Astronomy and Space Technology

Dr. Robert Y. George is “Professor Emeritus” at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he taught oceanography from 1973 to 2003.Dr. George is presently President and CEO of George Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainabilty (WWW.GIBSconservation.org) . Dr. George is also visiting professor at Kritineberg Marine Biological Station in Sweden. Dr. George led five research expeditions to Antarrctica under the funding of US National Science Foundation.

Astronomy and Space Science

David Harrison has worked at Materion Precision Optics (formerly Barr Associates) for 30 years. Currently as the business development manager for the Space & Astronomy group with a main concentration for 1M class optical components and space-based optics. Experienced in design engineering, process engineering and program management of such programs (PANSTARRS, LSST, JWST, MASTCAM, PROBA-V, Sentinel 2, etc…

Astronomy and Space Science

Kit Dodson completed his PhD in 1969 and was then appointed to a Lectureship in Mathematics at the University of Lancaster, UK, becoming Head of Department 1984-89. He took up a Senior Research Chair at the University of Toronto, Canada, 1989-96. Moving to the University of Manchester, UK, in 1996, as Professor, he subsequently became Emeritus Professor of Mathematics.

Differential geometry and global analysis, with applications in physics, biology, statistics and information geometry

McKenna-Lawlor was the principal investigator for an experiment on the European Space Agency (ESA) Giotto mission. In 1986 she founded the space instrumentation company Space Technology Ireland Ltd (STIL) with venture capitalist Dermot Desmond. STIL manufactures instruments for space missions and McKenna-Lawlor is the managing director. McKenna-Lawlor led an international team of scientists in building a particle detector capable of detecting energies between 30 kiloelectronvolts and several megaelectronvolts for the Soviet Union's Phobos spacecraft in 1988. The success of the detector led Soviet scientists to ask her to contribute a similar device for their 1994 Mars mission. She developed instruments to monitor the solar wind on Mars for the ESA Mars Express mission.

Space and Technology

Grant J. Mathews has completed Ph. D. in 1977 from University of Maryland. Grant J. Mathews is professor of Physics at University of Notre Dame, USA. Prof. Mathews’ research interests involve the origin and evolution of matter in the universe from the first instants of cosmic expansion in the big bang to the present complex interactions of stars and gas in galaxies.

Prof. Mathews’ research interests involve the origin and evolution of matter in the universe from the first instants of cosmic expansion in the big bang to the present complex interactions of stars and gas in galaxies.

Lukasz Andrzej Glinka, 1984-, got B.Sc. degree in physics from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. He has a notable background of academic activity, as author and co-author to multiple articles and papers, as writer of monographs, as editor-in-chief, editorial board member, and peer reviewer to journals, and as organizing committee member to conferences.

Applications of mathematics in science, engineering, and humanities

Professor Dr. Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His expertise is in fluid mechanics, particularly compressible flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and fluid/solid interface. He has been active in both fundamental and applied research. To date, he has co-authored two books in the field of computational fluid dynamics and has published about 400 papers in the above technical areas (www.drikakis.com)

fluid mechanics, particularly compressible flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and fluid/solid interface

Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Loeb published 4 books and nearly 600 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. He serves as Chair of the Department of Astronomy, Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) . He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, and holds the Sackler Senior Professorship by Special Appointment at Tel Aviv University. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics, as well as Vice Chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space.

Black holes

M.A.K. Lodhi has completed Ph. D. in Physics from University of London in 1963. Arfin Lodhi is Professor of Physics at Texas Tech University, USA. Recently, Professor M.A.K. Lodhi retired after having served the TTU Department of Physics for 50 years. Lodhi’s research Interests include nuclear theory and structure; new and renewable sources of energy; advanced space power generation and management.

nuclear theory and structure; new and renewable sources of energy; advanced space power generation and management.

After receiving PhD in Physics from Columbia University in New York city, Tsuruta has been working in Harvard University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Max-Planck-Institute in Munich Germany, etc., before she settled down as a tenured physics professor at Montana State University, Bozeman (MSU), Montana, USA until May 2016. After Tsuruta retired from that tenured position, she has been continuing active at Montana State University as both emeritus professor and research professor, and also as affiliate professor at IPMU (Institute of Physics and Mathematics of Universe) in Tokyo University. She also served the following institutions as a visiting professor some time over the years: University of Cambridge UK, and ISAS (Space Institute in Japan), Tokyo University, Kyoto University, etc., in Japan. Tsuruta’s research activity covers broad fields of astrophysics, ranging from compact stars such as neutron stars and stellar mass black holes, supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei, physics of black hole magnetospheres, gamma ray bursts, first stars and first black holes, and gravitational waves. Tsuruta received various honors and awards, including Marcel Grossmann Award in 2015 for her contribution to these broad fields in astrophysics, but especially for prediction of neutron star temperatures before her prediction of observability of neutron stars was validated by later observations.

