Anil Mitra, Ph. D.
Phone 707 825 0658
aniljmitra@horizons-2000.org
or, http://www.horizons-2000.org/contact.html
Website – Journey in Being – http://www.horizons-2000.org
Achievements
Objectives
Education
Publications
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Summary of work and achievements Summary of work and achievements continued Summary of work and achievements continued |
1985 - The present Horizons
Enterprises™ Research in Philosophy, specializing in Metaphysics § Developed the following theories with significant advances. Theory of being based in the concepts of power and the void. Concept of being and the void. Intersection of being, mind, logic, and ethics at the root of being § Formulation and solution of a complete system of problems of metaphysics including the concepts of being, power, the void, mind, symbol, ideal and external object (noumenon,) universals, truth, logic, and dynamics of being. Resolution of the mind-body problem. Resolution and revaluation of the fundamental problem of metaphysics, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ Reformulation of the concept of ‘God.’ Studies in general cosmology, nature and origin of time, meaning of origin of time, origin of being, origin of ‘our’ universe or world and relation to the one universe, foundation for quantum mechanics in the theory of being. Enhancement of the categories of intuition to include space, time, causation and humor § Concept of being as a Journey. Journey in Being website: http://www.horizons-2000.org. Experiments in the Transformation of Being: the thesis and implementation of the idea that transformation is essential to understanding of being § Publications listed below and available on the above site Project Journey in Being § Being conceived as a journey. Life as a journey. Journey into the possibilities of being. Journey in Being website: http://www.horizons-2000.org Research Support Base for Journey in Being and Metaphysics § Research and extensive study in biology and the theory of evolution, design and its relation to evolution, history of thought and philosophy, mind and consciousness, the absolute, nature of dreams, mapping of mind, language, theory of computer implementation of mind and life and being § Publications listed below and available on the above site 1990 - The present Humboldt Mental Health Eureka, Psychiatric Care and Document Automation § Automation of documentation and treatment planning. Computer implementation using forms technology, Visual Basic programming [plan to implement database technology] § Research: 1. Treatment for co-occuring problems that are refractory to standardized approaches. 2. Miscellaneous topics of treatment: importance of participation and leadership, importance of family systems, importance of patient involvement for outcome, role of automation in continuity of care § Provision of observation, safety, physical, emotional and cognitive care of psychiatric patients; problem solving. Management and de-escalation of assaultive and potentially assaultive behavior. Charting, admissions and numerous associated tasks. Interface public 1983 - 1985 Humboldt State University Associate Professor § Taught dynamics, thermodynamics, computation and numerical analysis through finite element methods, advanced energy analysis, and a seminar in optimization and controls 1984 Summer Consultant § Analysis of a general purpose finite element program for strength and vibration of structures. Application in aerospace design 1978 - 1983 University of Assistant Professor § Taught dynamics, thermodynamics, computer programming and computer graphics, technical drawing, statics, mechanics of materials, advanced dynamics through three dimensional rigid body motion and Langrangean dynamics. Innovative instruction in thermodynamics. Informally recognized for teaching excellence § Research in applied mathematics / wave mechanics and other miscellaneous topics 1977 - 1978 University of Assistant Professor / Teaching Assistant / Ph. D. Candidate § As Assistant Professor in summer school, taught solid mechanics. As teaching assistant, graded and tutored for dynamics and related courses § As Ph. D. candidate, did research in nonlinear wave mechanics, analytic approximation methods and fluid mechanic stability 1975 - 1977 RIT Assistant Professor § Taught air pollution, vibrations, dynamics, solid mechanics, thermodynamics. RIT is the Rochester Institute of Technology, an institution recognized for excellence in education 1972 - 1975 University of Teaching Assistant / Ph. D. Candidate § As teaching assistant, graded and tutored in a variety of core engineering courses § As Ph. D. candidate, lectured on perturbation methods in fluid mechanics and did research in fluid mechanic stability 1970 - 1972 University of Research Fellow § Research on waves and stability in fluid mechanics. Analytic and numerical approximations |
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I seek a teaching / research position in engineering / applied mathematics. I would teach core and advanced courses, be involved in innovative course and curriculum development, research, and the professional development of students. I have ten years of research experience in engineering I have ten years of experience in teaching engineering – eight and one half years at a faculty rank and 3 years tutoring and grading. My excellent analytic and practical skills; my extensive background in engineering and its foundations; my record of excellence in teaching; the breadth of experience – see http://www.horizons-2000.org; my inherent empathy and especially as developed in psychiatric care will make for excellent teaching, research and professional involvement. I have programming and web development skills – see my website, link above; I am able to use these skills to develop interactive tutorials and maintain an online presence to students |
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Courses Taught continued |
Mechanics and Design Graphics and technical drawing, statics, solid mechanics: strength of materials, elasticity, plasticity, failure theories, dynamics: lagrangian mechanics and generalized coordinates, space mechanics, kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms and machines, introductory vector and scalar dynamics, mechanical vibrations Computation and Numerical Methods Numerical
Analysis: theory, error estimates,
stability, algorithms, coding, applications for the full spectrum of standard
topics Finite
Differences and Finite Elements: theory,
coding for general two-dimensional time dependent case, applications in
thermo-mechanics Programming with Fortran Computer Graphics Applied Mathematics Perturbation Methods. Optimal Control Theory. Energy and Fluids Heat transfer Thermodynamics: systems and states, first and second laws, statistical
mechanics, mixtures, chemical reactions and combustion. Applied
Thermodynamics: availability theory, its
use as an economic tool; principles of power and propulsion. Power Systems:
thermo-mechanical theory and design aspects for fossil fuels, propulsion Power Systems: thermo-mechanical theory and design aspects for fossil fuels.
