Adi Bulsara

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caption = Ardeshir "Adi" Ratan Bulsara
birth_date = birth date|1951|5|15
birth_place = Bombay, India
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residence = United States
citizenship = American
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ethnicity = Parsi (Guebre)
fields = Physicist
workplaces = SPAWAR
alma_mater = University of Texas at Austin
doctoral_advisor = Ilya Prigogine
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known_for = Nonlinear dynamics
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Ardeshir "Adi" Ratan Bulsara (May 15, 1951 [Adi Ratan Bulsara, "Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems," PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1978] [ [http://preview.ussearch.com/preview/newsearch?&searchLName=Bulsara&searchState=CA&searchCity=San%20Diego&searchFName=Adi&adID=6194003754&adsource=9&TID=1&cid=background&searchtab=background US Search] ] ) is a scientist in the area nonlinear dynamics. He studied under the Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine. [Adi Ratan Bulsara, "Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems," PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1978] [ [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=45826 Ilya Prigogine's Academic Genealogy] ] The 2007 International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND), held in Kauai, Hawaii, was a festschrift held in his honor of his 55th birthday. [ [http://www.icand2007.org Bulsara's feschrift. (Their server is temporarily down, be patient)] ]

Personal life

He was born in Bombay, India, attended the Campion School [ [http://www.campion-calls.com/Pages/Page-photographs-Events.htm Campion alumni page] ] there, run by Jesuits,and presently resides in San Diego, USA. [Bulsara's IEEE Biography in "IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement", 57(1), p. 24, 2008] He is married to Marcia and has two children. [ [http://www.kleymeyer.com/Birthdays.html Adi and Marcia Bulsara] ] On his paternal side, he is a cousin of Freddie Mercury and on his maternal side he is a third cousin of Zubin Mehta. [ [http://www.excampionites.com/champions/championsdetail.asp?ID=54 Bulsara's Campion biography] ] In his younger days he was keen cyclist and competed in various cycling events. [ [http://www.excampionites.com/champions/championsdetail.asp?ID=54 Bulsara's Campion biography] ]

Education and Career

He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, under the Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine, in 1978. [Adi Ratan Bulsara, "Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems," PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1978] [ [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=45826 Ilya Prigogine's Academic Genealogy] ] His thesis was entitled, "Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems." [Adi Ratan Bulsara, "Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems," PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1978] [ [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=45826 Ilya Prigogine's Academic Genealogy] ] He is a Senior Researcher with the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego, California, USA where he leads the Applied Chaos and Dynamics Group that specializes in applications of nonlinear dynamics. [Bulsara's IEEE Biography in "IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement", 57(1), p. 24, 2008] He isthe author of more than 100 articles in the physics literature. His primary research area is in thephysics of noisy nonlinear dynamic systems. [Bulsara's IEEE Biography in "IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement", 57(1), p. 24, 2008]

Honors

In 2004, Bulsara was elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for "developing the statistical mechanics of noisy nonlinear dynamical oscillators especially in the theory, application and technology of stochastic resonance detectors." [ [http://www.aps.org/units/gsnp/fellowship/index.cfm?year=2004 Bulsara's APS Fellow citation] ] [ [http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200503/upload/spring05_prizes_awards.pdf Bulsara's APS award announcement] ] His festschrift in honor of his 55th birthday, for logistic reasons, was held when he was 56.

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. Erdős, 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.

Books by Bulsara

* S. Baglio and A. Bulsara, (editors) "Device Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics," Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 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
* J. B. Kadtke and A. Bulsara, (editors) "Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Systems Near the Millen [n] ium," 411, San Diego, CA, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 1997, ISBN 1563967367

Other selected publications

* A. Longtin, A. Bulsara, and F. Moss, "Time-interval sequences in bistable systems and the noise-induced transmission of information by sensory neurons," "Physical Review Letters" 67(5): 656-659, 1991.
* A. R. Bulsara, and L. Gammaitoni, "Tuning in to noise," "Physics Today" 49(3): 39-45, 1996.
* J. F. Lindner, B. K. Meadows, W. L. Ditto, M. E. Inchiosa, and A. R. Bulsara, "Array enhanced stochastic resonance and spatiotemporal synchronization, "Physical Review Letters" 75(1): 3-6, 1995.
* A. Bulsara, P. Hänggi, F. Marchesoni, F. Moss, and M. Shlesinger, (editors) "Special Issue for Proceedings of The Nato Advanced Research Workshop—Stochastic Resonance in Physics and Biology", in "Journal of Statistical Physics," 70(1-2), 1993.

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External links

* [http://www.campion-calls.com/images/Events/Events-1966-FirstDebates.jpgPhoto of Bulsara in a high school debate, 1966]
* [http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/openlit/openlitlist.html Bulsara's publications at SPAWAR]
* [http://chaos.ssu.runnet.ru/conf/adi.html Bulsara page]
* [http://www.math.nyu.edu/~khasilev/java/adi.html Humorous tribute to Bulsara]
* [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-154459283.html Article on Bulsara's research]
* [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020324.300-noises-on.html Reference to Bulsara's work in "New Scientist"]
* [http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-49/iss-3/vol49no3p39-45.pdf Bulsara's "Physics Today" article]
* [http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/search?/Xbulsara&searchscope=28&SORT=D/Xbulsara&searchscope=28&SORT=D&SUBKEY=bulsara/1%2C10%2C10%2CB/frameset&FF=Xbulsara&searchscope=28&SORT=D&6%2C6%2C Reference to Bulsara's thesis]
* [http://www.excampionites.com/champions/championsdetail.asp?ID=54 Bulsara's biography at Campion]