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Boyko RANGUELOV is a full professor at the University of Mining and Geology, Faculty of Geoexploration, Department of Geophysics (since 2010), Sofia, Bulgaria. Received the B.Sc., M.Sc. at the same University in Geophysics, second M.Sc. in Appl. Math. at Technical Univ., Sofia. Got a Ph.D. in Seismology (Physics) from the Geophysical Institute – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1986. Head of the Department of Seismology and Deputy Director of the Institute (2002-2005). Academician in the Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2013. Director of Natural Sciences Branch. Spent two years (2003-2004) in the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra (Italy) as visiting scientist. Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy – 2007-2008. Published 20 books (Key book - “Fractal Universe: A case study of Solar System”) and more than 400 research papers and reports in various academic journals in English and in Bulgarian on the topics of the primary research interests: Geophysics; Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Floods, Forest fires; Nonlinearities: Fractals, Small disturbances and turbulences, Risk and damages assessment and mapping, Human groups’ behavior during extreme situations; Applied Geophysics: Oil and gas prospecting, Signal processing and data analysis, Antarctic research; Space Research: Remote sensing, Vulnerability assessment; Ecological Catastrophes: Natural hazards triggered technological disasters, Intentional acts; Prevention and protection: People safety, Risk management and mitigation, Early Warning Systems, Land-use planning. Teaches courses in Geophysics, Seismology, Natural hazards, Applied Mathematics, and Data analysis and processing. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Aerospace Research in Bulgaria”.

Prof. D S Hooda (Former PVC Kurukshetra Univeristy) Honorary Professor in mathematics at GJU of Science & Technology, Hisar (India). Research Interest: Information measures, source coding, and entropy optimization principles and their applications in statistics and finance mathematics, survival analysis, pattern recognition, Various types of fuzzy sets and fuzzy information measures. Publications: Guided 13 PhDws and one PDF; published 135 research papers in various ytechnology, 32 popular articles on development of science and mathematics education in schools, colleges and universities; Published 11 books in Mathematics and Statistics and one book titled “Aryabhata: His Life and Contributions”. Awards: American Biographical Institute, USA, conferred with honorary appointment to Research Board of Advisors of the Institute in 2004; Indian Society of Information Theory bestowed with a prestigious award in 2005 for outstanding contribution to research in information theory; Awarded with International Plato award in 2010; Bestowed with Distinguished Service Award by VPI in 2011 and Life Time Achievement Award by Venus International Foundation at Chennai in 2015. Best Research Paper Award in 2017 by the World Academy Championship. Friendship Forum bestowed him with Bharat Excellence and Leading Educationist of India Awards on Sept.25, 2018. Life Time Achievement Award at International Conference held in MD University, Rohtak in 2018. Global Economic Research Association conferred DR. ABDULA KALAM GOLD MEDAL AWARD on 20th July, 2019 in Banglore. Rashtriya Shiksha Ratan Award’ was bestowed in 43rd International Conference organized by Indian Institute of Oriental Heritage, Kolkata from Febreuary 7-9, 2020. Best Researcher Award by Institute of Technical and Research, Jaipur on 13th September, 2020. Bestowed with “Outstanding Scientist Award” in the international Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine held on 12th Nov., 2021, Chennai, India. Life Achievement Award by INSO scientific organization on 14th May, 2022. Bestowed with Life Achievement Award in JERSC, Univesity, Jaipur held from August 4to6,2022 and VPI Golden Jubilee award bestowed at 6th International Conference held in JNU, N. Delhi. from June 16 to18, 2022 Various Assignments: Member of Governing council of Higher Education, Bhopal,(MP) as distinguished academician. Worked as UGC representative on BOM of Government College of Engineering, Karad (Maharashtra) and presently, honorary member of Board of Governors of Rajasthan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur. AICTE nominee on BOG of Government Engineering Colloege, Bharatpur, Rajasthan. Distinguished Academic Activities: General Secretary of Indian Society of Information Theory and Applications. Vice Presidents of Forum of Interdisciplinary Mathematics and GAMS for many years; Sectional President of Indian Science Congress Association of Mathematical Sciences in the year 2013-14. Presently, Senior Vice President of ISITA and President of Vijanana Parishad of India. Member of Editorial Advisor Boards of many Internal and National Journals. Past and Present Positions: An eminent mathematician and able administrator at par excellence. Worked as member of various expert committees of UGC for evaluation of the proposals to organize seminars/conferences/workshop and special assistance program. Served as Lecturer to Prof. and Head in HAU,Hisar and CRM Jat PG college as principal for two years’ Worked as Pro-Vice .Chancellor of Kurukshetra University for a short period and served JUET, Guna as Dean(R) and HOD, mathematics for 12 years after superannuation. Presently, Honorary Professor in mathematics at GJ University of Science & Technology, Hisar and has worked Research Advisor to ABV Hindi University, Bhopal, MP(India). He is engaged in doing research in information theory, fuzzy sets and logic and their applications in engineering, management and physical sciences. He was invited to participate 62nd ISI World Congress held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 18-23 August, 2019 and World Bank provided him funds to meet all expenses.

Constantin Meis is Professor at the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology and Director of Researches at the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission – Saclay).He is also appointed as an international expert for the CEA and he is member of the editorial board of the journal “Radiation” (MDPI), Switzerland. He studied physics at the University Paris 7 where he obtained in 1984 the “Maitrise de Physique”, with specialization in Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Then he got the Master Degree (DEA) in Atomic Physics, Quantum Optics and Lasers at Orsay University (Paris Sud) in 1985. He is holder of PhD in Atomic Physics obtained also at Orsay University in 1988 and of HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) obtained at Marseille University in 2003. After his PhD thesis he started his career in 1988 as physicist at the CEA Saclay where he worked on many theoretical studies related to the computational modelling of the electromagnetic waves propagation and absorption in magnetized low temperature metallic plasmas.After 1995 he participated in the CEA program of nuclear waste disposal by working using atomic scale simulations (DFT and Molecular Dynamics) for the study of radiation effects in materials. In 2001 he took the head of the Physics and Materials Unit of the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INSTN – CEA) where he became Professor and then Director of Researches. He is the author of the book “Light and Vacuum” on advanced Quantum Electrodynamics edited by World Scientific in 2014 and of the augmented 2nd Edition in 2017. He also participated in many international editions as an author of specific chapters on quantum electrodynamics and the single photon states.

