Abstract: To take research in India to the cutting-edge, we would ideally want our own base of instrumentation. But is this practical? I will take the audience through a fascinating journey which saw my team developing Scanning Probe Microscopes, Physical Properties Measurement Systems and Chemical Vapor Deposition Systems all the way out to internationally competitive standards. I will then describe how we have gone about enhancing the base so developed for research in material science, condensed matter physics and nano-technology, with packages for scientific computation, including a world-class solver for the Boltzmann equation --- designed and developed essentially from scratch. The talk will inevitably provide a host of insights into the much-discussed academia-industry link and entrepreneurship, on which the approach is largely based.  

About the speaker: Dr. Sahdev trained as a particle theorist in leading groups at Cornell University, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy) among others. After retiring from IIT Kanpur, currently he serves as the Director of Quazar Technologies, New Delhi. 

Prof. Sahdev was a co-discoverer of radiation zeroes and of their use in determining the anomalous magnetic moment of the W-boson. He is one of the original pioneers of the field of higher-dimensional cosmologies. He has worked on the non-linear dynamics of Josephson-Junction arrays and has developed several algorithms for simulating them.

At QuazarTech, Prof. Sahdev and colleagues have developed several Scanning Probe Microscopes, and systems for Physical Properties Measurement, Chemical Vapor Deposition and Data-acquisition. They use them not only for their own research and teaching, but also to facilitate teaching and research across the entire country.

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