The 4th Prof. Vijaya Agarwala Memorial National Symposium on Microwave Absorbing Materials (VAMMAM-2020)” was held during 23 - 24th, August 2020 at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in association with Centre Nanotechnology and Common Research Development Hub (CRTDH) for New Materials/Stealth Applications Department Applied Mechanics Motilal Nehru Allahabad, Prayagraj, India.

Extremal dynamics represents a path to self-organized criticality in which the order parameter is tuned to a value of zero. The order parameter is associated with a phase transition to an absorbing state. Given a process that exhibits a phase transition to an absorbing state, we define an "extremal absorbing" process, providing the link to the associated extremal (nonabsorbing) process. Station...

The application of error analysis within a certain algorithm for the most accurate and unambiguous determination of refractive index n, absorption coefficient k, and thickness d of thin absorbing films in a wide spectral range is illustrated with three examples. Thin films of a dye, Ag, and Au are selected because their optical constants (small n for Ag and Au and considerable variations of n a...

Let Γ=(V,E) be a graph and ‎W_(‎a)={w_1,…,w_k } be a subset of the vertices of Γ and v be a vertex of it. The k-vector r_2 (v∣ W_a)=(a_Γ (v,w_1),‎…‎ ,a_Γ (v,w_k)) is the adjacency representation of v with respect to W in which a_Γ (v,w_i )=min{2,d_Γ (v,w_i )} and d_Γ (v,w_i ) is the distance between v and w_i in Γ. W_a is called as an adjacency resolving set for Γ if distinct vertices of ...

We consider an irreducible pure jump Markov process with rates Q = (q(x, y)) on Λ ∪ {0} with Λ countable and 0 an absorbing state. A quasi stationary distribution (qsd) is a probability measure ν on Λ that satisfies: starting with ν, the conditional distribution at time t, given that at time t the process has not been absorbed, is still ν. That is, ν(x) = νPt(x)/( ∑ y∈Λ νPt(y)), with Pt the tra...