Since 1986 Full professor of Physics at the University of Ljubljana. 1999-2004: Founder and director of Primorska Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology and Visiting professor at Munchen, Trieste, Columbus, Stony Brook, Grenoble and others Lecturing: Quantum Mechanics, Theoretical Physics, Modern Physics, Classical Physics, and others. Mentor of 12 students. She worked on quantum mechanical problems in all fields of physics (nuclear physics, hadron physics, elementary particle physics, quantum computers). Her main success is her proposal of the Spin-Charge-Family theory, the theory which is offering answers to all the open questions of the Standard model of the elementary fermion and boson fields, and so far also on many open questions of Cosmology. Within this theory she proposes a new way of the second quantization of fermion and boson fields, offering the explanation for the Dirac'spostulates of these condquantization of fields. She is devoting all her efforts on this project. This contribution of her is probably among the most important contributions to science, if the experiments confirm her predictions. Coorganization of several international conferences. Since 1998 she is the main organizer (one of three) of the annual international workshop ''What Comes Beyond the Models'' at Bled, this year will be the 25th workshop.

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Charles Sven Observational & Theoretical Scientist immersing myself independently into the study of Cosmology and Space since 1997 that included 7 philosophical and 14 science conference presentations of my evolving work.

Paul Frampton is a world-renowned scientist who has published 500 papers mainly on particle theory where his best known paper explained why there are three fermion families and predicted a new particle decaying to same-sign leptons. More recently he has published several papers on cosmology including a 2022 model named electromagnetic accelerating universe in which dark energy is replaced by charged dark matter. His Dubai talk will be about cosmology.

Maria Gritsevich is a Senior Scientist at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI). Prior to coming to FGI, she was appointed as a university researcher at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, as a Senior Scientist at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, at the Ural Federal University and at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has also worked as a research fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC, with an international ESA fellowship granted to only one researcher a year). She obtained her M.Sc. degree (with high honors) at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2007), where in the following two years she also completed her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. She gained crucial research experience by joining international collaborative projects, such as FP7 RASTAS SPEAR "RAdiation-Shapes Thermal protection investigAtionS for high-SPeed EArth Re-entry", and EuroPlaNet. She received the International Academic Publishing Company “Nauka/Interperiodica” and the Pleiades Publishing Inc. best journal publication in Physics and Mathematics award in 2009. In 2016 she obtained the title of docent (Adj. Prof.) in planetary sciences at the University of Helsinki. An asteroid (14345) Gritsevich is named after her. She was awarded the Gold Medal for young scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2010.

Asher Yahalom is a Full Professor and the former Vice Dean in the Faculty of Engineering at Ariel University and the Academic director of the free electron laser user center which is located within the University Center campus. He was born in Israel on November 15, 1968, received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and physics from the HebrewUniversity in Jerusalem, Israel in 1990, 1991 and 1996 respectively. Asher Yahalom was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the department of electrical engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel. And a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK during the years 2005-2006, 2008, 2012.He was a visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA during the years 2019-2020. From 1994 to 1998 Asher Yahalom worked with Direx Medical System on the development of a novel MRI machine as a head of the magneto-static team. In the years 1998-1999 Asher Yahalom joined the Israeli Free Electron Laser Group both as postdoctoral fellow and as a project manager, he is a member of the group ever since. Among his contributions to the project are theoretical contributions and technological contributions. As part of his duties,he established the FEL user center of which he now directs, the aim of the FEL user center is to establish applications for FEL radiation including medical applications. Currently much of his efforts are directed toward the study of the implication of retardation phenomena in electromagnetics in relativistic engines andin gravity with emphasis on galactic systems.

Eqab M. Rabei is a full professor at Al al-Bayt University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics (since 2008), Mafrag Jordan. Received the B.Sc.,at Yarmouk University in Physics. Got MSc. and Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from the Middle East- Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. In 1992. Prof. Rabei worked at Mutah University from 1993 until 2008. He was the head of the physics department (1999-2000). In 2008 he moved to Al al-Bayt University, and was the head of the physics department (2008-2010); Dean of science faculty (2010-2014); Dean of graduate studies (2015-2017); and Vice President (20018-2021). He has awarded the Abdul Hameed Shoman Prize (2003) and the 1999 Third world Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize. Prof. Rabei has edited one book in Arabic language and published more than 70 papers in various scientific journals in English on the topics of the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian of Singular Systems and the physical application of the Fractional Calculus. He teaches courses in Mathematical physics; quantum mechanics; classical mechanics; electrodynamics and vibrations and waves. He joined ICTP- Trieste as a Postdoctoral Fellowship in (1995);- Fellowship by the Third World Academy of Sciences, (ICTP) Trieste, to visit the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, for a period of two months. (1998). He spends one sabbatical year at the Jordan University of Science and Technology and another at the University of Jordan.

Jian’an Wang received his bachelor’s degree in experimental nuclear physics in 1982 from the Department of Modern Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. Upon graduating, he was assigned to the China Institute of Atomic Energy, where he studied nuclear reactions of charged particles. In 1985, he was admitted to the Department of Physics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China, from which he received a master’s degree. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1996 from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for his research on laser luminescent materials. Dr. Wang entered the Department of Physics at Shenzhen University of China as an assistant professor in 1999 and retired in 2012. After retirement，Dr. Wang has conducted independent research in the fields of special relativity, gravity theory, geodynamics, and seismic theory, published more than ten papers, and made an academic report on the Physical Mechanism and Prediction Method of earthquake at the 2022 China Earth Science Joint Academic Conference as an invited speaker.

