Mahendra K VermaMahendra K. Verma is currently working as Professor in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has been an associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy (2004-09), and a member of the Progra Advisory Committee of Science and Engineering Research Board, India. He works in the broad area of turbulence and nonlinear dynamics, with specialization in magneto hydrodynamics, buoyancy-driven flows, dynamo, and high performance computing. He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at the Indian Institutes of Technology, Kanpur for the past twenty-one years. He has designed and taught courses such as physics of turbulence, magneto hydrodynamics, atmospheric physics, nonlinear physics, computational physics, and introduction to high performance computing for scientists and engineers. He has published more than eighty papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute. Read More Read Less