06/03/2023: The Department of Physics, Jagannath Barooah College organized the sixth phase of the Distinguished Lecture today at 12 Hrs in the Conference Hall 1. The lecture was delivered by eminent scientist Prof. Alex Ely Kossovsky, New York, USA, on the topic “Mathematical Perspectives in the Emergence of Physics”. Notably, Prof. Alex Ely Kossovsky specialized in Physics and Pure Mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and in Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the City University of New York. He is the author of the books "THE BIRTH OF SCIENCE: Kepler’s Celestial Data Analysis, Galileo’s Terrestrial Experiments, and Newton’s Grand Synthesis", “BENFORD’S LAW: Theory, the General Law of Relative Quantities, and Forensic Fraud Detection Applications”, “STUDIES IN BENFORD’S LAW: Arithmetical Tugs of War, Quantitative Partition Models, Prime Numbers, Exponential Growth Series, and Data Forensics”, and “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: Why the Small is Numerous but the Big is Rare in the World”. Kossovsky is the inventor of a patented mathematical algorithm used in data fraud detection and analysis, and is considered by some to be the world’s leading expert on the topic of Benford’s Law mathematics and its many scientific and forensics applications.

The lecture was attended by the faculty members and the students of the Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, J. B. College, Jorhat. After the inaugural speech of Principal Dr. Utpal Jyoti Mahanta, senior faculty member of the department Monoranjan Kakoti gave a brief introduction of Prof. Alex. The lecture was coordinated by Dr. Ankur Gogoi where the students and the faculty members actively participated in the interaction session. After the completion of the distinguished lecture Dr. Ankur Gogoi offered the vote of thanks.