Qihou Zhou is a professor and the chair ofthe Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Miami University. Dr. Zhou’s main research interests are in the areas of radar remote sensing, meteor science and space physics. He has published over 100 papers in refereed journals in his main areas as well as in other areas including, artificial intelligence,electromagnetics, and computational probability. He is a recipient of the Miami University Distinguished Scholar award. Dr. Zhou obtained hisPh.D in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Miami University, he worked at the Arecibo Observatory, which was the largest radio telescope and most powerful radar in the world for half of a century. He has also used other most powerful radar facilities around the world to study ionospheric physics and meteor science

David Antoine Cosandey obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in cosmology at the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 1994. He has taught astrophysics at institutions in Lausanne and Zurich (Volkshochschule Zurich) in Switzerland. He has published books on the dynamics of the history of science (Le Secret de l’Occident, 1997/2007). He has held numerous public conferences. He has published on mathematical financial modeling. Recently, he has helped at discovering the tightest known supermassive black hole binary, and the closest to Earth. His current research fields include long gamma-ray bursts and black hole physics. Asteroid 233488 Cosandey was named after him.

Dr. Olga Malandraki is a Research Director at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) specializing on Space Physics and Space Weather. She has wide expertise in the analysis and interpretation of energetic particle measurements from various heliophysical missions such as ACE, Wind, STEREO, Ulysses, Cluster, as well as from the ongoing pioneering Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe missions, which explore the near-Sun environment for the first time. She is responsible for the HESPERIA Space Weather Operational Unit of NOA which disseminates worldwide unique Solar Energetic Particle forecasting results as well as Editor of the relevant very successful book published by Springer (https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319600505). She is currently serving as President of the Solar-Terrestrial Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union(EGU). Her scientific production record includes about 100 scientific refereed articles and more than 350 presentations.

Alexander Cherlin is a principal physicist at Kromek plc in the United Kingdom. He has over 20 years of academical and industrial experience in radiation and particle detection solutions and applications. Alexander obtained his MSc and PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. His early carrier was focused on high energy physics and gas detectors in the framework of CERES/NA45 experiment at CERN SPS and PHENIX experiment at RHIC, BNL. In 2006, Alexander left the academy and began working at Orbotech Medical Solution Ltd, which was the main supplier of CdZnTe (CZT) detectors to GE Healthcare and Spectrum Dynamics at the time. In 2011, he moved to the UK where he continued working with CdZnTe detectors at Kromek. Alexander has been a principal investigator on multiple international collaborative projects on developing CdZnTe detector solutions for medical, nuclear and security applications such as gamma cameras, spectral CT, and Compton imaging. His primary area of research interest is novel applications of CdZnTe detectors, in particular in radiation imaging.

Prof. Ahsan is the recipient of “OUTSTANDING NOBEL RESEARCH AWARD” (2023); “EXCELLENCE SERVICE AWARD” (2022); “DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST AWARD” (2020); “ASIAN EDUCATION AWARD” (2020) for contribution to education community; “LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD” (2019); “NISHAN-E-AZAD” (2017) for promotion of Science in Urdu; “The International EINSTEIN AWARD for Scientific Achievement” (2011); “RASHTRIYA GAURAV AWARD” (2007); “SHIKSHA RATTAN PURASKAR” (2007); and “THE BEST CITIZENS Of INDIA AWARD” (2006, 2007, 2008). He is Member of Research Board of Advisers, American Biography Institute (USA) and the Presidentof Tensor Society of India since 2017. He had been the Editor-in-Chief of Aligarh Bulletin of Mathematics (2012-2015), Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tensor Society of India (2010-2012) and Managing Editor of Aligarh Bulletin of Mathematics (1998-2012). Prof. Ahsan is the Editor of Palestine Journal of Mathematics and Journal of Interpolation and Approximation in Scientific Computing; and is the Member of Editorial Boards of Global Journal of Advanced Research on Classical and Modern Geometries, International e-Journal of Numerical Analysis and related topics, Taif Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Islamic University of Gaza Journal of Natural and Engineering Studies, Bulletin and Journal of Calcutta Mathematical Society; Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews; and also Referee of various journals of mathematics and physics. Prof. Ahsan is the President of AnjumanFaroogh-e-Science (Association for Promotion of Science), Aligarh branch; a member of Urdu core committee of VigyanPrasar (Govt. of India).Dr. Zafar Ahsan was a Visiting Associate of Inter-University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (July 1996-June 2005); an UGC Visiting Professor at Sardar Patel University, VallabhVidyanagar (April 2004-May 2005); Visiting Professor at University Sains Islam, Malaysia (USIM) (Oct-Dec, 2016); and Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad (Jan. 2020 – March 2021). He received his education from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and obtained his B. Sc. (Hons.) (1968), M.Sc. (1973), M.Phil. (1976), and Ph.D. (1979) in mathematics. He joined the department of mathematics at AMU in 1978 as a Lecturer, became Reader in 1992, and served as a Professor from 2000 to 2016 (served as the Chairman of the department during 2012-215). Prof. Zafar Ahsan has been working on gravitational waves, exact solutions to Einstein's equations, symmetries of space-time, and geometric structures in general relativity.He has till nowparticipated in 110 conferences in India and abroad and has presented his work as an invited speaker in 90 conferences.He has so far published 105 research papers in national and international journals of repute; and has published 07 books entitled “Differential Equations and Their Applications” (1999, Second Edition 2004, Third Edition 2016), “Vector Analysis” (2003), “Mathematical Methods” (2005/2018), “Tensor Analysis with Applications” (2008), “Tensors: Mathematics of Differential Geometry and Relativity” (2015), “The Potential of Fields in Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation” (2019) and “TauzeehiFarhang (Riyazi) (2019) (Glossary of Mathematics in Urdu)”. Some of his books are prescribed as textbooks in most Indian universities and some foreign universities. His book on Differential Equations (3rd Edition, Nineteenth printing, 2021) is a best seller since 1999.His current research interest, apart from General Relativity and Gravitation, is on Qur’an, Science and Modern Cosmology; and he has delivered public lectures on this topics at a number of places in India and abroad.

