In the third millennium B.C., the Indus Civilization flourished in northwest India and Pakistan. The late mature phase (2200-1900 B.C.) was characterized by long-distance exchange networks, planned urban settlements, sanitation facilities, standardized weights and measures, and a sphere of influence over 1,000,000 square kilometers of territory. Recent paleoclimate reconstructions from the Beas...

Full Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2007–... Associate Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2001–05/2007 Assistant Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 12/2000–06/2001 Researcher Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 08/1999–11/2000 Assistant Professor Operations and Decision Systems, Un...

the interactions between southeastern sites of iranian plateau and western sites in susa and mesopotamia in the third millennium b.c is one of the most controversial aspects of the near eastern archaeology. it seems that with some structural changes in these sites from the middle of 4th millennium b.c that led to long distance trade between mesopotamia and indus valley, these sites were related...

This paper studies the street and block plans of Mohenjodaro and Sirkap of Pakistan, and Thimi of Kathmandu Valley. Mohenjodaro was a reknowned city of Indus civilization, while Sirkap of Taxila, was an important cultural center in later half of first millennium BC. While both of the cities are archaeological remains, Thimi is still a living town. The three cities, apparently separated by enorm...

The Indus fan is the most pronounced and extensive physiographic and sedimentary feature of the Arabian Sea as well as it is the second largest submarine fan in the world. It has developed off the passive continental margin of Pakistan and India, covering an area of about 1.1 x10 km which makes it one of the largest sediment bodies in the ocean basins, totalling ~5 x 10 km in volume. The presen...

T HE DISASTER IN LEH. Less than 1 week after the catastrophic slow-rise flooding of the Indus River in Pakistan in late July 2010 (Houze et al. 2011), f looding of a different, more sudden type produced a disaster in the city of Leh, India, located 500 km to the east. The town of Leh, located in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir State in India, is a high-altitude cold desert valley, 3,500 ...

T HE DISASTER IN LEH. Less than 1 week after the catastrophic slow-rise flooding of the Indus River in Pakistan in late July 2010 (Houze et al. 2011), f looding of a different, more sudden type produced a disaster in the city of Leh, India, located 500 km to the east. The town of Leh, located in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir State in India, is a high-altitude cold desert valley, 3,500 ...

This paper reports the measurement of high energy neutron component (E > 50 MeV) carried out at the Indus-1 (450 MeV) and Indus-2 (2.5 GeV) electron accelerators (RRCAT, Indore, India). The study is based on the registration of neutron induced fission fragments from bismuth radiators in the adjoint solid polymeric track detectors. These bismuth fission detector (BFD) stacks are exposed at the i...

Full Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2007–... Director GERAD research center, Montréal, 05/2015–... Associate Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2001–05/2007 Assistant Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 12/2000–06/2001 Researcher Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 08/1999–11/2000 A...