“Scientists downplay earthquake risks” says Prof.V.K.Gaur

Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt over much of north India, but were geologically unconnected to India’s seismic anatomy. However, the massive tectonic processes intrinsic to…

New Books Display April 2013

             Indian Institute of Astrophysics Library                                        Koramangala                                                   Bangalore – 560 034                                                      India                                                                 List of Books Displayed on 16th Apr 2013                                          1  Bajorski, Peter                                                     Statistics for imaging, optics, and photonics.– New              Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,, 2012.                                    19471                                         2  Berndt, Bruce C.                                                     Number theory…

Why students need the right to copy

Reference to law-suit filed by academic publishers Oxford University Press & Cambridge University Press against Delhi University and Rameshwari Photocopying services at Delhi University alleging copyright infringement in the creation and distribution of “course packs”.   Students view: Under fair use it is legal to reproduce any copyrighted work for the course work of educational…

Letters to the Editor: (Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan: His Life and Work by D C V Mallik and S Chatterje, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru)

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…

Research Papers Published in March 2013

Full text of the research papers published in March 2013 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Akshata Nayak., Sreejith, A. G., Safonova, M., Murthy, J., 2013, High-altitude ballooning programme at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Cur. Sci., 104, 708 Banyal, R. K., Ravindra, B., Chatterjee, S., 2013, Opto-thermal analysis of a lightweighted…

Book : An Introduction to Waves and Oscillations in the Sun

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…