Jiri Antonin Mejsnar, was born in Prague, on Feb.13, 1941. 1963: after 5 years of studies, he was awarded a degree in biology and chemistry, Fac.Sci, Charles Univ., Prague. 1963-64: did his national service in a Warsaw Pact tank battalion. 1970: awarded the title RNDr (Rerum Naturalium Doctor) and a CSc (Candidate of Sciences a PhD equivalent). 1976: finished 5 years of postgraduate studies at the Fac.Math.&Phys.,Charles Univ., Prague. 1993: the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded him a DrSc degree for his thesis on “The balance of entropy in muscle energetics“.1965-91: Assistant Prof., Fac.Sci.Charles Univ.. 1977: Associate Prof. thesis defence not allowed from political reasons. 1990: after the collapse of the Communist regime exonerated. 1991: promoted to docent (Associate Prof. of Physiology). 1997: by decree of the President of Czech Republic appionted Professor of Physiology. 1972: granted a one-year research fellowship No.13445 at the Space Science Research Center, Columbia, MO. ; was continuously denied permission to leave the country. Headed or co-headed 20 Czech grant-founded projects. 1984: Grant from Fondation Zyma pour L´avancement des science médicales et biologiques, Nyon, Switzerland. 1988-89: Cellular Energetics (MDA) Grant No.65-3954, U.S.A.. Author and co-author of 128 publications, in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes

Yanxia Zhang is a professor of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an Associate Editor for Astrostatistics of Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, as well as the deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Astronomical Society.She was an Organizing Committee Member of Commission B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics (2018-2021), an Organizing Committee Member of Commission B3 Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics (2015-2018), an Organizing Committee Member of Commission 5 WG Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics (2012-2015). She received theInternational Astrostatistics Association (IAA)Fellow Prize in 2016. She published more than146 research papers. She is interested in artificial intelligence and machine learning in astronomy, time series astronomy, multiwavelength astronomy, Astrostastics and Astroinformacs.

Ericson Lopez is a Professor in the Physics Department of the Sciences Faculty of the National Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador. He is also the Director of the Quito Astronomical Observatory; the national observatory of Ecuador. He is a Senior Scientific researcher. His research areas are mainly on High Energy Astrophysics, Compact Objects, Galactic Dark Matter Halos, Exoplanets, and Space Weather.

Prof. Michela Malpangotto, a director of research at CNRS. Trained in mathematics, Michela Malpangotto is an historian of science working on the history of astronomy and mathematics and of their interactions with humanism. Her research has casted new light on the beginnings of the scientific revolutionand on the reasons of Copernicus’ revolution. She studied the work of different authors from the Antiquity to the 17th century, such as Theodosius, G. Peurbach, A. Brudzewo, Regiomontanus, F. Maurolico, C. Clavius, R. Baranzano. Full professor in Paris at CNRS, member since 2015 of the International Academy of the History of Science and of the International Astronomical Union.She holds administrative responsibilities and tasks in different national and international institutions. Since 2007 she is the Editor in chief of the International Archive of the History of Science, one of the leading Journal in our domain and she is member of several national and international journals. Main publications : – TheoricaenovaeplanetarumGeorgiiPeurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie. Sources, édition critique avec traduction française, commentaire technique, diffusion du XVe au XVIIe siècle, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2020, 750 p. – Giovanni Regiomontano e il rinnovamentodelsaperematematico e astronomiconel Quattrocento, Collana di StoriadellaScienza, Bari, CacucciEditore, 2008, 242 p. – FrancisciMaurolyci Sphaericorumlibri duo. Étude introductive et édition critique du texte latin par Michela Malpangotto, on-line, 2005 – «The original motivation for Copernicus’sresearch : Albert of Brudzewo’s Commentariolum super Theoricas novas GeorgiiPurbachii», Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 70, 2016, p. 361–411 – « Discussions coperniciennes au début du XVIIe siècle : le système du monde de P. RedentoBaranzano, enseignant en Savoie », Archives internationales d’Histoire des sciences, 60/2, 2010, p. 369-422 –«GraphicalChoices and GeometricalThought in the Transmission of Theodosius’ Spherics fromAntiquity to the Renaissance», Archive for the History of Exact Sciences, 64, 2010, p. 75-112

Athena Coustenis is a French-Greek Director of Research with the French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Paris Observatory, specializing in Astrophysics and Planetology. She contributes to the development of space missions and analyzes the acquired data to investigate the atmospheres and surfaces of planets, satellites, and exoplanets (examples are the NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission and the upcoming JUICE and ARIEL ESA missions). She is currently the Chair of the European Space Agency’s Human Exploration and Science Advisory Committee (ESA-HESAC), She is also the President of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection and of the Science evaluation committee of the French National Center for Space Studies(CNES-CERES). She is a member of several other international advisory bodies (NASA, ESA, national agencies, etc). Her production record includes about 300 scientific articles, several books or chapters, and more than 700 presentations.

