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ABUL HASAN SIDDIQI, PhD, is a distinguished scientist and professor emeritus at School of Basic Sciences and Research at Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. He is also a visiting consultant at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (Trieste, Italy), Sultan Qaboos University (Muscat, Oman), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and several other well-known universities of the world. He has a long association with ICTP (a UNESCO institution) in capacities of short-time visitor, long-duration visitor, senior associate, guests of the director, senior associate, ICTP visiting consultant to Turkey. He was awarded with the German Academic Exchange Fellowship thrice to carry out mathematical research in Germany. He has published more than 100 research papers jointly with his research collaborators, 5 books and edited proceedings of 9 international conferences, as well as supervised 29 PhD scholars. He is founder secretary of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM), which is celebrating its Silver Jubilee in January 2016. He is editor-in-chief of Indian Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, published by ISIAM and Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a book series with Springer.
PAMMY MANCHANDA, PhD, is senior professor of mathematics at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. She has published 44 research papers in several international journals of repute, edited 2 proceedings of international conferences of ISIAM and co-authored 3 books. She has attended and delivered talks and chaired sessions at reputed academic conferences and workshops across the world, including ICIAM (1999-2015) and ICM since 2002. She was invited twice to the Industrial Mathematics Group of Prof Helmut Neunzert, Kaiserslautern University, Germany, and visited International Centre for Theoretical Physics (a UNESCO institution) (Trieste, Italy) many times to carry out her research activities. She is