Scientific Board
Biography
Prof. Dr. Raja GuhaThakurta received his B.Sc. (1983) in Physics at Saint Xavier’s College, Calcutta, India and his Masters (1987) and PhD (1989) in Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1989–1992) and a Hubble postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University (1992–1993). He worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the operational headquarters of the Hubble Space Telescope, in 1994, before joining the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz and UC Observatories where he has been a professor for the last 27 years. He was Visiting Faculty at Google in Mountain View, California in 2015. Selected awards include the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Herzberg Memorial Prize and Fellowship of the National Research Council of Canada, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer at Tel-Aviv University (Tel-Aviv, Israel), and American Astronomical Society Fellow. He currently serves as the Department Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCSC. GuhaThakurta’s astrophysics research focuses on galaxies (their formation and evolution, structure, kinematics, dark matter content, chemical enrichment, merger/cannibalism history, star formation), black holes (central cusps in star clusters, tidal disruption events), stellar populations, and the interstellar medium. He and his research group use the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii, the Lick Observatory telescopes in California, and several other ground based telescopes around the world. He supervises the research of PhD students, Masters students, postdoctoral scholars, undergraduates, and high school students. He founded the Science Internship Program at UCSC in 2009 and serves as its Faculty Director – this program engages high school students from around the world in cutting-edge research projects in a variety of STEAM fields under the close mentorship of researchers at UCSC. He is deeply committed to the inclusion and support of students from groups that have traditionally been excluded from STEM/STEAM and has recently started the Creating Equity in STEAM umbrella of initiatives.
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Dr P K Dash is a dedicated Aerospace Professor and Head in Department of Aeronautical Engineering, NMIT, Bangalore, India. He has 33yearsof academic carrier with both administrative and academic like Dean, Principal, Director of Research and Head of the Department. He has several academic and research excellence like awarded as best teacher, published 50 plus journal papers in International and National level and similar numbers in national and international conferences, carried number of funded research projects, guided more than 100 students both from UG, PG, and Ph. D. He has been awarded with Aerospace Division awards, best researcher awards, and number of research papers awards. He is the member of several professional bodies (13) like AIAA, ASME ERPS etc. and academic council like BOS, Academic Council, Senate, and Advisor. He conducted 13 National level conferences and 7 international level conferences and also worked as panel members for several International and National Level conferences. He has delivered 7 Keynote address, presided as Chair on number of international conferences. Currently he is associated with quite a few National and International committees like IOC, AIAA, PTC of (SSC), Board Members of IE(India), etc. His interest is to dedicatedly involve with aerospace engineering and expand its horizon to all the dimensions of Globe with a vision of good numbers of aerospace professional for future.
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Prof. Dr. Rong-Gen Cai, was born in Sept. 1964, Professor and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Academician of CAS, fellow of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG), and a member of TWAS. In 1995 he received his Ph.D degree from Fudan University. Then he did postdoctoral research successively at the ITP-CAS, the Center for Theoretical Physics of Seoul National University, and Physics Department of Osaka University. He came to ITP/CAS as a faculty in 2001. He is now a standing committee member of Chinese Physics Society (CPS), president of the division of gravitation and relativistic astrophysics of CPS, vice-chairman of the division of the gravitation, astrophysics and cosmology of AAPPS, president of the association of gravitation, astrophysics and cosmology of the BRICS countries. Dr. Cai’s research field is gravity and cosmology. He has published more than 300 papers, His current research interest focuses on holographic property of gravity, black hole physics, early universe physics, dark energy and gravitational wave physics etc.
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Prof. Bradley Cox is an American physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Physics and the founder of the High Energy Physics Group Physics at University of Virginia. Cox has conducted research on the fundamental particles such as fermions, quarks, leptons and bosons that constitute matter. He has been involved in numerous experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Fermilab and CERN. Cox's research contributing to the discovery of the Higgs particle was named as one of the 12 most significant research achievements at the University of Virginia of the last 50 years. Cox is a fellow of American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Association of University Professors. He has served as a chair of the Southeastern American Physical Society and as chair of the American Physical Society Publications Committee.
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Prof. Dr. Seyed A.Reza Zekavat is a professor of Physics and a professor of Data Sciences of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Prior to joining WPI, and till 2019, he was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Michigan Technological University, where he founded the Wireless Positioning Lab of Michigan Tech ECE department. Zekavat received his PhD from Colorado State University in 2002. He is the author of more than 170 peer reviewed articles. He has authored the textbook "Electrical Engineering: Concepts and Applications" published by Pearson, and the editor of the book “Handbook of Position Location: Theory, Practice and Advances,” published by Wiley/IEEE. He holds a patent on an active Wireless Remote Positioning System. Zekavat has also co-authored two books “Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communications,” published by Kluwer, and “High Dimensional Data Analysis,” published by VDM Verlag; and ten book chapters in the areas of adaptive antennas, localization, and spectrum sharing. Zekavat’s research interests are in wireless communications, positioning systems, software defined radio design, dynamic spectrum allocation methods, Radar theory, blind signal separation and MIMO and beam forming techniques, feature extraction, and neural networking. He has served as steering committee and general chair of a large number of IEEE conferences and workshops. He is active on the technical program committees for several IEEE international conferences, serving as a committee chair or member. He served on the editorial board of many Journals including IET Communications, IET Wireless Sensor System, Springer International Journal on Wireless Networks, and GSTF Journal on Mobile Communication.
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Mr. Charles Sven is an Observational and Theoretical Cosmologist and author pursuing independent research for the last 20 + years that included 7 philosophical and 14 science conference presentations.
