Personal photographic glimpses of Professor Bikas Kumar Sinha: The Bikas Kumar Sinha Endowment Lecture

Abstract

My goal in this Endowment Lecture is to provide some glimpses of Professor Bikas Sinha, based on 30 years of friendship and appreciation. In particular I’ll emphasize Bikas’ remarkable impact as a demanding but inspiring mentor and collaborator of several doctoral students of Tampere University; among them, Arto Luoma, Laura Koskela, Anne Puustelli, Klaus Nordhausen, Jarkko Isotalo and Sami Helle; and extremely active and productive co-operation with Erkki Liski and Tapio Nummi and their research group.<br/><br/>On my personal side I’ll go through, with photographic illustrations, some highlights like visiting Bikas’ residence and family in Kolkata on the 3rd of January 1995; visits to our home in Nokia; international scientific meetings like in Kolkata, Hyderabad and in Bedlewo, Poland, and the guided tour in Kolkata Botanical Gardens on the 2nd of January 2013.