1. I have taught (during 1969-1971) several courses on physics, including mathematical physics, electrodynamics, optics, theory of relativity at K.N. Government Post-Graduate College, Gyanpur, Varanasi, Agra University and Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. I have also supervised advanced physics practicals to under-graduate students at the above mentioned universities.
2. During my stay at Umea~ University (UmU), Sweden, I have taught electrodynamics, general theory of relativity, and theoretical plasma physics to graduate students. I also deliver special lectures in the area of the nonlinear space plasma physics/astrophysics at the Department of Plasma Physics of UmU.
3. Since January 1973 I have regularly delivered working seminars in theoretical plasma physics at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, FRG.
5. During the period of June-July 1984, I have been a "Contact Professor" for the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Naples (Italy). There I gave a summer course in plasma physics and presented several seminars in the area of nonlinear plasma waves.
6. I have been teaching Nonlinear Plasma Physics (with applications to space and astrophysics) at the Department of Physics, Umea University, Sweden since 1997.
7. I have been involved with teaching and research as Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of California San Diego, La Jolla since 1997.
Ph D Thesis Examiner:
8. I have been appointed "Foreign Ph.D. Thesis Examiner" of Dr. R.P. Vats, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delhi (India) (1983).
9. I have been appointed "Faculty Opponent" for the Doctor of Technology Dissertation of Dr. M. Persson at the School of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg (Sweden) in December 1987.
11. I have been appointed as an external examiner for the Doctor of Philosophy thesis of Dr. Richard Lester Mace at the Faculty of Science, University of Natal (South Africa), November 1991.
12 I have been appointed "Faculty opponent" for the Doctor of Scientiarum Dissertation of Dr. Frank Melandso at the Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Troms\o (Norway), December 1993.
13. I have been appointed "Faculty opponent" for the Doctor of Technology Dissertation of Dr. Mats Desaix at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology at Goteborg (Sweden), November 1994.
14. I have been appointed as an external examiner for the Doctor of Philosophy thesis "Stimulated Raman Scattering in Perturbed Density Profiles" by N. Abdel-Moniem, Faculty of Science, Tanta University (Egypt), 1994.
15. I have been appointed as an external examiner for the Doctor of Philosophy (Science) thesis "Study of Nonlinear Evolution of Waves Including Solitons in Plasmas" by Bijoy Kumar Bera, Faculty of Science, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (India), 1994.
17.
I have
been appointed an external
examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Some Problems of Coherent Nonlinear
Wave
Processes in Plasmas" by Debjani Dutta, Faculty of Science, Jadavpur
University,
Calcutta (India), 1997.
18. I have been appointed a member of reading and examination committees for the Ph. D. Thesis "Wave Phenomena in Dusty Space Plasmas" by Peter Meuris, Faculty of Science, University of Gent (Belgium), 1997.
19. I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Ponderomotive Force in an anisotropic temperature plasma" by Vineet Ghildyal, Department of Physics, Delhi University, Delhi (India), 1998/2000.
20. I have been appointed an external examiner and a committee member for the Ph. D. Thesis "Alfv'en Wave Filamentation" of St'efanie Champeaux, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antiplois, Nice (France), Nov. 1998.
22. I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Instabilities in Weakly (Partially) Ionized and Dusty Plasma" of A. A. Shaikh, Gujrat University, Ahmedabad (India), August 1999.
23. I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Study of Magnetic Field Gernaration and its Effect on the Energy Transport in the Corona of Laser Fusion Plasmas" of Jeevan Jyoti Nakarmi, Tribhuvan University Kathmandu (Nepal), September 1999.
24. I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis ``Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Alfven Waves in Hall-MHD'' of Dimitri Laveder, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice (France), June 2001.
25. I have been appointed an opponent (external examiner) for the Ph. D. Thesis ` ` Drift and mirror modes in magnetized plasmas´ ´ of Ingmar Sandberg, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Sweden), May 2002.
26.
I
have been appointed
member (external examiner) of the Reading Committee &
Examination
Committee for the Ph. D. Thesis `` Low-frequency waves and
instabilities
in self-gravitating dusty plasmas´ ´ by Gerald
Jacobs,
University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, December 2002.
27.
I have
been appointed an opponent (external examiner) for the Ph. D. Thesis
``Nonlinear propagation of partially incoherent light'' by Lukasz
Helczynski-Wolf, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden,
March 2005.
28.
I have
been appointed an external
examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Gravitomagnetic effects on a plasma
surrounding a slowly rotating compact star"
of Babur M. Mirza, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan), May 2006.
29.
