Review Author Shohini Ghose is herself Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfred Laurier University in Canada, and has been active in women-in-science issues for some time. Here she addresses seven topics in the recent history of physics, astronomy, cosmology, and such, focussing on contributions by women to our present understanding. You will find…
High Resolution Imaging: Detectors and Applications Swapan K. Saha Pan Stanford – 2015 – 600 pages 9789814613279 Reviews: The Observatory_Dec_2015
Waves and Oscillations in Nature: An Introduction By A Satya Narayanan, Swapan K Saha CRC Press – 2015 – 544 pages Reviews 1: The Observatory_Feb_2016 Reviews 2: ZbMath
Waves and Oscillations in Nature: An Introduction By A Satya Narayanan, Swapan K Saha CRC Press – 2015 – 544 pages About this Book: Waves and oscillations are found in large scales (galactic) and microscopic scales (neutrino) in nature. Their dynamics and behavior heavily depend on the type of medium through which they propagate. Waves…
High Resolution Imaging: Detectors and Applications Swapan K. Saha Pan Stanford – 2015 – 600 pages 9789814613279 About this Book: Interferometric observations need snapshots of very high time resolution of the order of (i) frame integration of about 100 Hz or (ii) photon-recording rates of several megahertz (MHz). Detectors play a key role in astronomical…
Worlds Beyond Our Own: The Search for Habitable Planets Series: Astronomers’ Universe Sengupta, Sujan 2015, XVI, 154 p. 29 illus., 24 illus. in color. ISBN 978-3-319-09894-4 About this book Presents the essential conditions required for the formation and evolution of life and on which planets these may be met Provides an understanding of how…
A World Class Scientist and His Work Shobhit Mahajan KARIAMANIKKAM SRINIVASA KRISHNAN: HIS LIFE AND WORK By D.C.V. Mallik & S. Chatterjee University Press, Hyderabad, 2012, pp. 461, Rs. 895.00 One of the curious paradoxes of the sociology of science concerns the flowering of world class science in India in the early decades of the…
Dear Professor Roy, My dear friend, Atri Mukhopadhyay, sent me your email address since I could not get it from any other source. I wanted to get in touch with you after Mr Devanath of Universities Press, Hyderabad told me that you were kind enough to review our (Chatterjee’s and mine) book on K…
An Introduction to Waves and Oscillations in the Sun Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library A. Satya Narayanan, 2013, XII, 222 p. 62 illus. ISBN 978-1-4614-4400-8 About this book Presents the theoretical studies pertaining to the wave motions and vibrations of the Sun Presents the observational signatures of oscillations, as well as simulation results and nonlinear…