Massimo Tarenghi graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Milan in 1970. After postdoctoral appointments in Milan and Pavia he became a European Space Research Organization Fellow at Steward Observatory in Tucson from 1973 to 1975 where he undertook many projects including infrared wavelength observations of galaxies, redshift observations of radio galaxies, and most importantly, headed a collaborative study of the Hercules supercluster region. Two years after returning to Europe in 1975, he joined the science group at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) where he worked to automate the instrumentation on the ESO 3.6-m telescope’s prime focus camera. When a 2.2-m telescope was redirected to ESO in the early 1980’s, Tarenghi was appointed the Project Manager, and he directed its installation including making the telescope operate remotely over telephone lines. In 1983 he was asked to be Project Manager for the 3.58-m New Technology Telescope where thin primary mirror technology was pioneered by Raymond Wilson. In 1991, Tarenghi was appointed Project Manager for the ESO Very Large Telescope and immediately afterwards became Director of Paranal Observatory where he stayed until 2002. Then in 2003 he became Director of the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). For his exceptionally successful career at ESO, Tarenghi has won many awards. Throughout his career he maintained an interest in the Hercules supercluster and in radio galaxies associated with rich clusters of galaxies.

Presently working as Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Applications, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi. He has completed his M. Sc., from Meerut University (presently CCS University), Meerut in 1989, M. Phil., from University of Roorkee (presently IIT), Roorkee in 1992 and Ph. D. in Mathematics, from Gurukula Kangri, University, Hardwar in 1999. University of Roorkee awarded him ‘University Medal’ for standing First in First Class. He has served as Assistant Scientific Officer in the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi w.e.f. 20 November 1995 to 25 November 1999. He joined Bundelkhand University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Applications on 26 November 1999. There he served in various capacity and became Professor on 26 November 2014. He served as Chairman of the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education w.e.f. 06 February 2017 to 05 February 2021. He was having additional charge of the Director, Central Hindi Directorate, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India w. e. f. 07 July 2017 to April 08, 2020. He has supervised 14 Ph. D. thesis, 28 M. Phil. Dissertation. He has published about 90 research papers in National and International Journal of reputes. He is the author of two books and editor of four terminological related books. His research interests are Modeling, Optimization Techniques and Distributed Computing Systems. He is the life member of International Academy of Physical Sciences, Indian Mathematical Society, Computer Society of India, Operations Research Society of India, and many other similar academic bodies and societies. Also, he is the Vice President, of Operations Research Society of India (ORSI) and Vijñãna Parishad of India (VPI). During 2010 to 2013 he was the Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Applications. During the same period 2010 to 2013 he was also the Head of the Institute of Computer Science and Information Technology. He was the Chief of University Employment Information and Counseling Centre (UP Government) Bundelkhand University, Jhansi during 11 June 2009 to 05 February 2017. During this period Ministry of Employment and Labor, Government of India, New Delhi awarded the establishment of Modal Career Centre (MCC) under the University Employment Information and Counseling Centre (UP Government) Bundelkhand University, Jhansi to facilitate the job seekers of this university as well as Bundelkhand Region with career related trainings, guidance and counseling. He was visited to the Rajamangla University of Technology. Thanyaburi (Thailand), University of Science and Culture, Tehran (Iran), Kathmandu, (Nepal), Port Louise (Mauritius), Shanghai (China), Guadalajara (Mexico) for various academic work. In 2000, he was awarded ‘Professor R. C. Mehrotra Best Teacher Award and Gold Medal’ for outstanding contribution to the university services by the Bundelkhand University, Jhansi and in 2016, Bharat Vikas Award was conferred to him by the Institute of Self Reliance, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in appreciation of dedicated services to the society and humanity.

Dr. Israa Zeid earned her PhD degree in molecular physics in 2020 from Beirut Arab University- Lebanon. Currently she has 17 publications in several international journals. Her research has been mainly focused on investigating the electronic structure of diatomic molecules via ab- initio calculations. Such studies can contribute in investigating molecules of high astrophysical and cosmological relevance where they help to know the primordial composition of the solar system, and its relation to the past and present composition of the earth, in addition to get a complete understanding of physical and chemical processes taking place in the stellar atmosphere. Also, the study of the electronic structure contributes in preparing ultracold molecules that serve in the process of quantum computation. Dr. Israa contributed as a speaker in the third International computational science and engineering conference (ICSEC 2019) at Texas A&M university at Qatar. Also she has a publication by the conference series of the First Sharjah International Conference on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (FISICPAC 2018).

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In 2017 Dr. Hoyer (64) began working on solutions of Einstein's Equation in 5D for electrical monopoles and dipoles in 5D Kaluza Theory. He published a paper on embedding Maxwell's Equations of vacuum and Minkowski space in a 5D Riemannian Space in 1999. His doctorate in theoretical electrical engineering at TU Hamburg Harburg he made in 1992. Studying Physics he got a Diploma in magnetism and low temperature physics in 1986.

Dr. Anna Uryson graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is a senior researcher at Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D in phys/math (1988), Doctor of sciences in phys/math (2008). The area of her research is astrophysics of ultra-high energy cosmic rays including their origin and propagation in extragalactic space, and extragalactic electromagnetic cascades. She published about 80 scientific papers, two monographs and a book chapter on cosmic ray astrophysics. Also she is the author of a number of popular books and articles

Anita Heward is a Director of the Dill Faulkes Educational Trust Ltd (DFET) Ltd and Communications Manager for the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure, which is coordinated by the University of Kent, UK. In 2019, she was elected as the first Secretary of the Executive Board of the Europlanet Society. She founded the Europlanet Media Centre in 2006 to promote European planetary science results and has run the press office for more than 30 international scientific conferences. She has provided science communication, outreach and media training to over300 early career researchers. Since 2001, she has worked as a freelance science communicator, with clients including space and astronomy organisations around the world, and was previously a member of the core team that set up the National Space Centre in Leicester, UK. She has an MSc in Earth Observation Science and BSc in Physics and Space Science from the University of Leicester, a Post Graduate Diploma in Science Communication from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex.

