Recent Trends in Electromagnetics and Optics
Organized by the Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department | IIEST, Shibpur
DST-SERB sponsored Workshop
Prof. Ajoy Ghatak
President, NASI, India
Topic of Lecture:
EVOLUTION OF QUANTUM THEORY & A SIMPLE DERIVATION OF BELLS INEQUALITY
Abstract of Lecture:
Alain Aspect, John Clauser & Anton Zeilinger have been awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for their Experiments with Entangled Photons, establishing the Violation of Bell’s Inequalities & Pioneering Quantum Information Science. The Lecture will briefly discuss the Evolution of Quantum Theory, the Concept of Entanglement and give a Simple Derivation of Bell’s Inequality
A Bit About Prof. Ghatak
Prof. Ajoy Ghatak is currently President of The National Academy of Sciences, India – the oldest Science Academy in India and Honorary Professor at Optics & Photonics Center, IIT Delhi. He did his M.Sc. from Delhi University & Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has Research Interests in Fiber Optics & Quantum Mechanics. He is a Fellow of OPTICA (formerly OSA) and SPIE. He has authored several books including his Undergraduate Text on OPTICS which has been translated to Chinese & Persian. He is recipient of several Awards including the 2003 OSA Esther Hoffmann Beller Award & the 2008 SPIE Educator Award which was in recognition of “his Unparalleled Global Contributions to the Field of Fiber Optics Research, and his Tireless Dedication to Optics Education Worldwide..” and also the CSIR 1979 S S Bhatnagar Award.