Fuel cells. Nuclear fission and fusion Air Pollution: sources and control Renewable Energy
Systems: principles and design aspects
for photovoltaics, wave, wind and hydropower Laboratory Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and mechanical engineering measurements and experiments |
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Fluids and Waves Theoretical and computational methods. Stability of fluid systems, wave theories
and mechanics. Wave interactions with
structures, sea floor and wind Applied Mathematics and Computation Expertise in development and use of perturbation and
regularization methods. Applied
mathematics in stability, fluid and wave mechanics, and numerical
methods. Residual/Galerkin
and energy/variational methods for finite elements.
Programming with Fortran. Software: Numerical analysis of
engineering/mathematical modeling problems and software implementation. Use and development of large-scale finite
element program (STARS) for structural/vibration analysis. Interactive graphics I am currently using a PC, Windows 2000, Microsoft Office
XP, and Visual Basic for applications, especially in document automation and
Website development. I use Visual Basic for an applications development
environment and Fortran with IMSL for applications programming in
engineering, mathematics and related technical areas. I am developing a
facility with C++ programming Mechanics and Design Kinematics, dynamics and vibrations of machines and
mechanical systems.
Strength/failure. Lubrication. See
previous item for programming.
Elements and organization of design. The idea and deployment of design
and planning at all scales is an area of interest and research. Limited
exposure to CAD and computer graphics Energy Thermodynamics, heat transfer, resource analysis and
combustion kinetics. Propulsion.
Fossil fuel and nuclear power generation; pollution aspects. Renewable energy power: hydropower,
photovoltaic, wind and wave systems.
Economic optimization Communication Design and writing of papers and reports. Graphics and technical drawing |
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Objective: Teaching Science and Mathematics |
I seek a teaching position in science and mathematics. I would teach core and advanced courses, be involved in innovative course and curriculum development, research, and the professional development of students I have ten years of teaching experience. My excellent analytic and practical skills; my excellent background in science and mathematics – extensive masters and doctorate level course work in mathematics and physics, research in applied mathematics, theoretical physics, numerical analysis, computation and the theory of evolution; my record of excellence in teaching; a breadth of experience – see http://www.horizons-2000.org; my inherent empathy and especially as developed in psychiatric care will make for excellent teaching, research and professional involvement. I have programming and web development skills – see my website, link above; I am able to use these skills to develop interactive tutorials and maintain an online presence to students |
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I seek a teaching position physics. I would teach core and advanced courses, be involved in innovative course and curriculum development, research, and the professional development of students Experience in physics Undergraduate: three years of course work through
“modern physics” with, consistently, the top grade among a class of the
brightest students in Graduate: most of the standard Ph.D. level courses at
the Other: seminars by George Sudarshan
and Steven Weinberg at the Other experience I have ten years of teaching experience. My excellent analytic and practical skills; my excellent background in science and mathematics – extensive masters and doctorate level course work in mathematics and physics, research in applied mathematics, theoretical physics, numerical analysis and computation; my record of excellence in teaching; the breadth of experience – see http://www.horizons-2000.org; my empathy will make for excellent teaching, research and professional involvement. I have programming and web development skills; I am able to use the skills to develop interactive tutorials; maintain online presence for students |
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I seek a research position in engineering / applied mathematics / computation and numerical analysis research I have ten years of experience in research in the topics listed above. I have excellent practical and analytical skills in the topics mentioned above. I am open to learning and development. Publications are listed below |
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I seek a consulting position in engineering I have consulted in finite element methods and vibrations. I have ten years experience in research in engineering, applied mathematics, computation and numerical analysis. I have ten years of experience in teaching. I have programming and web experience and maintain a website, http://www.horizons-2000.org. My excellent analytic, practical, communication, writing and people skills. I am committed to learning, development and professional involvement. I am loyal by nature but expect reciprocation |
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§ Journey in Being § Journey in Knowledge § Kinds of Being § Social Action