Wagner de Oliveira Cortes is a associate professor that works in UFRGS at Institute of Mathematics in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. He finished his PhD in 2003, where he started to work with partial actions of the group of additive integers set. In 2007, he made his post-doctoral program in Naruto university of Education about some theoretical properties of partial skew polynomial rings. After, he begun to research with Colombeau algebras and non-assocative objects. Recently, he is involved with Colombeau algebras, actions of nonassocative objects and actions of groupoids. One of his main achievements are associated with the algebraic structures of partial skew extensions, the introduction of nonassociative versions of groupoids and inverse semigroups. Moreover, with other authors, he developed generalized quaternion algebra, generalized alternative algebra and studied theirs algebraic and topological properties on both simplified and full Colombeau's algebra, and he developed a new calculus over full Colombeau's algebra.

Xiaofeng YANG did his PhD study at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS),then got the PhD degree from Univ,CAS in early 2012. After a short postdoc at Nanjing University, he spent more than three years in Europe, Nice University in France and Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, respectively. In late 2016, he joined Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory(XAO),CAS as a full professor, then he got the full support of CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents program.His main research topic is cosmology, both on theories and observations, such as gravitational lensing, constraints on cosmic acceleration and cosmological parameters.Currently, he is an individual active IAU member and he is working on Hubble constant tension.

Antonio Codino obtained his university degree in 1976 at the University of Rome investigating electron positron collisions at the Adone Storage Ring. For five years participated at CERN experiments, in Geneva, using the SPS Accelerator of 400 GeV where the lifetime of charmed mesons and electromagnetic radii of charged pions and kaons have been measured. Then, he worked for several years at the Saturne Accelerator in Paris, France, making Nuclear Physics experiments. Later he had a permanent position at the University of Perugia working in cosmic-ray experiments led by Robert Golden who had discovered antiprotons in the primary cosmic radiation. These experiments measured positron, electron and antiproton fluxes during many years, in several balloon flights in Canada and New Mexico. Concomitantly, he developed Gallium Arsenide and Silicon detectors for time-of-flight measurements for Nuclear Physics experiments, funded by INFN. An unsurpassed time resolution of one hundred picoseconds was achieved with Silicon detectors. In the last two decades he has been performing simulation of cosmic-ray trajectories in the Galaxy in collaboration with other physicists. The results are described in many publications, conference proceedings and books. Research activity was paralleled by teaching Electromagnetism and Classical Mechanics at university.

Beatriz Garcia is a scientific researcher at the National Technological University, Faculty Mendoza, in Argentina. She is a member of international collaborations at the Pierre Auger Observatory (for the detection and study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays) and the QUBIC Project (for the study of cosmic background radiation and verification of the appearance of primordial gravitational waves at the time of the inflation of the Universe). She's vicepresidente of the Network for Astronomy School Education (www.naseprogram.org); she was president of Commission 1 (Education and Development of the Astronomy) of the International Astronomical Union (2015-2018) and one of the founders of the Astronomy for Equality, Inclusion and Diversity working group of this commission. She is a teacher, scientific disseminator, author of papers in scientific journals related to her research work, but also about education and dissemination of astronomy. She has been dedicated to the design and development of tools for a multi-sensory approach to the study of nature for more than a decade.

Degard is a pioneering artist investigating visionary methodologies, Space and Art and The Holocaust. She is doing a doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London. Her interest in space and its relationship to Art came when thinking about the TV series Thunderbirds which Degard had loved as a child. She realized there are no paintings on the walls of the elaborate flight decks and sleeping areas despite the fact that the entire cartoon is an artform in itself. Following on from Mcluhan’s famous notion of our imagination is just as important in the investment of space as the exploration itself, this led her to write for Astropolitics Space and Art: Humanity is Spacefaring published by Routledge. Degard is one of the first artists to write academically about Art and Space and their relationships. Degard hopes to invest our dreams of space with our greatest of human endeavors one of which is Art.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, having obtained a Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Valparaiso, and the European Southern Observatory, Chile in 2022. My research has mainly been focused on understanding the life of evolved stars through the technique of asteroseismology, the study of stellar pulsations. I concentrated on highly evolved pulsating stars, such as white dwarfs and hot subdwarfs, and their progenitors, using data gathered by space missions. My research aims to determine stellar parameters with high precision and to constrain bulk properties, composition boundaries, and processes.

Dr. Fang Shen is the Vice-Director of the Key Laboratory of Solar Activity and Space Weather (KLSASW), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She is a research professor at KLSASW of CAS and a professor at the College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). Dr. Shen received her BS in Mechanics from Peking University in 1999, followed by her Ph. D in Fluid Mechanics from Peking University in 2004. Then she joined KLSASW in CAS. In 2015, she was elected as one of the top-notch young professionals of China. Her research is focus on the coronal/interplanetary process of the space weather events, especially on the numerical simulation of the near-real background solar wind and the propagation of the disastrous space weather events.

Prof. Dr. Viviane Pierrard is head of the solar wind division at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy and invited Professor of Physics at the Université Catholique de Louvain. She is a space plasma physicist specializing in the development of kinetic models for the solar wind and its interactions with the Earth's magnetosphere. As a scientific researcher and leader of different projects funded by ESA, the European Commission and the Belgian Federal Agency BELSPO, she has acquired significant expertise in space plasma physics, especially in the study of suprathermal particles, Kappa distributions, solar wind, magnetosphere, plasmasphere, radiation belts, and space weather. She is author of more than 200 scientific articles published in international refereed journals and in national journals, including books and university lecture. She is also author of more than 300 scientific presentations, many on invitation, at international conferences and workshops. She obtained several prizes for her works, including the Zeldovich Medal (COSPAR 2006), and two awards from the Belgian Royal Academy of Science. She is also editor of Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

Karima Bouakaz, Ecole Normale Supérieure BP 92, 16050 Vieux-Kouba (Algeria). Education • Habilitation ''Habilitation à diriger des recherches", Univ. de Tizi-Ouzou Algeria, May 2009 • Doctorate in Theoretical Physics, Univ. de Tizi-Ouzou Algeria, April 2007. • Magister in Theoretical Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Kouba, Algeria, May 1999. • Licence in Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Kouba, Algeria, June 1994. Work Ecole Normale Supérieure – Kouba, Algeria, since 2000.