I have
been appointed an external
examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "LInear and nonlinear dynamics of
nonuniform electron-positron-ion plasmas"
of Qamar-Ul-Haque, COMSATS Institute of Information Technolgy
(Pakistan), June 2006.
30.
I have
been appointed an external
examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Surface modification of Si, Al, and
PTFE by plasma focus based ion implantation and deposition"
of Mehboob Sadiq, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan), August 2006.
31.
I have
been appointed an external
examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "X-ray emission law for a low energy
(1-5 kJ)
focus with different metal inserts in the anode tip"
of Muhamad Sarif, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan), September
2006.
32.
I have
been appointed an external
examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Deposition of diamond-like carbon and
titanium nitride films using plasma focus device"
of Shaista Zeb, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan), September
2007.
33.
I have
been appointed an external
examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Debye shielding and energy loss of N x
M projectiles in a dust-contaminated plasma"
of Muhammad Adnan Sarwar, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan),
November 2007.
UN Lecturer:
Ph. D. Scholars Supervised:
36. Dr. H.U. Rahman (now Research Physicist at IGPP, UC Riverside, USA) completed (in 1982) his Ph.D. degree at Quaid-i-Azam University under my direction and guidance.
37. Dr. A. A. Mamun (now Professor at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh) completed (in 1995) his Ph. D. degree at U. St. Andrews (UK) under my co-supervision and guidance.
38. Dr. Srinivas Jammalamadaka completed his Ph. D. degree from Umea University, Umea, Sweden under my supervision and guidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 15 May 1997.
39. Dr. R. T. Faria Jr completed his Ph. D. degree at State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil under my supervision and guidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 3rd December 1999.
41.
Dr.
Gianfranco Sorasio completed his Ph. D. degree at
Umea University,
Umea, Sweden under my guiidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 20
October 2003.
42.
Dr. Shahid
Ali completed his Ph. D. degree at Umea University, Umea, Sweden under
my guidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 27 February 2008.
DAAD, DFG & AvH Scholars Supervised:
EU, DFG, AvH, IAEA Postdoctoral Associates: 2003-
44.
EU: Dr.
Bengt Eliasson (EU),
Dr. Gerald Jacobs, Dr. I oannis Kourakis, Dr. Ingmar
Sandberg,
Dr.
Mattias Marklund, Dr.
Jan Ove Hall, Dr. Mark Dieckmann
45. Dr. Bengt
Eliasson (DFG), Dr. Andreas
Kopp (DFG), Dr. Mark E.
Dieckmann (DFG),
Prof. Dr A. A. Mamun (AvH), Dr. Khaled Shorbagy (IAEA),
Dr. X. Y. Tang (AvH),
Dr. Luciana Rios ( AvH),
Prof. Dr. Waleed Moslem (AvH),
Dr. Fernando Haas (AvH), Dr. Raffat Sabry (Egyptian Postdoctoral Associate)
Current Graduate
Students: 2005-
46. Madelene
Parviainen (DFG), and Nitin Shukla (IST &
UMU)
Past Courses at RUB:
2003-2006
2003-2006 Seminar of the SFB 591 of DFG (160558): Universelles Verhalten gleichgewichtsterner Plasmaen: Heizung, Transport and Struktutbildung
2004-2006:Basic
Plasma Physics
Teaching during the Autumn College on Plasma Physics and Plasma Physics
Workshops at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Current Courses at RUB:
Summer Semester 2007 at
RUB
2007 Summer Semester Course at RUB
(160510): Waves and
Instabilities in Plasmas
2007 Seminar of the SFB 591 of the DFG at RUB (160558): Universelles Verhalten gleichgewichtsterner Plasmen: Heizung, Transport and Struktutbildung
Winter Semester 2007 at
RUB
2007 Winter Semester Course at RUB
(160505): Advanced Waves and
Instabilities in Plasmas
2007 Seminar of the SFB 591 of the
DFG at RUB (160557):
Universelles Verhalten gleichgewichtsterner Plasmaen: Heizung,
Transport and Struktutbildung
Summer Semester 2008
at RUB
2008 Winter Semester Course at RUB
(160504): Nonlinear Plasma
Waves I
2008 Seminar of the DFG
Forschergruppe: Instabilities,
Turbulence and Transport in Cosmic Magnetic Fields (FOR 1048) at RUB:
Summer Semester 2009
at RUB
2009 Winter Semester Course at RUB (160504): Nonlinear Plasma
Waves II
Teaching at the Abdus
Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy
30 July -24 August 2007: Basic Plasma Physics Teaching during the 2007 Summer College on Plasma Physics at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Updated 8 January
2010