Welcome to the home page of D.J. Saikia
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D.J. Saikia is a Professor at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
(NCRA) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (TIFR). He hails from Jorhat in the
north-eastern part of Assam, and spent his early years in the picturesque town of
Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, often referred to as the Scotland of the east.
He did his schooling at St. Edmund's School, Shillong, B.Sc. (Physics Honours) from
Hindu College in 1975, M.Sc. (Physics)
from Gwyer Hall in 1977, both
institutions being part of the University of Delhi. He joined the radio astronomy
group of TIFR in 1977 and obtained his PhD in 1985, from what was then the University
of Bombay, working largely with Vijay Kapahi and
Govind Swarup on radio jets
and compact features in radio galaxies and quasars, including the development of
of an early version of the unified scheme for lobe- and core-dominated quasars with
Vijay Kapahi.
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With a little (somtimes a lot of) help from his friends, which include
approximately a dozen students and well over a hundred collaborators, he has worked
on a number of different areas of astronomy and astrophysics. These include diverse aspects
of active galaxies ranging from the nearby mildly active galaxies to the luminous radio
galaxies and quasars, probing the early Universe from deep radio continuum surveys
and neutral hydrogen 21-cm absorbers at cosmological distances. Occasionally he has
worked on areas in Galactic astronomy, introduced to the fascinating OH/IR stars
by Jessica Chapman. He is part of a major
EVLA project led by
Judith Irwin
to study continuum halos in nearby edge-on galaxies.
He is currently Editor of the Bulletin of the Astronomical Society
of India (BASI), a quarterly
journal published in English by the Astronomical Society of India
(ASI), and appearing in March, June,
September and December, and Series Editor of the
ASI Conference Series.
The Conference Series aim to make recent results presented in conferences
held eithin within or outside India available rapidly to a wide community. The
special 2011 March issue of BASI
along with several more articles has been published as a book
Fluid Flows to Black Holes
which he has edited along with Virginia Trimble
as a tribure to Chandrasekhar on his birth centenary.
Address: NCRA, TIFR, Pune University Campus, Post Bag 3, Ganeshkind P.O., Pune 411 007, INDIA
Phone: +91 (0)20 25719245, 25719000 (W), +91 (0)20 25690665 (H), +91 9421081273 (M); E-mail:
djs@ncra.tifr.res.in
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Last updated: 2011 December 16