About the Authors
Vidya Sagar Bhasin received his Ph.D in theoretical nuclear physics from
University of Delhi, working on the problem of nuclear three body scattering at low
energies. He has spent extended periods at ICTP, Trieste, SLAC, Stanford
University, T.W. Bonner Nuclear Lab, Rice University, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg at different times as post-doctoral fellow and visiting scientist. He has
been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bonn. He taught and
carried out research at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of
Delhi for nearly four decades. His research interests have been in non-relativistic
and relativistic three-body nuclear physic, high energy scattering problems,
meson-baryon physics in quark model, charge symmetry breaking effect in
nucleon-nucleon scattering, few-body analysis of structural properties of
neutron-rich halo nuclei and search for Efimov effect in nuclei. He has edited
several volumes on some of these topics and has authored several books on science
and technology for the National Centre for Education Research and Training
(NCERT, Govt. of India).
Indranil Mazumdar is professor of nuclear physics at the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He read physics at Delhi University
obtaining both his bachelor and master degrees. He received his PhD in nuclear
physics from Delhi University having worked jointly at Delhi University and Inter
University Accelerator Centre (Formerly Nuclear Science Centre), New Delhi. He
did his post-doctoral work at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and
later spent extended period on sabbatical at the Duke University, North Carolina.
His research interests cover both theoretical calculations, experiments and instrumentation. His primary activities include few-body calculations of neutron-rich halo
nuclei, Efimov effect, shape-phase transitions in hot and rotating nuclei, giant dipole
resonances, fusion-fission dynamics, nuclear level density, reactions of nuclear
astrophysics and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.
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Vidya Sagar Bhasin received his Ph.D in theoretical nuclear physics from
University of Delhi, working on the problem of nuclear three body scattering at low
energies. He has spent extended periods at ICTP, Trieste, SLAC, Stanford
University, T.W. Bonner Nuclear Lab, Rice University, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg at different times as post-doctoral fellow and visiting scientist. He has
been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bonn. He taught and
carried out research at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of
Delhi for nearly four decades. His research interests have been in non-relativistic
and relativistic three-body nuclear physic, high energy scattering problems,
meson-baryon physics in quark model, charge symmetry breaking effect in
nucleon-nucleon scattering, few-body analysis of structural properties of
neutron-rich halo nuclei and search for Efimov effect in nuclei. He has edited
several volumes on some of these topics and has authored several books on science
and technology for the National Centre for Education Research and Training
(NCERT, Govt. of India).
Indranil Mazumdar is professor of nuclear physics at the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He read physics at Delhi University
obtaining both his bachelor and master degrees. He received his PhD in nuclear
physics from Delhi University having worked jointly at Delhi University and Inter
University Accelerator Centre (Formerly Nuclear Science Centre), New Delhi. He
did his post-doctoral work at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and
later spent extended period on sabbatical at the Duke University, North Carolina.
His research interests cover both theoretical calculations, experiments and instrumentation. His primary activities include few-body calculations of neutron-rich halo
nuclei, Efimov effect, shape-phase transitions in hot and rotating nuclei, giant dipole
resonances, fusion-fission dynamics, nuclear level density, reactions of nuclear
astrophysics and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.
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