Dr. El-Maarry earned his bachelors degree in Geology and Chemistry in Cairo University. He followed it up with two European masters degrees in Sweden and France, and a PhD in Goettingen University in Germany for his work at the Max-Planck institute for solar system research. Dr El-Maarry has been involved with numerous space missions in the past 15 years for both ESA and NASA, including the European Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and the NASA New Horizons mission that explores Kuiper Belt Objects at the edge of our solar system, in addition to being on the science team for numerous other active and future missions including the HiRISE and CaSSIS imagers onboard NASA’s MRO and ESA’s TGO missions, respectively, and the upcoming ESA ExoMars Rover, ESA’s Comet Interceptor, and the Emirates Lunar Mission. He is currently the director of the Space and Planetary Science Center and an associate professor of planetary sciences at Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. His research covers planetary surfaces with a focus on geomorphology and associated physical processes.

My research activities focus on radio observation and theoretical (analytical and numerical) studies in pulsar astrophysics. I am interested in time-dependent emission events, such as drifting subpulses, nulling and profile mode-changing, both observationally and theoretically. Investigation of their emission characteristics and the physical principles serve as windows to expose the dynamics of pulsar magnetospheres. Another stream of my research involves exploring pulsars with abrupt changes in the observed emission properties. At present, there is no widely accepted model for the phenomena, and changes at such short timescales are difficult to explain in the traditional pulsar models. I am also a software developer, and part of my research involves computer programming. Depending on the nature of the project, various languages are used, including C/C++, Java and Mathematica. I am particularly drawn to computer simulation for certain pulsar phenomena as this gives important information for the properties of the underlying physical mechanism. Simulations also provide visual representations for the events and the changes in emission properties that lead to their occurrences. I am currently holding a position of a full researcher at the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory in Urumqi, China. The observatory is also the home for the 110-metre QiTai radio Telescope (QTT) project.

Gianpaolo Bellini Emeritus Professor at the Universita’ degliStudi of Milan and Emeritus scientist of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). Previously, He was a NATO fellow at the École Normale Supérieure d'Orsay -France (1966-1967); Libera Docenza (License to teach at the Universities) (1967); Full Professor at the Università degliStudi ofMilan (1976); CERN Fellow (1984-1985); Guest scientist at CERN, at IHEP at Serpukhov (Russia), at theFermi National Laboratory (Ill., USA), at Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy). He has been awarded with the international price Bruno Pontecorvo. He is a member of many physical societies.

Rosa M. Ros Ferré Professor at Technical University of Catalonia (Retired) Qualifications: University Degree in Mathematics, University of Barcelona in 1975. PH: Doctorate in Physics/Astronomy, University of Barcelona in 1983. Vice-president of IAU Comm 46, 2006 to 2009 President of IAU Comm 46t, 2009 to 2012 President of NASE IAU, 2009 to date Co-Chair Key Initiatives IAU, 2021 to date Chairperson of Summer School of EAAE-IAU 2009 to 2017 Vice-president of EAAE 2001 to 2009. President of EAAE 2009 to 2013. Spanish representative UNAWE 2008 to 2015. Vice-president of SonS-Europe 2011 to 2017. President of “Ciencia en Acción” of CSIC and FECYT Prize “Mención de Honor por su labor de fomento de la cultura científica, tecnológica e investigadora en el ámbito de la juventud” by “Dirección General de Universidades” of “Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia” and “Ministerio de Trabajo”, September 2007. Scientific Organiser of 10 International Summer School EAAE 1997 to 2006 Scientific Organiser of 2 Astronomy Summer School by ESO-EAAE National organiser, Ciencia en Acción programme or Science on Stage Spain: 23 editions International Scientific organizer, NASE-IAU courses: 337 courses in 70 countries

ININIW (Cree), Indigenous Astronomer& Consultant, Author, Educator, Addictions Consultant, Cultural Consultant,EducationConsultant, Sun Dance Chief, Knowledge Keeper, Lecturer,Astrologer, Artist, Father, Husband, Portable Planetarium Owner & Operator. Wilfred originates from OPASKWAYAK CREE NATION (OCN) and is a graduate of the University of Manitoba with two degrees in Education. He has 25 years experience as an educator working with students from Kindergarten to University. Wilfred alsoworked as a Science Facilitator at Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre for 15 years where he did extensive research on ININIW ACAKOSUK (Cree Stars/Constellation)…retiring from that position on Dec. 31st, 2020. Presently, Wilfred does planetarium presentation with his mobile planetarium as well as lectures and presents Keynotes about Indigenous Astronomy and Indigenous Worldview. He is considered the foremost authority on Indigenous Astronomy in the world.

Since 2012, Javier Ramos-Caro has been a member of the staff of the Department of Physics at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a graduate and master's degree in physics, as well as Ph. D. in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (2009), Colombia. As a post-doctoral program, he developed the research project "PosNewtonian Models of Self-gravitating Systems" at the Institute of Mathematics Statistical and Scientific Computing, UNICAMP (2010-2012). Has experience in Theoretical Physics, with emphasis on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics applied to Galactic Dynamics.

Lingfeng Li received his BS in Chemistry and Physics in 2013 from Peking University, followed by his Ph.D. in Theoretical High Energy Physics from the University of California, Davis in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Hsin-Chia Cheng. Then he joined HKUST IAS as a Postdoctoral Fellow till 2021. Currently, he works as a postdoc at Brown University. He is interested in various models that leave all sorts of signatures in collider phenomenology, cosmology, and astrophysics.

