14th May, 2015- Thursday 4:00 pm New Block Auditorium

Speaker: Ahmed Rashid

Topic: Securitization: Contrasting Experiences Between the UK and Pakistan
Profile: Ahmed Rashid is Pakistans best and bravest reporter (Christopher Hitchens). His unique
knowledge of this vast and complex region allows him a panoramic vision and nuance that no Western
writer can emulate. His book Taliban first introduced American readers to the brutal regime that hijacked
Afghanistan and harboured the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
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16th May, 2015 Saturday 10:00 am till 12:00 pm New Block Auditorium
Speaker: Syed Basit Ali Jafri
Topic: Open House Session: A glimpse of 3D Game making
Overview: This will be a short session on how to use Unity 3D to make 3D games. Obviously a couple of
hours can only create craving for the topic, cannot even cover a single aspect of it. The idea is to tell
people about the importance of using Unity 3D, showing them with the help of an example, how easy it is
to make 3D games and eventually drive them to sign up for the week-long workshop/training. The open
house starts with a generic talk with some slides to be shown and then goes into a demo session where
instructor will practically create a small game and show how it is done.
Workshop signups will be available right outside the open-house venue to facilitate signup for the weeklong workshop.
Profile: Basit Ali is an Entrepreneur, Professional Technology Trainer, Apps and games development
expert, Tech enthusiast and a technology consultant. He did his Masters in Computer Sciences from
LUMS in 2003. During his stay at LUMS his area of interest had been theoretical computer sciences
including Graph Theory, Analysis and design of advanced Algorithms and Data Structures etc.
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20th May, 2015 Wednesday 8:30 am till 10:30 am - New Block Auditorium
Speaker: Dr. Illah Nourbakhsh
Topic: Robot Futures
Overview: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, professor of Robotics explained how we would share our world with
these creatures, and how our society could change as we incorporate a race of stronger, smarter and more
connected intelligences. In his talk Illah drew upon the examples in his book Robot Futures to describe
how our near, urban future would be coloured by new technology, from interactive custom messaging to
multi-modal, multi-continental telepresence.

Profile: Dr. Illah Nourbakhsh earned his bachelors, masters and PhD in computer science at Stanford
University and has been a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon since 1997. In 2009, the National
Academy of Sciences in 2009 named him a Kavli Fellow. He is co-author of the second edition MIT Press
textbook, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. He is author of the newly published MIT Press
book for general readership, Robot Futures.
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3rd June till 6th June, 2015 Wednesday till Saturday 9:00 am till 5:00 pm Computer Lab
Trainer: Abdus Salam
Topic:
Overview:
Profile: Abdus Salam currently manages the design aspect- involving usability and interface design- of
various projects and initiatives at IPAL (Innovations for Poverty Alleviation Lab). His most recent
undertaking was to re-design of the child immunization health card, which was submitted for the Records
for Life Contest at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to IPAL, Abdus worked with the Punjab
Information Technology Board (PITB), Plan 9 (Pakistans first Technology Incubator) and ITU
(Information Technology University).
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11th June till 16th June, 2015 Thursday till Tuesday Computer Lab
Schedule: 11th June (Thursday) -----> 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
12th June (Friday) -----> 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
13th June (Saturday) -----> 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
15th June (Monday) -----> 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm training & 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Competition Day
1
16th June (Tuesday) -----> 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Competition Day 2 & Closing Ceremony 3:00
pm - 5:00 pm
Trainer: Syed Basit Ali Jafri
Topic: Building your first 3D game with Unity
Overview: The training will be a set of lectures and hands-on practical implementation and practice
sessions where the students will be coming out of at least one running game at the end of the training that
they have developed. Students will also be given take home assignments that will be submitted next
morning. At the end of the program, there will be a small game-making competition.
The proposed course is an introduction to game development using Unit-3D. Unity 3D is a cross platform
game development tool that allows game-developers to quickly and easily develop games for a number of
devices like mobile phones, tablets, PC and consoles. Here is more about the training

Course Content
Introduction to computer games and game development
Basics of coordinates in 2D and 3D
A basic game loop
Introduction to Unity Environment
Trying out the unity demo
Objects, drawing, and interaction of objects with one another
Basic gravity and object physics
Playing around with cameras, looking around
Your first line of code -- where and how to code?
Physics in the Unity world
A bouncing ball example
Lights
Particle Systems
Audio sources / Music and FX
Using keyboard for game play
Using mouse for game play
Using touch screen for game controls.
Importing and exporting Assets
Finding the assets you need. Navigating through Asset Store
Compiling and packaging games for different platforms (for example Android)
Building one sample game for final competition/project
At the end of the course, there will be a small game competition where successful candidates will be
given different perks and non-monitory prizes. Perks include:

Placement of top students in summer internship programs in local game studios

Testing and Publishing their game from a known game developer on mobile platform

This course is a beginner level course and we will start learning game development from scratch. Still we
expect that the students enrolled in this course should have knowledge of:

Basics of 3D and 2D graphics in computers

Should have an idea of at least one programming language (preferably C/Java/Javascript etc)
Both students and professionals can apply

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