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An All Rounder

1967: Patrol Leader 43rd East Bombay Scout Troops. Invested with the highest rank in scouting as President Scout.

1966: Stood second in the 50 meters Free Style for seniors at the Annual Scout Swimming Competition. Stood first in the 5 mile race (juniors) conducted by the Maharashtra State Cycle Association. His timing was 15 minutes 37.6 seconds. Stood second in the English Essay Competition conducted by the Maharashtra United Nations Association (MUNA)

Adisher (Adi) Ratan Bulsara was born on 15th May 1951.He is a scientist in the area Nonlinear Dynamics. He studied under the Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine. The 2007 International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND), held in Kauai, Hawaii, was a festschrift held in his honor of his 55th birthday.

He was born in Bombay, India, attended the Campion School and presently resides in San Diego, USA. He is married to Marcia and has two children. On his paternal side, he is a cousin of Freddie Mercury and on his maternal side he is a second cousin of Zubin Mehta. In his younger days he was keen cyclist and competed in various cycling events.

He obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, under the Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine, in 1978. His thesis was entitled, Entropy, Stability and Fluctuations in Lasing Systems. He is a Senior Researcher with the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, (SPAWAR), San Diego, California, USA where he leads the Applied Chaos and Dynamics Group that specializes in applications of nonlinear dynamics. He is the author of more than 100 articles in the physics literature. His primary research area is in the physics of noisy nonlinear dynamic systems.
 
Honors

In 2004, Bulsara was elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) "for fundamental contributions to the theory of nonlinear dynamics and the development of groundbreaking applications in classical, solid and fluid mechanics, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology." His festschrift in honor of his 55th birthday, for logistic reasons, was held when he was 56.

Bulsara's Erdős Number is 5. His path to Erdős is as follows:
A. R. Bulsara and W. C. Schieve, "Entropy and stability in a stochastic laser model," Z. Phys., B33(3), pp. 211-217, 1979.
L. P. Horwitz, W. C. Schieve, and C. Piron, "Gibbs ensembles in relativistic classical and quantum mechanics," Ann. Physics, 137(2), pp. 306-340, 1981.
S. Gudder and C. Piron, "Observables and the field in quantum mechanics," J. Mathematical Phys., 12, pp. 1583-1588, 1971.
S. P. Gudder and R. H. Schelp, "Coordinatization of orthocomplemented and orthomodular posets," Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 25, pp. 229-237, 1970.
P. Erdős, R. J. Faudree, C. C. Rousseau, and R. H. Schelp, "Generalized Ramsey theory for multiple colors," J. Combinatorial Theory Ser., B20(3), pp. 250-264, 1976.
Books by Bulsara.
S. Baglio and A. Bulsara, (editors) Device Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3540338772.
A. Bulsara, Noise and Chaos in the RF SQUID, Office of Naval Research, 1992, ASIN B0006R2M5I.
A. Bulsara, Coupled Neural-Dendritic Processes: Cooperative Stochastic Effects and the Analysis of Spike Trains, Office of Naval Research, 1994, ASIN B0006R2O9C.
J. B. Kadtke and A. Bulsara, (editors) Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Systems Near the Millen[n]ium, 411, San Diego, CA, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 1997, ISBN 1563967367.
Other selected publications.
A. Longtin, A. Bulsara, and F. Moss, "Time-interval sequences in bistable systems and the noise-induced transmission of information by sensory neurons," Physical Review Letters 67(5): 656-659, 1991.
A. R. Bulsara, and L. Gammaitoni, "Tuning in to noise," Physics Today 49(3): 39-45, 1996.
J. F. Lindner, B. K. Meadows, W. L. Ditto, M. E. Inchiosa, and A. R. Bulsara, "Array enhanced stochastic resonance and spatiotemporal synchronization, Physical Review Letters 75(1): 3-6, 1995.
A. Bulsara, P. Hänggi, F. Marchesoni, F. Moss, and M. Shlesinger, (editors) Special Issue for Proceedings of The Nato Advanced Research Workshop—Stochastic Resonance in Physics and Biology, in Journal of Statistical Physics, 70(1-2), 1993.

Adi is a 2004 Fellow of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center and his citation reads: For developing the statistical mechanics of noisy nonlinear dynamical oscillators especially in the theory, application and technology of stochastic resonance detectors.