
Technology Transfer and Innovation
Dr Raju Adhikari, RMIT University, Australia
Dr Rameswor Adhikari, RECAST, TU, Nepal
Dr Ambika Adhikari, Arizona State University, USA
Prof Bhagawan Koirala, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Prof David Gellner, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Dinesh Bhuju, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Nepal
Dr Drona Rasali, Provincial Health Services Authority, Canada
Er Ganesh Shah, Nepal Science Olympiad, Nepal
Dr Kayo Devi Yami, Former Chief of NAST Science Faculty, Nepal
Prof Kedar Bhakta Mathema, Former VC, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Mr Mahabir Pun, National Innovation Centre, Nepal
Prof Michael Hutt, University of London, UK
Mr Naresh Koirala, Nepal Library Foundation, Canada
Dr Pramod Dhakal, NRNA Academy, Nepal
Dr Raju Adhikari, RMIT University, Australia
Dr Shobhakar Dhakal, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Dr Yub Raj Pokharel, South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Mr Kumar Panta, Vice President, NRNA
Dr Badri KC, General Secretary, NRNA
Mr Ram P Thapa, Patron, NRNA
Dr Hemanta Dabadi, CEO, NRNA Secretariat
Mr Shreeram Ghimire, Secretariat liaison
Americas: Dr Rudra Aryal, Franklin Pierce University, USA
Asia Pacific: Dr Devi Basnet, Medytox Inc., South Korea
Europe: Mr Ram Pratap Thapa, NRNA Patron, Germany and Dr Nabin Aryal, Aarhus University, Denmark