Adi Bulsara

Adi Bulsara
Adi Ratan Bulsara
Born	May 13 1952(1952--) Bombay, India
Residence	United States
Citizenship	American
Ethnicity	Guebre
Field	Physicist
Institutions	SPARWAR
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Academic advisor	Ilya Prigogine
Known for	Nonlinear dynamics

Adi Ratan Bulsara (May 13, 1952) is a notable scientist in the area nonlinear dynamics and has written a number of books in the field. He also notably studied under the Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine. The 2007 International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND) [1], held in Kauai, Hawaii, was a feschrift held in his honor for his 55th birthday.

Personal Life

He was born in Bombay, India and presently resides in San Diego, USA. He is married to Marcia and has two children. He is a cousin of both Freddie Mercury and Zubin Mehta. In his younger days he was keen cyclist and competed in various cycling events. He is known for a number of humorous catch phrases such as "Listen man, this is what we are going to do," and "Excuse me, do you give unlimited refill?" [2].

Education and Career

He obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, under the Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine, in 1978. His thesis was entitled, Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems. He presently leads the Applied Chaos and Dynamics Group [3] at the SPARWAR Systems Center San Diego, USA.

Books by Bulsara

S. Baglio and A. Bulsara, Device Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer, 2006, ISBN 3540338772
A. Bulsara, Noise and Chaos in the RF SQUID, Office of Naval Research, 1992, ASIN B0006R2M5I
A. Bulsara, Coupled Neural-Dendritic Processes: Cooperative Stochastic Effects and the Analysis of Spike Trains, Office of Naval Research, 1994, ASIN B0006R2O9C

Bulsara's Erdős Number

Bulsara's Erdős Number is 5. His path to Erdős is as follows:

A.R. Bulsara and W.C. Schieve, "Entropy and stability in a stochastic laser model," Z. Phys., B33(3), pp. 211-217, 1979.
L.P. Horwitz, W.C. Schieve, and C. Piron, "Gibbs ensembles in relativistic classical and quantum mechanics," Ann. Physics, 137(2), pp. 306-340, 1981.
S. Gudder and C. Piron, "Observables and the field in quantum mechanics," J. Mathematical Phys., 12, pp. 1583-1588, 1971.
S.P. Gudder and R.H. Schelp, "Coordinatization of orthocomplemented and orthomodular posets," Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 25, pp. 229-237, 1970.
P. Erdös, R.J. Faudree, C.C. Rousseau, and R.H. Schelp, "Generalized Ramsey theory for multiple colors," J. Combinatorial Theory Ser., B20(3), pp. 250-264, 1976.

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