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I seek a situation in which to continue work in the concept and potential of being. This work is based in the following concepts. A theory of being based in power and the void. Knowledge and action are necessary for one another. See Foundation for a Journey in Being on the Journey in Being website, http://www.horizons-2000.org for details The ways of experience, knowledge and transformation are as full as I have found possible. I have attempted to explore all dimensions – all being, civilization, all times and places. I give weight to the Modern World, to the East and to Native and Archaic Worlds. Foundations and a large body of work can be found at my website Journey in Being: http://www.horizons-2000.org. Publications are listed below The following are constitutive of my designed and serendipitous preparation for the phases of the Journey in Being: my excellent imaginative, analytic and practical abilities; my excellent background in the academic disciplines – philosophy, physics, biology, mathematics, artificial intelligence and computation; research in applied mathematics and mechanics, numerical analysis and computation, theoretical physics, a variety of philosophical concerns such as philosophy of mind, being, action, knowledge and the foundations and problems of metaphysics, aspects of social science and studies, engineering education, the nature of design including engineering design; the disciplines of the East and of Archaic cultures; experience with esoteric arts; experience and inherent empathy with people and providing care and safety in conflicted situations; approximately ten years of experience in university teaching; travels and living in nature; travels and living in a variety of cultures; and, generally, breadth of life experience – two examples are four years of participation in weekly seminars and practical exercises in physical and psychological health topics and a year of the phases of a small restaurant |
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Education |
1970 - 74, 77 - 78 Doctor of Philosophy in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering §
Grade
Average 3.94 § Specializing in fluid mechanics and stability; advanced analytic and numerical approximation methods; computation; applied and pure mathematics; theoretical physics 1969 - 1970 IIT Kharagpur, Masters Level Diploma in
Applied Mathematics specializing in Magnetohydrodynamics §
Placed
1st in the Magnetohydrodynamics group §
The
course work for the diploma includes higher mathematics, theoretical physics
including electromagnetism and Einstein’s theory of gravitation, functional
analysis, partial differential equations, higher probability and statistics,
fluid mechanics, magneto-fluid-dynamics, plasma stability 1964 - 1969 IIT Kharagpur, Bachelor of Technology
in Mechanical Engineering §
Graduated
with 1st class honours §
IIT
is the Indian Institute of Technology. The Institute at Kharagpur was the
original higher technical institute established in independent |
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Coursework – undergraduate through Ph. D. Coursework – undergraduate through Ph. D. continued |
English, world history, psychology – general and industrial,
economics and economics of industrial labor, management, industrial
development of Five years of basic and advanced undergraduate mathematics Partial differential equations – introduction and advanced Numerical methods, probability and statistics, real analysis, functional analysis, theory of distributions Three years of undergraduate physics and two years of chemistry Advanced classical dynamics, hydrodynamics, continuum mechanics, elasticity theory – introduction, advanced and special topics, advanced thermodynamics, electromagnetic theory, special and general theory of relativity, classical electrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, hydromagnetic stability, relativistic fluid mechanics, and plasma dynamics, quantum mechanics Undergraduate engineering core Electronics, electrical machines – two years, applied mechanics, applied mechanics, advanced strength of materials – two years, metallurgy, machines and mechanisms – two years, electrical machines – two years, hydraulic machines, heat and power – three years, instrumentation and control Production engineering, workshop theory and practice – four years, engineering drawing and descriptive geometry – two years, machine and machine elements design – two years, design project |
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Slow Interactions of Gravity Waves and a
Corrugated Sea Bed, A.
Mitra and M. D. Greenberg, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, Vol. 51, No.
2, June 1984 Book Review, A. Mitra, Marine Geotechnology, V. 6, No. 2, 1985, of: Peter Lynwander, Reflection of Long Surface Waves by a Corrugated
Bottom, A. Mitra, Report 82-7, Texas Institute for Computational
Mechanics, September 1982 The Effect of Bottom Topography on Stability and
Wave Propagation in a Kelvin-Helmholtz Flow, Ph. D.
Dissertation, The Effect of a Wavy Bottom on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, A. Mitra and M. D.
Greenberg, Journal of Hydronautics, Vol. 8, No. 2,
April 1974 A Vortex Sheet Approach to Two Phase Flows, M. D.
Greenberg, A. Mitra, and S. J. Zarroodny, Fourth
Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Montreal, May 1973 The Effect of a Wavy Bottom on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, A. Mitra and M. D.
