User:Khaweramu/Professor Zafar Ahsan

Professor Zafar Ahsan born on 11-03-1951 in India, got his education from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India), and obtained his M. Phil (1976) and Ph.D (1979) degrees in General Theory of relativity. He joined department of mathematics at Aligarh Muslim University in 1978 as a lecturer and became Reader in 1992 and Professor in 2000.

Prof Zafar Ahsan is a recipient of RASHTRIYA GAURAV AWARD (2007), SHIKSHA RATAN PURASKAR (2007) and THE BEST CITIZENS OF INDIA AWARD (2006, 2007, 2008), Prof. Zafar Ahsan is the Member of Research Board of Advisors, American Biography Institute (USA); Managing Editor of Aligarh Bulletin of Mathematics; Members of Editorial Board of Journal of Calcutta Mathematical Society, International e-Journal of Numerical Analysis and related topics and Bulletin of Pure and Applied Mathematics; Referee of various journals of mathematics and physics. He has been a Council Member of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (2002-2006) ; a Visiting Associate of Inter University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (July 1996-June 2005); a UGC Visiting Fellow of Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (April 2004-May 2005) and Course Coordinator and Convener of various refresher courses and National Conferences in mathematics held at AMU. He is also life members of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation, Calcutta Mathematical Society, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics , Indian Mathematical Society and Tensor Society of India; a founder member of International Egyptian Engineering Mathematical Society and a member of Astronomical Society of India.

Prof. Zafar Ahsan has been working on gravitational waves, exact solutions of Einstein equations, symmetries of the space-time, tetrad formalisms and differential geometric structures in general relativity. . He has so far published 62 research papers  in national and international journals of repute. He has participated in 45 conferences in India and abroad and has presented his work as an invited speaker in 24 conferences. He has written 05 Lecture Notes entitled “Astronomy” (1982), “Relativity Theory” (1994), “Mechanics” (1999), “Mathematical Methods” (2001) and “The Tetrad Formalism” (2006); and has published 04 books entitled “Differential Equations and Their Applications” (1999), “Vector Analysis” (2003), “Mathematical Methods”  (2005) and “Tensor Analysis with Applications”  (2008). All these books are prescribed as text books in most of the Indian universities  and some foreign universities. His book on Differential Equations (2nd Edition, 2004, Eleventh reprint, August 2009) is a best seller since 1999.

Prof. Zafar Ahsan has visited Pakistan (1980), Italy (1985), Bangladesh (1986), Libya (1989), Iran (2004) and Japan (2007) to deliver invited talks at international conferences. He has also been delivering lectures at a number of refresher courses on mathematics held at AMU and other Indian universities.

His current research interest, apart from General Relativity and Gravitation, is on Quran and Modern Cosmology; and he has delivered public talks on this topics at a number of places like Tabriz (Iran), Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujrat), Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi) and AMU.

Details
Topic of M.Phil. Dissertation : "Studies in Gravitational Radiation in General Relativity."

Topic of Ph.D. Thesis : "Studies of Radiation in General Relativity."

Honours/Distinction :

1.Recipient of Shiksha Rattan Puraskar, 2007.;

2.Recipient of Best Citizens of India Award, 2006, 2007,2008.;

3.Recipient of Rashtriya Gaurav Award, 2007.;

4.Member, Research Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, Rayleigh (USA) since 2005.;

5.Managing Editor- The Aligarh Bulletin of Mathematics.Published by the Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh(India).;

6.Member, Editorial Board, J. of Calcutta Math. Society.;

7.Member, Editorial Board, Int. eJ. Num. Anal. Related topics.;

8.Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Maths.;

9.Refree for various Journals of Maths. and Phys.;

10.Visiting Associate of Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune ( July 1,1996 - June 30, 2005 ).;

11.UGC Visiting Fellow of Sardar Patel University Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujrat) (April 1, 2004-May 31, 2005).;

12.Council Member of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (2002-2006).;

13.Member, Urdu Translation Committee, National Council of Educational Research and Training, India, For Text Books of Mathematics at SC level.;

14.Course coordinator and Convenor of various Refresher Courses and National conferences in Mathematics, respectively, held at AMU, Aligarh.

