Conference Convener
Kosla Vepa
Kosla Vepa is a member of the Global Indic Diaspora, originally a
native of Andhra Pradesh state in India and has had the good fortune
to have been brought up and have had his education in various parts
of India including, Bihar, Maharashtra,
and Karnataka. He matriculated from Andhra University in 1955. Among
the schools which he has attended are
St.Xaviers College, Bombay, Karnatak
University, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His highest degree is a
PhD in the area of Engineering
Mechanics. His professional and technical interests include
successful research and development engineering experience in the
Information technology, aero-engine and energy industries across
the globe and an abiding interest in the history of the Mathematical
sciences in antiquity.
Currently Dr. Vepa has significant interests in a wide variety of
subjects including ontological principles in science and
philosophy, Ancient Indian history, Vedas and Vedanta, Mathematical
Sciences in India during antiquity, the growth and evolution of
civilizations to name a few. His major activity is to further the
aims and objectives of the Indic Studies Foundation, stated in the
link below and to further the progress towards an accurate rendering
of the narrative of the Story of the Civilization of the Indic
peoples.
When he finds time he pursues his hobbies of photography and
astronomy, Dr. Vepa resides in the San Francisco Bay Area
Presentations at ICIH 2009
The Pernicous effects of a Misinterpreted Greek Synchronism in
Ancient Indian History
Bay Area Preview
PUBLICATIONS AND ESSAYS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Indic Studies Foundation
Book
Astronomical Dating of Events & Select Vignettes from Indian history
The Societal Stockholm Syndrome
India
and the Great Game
What’s
in a name
Debate
on the origin of the Vedics
India and US Missile defense
Indo-US
relations (circa 1999)
A
prolegomena to A History of the Indic Civilization
Vedic Mathematicians in ancient India PartI
Vedic Mathematicians in ancient India PartII
Vedic Mathematicians in ancient India PartIII
The Indic
Intellectual Tradition
The South Asia File (monograph be published)
Book
The Dhaarmik Traditions (monograph to be published)
Book
Indology and Indologists – a study of people and their motives
Ancient Indic
contributions to the Exact Sciences – manuscript in preparation
PhD Thesis
The Indic
Mathematical tradition, The Hindu Renaissance, Vol.IV no. IV, pp
19-24
Paper presented at
the HEC 2006 in Los Angeles, Ca , Nov.2006
Source Book
(Anthology) of Mathematics and Astronomy from Indic Antiquity
(under construction)
More at websites
www.indicstudies.us ,
www.vepa.us/dir00 ,
www.kaushal42.blogspot.com