Greenberg, Report 168, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Study of MHD-Lubrication and MHD-Squeeze Film
Performance, A. Mitra, DIIT Report, Mathematics, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India, July 1970 Study of Perturbation
Methods in Nonlinear Problems, A. Mitra, B. Tech. Report,
Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, May
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Engineering Education, 1989,
rev. 2004 Modern Engineering, 1985,
rev. 2004 Military Science, Engineering and Peace, 1985,
reformatted and abridged. 2003 Design, 1985, rev. 2004 |
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Slow Interactions of Gravity Waves and a Corrugated
Sea Bed, American Society
of Mechanical Engineers Conference, Lectures in Optimal Control Theory,
Department of Environmental Resources Engineering, Reflection of Waves by a Corrugated Bed,
Department of Environmental Resources Engineering, Some Wave Force Computations,
Division of Engineering, On Teaching Thermodynamics,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Western New England College,
Massachusetts, August 1981 Proposal to Use the WKB Method in Wave Force
Computation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State
University, Michigan, January 1980 The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, A Vortex Sheet Approach to Two-Phase Flows, Fourth
Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, |
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Publications in Design,
Philosophy and the Nature of Being and Action Publications in Design, Philosophy and the Nature of
Being and Action continued Publications in Design, Philosophy and the Nature of
Being and Action continued |
Journey in Being Journey in Being, 2003,
rev. 2004 Prologue to Journey in Being, 2003,
rev. 2004 Foundation, supplement, and
phases of Journey in Being Foundation, 2004 Foundation: supplement, 2004 Journey in Being: Supplement, 2004 Metaphysics, 2003,
rev. 2004 Experiments in the
Transformation of Being, 2003, rev. 2004 Experiments in the Variety of
Being, 2003, rev. 2004 Action, Influence, Charisma, and
History, 2003, rev. 2004 History of Thought History of thought and action, 2002, rev.
2004.[1998 Ed. ‘Thinkers and Actors’] History of Western Philosophy, 1998, 2nd
Ed. 2002, rev. 2004 Dreams and Theory of Dreams Dreams and 2004 [Dream
theory incorporated in Journey in Being,
2003, rev. 2004] Notes on Being Evolution, Design and the
Absolute, 1995, 2nd Ed. 2001, rev. 2003 Being and the Elements of Being, Frames
version, 2nd Ed., 2000 Being and the Elements of Being,
1st Ed.
1998, 2000 Being, Mind and the Absolute, 1999,
rev. 2004 Computers, Beings and Minds, 2001, New
Version, 2003 Consciousness and Mind Problems in the Philosophy of
Consciousness, 1999, rev. 2004 Review of John Searle’s ‘Mystery of Consciousness,’ 1997 and ‘The
Rediscovery of the Mind,’ 1992; and David Chalmers ‘The Conscious Mind,’ 1996,
1993, rev. 2003 Synopsis: Susan Greenfield, ‘The Human Mind: A Guided Tour,’ 1997, with
additions and narrative, 1999, rev. 2003 Rough, Older, Notes on Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Metaphysics and the Problems of
Consciousness, 1996, 1998, rev. 2003 Psychotherapies: Systems,
Principles and Selection, 1992, rev. 2003 Brain, Mind and Psychiatric
Systems, 1993, rev. 2003 Magic and Religion: Important
for the conception of religion and for the concept of a field of concepts and
being Magic and Religion, 1991,
rev. 2003 Evolution and Design and related studies Evolution and Design, 1987, 2nd
Ed. 1999, rev. 2004 Design of a Life, 1986,
rev. 2003 Synopsis: Ernest Becker’s ‘Birth
and Death of Meaning,’ 1986, rev. 2003 Bibliographies for Evolution and
Design and Related Work, 1970 – 2004rk, 1970 – 2004 Engineering from a Technical and
Philosophical Point of View Engineering Education, 1989,
rev. 2004 Modern Engineering, 1985,
rev. 2004 Military Science, Engineering and Peace, 1985,
reformatted and abridged. 2003 Design, 1985,
rev. 2004 |
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A Journey in Being. About the growth of an individual or group into
all being. A Journey through nature, mind, being and the accumulated
knowledge and experience of all cultures and civilizations Metaphysics
and the Philosophy of Mind. The
author’s publications in these fields and related links. Basic discoveries
regarding ontology, the fundamental problem of metaphysics, and a novel
approach to resolution of mind-body issues |
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Dr. Ronald C. Chaney, Professor of Engineering, Dr. Michael D.
Greenberg,
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of
Delaware, Newark, DE 19711. (302) 831-8159. Email: greenber@me.udel.edu Dr. Swadesh M. Mahajan, Research Scientist, Center for
Fusion Studies, Department of Physics, |