Tsuruta’s research activity covers broad fields of astrophysics, ranging from compact stars such as neutron stars and stellar mass black holes, supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei, physics of black hole magnetospheres, gamma ray bursts, first stars and first black holes, and gravitational waves.

Nikolaos K. Spyrou is Professor of Astronomy at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, Greece, retired since 2011. He has taught extensively at both the under graduate and post graduated levels, conducted research work and lectured in many universities and research centers in Greece and abroad, and, also, served in many national and international administrational-scientific posts. His books and research articles belong to General Relativity Theory, Fluids, Gravitational Astrophysics, Environnemental Physis (and, secondarily, Space Physics, History of Astronomy, and Science Education), and, recently, Relativistic Cosmology combined with Thermodynamics for the polytropic Universe and its radical consequences and predictions.

General Relativity Theory, Fluids, Relativistic Cosmology and Thermodynamics, Gravitational Astrophysics, Environnemental Physis, Space Physics, History of Astronomy, Science Education

Prof. Vasily Yu. Belashov, PhD (Radiophysics), Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics). Main fields: theory and numerical simulation of the dynamics of multi-dimensional nonlinear waves, solitons and vortex structures in plasmas and other dispersive media. Presently, he is Professor in the Kazan Federal University. He was Coordinator of studies on the International Program “Solar Terminator” (1987-1992), and took part in Programs WITS/WAGS and STEP. He is author of 288 publications. Main books: Solitary Waves in Dispersive Complex Media. Theory, Simulation, Applications. Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005; The KP Equation and its Generalizations. Theory and Applications. Magadan, NEISRI FEB RAS, 1997.

Theory and numerical simulation of dynamics of multi-dimensional wave structures of soliton and vortex types in continuous complex media.

X. D. Li (born in 1951 in China), Ph.D. from Université de Montréal (1993); M.S. from Nankai University (1981), B.S. from Tianjin University (1977). He is a professor in NUDT reseaching and teaching in the fields of polymer chemistry, material chemistry and physics, crystal and structure chemistry and physics.

Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Qiuhe Peng is mainly engaged in Nuclear Astrophysics, Particle Astrophysics and Galactic Astronomy research. In the field of Nuclear Astrophysics, his research project involved a neutron star (pulsar), the supernova explosion mechanism and the thermonuclear reaction inside the star, the synthesis of heavy elements and interstellar radioactive element such as the origin of celestial 26Al. In addition, through his lectures, he establishes Nuclear Astrophysics research in China. He was invited by Peking University, by Tsinghua University (both in Beijing and in Taiwan) and by Nuclear Physics institutes in Beijing, Shanghai, Lanzhou to give lectures on Nuclear Astrophysics for many times. He has participated in the international academic conferences over 40 times and he visited more than 20 countries. In 1994, he visited eight institutes in USA to give lectures. He is the first Chinese Astrophysicist to visit NASA and to give a lecture on the topic, “Nuclear Synthesis of Interstellar 26Al”. In 2005, he visited USA twice and gave lectures in eight universities again. Inviting six Astronomers of USA to give series lectures, he has hosted four consecutive terms summer school on gravitational wave astronomy. After the four-summer school obvious effect, at least 20 young scholars in China in the field of gravitational wave astronomy specialized in learning and research. 220 research papers by him have been published.

Nuclear Astrophysics, Particle Astrophysics and Galactic Astronomy research

Heng Xiao obtained his PhD in 1990 at Shanghai University, China. From 1995 to 2000, he was Associate Professor at College of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, China. At Institute of Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, he successively held the following positions: Alexander von Humboldt fellow from 1995 to 1997, Scientific Assistant from 1998 to 2001 and Chief Engineer & Professor from 2002 to 2011. From 2011 to 2017, he was Professor at College of Science, Shanghai University, China. From 2017, he is Professor at College of Mechanics and Construction Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Sunil Kumar Maurya has completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee). He is the Assistant Professor and Head at University of Nizwa, Oman. He has published more than 42 research papers in very reputed journals with high impact journal and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of repute.

Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Dr. Martineau received an MSEE and a PhD in physics (relativity). After teaching physics and working a number of years in the defense industry developing HgCdTe infrared detectors for missile defense programs, he joined NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. There he set up manufacturing facilities and designed, built, qualified, and delivered HgCdTe focal plane arrays for the CIRS/Cassini mission. He served as the GSFC HgCdTe detector expert on a variety of programs like GOES, MODUS, NGST, CIRS, and JWST. He retired in 2006 and returned to his first love, doing research in theoretical physics. This paper presents some of his findings from these efforts.

