Letters of Tributes and Invitations

In the following section some letters of tributes and invitations to Prof. Gupta, received from Indian and international scientists are presented.

a)      Tributes received from International scientists

(1)       Preface for special issue  of IE in honour of Prof. N. K. Gupta




(2)    Preface in honour of Prof. N. K. Gupta on his 65th Birthday



(3)    Letter from Prof. Matthias Kleiner (Germany)


(4)    Letter from Prof. Tim Pedley (U.K.)

Professor N.K.Gupta

I think I first met Narinder Gupta when he became an Indian member of the General Assembly (GA) of IUTAM in 2000.  I may have met him earlier, during one of my visits to IIT-Delhi, but since he works in solid mechanics and I work in fluid mechanics, such a meeting would have been brief. However, since 2000 we have met at least every two years at the GA, and since 2008 we have met annually because he has been an elected member of the IUTAM Bureau during my Presidency.

 He has made a huge contribution to the development of Mechanics in India and to increasing its international visibility, first by repeatedly proposing that the next ICTAM should be held in India (the most recent bid was for Hyderabad in 2016), a proposal that unfortunately has not yet been successful, and second by encouraging Indian colleagues to put in realistic and well-argued cases for IUTAM Symposia to take place in India. This latter encouragement has at last borne relatively prolific fruit: of the 17 Symposia approved by the IUTAM GA during its meeting last week in Beijing, three are to be in India, in 2014 or 2015 (ironically, all three of them are in fluid mechanics!), the same number as in Germany and France, and more than in the USA. In my view this puts India’s mechanics community firmly on the international map, and I look forward to increasingly successful involvement in the future.

When I last came to India it was as the G I Taylor lecturer at the ISTAM meeting in Hamirpur in December 2010 (it was pretty cold up there too!). But when I came down afterwards to spend a couple of days in Delhi, Narinder got me an invitation to a party at INSA to welcome some bigwigs from the Chinese scientific community, if I remember right. Anyway, he said it would be fun, and at least I would get a good dinner and plenty of drinks. He was totally correct about that, though I don’t remember much about the Chinese guests – only the very convivial (and very distinguished) Indian scientists whom I met!

Over the years I have had a lot of fun and a lot of very useful advice about India and Indian colleagues from Narinder Gupta, and I am very pleased to contribute these few words to the celebration of his 70th birthday. I confidently expect to go on having fun with him for many years to come.

 

Tim Pedley                                                                   29 August, 2012

 

Professor Timothy J Pedley, ScD, FRS

Emeritus G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

University of Cambridge.

President, IUTAM


(5)    Letter from Prof. Yilong Bai (China)

Congratulations on the 70th birthday of Prof. Narinder K. Gupta.

Narinder is one of my best friends. In 80' last century, both of us stayed in Bill Johnson's group on Impact dynamics, at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge. So, we share the same interests.  Later, we work together on the board of Int J Impact Engineering. In recent about 10 years, we work together in IUTAM GA. So lovely to get along with such a nice friend for over 30 years!.

Actually, I have learnt a lot from Narinder, since he has been working on the interface of impact and plastisity. In particular, thanks to his strong support, Beijing was awarded to host ICTAM 2012. I am so grateful to him for his perspective instructions and kind helps in the past years.

I hope all his years to come will be as happy and as helpful and instructive to others as those past.

Yilong Bai

2012 8 16

 

(6)    Letter from Prof. K. Kaneko (Japan)


(7)    Letter from Prof. Kukudzhanov (Russia)


(8)    Letter from Prof. G. Lu (Singapore)

Message from Prof Guxing Lu

 

It is my great pleasure and honour to congratulate and express my best wishes for Professor Narinder Gupta, on this happy occasion of his 70th Birthday.

 

Professor Gupta has been a great mentor and friend. His significant contribution to research on impact mechanics is internationally recognised. The serial symposia IMPLAST, which Professor Gupta initiated, has been an international platform for leading researchers to exchange the latest ideas in this field. As a kind person, Professor Gupta  is always  helpful with my personal research, such as acting as an examiner of PhD theses of my students. I have been privileged to  have met Prof Gupta and Mrs Gupta in many places, such as New Delhi, Australia, Singapore, France and China.

 

I am pleased to report that a special session in honour of Professor Gupta is being organised in the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications, to be held in December 2012 in Singapore.

 

I wish Professor Gupta and Mrs Gupta good health and every happiness!

 

Guoxing Lu

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.



(9)       Letter from Prof. Arun Shukla (USA)

Delegates to the special session in honour of 70th birthday of Prof. N. K. Gupta


Please convey my heartiest congratulations to Professor N. K. Gupta on the occasion of his 70th birthday. I wish I was there to celebrate it with all of you. I have now known Professor Gupta for more than 30 years and have immensely cherished my friendship with him. He is a true scholar and a gentleman. His contributions to applied mechanics are numerous and fundamental. To recognize his scholarly efforts and his contributions to dynamic plasticity and impact, the Society for Experimental Mechanics had organized the last IMPLAST conference at Providence in USA. I believe Providence is the city where Professor Gupta’s advisor and mentor had worked with the well known Professor Kolsky. The importance of his great contributions  to impact and plasticity were obvious at this IMPLAST meeting.
 
    The best quality that I personally admire in Professor Gupta is his incessant pursuit for knowledge. He is like a running stream of water (knowledge) that stays fresh by acquiring new knowledge.  This is also what makes him an outstanding teacher.

    I wish him all the best and pray his running stream of knowledge flows for many more years

Arun Shukla

Arun Shukla
Simon Ostrach Professor
Dept. of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Ph. No. 401-874-2283
Fax 401-874-2950

b)      Tributes received from Indian scientists

(10)      Letter from Dr. Deshpande (DRDO)


(11)      Letter from Dr. Sidana (DRDO)


(12)      Letter from Dr. Bhat (DRDO) 


(13)      Letter from Dr. Ramchand (DRDO)


(14)      Letter from Dr. Satyam (DRDO)



c)       Letters related to international visits

(15)         Letter from Prof. Datseris (USA) 


(16)         Invitation letter from Prof. Alves (Brazil)




(17)         Invitation letter from Prof. Markiewicz (France)



(18)     Invitation letter Prof. Dashtoyan (Armenia)


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