Memberships of Learned Societies :

1. Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation (Life).;

2. Astronomical Society of India.;

3. Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Life).;

4. Calcutta Mathematical Society (Life).;

5. International Egyptian Engineering Mathematical Society (Founder and Life).;

6. Indian Mathematical Society (Life).;

7. Tensor Society of India (Life).

Countries visited/Purpose

Pakistan : To participate and deliver talk at 5th International Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs, Nathiagali, ( June 13 - July 2, 1980 ).

Italy : To participate at the College on Representation Theory of Lie Groups at International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste (under Federation Programme) ( Oct. 24 - Nov. 25, 1985 ).

Bangladesh : To deliver an invited talk at the International Conference on Mathematical Physics at Chittagong ( Jan. 08 - 10, 1986 ).

Libya : To join as Assistant Professor at Alfateh University, Misurata ( Nov. 3, 1986 - Oct. 11, 1989 ) and to participate and present papers at the First Physics Conference ( July 03-06, 1989) and First International Conference of Basic Sciences ( Sept. 23-28, 1989 ) at Tripoli.

Iran : To deliver invited talks at the third Seminar on Geometry and Topology at Azarbaidjan university of Tarbiat Moallem, Tabriz (July 15-17, 2004).

Japan : To deliver contributory talk at VIII Asia Pacific International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics held at Nara Women’s University, Nara (Aug. 29 - Sept. 1, 2007).

"Malasia" : To deliver a Special talk on Quran and Modern Cosmology

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

1. On the functions in the Levinson’s treatment for Ramakrishna’s appraoch relativity. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 5 (1974) 1137-1140.

2. Invariants of curvature tensor and gravitational radiation in general relativity Proc.Inter. Symp. Rel. Unified Theo. (1975-76) 231-234. (with S.I.Husain)

3. Algebraic classification of space-matter tensor in general relativity. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 8 (1977) 231-237.

4. Invariants of curvature tensor and gravitational radiation in general relativity. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 8 (1977) 656-662. (with S.I.Husain)

5. Algebra of space-matter tensor in general relativity. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 8 (1977) 1055-1061.

6. On the geometry of null congruences in general relativity Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 85 A (1977) 546-551. (with N.P.Malik)

7. Null electromagnetic fields and the Nijenhuis tensor in general relativity. Abs. 8th Conf. IAGRG (1977-78) p.20. (with S.I.Husain)

8. On the Goldberg-Sachs theorem in general relativity. Aligarh Bull. Maths. 5-6 (1975- 76) 75-82.

9. A note on the space-matter spinor in general relativity. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 9 (1978) 1154-1157.

10. Collineation in electromagnetic field in general relativity - The null field case. Tamkang J. Maths. 9 (1978) 237-240.

11. A class of algebraically special null Einstein-Maxwell field in Newman Penrose formalism. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 88A (1979) 125-132.

12. Invariant characterization for null electromagnetic fields in general relativity. Current Sci. 48 (1979) 625.

13. Collineations in null electromagnetic field in general relativity. Gravitation, Quanta and the Universe, Ed. Prassanna et al, Wiley Eastern India Ltd. (1980) 301-302. (with S.I.Husain)

14. On (F, g, r, S) -structure in general relativity. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 11 (1980) 819-827. (with S.I.Husain)

15. Null electromagnetic fields, total gravitational radiation and collineations in general relativity. Ann. di Mat. Pure Appl. CXXVI (1980) 379-396. (with S.I.Husain)

16. On algebraically special shear-free Einstein-Maxwell fields in general relativity. Proc. Einstein Cent. Symp. 2 (1980).

17. On the null Einstein-Maxwell fields in general relativity. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 12 (1981) 265-269.

