Nabin K. Malakar, Ph.D.

NASA JPL
I am a computational physicist working on societal applications of machine-learning techniques.

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My research interests span multi-disciplinary fields involving Societal applications of Machine Learning, Decision-theoretic approach to automated Experimental Design, Bayesian statistical data analysis and signal processing.

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Interested about the picture? Autonomous experimental design allows us to answer the question of where to take the measurements. More about it is here...

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I addition to the research, I also like to hike, bike, read and play with water color.

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

This week: Neutrinos still superluminal according to experiments

A lot of things happend this week, so I am pinning few down here...

"The statistical interpretation of the quantum state is inconsistent with the predictions of quantum theory"
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1111.3328
http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/137499597688930305

Are neutrinos running faster than light?
http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/137675067193700352
http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/137506258361126913

http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/137595451984711680

http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/137593841875288064

http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/137592914200104960

http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/136812249892401152

http://twitter.com/#!/nabinkm/status/136599314486140928

Automated FarmBots for farmer-less farming:
Recent developments in automated farming the crop field has achieved centimeter level accuracy in localization of the farming UAVs.

http://aerialfarmer.blogspot.com/2011/01/uavs-and-agriculture-4.html
http://www.commoncontrolnow.com/Download/The-Unmanned-Farmer.pdf


Lets just call it "Microwave Maths" or "Lightwaves in your service" instead of that long title
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=microwaves-and-the-speed
However, it nicely points out the physics happening inside the microwave.
By measuring the cooked spots in microwave, one could calculate the speed of light. I think it could be a nice textbook entry for high school students in western world.



Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Fobos-Grunt Lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome

Fobos-Grunt mission to scoop Phobos, one of the moons of Mars...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LfsNzNEHhM#!&t=3495
(note how the tail disappears @ about 1hour mark)

The spacecraft is expected to reach Mars' orbit in September 2012, with landing on Phobos scheduled for February 2013.

Update: it seems it is stuck in the earth's space because of some technical troubles... they say if it does not fire in two days, it might be lost!
Ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15684192

On the other news:
Mars Science Laboratory, a suv sized rover, is going to be launched by the end of this month.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-347
Snapshot credit: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

Follow MSL @marscuriosity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos-Grunt