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Dr. Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 450+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology
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Prof. Dr. Qiu-he Peng graduated from Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University at 1960 firstly taught at Peking University for 18 years and then is teaching at Nanjing University. He is mainly engaged in nuclear astrophysics, particle astrophysics, and galactic astronomy research. In the field of nuclear astrophysics, his researches involve neutron stars (pulsars), the supernova explosion mechanism and the thermonuclear reaction inside the star, the synthesis of heavy elements and an interstellar radioactive element such as the origin of celestial 26Al. 225 papers of him have been published. In recent 10 years, his works are mainly on the astrophysics with both particle physics and condensed matter physics
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Dr. Chunshan Lin is a theoretical cosmologist. He received PhD degree in Physics in 2011. He worked as post doc researcher in Tokyo University and Kyoto University successively between 2011-2017. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Jagiellonian University, Poland. His research area covers the physics of early universe and dark energy, theories and phenomenology of modified gravity.
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Dr. Anna Vladimir Uryson was born in Moscow and graduated from Physics department of Lomonosov Moscow State University. At present he is a senior researcher at Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of sciences (FIAN). He received Ph. D. in physics in 1988. In 2008 he was awarded the degree “Doctor in physics and mathematics”. He began to study cosmic rays when he was a student. His diploma work was the part of investigation conducted at Tian-Shan mountain station. Since 1995, the main field of his research has been astrophysics of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The full list of his publications contains 3 books and about 100 papers.
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Prof. Dr. Sergey V. Sushkov works at Kazan Federal University, Institute of Physics, Russia. He served as Vice-president of Russian Gravitational Society Council Member of BRICS Association of Gravity, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Editor of scientific journals "Universe", “Symmetry”, "Space, Time, and Fundamental Interactions", Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan in the field of science and technology. His research interests include Cosmology, inflation, observational tests of early Universe theories, gravitation, black hole and wormhole physics, quantum field theory in curved space times. He was Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Physical Review A, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Gravitation and Cosmology, General Relativity and Gravitation, Physics Letters B, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Modern Physics Letters A, International Journal of Modern Physics A, Universe, Symmetry, Galaxies. Chairman of the Organizing committee of the International Winter School on Gravity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics- Petrov School (Kazan, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019). Chairman of the Organizing committee of the Third Symposium of the BRICS Association on Gravity, Astrophysics and Cosmology (Kazan, August 29 — September 3, 2019)
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Prof. Dr. Asher Yahalom is a Full Professor and the former Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Ariel University and the Academic director of the free electron laser user center which is located within the University Center campus. He was born in Israel on November 15, 1968, received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel in 1990, 1991 and 1996 respectively. Asher Yahalom was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the department of electrical engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel. And a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge during the years 2005-2006, 2008, 2012 & Princeton University during the years 2019-2020. From 1994 to 1998 Asher Yahalom worked with Direx Medical System on the development of a novel MRI machine as a head of the magneto-static team. Afterwards he consulted the company in various mathematical and algorithmic issues related to the development of the “gamma knife” – a radiation-based head surgery system. In the years 1998-1999 Asher Yahalom joined the Israeli Free Electron Laser Group both as postdoctoral fellow and as a project manager, he is a member of the group ever since. Among his contributions to the project are theoretical contributions (Finding Kramers-Kronig relations for FEL Amplitude-Phase, formulating a variational principle for FEL physics), technological contributions (working on two stage and multi stage electron collectors, suggesting major improvement in the FEL Talbot effect radiation resonator which led to the first powerful lasing in 4.9.2003). As part of his duties Prof. Yahalom has established the FEL user center of which he now directs, the aim of the FEL user center is to establish applications for FEL radiation including medical applications. Asher Yahalom works in a wide range of scientific & technological subjects ranging form the foundations of quantum mechanics to molecular dynamic, fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, magnetohydrodynamics, communications, signal processing and gravity.
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Prof. Dr. Mahammad A. Nurmammadov graduated from Mathematics and 1987 at Novosibirsk State University (Russian)Department of Applied Mathematics Post graduated with Ph.D of Physical Mathematics (dissertation title: On the solvability of a some boundary value problems for mixed type differential equations with some degenerating planes") Second degree Doctor of Science Researches (dissertation title: “On the solvability of local and nonlocal boundary value problems for non-classical equations of mathematical physics in multi-dimensional domain “) Worked in Novosibirsk State University (USSR), Head of Constructor of the Special Construction Section, Head of Department in NASA Azerbaijan, Vice-Rector of Scientific Affairs of Lankaran State University, associated professor at the Oil Academy Azerbaijan (Department of applied mathematics), Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and present in department of Astrophysics and Cosmology of the Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory of NASA, Azerbaijan Republic. By Dr. Mahammad Nurmammadov at first applied the nonclassical approaches to certain problems of the theory of anisotropic space plasma in fluid description and New Mathematical Tractates about Dynamics of Great Red Spot on the Jupiter. Moreover, the new justification conditions of necessary and sufficient of dynamic steady for rotation Great Red Spot and Jupiter is established.
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Prof. Dr. Habil. Vaidotas Kazukauskas is a Professor at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, Lithuania. He was awarded Dr. Habil. degree in 1999. The topics of his research work are carrier transport, generation, recombination and trapping phenomena in advanced materials and structures for (opto-)electronic and photovoltaic applications. Prof. V. Kazukauskas is/was involved as a team leader into the six large-scale international projects and other numerous projects. He was awarded the National Science Award of Lithuanian Republic, the National Science Award for the Distinguished Scientist, the Science Award of the Rector of Vilnius University and others. V. Kazukauskas has more than 380 publications, had delivered more than 60 invited lectures at the international conferences, and authored three textbooks.