18. A differential structure on the spacetime manifold corresponding to the state of total radiation. ICTP Internal Report No. IC/81/162 (1981), Italy. (with S.I.Husain)

19. Gravitational radiation and Nijenhuis tensor in general relativity. Phys. Contem. Needs 5 (1983) 617, ed. Riazuddin, Plenum Press, New York.

20. On the physical meaning of the Nijenhuis tensor in general relativity. Current Sci. 52 (1983) 871.

21. Gravitational radiation and geometric structure in general relativity. Proc. Rel. Grav. Remific. Matscience (1985).

22. Type N twist-free gravitational fields. ICTP Internal Report No. IC/85/279, Italy (1985).

23. On the electromagnetic and gravitational radiation in general relativity. Grav. Rad. Rel. ed. Weber and Karade, World Sci. Publishers (1986) 395-400.

24. A differetial structure for null electromagnetic field. Abs. 11th Int. GRG Conf. Stockholm, Sweden (July 6-12, 1986) 14.01,p.467.

25. Gravitational and electromagnetic radiations in general relativity. Proc. Inter. Conf. Math. Phys. ,ed. J.N.Islam, Bangladesh (1987) 293-318.

26. On the Nijenhuis tensor in null electromagnetic field. J. Math. Phys. Sci. 21 (1987) 515-526.

27. A class of conformally flat solution of Einstein-Maxwell field. Proc. Libyan Phys. Conf., Libya (1989).

28. On a study of radiation problem in general relativity. Proc. Int. Conf. Basic Sci., Libya (1989).

29. Null electromagnetic fields in general relativity. J. Maths. Math. Sci. 8 (1993) 13-14.

30. The Nijenhuis tensor and radiation problem in general relativity. Bull. Vijnana Parishad of India 2 (1994) 34-42.

31. A class of conformally flat solutions for null electromagnetic fields. Rev. Mexican Fisica 40 (1994) 386-391.

32. Symmetries of the electromagnetic fields in general relativity. Acta Phys. Sinica 4 (1995) 337-343.

33. On the interaction of electromagnetic and gravitational fields in general relativity. J. Moscow Phys. Soc. 5 (1995) 215-222.

34. A symmetry property of the spacetime of general relativity in terms of the space-matter tensor. Brazilian J. Phys. 26 (1996) 572-576.

35. Interacting radiation fields. Abs. GR 15 ,IUCAA, Pune (1997) A3, p.2.

36. The role of the Nijenhuis tensor in general relativity. Proc. Nat. Symp. Kalyani Uni. (Nov. 7-8,1997) 44-52.

37. Relativistic significance of conharmonic curvature tensor. Maths. Today 16 A (1998) 23-28.

38. Electric and magnetic Weyl tensors. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 30 (1999) 863-869.

39. Interacting radiation fields. Indian J. Pure Appl. Maths. 31 (2000) 215-225.

40. On the Lanczos potential. Maths. Today 19-2 (2001) 25-34. (with N. Ahsan and S. Ali)

41. Transformation laws for the gravitational field variables. The Aligarh Bull. Maths. 20 No. 1 (2001) 167-179. (with N. Ahsan and S. Ali)

42. Non null electromagnetic fields and compacted spin coefficient formalism in general relativity. Indian J. Physics 75B (6) (2001) 565-570. (with N. Ahsan and S. Ali)

43. On the Lanczos potential and GHP formalism. Abstracts - 21st meeting of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (2001) B-07 pp. 7. (with N. Ahsan and S. Ali)

44. Lanczos potential, general observers and compacted spin coefficient formalism. Proc. 21st meeting of Indian Association for General Relativity (2001).

45. Lanczos potential and tetrad formalisms. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 93 No. 5 (2001) 407-422. (with N. Ahsan and S. Ali)

46. On a symmetry of the electromagnetic fields. Bull. Calcutta Math. Soc. 94 No. 5 (2002) 385-388. (with N. Ahsan)

47. Quran and Modern Cosmology. Proc. National Seminar on Quran and Science. Editors Abdul Ali and Sayyid Ahsan, Institute of Islamic Studies, A.M.U. Aligarh (2003) 78-105.

