Recent Trends in Physics of Material Science and Technology

From the Contents: Introduction.- A study of El Niño-Southern oscillation impacts to the South China Sea region using ground-based GPS receiver.- The quantum Hall effect: The symmetry and the velocity.- B-spline Collocation with Domain Decomposition Method.- Biogas laminar burning velocity and flammability characteristics in spark ignited premix combustion.- Conformally flat bulk tilted cosmological model.- Introducing the Dimensional Continuous Space-Time Theory.

Dr. Ford Lumban Gaol received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Indonesia, Indonesia in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Informatics Engineering and Information System, at Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia. He is also the Chair of PhD Program and Research Interest Group Leader of Advance Systems in Computational Intelligence & Knowledge Engineering. Dr Ford is the Vice Chair of IEEE Indonesia. He is the Chair SERSC: Science & Engineering Research Support Society Indonesia Section. Dr Ford is member of Indonesian Mathematical Society (IndoMS), The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Professional, The International Association of Engineers (IAENG) and the Indonesia Society for Bioinformatics.

Dr. Keshav N. Shrivastava, received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is currently a Professor at the School of Physics at the University of Malaya. Previously he worked at the Clark University during 1966-68, at the Harvard University during the summer of 1968, at the Montana State University during 1968-69, and at the University of Nottingham during 1969-70. His research interests include electron spin resonance, spin-phonon interaction, relaxation, Mossbauer effect, exchange interaction, superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect. He has published more than 230 journal articles. Prof. Shrivastava is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics London, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India and member of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Jamil Akhtar is the Chief Scientist at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India, and heads the Sensors and Nano-Technology Group. He is associated with AcSIR (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India) as Professor and coordinates courses in Advanced Semiconductor Electronics and teaches semiconductor Devices Physics. He holds four patents to his credit and more than forty journal articles. He is a life member of Indian