Apoorva D Patel

Research Interests: Lattice gauge theories Renormalisation group Light-front QCD Quark-gluon plasma Quantum computation Languages of genes and proteins Black hole thermodynamics

In case you want to get a better idea of what I do, have a look at my list of publications.

Here is my video lecture course, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, as part of the NPTEL programme.

My work on genetic languages has received wide publicity.

• First paper: "Quantum Algorithms and the Genetic Code"
• Cover story in New Scientist (15 April 2000): "Life Force"
• Review: "Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages"
  (Chapter 10 in the book "Quantum Aspects of Life")
• Demonstration: "A coupled oscillator model of Grover's algorithm" in action and in words

• Talk at Lattice 2012 (29 June 2012):
  Baryon Number Correlation Signals in Heavy Ion Collisions
• Talk at Strong Frontier 2009, PPISR (12-17 January 2009):
  Large-N QCD at Strong Transverse Gauge Coupling

• Talk at the program Open Quantum Systems, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore (31 July 2017):
  Understanding the Born rule in Weak Measurements
• Talk at International Conference on Quantum Foundations, NIT, Patna (19 October 2016):
  Weak Measurements, Quantum State Collapse and the Born Rule
• Talk at Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo (23 June 2016):
  Optimisation of Quantum Hamiltonian Evolution:
  From two projection operators to local Hamiltonians
• Talk at IISc-IEEE Advanced Information Theory Workshop
  commemorating the 100th birthday of Claude Shannon (30 April 2016):
  Information Theory Meets Quantum Physics
• Short introductory video (2013):
  Quantum Computation: A look ahead
• Talk at IEEE-IISc Information Theory Workshop (7 September 2012):
  Information Theory Meets Quantum Physics
• Talk at TEDx-SJCE (15 April 2012):
  Quantum Computation: The Magic of Wave Dynamics
• Talk at Conscientia 2010, IIST-TVM (5 March 2010):
  Quantum Computation: Concepts and Prospects

• Talk at Workshop on Applications of Physics, Mathematics to Cognition and Consciousness, NIAS (11 March 2013):
  Knowledge, its Hierarchy and its Direction: Ancient and Modern
• Talk at Workshop on Quantum Biology, IIT-J (26 January 2013):
  Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages
• Talk at Quantum Physics of Living Matter, La Sapienza-Roma (12 July 2011):
  A Wave Model of Efficient Energy Transport in Photosynthesis
• Talk at NASA-AMES (1 October 2003):
  Languages of Genetic Information

• Centre for High Energy Physics (2004 onwards)
  and Centre for Theoretical Studies (till 2003)
  and Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (till 2015)
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  Professor: 2006 - present
  Associate Professor: 1995 - 2006
  Assistant Professor: 1989 - 1995
• Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  Scientific Associate: 1987 - 1989
• Theoretical Physics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
  Research Fellow: 1987
• Physics Department, University of California (San Diego), La Jolla, USA
  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: 1984 - 1986
• California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
  Ph.D. in Theoretical High Energy Physics: 1980 - 1984
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
  M.Sc. in Physics (5-year integrated course): 1975 - 1980

• Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy: August 1996 - December 2003.
• "Rajiv Gandhi" research grant for innovative ideas in science and technology, 1997, awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.
• Associate Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore: July 1990 - December 1995.
• "President of India" gold medal for topping the class of 1980 at Indian Insitute of Technology, Mumbai.

• A. Sarva Lakshmi Devi
  M.Tech. (Computational Science), 2003
  Project: Simulation of a Quantum Computer
• Raghunath A. Ratabole
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2004
  Thesis: A Transverse Lattice QCD Model for Mesons
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi
  Ph.D. (Physics), 2009
  Thesis: Generalizations of the Quantum Search Algorithm
• Md. Aminoor Rahaman
  M.Sc.(Engg.) (Supercomputer Education and Research Centre), 2009
  Thesis: Search on a Hypercubic Lattice using Quantum Random Walk
• U. Satya Sainadh
  M.S. (Physics), 2014
  Thesis: An Efficient Quantum Algorithm and Circuit to Generate Eigenstates of SU(2) and SU(3) Representations
• Roopesh Mangal
  M.Tech. (Computational Science), 2015
  Project: Spectral Properties of Classical and Quantum Random Walk Operators on Ramanujan Graphs
• Pranav Mundada
  B.S. (Research), 2015
  Project: U-spin Symmetry in D_s^+ and D^+ Meson Decays
• V. Anjani Priyadarsini
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2017
  Thesis: Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Linear Algebra Problems
• Parveen Kumar
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2017
  Thesis: Dynamics of Weak Measurement

My Wikipedia page is here.
My page in the Silver Jubilee Reunion Book, Class of 1980, IIT Bombay, is here.

You can inspect my personal book collection here.

Information to contact me at home is here.

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Last modified: 14 August 2014