48. A differential geometric structure on the space-time manifold of general relativity. Proc. 3rd seminar on Geometry and Topology. Editor, Sh. Rezapour, Azarbiadjan University of Tarbiat Moallem, Tabriz (2004) 285-300.

49. Lanczos spin tensor, general observers and tetrad formalisms. Proc. 3rd seminar on Geometry and Topology. Editor, Sh. Rezapour, Azarbiadjan University of Tarbiat Moallem, Tabriz (2004) 301-320. (with N. Ahsan)

50. Quran and modern theories of the universe. Islamic Culture 78 No. 4 (2004) 25-50.

51. On a geometrical symmetry of the space-time of general relativity. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 97 No. 2 (2005) 191-200.

52. On a solution of Einstein-Maxwell equations. News Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 28 No. 4-6 (2005) 19-21 (with N. Ahsan).

53. Plebanski’s comment on the Newman-Penrose constants. Galilean Electrodynamics. 16 No. 6 (2005) 120. (with J.H.Caltenco and J.Lopez-Bonilla).

54. A potential for the Godel cosmological model. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 99 No. 4 (2007) 323-332. (with V. Barrera-Figueroa and J. Lopez-Bonilla).

55. Lanczos potential for Godel spacetime. Annalen der Pkysik 16 No. 4 (2007) 311-313 (with J.H.Caltenco and J. Lopez-Bonilla).

56. The Quran and planetary laws of motion. Hamdard Islamicus 31 No. 2 (April- June,2008).

57. On the Riemann curvature tensor in general relativity. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 172 (2008) 224-227.

58. Raychaudhuri’s equation and Newman-Penrose formalism. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 100 No. 5 (2008) 557-562 (with A.H. Hasmani).

59. On the curvature tensors for a geometric structure on the spacetime of general relativity. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 101 No. 1 (2009) 83-94 (with S.A.Siddiqui).

60. Concircular curvature tensor and fluid spacetimes. International J. Theor. Phys. 48 (2009) 3202-3212 (with S.A.Siddiqui).

61. Wave equation in Godel model. Journal of Vectorial Relativity 4 No. 2 (2009) 80-81 (with J. Lopez-Bonilla and A. Rangel-Merino)

PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS/CONFERENCES

1. Participated at the 40th Annual Conference of Indian Mathematical Society held at Bombay, Dec. 27-29, 1974.

2. Participated and read a paper at the International Symposium on Relativity and Unified Theory held at Calcutta. Dec. 27, 1975-Jan. 1, 1976.

3. Participated at the International Seminar on Recent Advances in Mathematics and its Applications and the Annual Conference of General Relativity held at Banaras, Dec. 2, 1976-Jan. 1, 1977.

4. Participated at the Seminar on Functional Analysis and its Applications held at Aligarh, April 25-28, 1977.

5. Participated at the 43rd Annual Conference of Indian Mathematical Society held at Aligarh, Dec. 25-27, 1977.

6. Presented a paper at the 8th Conference of Indian Association of General Relativty held at Bhavnagar, Dec. 31, 1977-Jan. 2, 1978.

7. Presentes a paper at the Einstein Centenary Symposium held at Physical Labs. Ahmedabad, Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 1979.

8. Presented a paper at the 10th Annual Conference of IAGRG held at Bangalore, Dec. 23-25, 1979.

9. Delivered a seminar talk at the 5th International Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs held at Nathiagali (Pakistan), June 13-July 2, 1980.

10. Participated and presented a paper at the Einstein Centenary Symposium held at Nagpur, Feb. 17-20, 1980.

11. Participated at the Workshop on Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics held at PRL, Ahmedabad, Jan. 18-20, 1982.

12. Participated and read a paper at the 11th Annual Conference of IAGRG held at Ahmedabad, Jan. 21-22, 1982.

13. Delivered invited talks at the UGC Short Term Advance Level Summer Institute in Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology held at Gorakhpur, June 28-July 18, 1982.

14. Delivered invited talk at the Matscience Conference on Relativity, Gravitation and its Remification hrld at Mysore, Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 1982.

