RRI Pancharatnam Lecture
The Quantum Challenge: Realizing the Quantum Dreams
Speaker: Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh (Former Professor of Physics and Dean, School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Date and time
Venue
RRI Auditorium
Abstract
It has been a challenge to make practical use of some of the wonderfully counterintuitive and immensely powerful features of the quantum world. This lecture will give a flavor of this Quantum Challenge, with varied examples of ‘fragile’ quantum coherences in light-matter systems. How well do we understand the process of loss of coherence and emergence of classicality, and how close are we to realizing the dream of quantum information processing?
Professor Rupamanjari Ghosh is a researcher, teacher, orator and an academic administrator par excellence. Professor Ghosh has B.Sc. (Physics honors) and M.Sc.(Physics) degrees from the University of Calcutta, and a very well-recognized Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, NY, USA, where she worked as a Rush Rhees Fellow, chosen for “outstanding scholarly ability and the promise of exceptional contributions to scholarship and teaching.” Her pioneering work with Prof. L. Mandel on two-photon interference has yielded a new direction in quantum optics and quantum information, in the creation and use of a source of entangled photon pairs, and of single photons, at the forefront of research today.
Professor Ghosh is a former Professor of Physics and Dean, School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has occupied many other important academic and administrative positions and serves as an expert in crucial DST (Government of India) committees in Physical Sciences, in UGC, CSIR, and in many Central and State universities and institutes. She is a member of the Governing Council of RRI.
Prof. Ghosh has contributed immensely to science research and training from the university to the school level and is well known for her stand and efforts to bring in gender justice and environment consciousness in the higher education system.
Professor Ghosh is a former Professor of Physics and Dean, School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has occupied many other important academic and administrative positions and serves as an expert in crucial DST (Government of India) committees in Physical Sciences, in UGC, CSIR, and in many Central and State universities and institutes. She is a member of the Governing Council of RRI.
Prof. Ghosh has contributed immensely to science research and training from the university to the school level and is well known for her stand and efforts to bring in gender justice and environment consciousness in the higher education system.