Astrophysics and Space science

Prof. Bimal K. Bose completed his PhD at the age of 34 years from Calcutta University, India. He is Emeritus Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He has published 7 books, more than 250 papers in reputed journals, holds 21 U.S. Patents, and had been serving as an editorial board member of Proceedings of the IEEE. He served as faculty member of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1971-1976), research engineer in GE Global Research Center (1976-1987), and Endowed Chair Professor of the University of Tennessee. He is a recipient of 7 IEEE awards, Honorary D.Sc. from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India.

Power Electronics

Nicole Herbots, i.r., PhD UCL, doctor ingenieur, joined ASU's Department of Physics & Astronomy in 1991 ,after 4 years as a faculty at MIT (1987-1991), and 3.5 years as research scientist in the Solid State Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1984-1987). She is presently a professor emeritus in Physics at ASU. She is an inventor who holds multiple patents in semiconductors, medical electronics, molecular inorganic and organic nanophases and nanoscale technology. She is also a science educator who won a teaching award from engineering students for her development of interactive in-class and desktop experiments to teach fundamental and quantum physics concepts to undergraduates, and for her use of technology and whiteboards. She was an IBM Professor of Electronic Materials and a Carl Soderberg professor at MIT and a researcher in the Particle-Solid Interactions in the Solid State Division at Oak Ridge National Lab.

Condensed Matter Physics

Prof. Vasily Yu. Belashov, PhD (Radiophysics), Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics). Main fields: theory and numerical simulation of the dynamics of multi-dimensional nonlinear waves, solitons and vortex structures in plasmas and other dispersive media. Presently, he is Professor in the Kazan Federal University. He was Coordinator of studies on the International Program “Solar Terminator” (1987-1992), and took part in Programs WITS/WAGS and STEP. He is author of 288 publications. Main books: Solitary Waves in Dispersive Complex Media. Theory, Simulation, Applications. Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005; The KP Equation and its Generalizations. Theory and Applications. Magadan, NEISRI FEB RAS, 1997.

Theory and numerical simulation of the dynamics of multi-dimensional nonlinear waves, solitons and vortex structures in plasmas and other dispersive media

Francisco Márquez was born in Valencia (Spain) and received his Bachelor and Master´s degree in Biochemistry and Chemistry at the Universidad de Valencia in 1988 and 1989, respectively, and his Doctor´s degree in Chemistry at the Universidad de Valencia in 1992. He spent two years from 1990 as Director of the laboratories of Futura Medical S.A. and one year as researcher at the Varian Iberica Laboratories. From 1994 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. In 2001 he was an Associate Professor at the Universidad Jaime I and subsequently he moved to the School of Natural Sciences and Technology at the University of Turabo in Puerto Rico, USA, where is now Full Professor of chemistry. He has been Visiting Professor in several universities, most recently at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research interests are mainly directed toward photophysics of organic compounds in confined spaces, hydrogen technology, photodegradation processes, synthesis and applications of nanotubes and nanowires, and most recently the development of new electrodes for Li-ion batteries. He is a coauthor of over 100 scientific publications and 11 patents, and Editor-in-Chief of Soft Nanoscience Letters, Advances in Energy Research and International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Catalysis, nanomaterials, and hydrogen production

Sergey Kravchenko was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1960. He was graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1982 and got his Ph.D. from Institute of Solid State Physics in Chernogolovka, Russia, in 1998. He is mostly famous for his discovery of the metallic state and metal-insulator transition in two dimensions which was listed among the 50 main discoveries in Mesoscopic Physics of the last century on American Physical Society timeline in 1999 (“A Century of Mesoscopic Physics: 1899 - 1999”). At present, he is a Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Matti Pitkanen is Finnish theoretical physicist. Since 1978 he has worked with Topological Geometrodynamics (TGD), which is a proposal for a unification of fundamental interactions generalizing string models. After the thesis on the subject (1982) he has continued as a free researcher to develop mathematical theory around the basic physical ideas represented in thesis. During nineties p-adic physics, quantum theory of consciousness, and quantum biology became parts of TGD program. Around 2005 the hypothesis about hierarchy of Planck constants led to a further generalization of the basic mathematical framework of TGD.