15. Delivered invited talk at the Eddington Centenary Symposium on Relativity and Cosmology held at Nagpur, Jan. 21-27, 1984.

16. Participated at the College on representation Theory of Lie Groups held at International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy), Nov. 4, Dec. 6, 1985.

17. Delivered invited talk at the International Conference on Mathematical Physics held at Chittagong (Bangladesh), Jan. 8-10, 1986.

18. Participated and delivered invited talk at the UGC Instructional Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Relativity held at Aligarh, April 21-May 10, 1986 (Acted as the Organising Secretary of the conference).

19. Presented a paper at the 1st Libyan Physics Conference held at Tripoli (Libya), July 2-6, 1989.

20. Participated and read a paper at the 1st International Conference of Basic Sciences held at Tripoli (Libya), Sept. 18-23, 1989.

21. Participated and presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of IMS held at Muzaffarpur, Dec. 27-30, 1993.

22. Delivered invited talks at the National Symposium on Mathematical Modelling and Recent Trends in Relativity held at Gorakhpur, June 26-27, 1994.

23. Participated at the Annual Meeting of IMS held at Aligarh, Dec. 27-30, 1995.

24. Delivered invited talk at the National Symposium on Recent Advances in Mathematics and its Applications held at Kalyani, Nov. 7-8, 1997.

25. Presented a paper at the 15th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation held at IUCAA ,Pune, Dec. 16-21, 1997.

26. Participated at the Workshop on Industrial Mathematics held at Hamdard University, New Delhi, Feb. 23-27, 1999.

27. Participated and delivered invited talks at the Conference on Recent Developments in Relativity and Allied Topics held at Aligarh, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1999 (Acted as the Convener of the conference).

28. Participated at the CIRI-IUCAA Discussion Conference on Cosmology - Aspects of Standard Model vis-a-vis Alternatives held at Nagpur, Jan. 28-29, 2001.

29. Delivered an invited talk and chaired a session at the 21st Meeting of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation held at Nagpur, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2001.

30. Delivered an invited talk at the International Symposium on Mathematics and its Applications held at Calcutta, Feb. 17-19, 2001.

31. Delivered an invited talk at the Conference on Emerging Trends in Mathematics held at AMU, Aligarh, March 24-26, 2001.

32. Delivered an invited talk and chaired a session at the 67th Annual Conference of of Indian Mathematical Society held at AMU, Aligarh, Jan. 27-30, 2002.

33. Presented a paper at the National Seminar on Quran and Science held at the department of Islamic Studies, AMU, Aligarh, during Jan. 08 - 10 (2003).

34. Participated at the National Workshop on Status of Basic Science Research Held at Patiala university, Patiala during Jan 29-30, 2004.

35. Delivered invited talks as guest speaker at the third Seminar on Geometry and Topology held at Azarbiadjan University of Tarbiat Moallem, Tabriz during July 15- 17, 2004.

36. Participated at the International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi during Dec. 4-6, 2004.

37. Participated and chaired two sessions at the 23rd Conference of Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation held at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur during Dec. 7-10, 2004.

38. Participated and acted as a judge at the paper presentation competition at Annual Meeting of Gujrat Science Congress held at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujrat) on Feb. 19, 2005.

39. Delivered an invited talk and chaired a technical session at the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences and Earth Sciences held at University of Kalyani during Dec. 2-4, 2005.

40. Delivered a series of invited lecture as resource personalle and chaired two technical sessions at the Workshop on Geometry, Gravity and Cosmology held at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar during Feb. 16-18, 2006.

41. Delivered an invited talk and chaired a technical session at the National Conference on Mathematics and Applications-Recent Trends, held at University of Burdwan, Burdwan, Jan 10-12, 2007.

42. Delivered a contributory talk at VIII Asia Pacific International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics held at Nara Women’s University, Nara (Japan) Aug. 29 - Sept. 1, 2007.

