Overview
- Provides a comprehensive description of modern timekeeping and its specializations
- Suitable for practicing professionals or as supplementary literature in university courses
- Features a glossary of all key terms along with a multiple-choice questionnaire
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology (SSMST)
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Featuring a glossary of all key terms, this book is highly recommended for trained or incoming physicists, engineers, or mathematicians working, for example, in manufacturing or timing laboratories. Additionally, it is suitable for use in introductory university courses dealing with the subject of timekeeping.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
After retirement he became a professor at Amity University and a visiting researcher at Burdwan University, supervising many undergraduate and PhD students while also developing curricula and chairing academic committees.
He has organized many international conferences and served as a member or chair of numerous scientific committees. Frequently asked to review articles for technical journals, he is currently associate editor for the Radio Science Bulletin and on the board of the International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering.He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), the Metrology Society of India (MSI), the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
He has published more than 100 papers, given more than 60 invited talks, presented 90 conference papers, and holds 7 patents. He has received the Union of Radio Scientists (URSI) Young Scientist Award, the 2006 IETE Hari Ramji Toshniwal Gold Medal, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SKF Group of Institutes.
Dr. Demetrios Matsakis grew up in St. Louis, received a BS in physics from MIT, and a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley, where he studied under Nobel Laureate Charles Townes. He then worked for 40 years at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), where he at first used radio interferometry and built water-vapor radiometers to measure the variable rotation of the Earth. In 1989 he was asked to work part-time on a mercury stored-ion clock. In 1997 he became director of the USNO’s Time Service department, and 16 years later he became Chief Scientist.
Now a consultant, he has worked on the faculty of Virginia Tech on finding better methods to predict the Earth’s rotation, and on Kalman filter theory. As Chief Scientist for Masterclock he advises on and tests new products, writes a blog, and otherwise remains active in the timekeeping community. Frequently asked to review articles for technical journals, he is also a special editor for the GPS Solutions topical collection on timekeeping.
He has participated in or chaired numerous national and international committees and working groups, served for three years as president of the International Astronomical Union’s Time Commission (#31), and represented the USA in Paris and Geneva. He has published over 160 scientific papers covering most aspects of timekeeping including Earth rotation, timescales, pulsars, and time-transfer. He holds one patent and published five science fiction short stories. In 1996 he received the USNO’s Newcomb award, the highest internal award for science research, and in 2023 he was given the Institute of Navigation’s PTTI Distinguished Service Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Modern Timekeeping and Time Transfer
Authors: Parameswar Banerjee, Demetrios Matsakis
Series Title: Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30780-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30779-9Published: 31 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30782-9Published: 17 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30780-5Published: 30 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-7807
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 194 illustrations in colour
Topics: Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Communications Engineering, Networks, Computer Applications, Geography, general, Electrical Engineering