Ardeshir "Adi" Ratan Bulsara (born 15 May 1951Adi Ratan Bulsara, ''Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems,'' PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1978) is a scientist in the area

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. The 2007 International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND), held in

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, was a

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held in his honor of his 55th birthday.

Honours

In 2004, Bulsara was elected to Fellow of the

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(APS) for "developing the statistical mechanics of noisy nonlinear dynamical oscillators especially in the theory, application and technology of stochastic resonance detectors." His

in honor of his 55th birthday, which, for logistic reasons, was held when he was 56.

Books by Bulsara

* S. Baglio and A. Bulsara, (editors) ''Device Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics,'' Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, * 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 um,'' 411, San Diego, CA, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 1997,

References

External links

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Photo of Bulsara in a high school debate, 1966

Bulsara's ''Physics Today'' article Reference to Bulsara's thesisBulsara's biography at Campion
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bulsara, Adi 1951 births Living people University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni People from San Diego Scientists from Mumbai Fellows of the American Physical Society 21st-century American physicists American people of Parsi descent American Zoroastrians Probability theorists Parsi people Parsi people from Mumbai Scientists from California