pp 1-1 October 2003 Editorial

Editorial

G Nagendrappa

pp 2-3 October 2003 Article-in-a-Box

Satish Dhawan

Srinivas Bhogle

pp 4-5 October 2003 Article-in-a-Box

Dhawan and the Transformation of the Indian Institute of Science

Roddam Narasimha

pp 6-7 October 2003 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

pp 8-19 October 2003 General Article

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods - Statistical Concepts

K B Athreya Mohan Delampady T Krishnan

pp 20-30 October 2003 General Article

The Blue Baby Syndrome - Nitrate Poisoning in Humans

Deepanjan Majumdar

pp 31-39 October 2003 General Article

Bird Flight and Satish Dhawan: Some Thoughts

K R Y Simha

pp 40-47 October 2003 General Article

Doing Little Science with Dhawan

Roddam Narasimha

pp 48-55 October 2003 General Article

About Prof. Satish Dhawan

K Kasturirangan

pp 56-62 October 2003 General Article

Satish Dhawan – A Creative Teacher

A P J Abdul Kalam

pp 63-68 October 2003 Classroom

Point Set Topological Proof of ‘no retraction’ Theorem for 2 and 3 Dimensional Cases

Sourav Chakraborty

pp 69-75 October 2003 Classroom

Classical Angular Momentum of Light: A Paradox and its Resolution

K Vijay Kumar N Kumar

pp 76-84 October 2003 Classroom

The Madelung Constant of the Sodium Chloride Crystal Lattice

Sourav Das

pp 85-86 October 2003 Classroom

Minimizing the Time of Travel for a Long-distance Train Journey: A Model

S N Maitra

pp 87-89 October 2003 Think It Over

Ants in Pursuit

Awani Kumar

pp 90-91 October 2003 Book Review

What it Takes to Fly

S P Govinda Raju

pp 92-96 October 2003 Classics

Launching the First Indian Satellite

pp 97-97 October 2003 Information and Announcements

SERC School on Coherent Optics and Applications

pp 100-100 October 2003 Flowering Trees

Calophyllum inophyllum

pp 101-101 October 2003 Featured Scientist

Satish Dhawan (1920-2002)

Article ID 1 October 2003 Information and Announcements

National Workshop on Recent Advances in Mathematics

Article ID 1 October 2003 Information and Announcements

Workshop on Single Molecule Biophysics