43. Delivered an invited talk and chaired a technical session at the International Conference on Frontier of Mathematics and Applications, held at University of Burdwan, Burdwan, Jan 16-18, 2008.

44. Participated at the International Conference on Analysis and its Applications held at AMU, Aligarh during Nov. 3-5, 2008.

45. Delivered an invited talk and chaired a technical session at the Conference of Tensor Society of India, held at Rishikesh, Oct. 02-03, 2009.

LECTURES DELIVERED AT VARIOUS COURSES

1. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Differential Equations held at AMU, Aligarh (1995).

2. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Generalised Functions held at AMU, Aligarh (March 11-April 5, 1996).

3. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Representation and Relativity Theories held at AMU, Aligarh (Sept. 18-Oct. 16, 1996) (Acted as the Course Coordinator).

4. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Mathematics for School Teachers organised by Centre for Promotion of Educational and Cultural Advancment of Muslims of India (CPECAMI) held at AMU, Aligarh (Dec. 1997).

5. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Lie Algebra held at AMU, Aligarh (Aug. 3-30, 1998).

6. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Emerging Areas in Analysis held at AMU, Aligarh (Feb. 15-Mar. 13, 1999).

7. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Mathematics for School Teachers organised by Centre for Promotion of Educational and Cultural Advancment of Muslims of India (CPECAMI) held at AMU, Aligarh (Oct. 16-23, 1999).

8. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi ( Aug. 8-30, 2000 ).

9. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh ( Feb. 27 - Mar. 30, 2001 ).

10. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh ( July 25 - Aug. 14, 2001 ).

11. Delivered an invited lecture at the Department of Mathematics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai (Dec. 24, 2001).

12. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh ( Feb. 04 - 18, 2002 ).

13. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh ( Jan. 09 - 30, 2003 ).

14. Delivered lecture ”Applications of Differential Equations in Medical Sciences” at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh ( Sept.08 - 29, 2003 ).

15. Delivered an invited lecture at the orientation Programme for Trained Graduate Teachers (Science/Mathematics) held at Atomic Energy Central School-1, Narora (June 09-11, 2004).

16. Delivered an invited lecture on ”The Quran and Modern Cosmology” at Azarbiadjan University of Tarbiat Moallem, Tabriz (Iran) (July 14, 2004).

17. Delivered lectures on ”Some Applications of Mathematics” at the Refresher Course on Mathematics and Physics organised by Centre for Promotion of Science held at AMU, Aligarh (Aug. 19-30, 2004).

18. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Jan. 14-15, 2005).

19. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh (Feb. 11-12, 2005).

20. Delivered a series of six lectures on ”Relativity Theory, Classical Mechanics and Differential Equations” at sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar during Feb. 14-26, 2005 under UGC Visiting Fellow Scheme.

21. Delivered Sardar Patel University Golden Jubilee Lecture on Radiation Problems in General Relativity at Sardar Patel University on Feb. 21, 2005.

22. Delivered a public lecture on The Quran and Modern Astrophysics at the Muslim Educational Society of Vallabh Vidyanagar on Feb. 24, 2005.

23. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Nov. 21-22, 2005 ).

24. Delivered lectures on ”Special Theory of Relativity” and ”Applications of Functions” at the Refresher Course on Mathematics and Physics organised by Centre for Promotion of Science held at AMU, Aligarh (Jan. 16-28, 2006).

25. Delivered a public lecture on The Quran and Modern Cosmology at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on Feb. 23, 2006.

26. Delivered a public lecture on The Quran and Modern Cosmology organised by AMU Student’s Union at AMU, Aligarh on March 07, 2006.

27. Delivered a series of six lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh (July 5-25, 2006).

28. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Nov. 16-17, 2006).

29. Delivered lectures at the Refresher Course on Mathematics and Physics organised by Centre for Promotion of Science held at AMU, Aligarh (Jan. 16, 2007).

30. Delivered lecture on ”The Quran and Modern Cosmology” for Deeni Madaris teachers organised by Centre for Promotion of Science held at AMU, Aligarh (Jan. 20, 2007).

