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Bijunath R. Patla (Fed)

Physicist

Bijunath R. Patla is a theoretical physicist whose areas of expertise include general relativity, gravitational lensing, cosmology, tests of fundamental physics using atomic clocks, and time transfer using global navigation satellite systems(GNSS).

The precision and accuracy of atomic clocks make them a powerful tool for testing the postulates of general relativity with tests of the universality of freefall, gravitational redshift, and local Lorentz invariance. Atomic clock comparisons are integral to testing the constancy of fundamental constants and precisely measuring the Earth's rotation and gravitational field for geodetic applications.

He also leads the program to schedule and perform calibrations of the GNSS time transfer links between national metrology institutes (NMIs) located within the Interamerican Metrology System (SIM) and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM).

Publications

A Resilient Architecture for the Realization and Distribution of Coordinated Universal Time to Critical Infrastructure Systems in the United States: Methodologies and Recommendations from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Author(s)
Jeffrey Sherman, Ladan Arissian, Roger Brown, Matthew J. Deutch, Elizabeth Donley, Vladislav Gerginov, Judah Levine, Glenn Nelson, Andrew Novick, Bijunath Patla, Tom Parker, Benjamin Stuhl, Jian Yao, William Yates, Michael A. Lombardi, Victor Zhang, Douglas Sutton
The Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce (DOC), was
Created August 8, 2019, Updated April 24, 2023