Prof. Arabinda Roy graduated from Presidency College, followed by M.Sc.degree from the University of Calcutta .He has two Doctoral degrees to his credit, one from Calcutta University (1969) and the other from the University of Cambridge (U.K) in 1972 under Dr. E.R. Lapwood. He was awarded Commonwealth Research Fellowship to work at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1969-72).He started his professional career in 1974 at Geological Survey of India as Senior Geophysicist. He later joined his alma mater the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta from where he retired as a Professor in 2007 after serving for more than three decades. He was a visiting Professor at I.I.M.A.S., UNAM for a year in 1981. He worked as Principal investigator in a UGC research project. Four students worked under him for Ph.D. degree. Roy’s research interests primarily include theoretical Seismology, wave propagation, vibration and scattering problems, contact and crack theory and associated fields. He has oft-quoted publications in journals of international repute.Rasajit Kumar BeraProf. Rasajit Kumar Bera is a Gold Medalist in Applied Mathematics from University of Calcutta. He received his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 1968. Previously, he was a faculty in Presidency College, Kolkata, Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur and joined as Professor & Head of the Department of Science in NITTTR, Kolkata in 1993 from where he retired. He was then invited to act as Professor& Head of the Department of Mathematics in Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata where he taught for more than ten years. He guided ten students for Ph.D. Degrees in different topics of Applied Mathematics including Fractional Calculus. 130 Research Papers of him have been published in National and International Journals. He has also contributed in more than ten books. Mathematical Physics for Engineers published by New Age International Publishers and Encyclopaedia of Thermal Stresses edited by Prof. R.B. Hetnarski, published by Springer are among them. Prof. Bera is an associate editor of International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics – A Springer Scopus indexed journal. His research interest includes Mathematical Theory of Linear and Non-Linear Elasticity, Generalized Thermo-Elasticity, Thermo-Elasticity in Random Media, Numerical Methods and Computation, Fractional Calculus. Among many Research Projects completed by him, a Major Project from Bhaba Atomic Research Centre(BARC) on Fractional Calculus applied to describe Reactor Kinetics & Flux Matching is worth mentioning.