31. Delivered a public lecture on The Quran and Cosmology organised by Centre of Short Evening courses, AMU, Aligarh on Feb. 07, 2007.

32. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (July 26-28, 2007).

33. Delivered a series of lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics and Statistics for University and College Teachers held at University of Srinagar, Kashmir (Sept. 06 -10, 2007).

34. Delivered a public lecture on The Quran and Modern Cosmology organised by the Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on Sept. 11, 2007.

35. Delivered lectures at the Referesher Course in Mathematics for University and College Teachers held at AMU, Aligarh (Nov. 27-28, 2007).

36. Delivered invited lectures on ”Applications of Differential Equations to Medical Science” and ”Relativity Theory” at the Department of Mathematic, Nagpur University, Nagpur during Dec. 18-20, 2008.

37. Delivered special lectures as a part of birth centanary celebrations of Prof. T.Venkatarayudu at the Department of Applied Mathematic, Andhra University, Vishakapatnam during Oct. 21-22, 2009.

CITATION INDEX - Books

''(a) Differential Equations and Their Applications. 2nd Edition - Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi (2004). Eleventh Printing (August 2009).''

1. J.H.Caltenco, J.Lopez-Bonilla, M.A.Acevedo : A comment on the Darboux transformation. Acta Acad. Paedag. Agriensis, Sec. Math. 31 (2004) 121-123.

2. M.A.Acevedo, J.Lopez-Bonilla, J.S.Pedroza : Isospectral potentials and Darboux transformation. Revista Colombiane de Fisica 37 No. 2 (2005) 393-398.

3. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for undergraduate students of Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico.

4. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for undergraduate students of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara (Turkey).

5. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for undergraduate students of University of Shaheed Bahishti, Iran.

6. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for undergraduate students of National University of Science and Technology, Rawalpindi (Pakistan).

7. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for undergraduate students of University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore(Pakistan).

8. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for undergraduate students of Punjab University, Lahore(Pakistan).

9. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Honos.)I and II years at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India).

10. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Honos.) III year at Shivaji University, Kolhapur (India).

11. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Honos.) and a course on Mathematical Modelling and Differential Equations and Their Applicatons for M. Sc. (Maths.) and M.Sc. (Tech.-Industrial Mathematics), respectively, at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (India).

12. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Hon.) Computer Science and for M.Sc.(Maths.) at University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (India).

13. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Honos.) Maths. at University of Kashmir,Jammu (India).

14. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Tech. and M.Tech. at Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi (India).

15. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Tech. at M.N.R. Engineering College, Allahabad (India).

16. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Maths.) at Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (India).

17. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Maths.) at Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (India).

18. Prescribed as a Text Book for the Entrance Test for M.Sc. (Maths.) at Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (India).

19. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Maths.) and M.Sc. (Maths.) at Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh (India).

20. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Maths.) at Bhavan’s Vivekanand College, Secundrabad, Andhra Pradesh (India).

21. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Hons.) at Acharya Nagarjun University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh(India).

22. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Hons.) at Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundri, Andhra Pradesh(India).

23. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Differential equations for B.Sc.(Hons.) at Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh(India).

(b) Vector Analysis - Pragati Prakashan, Meerut (2003) (India).

1. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Vector Calculus for B.Sc.(Honos.) at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (India).

2. Prescribed as a Text Book for a course on Geometry and Vectors for B.Sc.(Honos.) Ist year at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India).

(c) Mathematical Methods - Anamaya publishers, New Delhi (2005) (India).

1. Prescribed as a Text Book for a Foundation Course on Mathematics for B.Sc. (Honos.) Industrial Chemistry Ist and IInd year at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India).

2. Prescribed as a Text Book for a Foundation Course on Mathematics for post graduate Diploma in Hydogeology at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India).

3. Prescribed as a Reference Book for a Course on Mathematical Economics for M.A. (Economics) at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India).

4. Prescribed as a Text Book for a Foundation Course on Mathematics for B.Sc. (Honos.) Bio Sciences at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (India).