Andrzej Radosz, is a professor in theoretical physics, working at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He started his professional career (PhD, 1982) in Condensed Matter Physics (Structural Phase Transitions), being later involved in the research in Quantum Mechanics (functional integral formalism), Statistical Mechanics (exactly solvable models) and other areas of Theoretical Physics. Recently he has been focused on the studies of classical and quantum phenomena undergoing in strong gravitational fields (exterior and interior of the Black Holes (BH)). His main achievements are associated with apath integral formalism (formulation of a semiclassical approximation, Real Trajectories in Complex Time) and the results of the studies of the BHs interior (infinite volume of BHs, the anisotropic character of the BH’s interior dynamics).

Dr. Taharee A. Jackson is the Founder and Tonesetter-in-Chief of DrTaharee Consulting. A veteran diversity, equity, and inclusion Expert Consultant, Dr. Jackson is also a Lead Equity Specialist at the Equity Literacy Institute. Dr. Jackson is the Senior Advisor for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility at the Department of Defense. Prior to her role in the federal government, Dr. Jackson was the inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Officer at the American Institute of Physics. She also served as the Expert Consultant to the President and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Manager at the National Defense University. She joined public service after a 17-year career in academia, most recently at the University of Maryland College Park. There she served as a professor, teacher educator, and researcher of Minority and Urban Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership. Dr. Jackson holds the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Inclusive Workplace Culture Credential and is a certified Trainer of Diversity Trainers, a certified federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) counselor, certified Alternate Dispute Resolution Mediator, and Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Program (SHARP) Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC). Dr. Jackson holds a Magna Cum Laude B.A. from Harvard University in Psychology and Spanish; a Master of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Human Development and Psychology; and a Ph.D. from Emory University in teacher education, multicultural education, and urban education reform. Dr. Jackson has conducted grant-funded research programs aimed at understanding how members of empowered groups become allies and accomplices for minoritized peoples. Her studies on the development of antiracist commitments in urban White teachers and teacher educators, and her research on the effects of exceptional leadership on the retention of critically conscious, culturally competent employees have been influential in P-12 education, higher education, and across multiple corporate, public, and federal sectors. Dr. Jackson served as a public and private school teacher prior to becoming a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging consultant for the past 18 years. She is a Certified Trainer-of-Diversity-Trainers by the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) with specializations as a Difficult Dialogues Mediator and Controversial Issues Facilitator. Her clients and audiences as an independent consultant have included federal agencies, private corporations, universities, schools and school districts, non-profit organizations, international military officers, and members of every branch of the armed forces. Dr. Jackson has served as the inaugural Chester M. Pierce Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, where she was tasked with assisting the nation’s oldest university in its quest to affirm diversity across each campus of its college and graduate schools. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of the Health Professions. Dr. Jackson resides in Alexandria, VA. She enjoys volunteering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the United Service Organizations (USO) Warrior and Family Center, and with young children and Spanish speakers in her church community. She also enjoys traveling, biking, kayaking, standup paddleboarding, and picnicking by her father’s resting place at Arlington National Cemetery.

Kherson State Maritime Academy Ukraine, faculties of Electrical engineering and electronics, the department of transport technologies and mechanical engineering. Dr. of technical sciences, Professor. A sphere of scientific interests includes quantum physics, the theory of gravitation, fundamentals of the material world and the birth of the Universe, the author of more than 70 scientific works in these spheres.

Grigorios Panotopoulos is currently a staff member at the Physics Department of Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile, and he holds a Ph.D. on Theoretical Cosmology from the University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. His research lies at the interface between phenomenology and formal mathematical physics. His main interest is the use of theoretical developments in understanding the real world. He is particularly interested in physics of the early universe, alternative theories of gravity and dark matter-dark energy interaction. One of his main goals is to understand the basic properties of dark matter and modifications of gravity computing their impact on the properties of more standard and less conventional compact objects, such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and strange quark stars.

Evgeny Saldinis a scientist of the DESY (DeutschesElectronen-Synchrotron). He has been awarded with Bjorn H. Wiik Prize (2000), FEL prise (2006) and Innovation Award in Synchrotron Radiation (2012). Published book “The Physics of Free Electron Lasers” and more than 200 papers in various scientific journals in English on the topics of the primary research interests: Physics and technology of FELs, Physics of polarised beams in storage rings, Collective effects in beam dynamics (coherent synchrotron radiation), Theory of synchrotron radiation.

Dr. Ying-Qiu Gu, Senior Engineer. He received his PhD from the Institute of Mathematics at Fudan University in 1996. His research interests are in the field of theoretical physics, including general relativity, astrophysics, quantum theory, the foundations of physics, mathematical methods and models for elementary systems in physics. Major contributions include the theory and applications of Clifford algebra, rational interpretation of quantum mechanics, properties of nonlinear spinors, spinor interpretation of elementary particles, structural models of stars and galaxies, origin of celestial magnetic fields, theory of cyclic universe, etc. Representative achievements include Gu’s natural coordinate system, Gu-Nester potential, cyclic-closed cosmological model and galactic structure model.

Helmut A. Abt was the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy at Caltech. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago for six years. During that time he did field work to find the best place in the continental U.S. for a national optical observatory, which became Kitt Peak National Observatory. He published 330 research papers, a sample of which are (1) he showed that more than half of the solar-type stars have stellar companions, (2) he showed that the reason for Blue Stragglers is due to internal magnetic and rotational circulation, and (3) he found that the Local Interstellar Bubble was caused by three supernova of ages 4, 60, and 160 myr. Dr. Abt was Editor of The Astrophysical Journal for 29 years (1971-2000). During that time, he brought the journal into the digital age, increased its annual content by a factor of 20, and made the review process international. For more details, see the book “A Stellar Life”.