Topological Geometrodynamics (TGD)

Lukasz Andrzej Glinka, born on October 5, 1984 in Poland, is internationally recognized as a voluntary editor and reviewer at the think tanks of open-access journals, science author, non-fiction and philosophy writer. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Astrophysics and Aerospace Technology of the OMICS Group, and an Organizing Committee Member to the International Conference on Astrophysics and Particle Physics, December 8-10, 2016, Dallas, Texas, USA. He gave more than 25 oral presentations to scientific conferences, either authored or co-authored more than 40 journal articles and papers, and authored 4 books in science and humanities among which one can find a comprehensive monograph in theoretical physics and applied mathematics. He holds BSc in physics from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, is a biographee of Marquis Who's Who, and a member at the American Association of International Researchers which belongs to the American Research Institute for Policy Development.

Cultural Study, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Mathematical Physics, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Psychology of Emotions, Pure and Applied Mathematics, Social Science, Theoretical Cosmology, Theoretical Physics

Eliade Stefanescu graduated the Faculty of Electronics, Section of Physicist Engineers, in 1970, and obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1990. As a Scientist from 1976, a Senior Scientist III from 1978, he worked in technology of semiconductor devices. From 1978, he worked in physics of optoelectronic devices. From 1987, and from 1990 as a Senior Scientist II, he worked in the field of open quantum physics. In 1991 he discovered that the penetrability of a potential barrier can be increased by coupling to a dissipative system, and described the decay spectrum of some cold fission modes. As a Senior Scientist I, from 1997 he developed a microscopic theory of open quantum systems, and discovered a physical principle for the heat conversion into usable energy. In 2014, he produced a unitary relativistic quantum theory. In the years 1995-2000, he held a course called Dissipative Systems for the master degree.

Quantum Mechanics, Relativistic Theory, Field Theory, Dissipation Theory, Quantum Optics, Nuclear Physics, and Energy Production

Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 230 scientific publications. He is a member of the American Physical Society as well as Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy) and Editor-in-Chiff of Journal of Photonic Materials and Technology (Science PG, USA).

Current research interests include various aspects of solid state physics, crystallooptics, photonics; more particularly - theoretical study of the effects of disorder in quasi-two-dimensional nanofilms and layered structures caused by the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic excitations, light-matter coupling in composite nanostructures.

Prof. Dr. Changzhi Gu, received a Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Jilin University in 1997. In 2001, he was selected into the "100 Talents Program" of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and moved to the Institute of Physics (IOP), CAS. He has been a Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at IOP since 2001. Now, he is the deputy director of IOP. His research focused on the synthesis and property of wide-band gap thin films, artificial structures and devices in nanometer scale. In this field, he has published more than 200 papers in reputed Journals, these pappers were cited more than 3000 by others.

Condensed Mater Physics, Nanophysics and Nanodevices

Victor Victorovich Apollonov is the leading specialist in the area of basic principles of creation and development of high power laser systems and high power laser radiation rninteraction with matter. He has made an outstanding input into creation and development of new branches of science - physical and technical fundamentals of high rnpower laser optics and adaptive optics, investigation of physical processes in a high volume self-controlled volume discharges, creation of high power continuous rnwave, pulsed and high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser systems, high intensity laser radiation interaction with matter, high power laser application for an effective rnprotection of valuable objects and water surface cleaning from oil films, medical applications for UV lasers. He is the author of more than 1160 publications, 14rnbooks, 350 presentations and 144 patents. (from Research Gate). He is a high profile scientist and well known around all over the world, for more than 40 years ofrnhis international scientific activity, he has participated and organized more than 56 international conferences, symposiums and workshops, prepared more than 32rncandidates and doctors of physics and mathematics. He is the General Director of “Energomashtechnika” Ltd. He is the member of European and American PhysicalrnSociety, SPIE, AIAA, American Society for QE and the member of specialized scientific council of Russia. He is a full member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciencernand Academy of Engineering Sciences, member of the Presidium RANS. He is the laureate of State Prize of USSR (1982) and of Russia (2002).

Physical and technical fundamentals of high power laser optics and adaptive optics, Investigation of physical processes in a high volume self-controlled volume discharges, Creation of high power continuous wave, Pulsed and high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser systems, High intensity laser radiation interaction with matter, High power laser application for an effective protection of valuable objects and water surface cleaning from oil films, Medical applications for UV lasers

Patrick Siarry was born in France in 1952. He received the PhD degree from the University Paris 6, in 1986 and the Doctorate of Sciences (Habilitation) from the University Paris 11, in 1994. He was first involved in the development of analog and digital models of nuclear power plants at Electricite de France (E.D.F.). Since 1995 he is a professor in automatics and informatics. His main research interests are computer-aided design of electronic circuits, and the applications of new stochastic global optimization heuristics to various engineering fields. He is also interested in the fitting of process models to experimental data, the learning of fuzzy rule bases, and of neural networks.

Automatics, Theory and Signal Processing, Electronics, Programming in FORTRAN, numerical analysis, applied statistics, etc.