Apoorva D. Patel is a professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The institute was established in 1909 wi ...
. He is notable for his work on
quantum algorithms
In quantum computing, a quantum algorithm is an algorithm that runs on a realistic model of quantum computation, the most commonly used model being the quantum circuit model of computation. A classical (or non-quantum) algorithm is a finite sequ ...
, and the application of
information theory
Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...
concepts to understand the structure of
genetic languages. His major field of work has been the theory of
quantum chromodynamics
In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons. Quarks are fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion. QCD is a type of ...
, where he has used
lattice gauge theory
In physics, lattice gauge theory is the study of gauge theories on a spacetime that has been discretized into a lattice.
Gauge theories are important in particle physics, and include the prevailing theories of elementary particles: quantum ele ...
techniques to investigate spectral properties,
phase transition
In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another. Commonly the term is used to refer to changes among the basic Sta ...
s, and matrix elements.
Education
He obtained his MSc in physics (1980) from the
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT- Bombay or IIT-B) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
IIT Bombay is mainly known for the highly competitive four-year Bachelor of Tech ...
, and PhD in physics from the
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...
under
Geoffrey C. Fox (1984), with a thesis entitled: ''Monte Carlo Renormalisation Group for Lattice QCD.''
Career
He was a Scientific Associate, Theory Division,
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
in
Geneva
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, Switzerland, 1987–1989,
and then in 1989 he joined the
Indian Institute of Science
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, Bangalore, as a faculty member.
Patel's CV
Personal life
In 1989, he married Rashmi, a surgeon specializing in laparoscopy
Laparoscopy () is an operation performed in the abdomen or pelvis using small incisions (usually 0.5–1.5 cm) with the aid of a camera. The laparoscope aids diagnosis or therapeutic interventions with a few small cuts in the abdomen.Medli ...
and endosurgery. His son, Aavishkar, was born in 1990.
See also
* ''Quantum Aspects of Life
''Quantum Aspects of Life'', a book published in 2008 with a foreword by Roger Penrose, explores the open question of the role of quantum mechanics at molecular scales of relevance to biology. The book contains chapters written by various world-e ...
''
References
External links
Patel's homepage
Patel on Scientific Commons
Patel on Math Genealogy
Scientific publications of Apoorva D. Patel
on INSPIRE-HEP
INSPIRE-HEP is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics (HEP). It is the successor of the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) database, the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1 ...
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Living people
Scientists from Mumbai
California Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century Indian physicists
Indian quantum physicists
IIT Bombay alumni
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
People associated with CERN
Year of birth missing (living people)