Bose-statistics Centenary Colloquium Lecture on "Boson Bloom"
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Room No. 23, 2nd floor, VMCC, IIT Bombay

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is organising a Bose-statistics Centenary Colloquium.
 
The details of the lecture are provided below:

Bose lecture


Title: "Boson Bloom"

Speaker: Prof. Ganpathy Baskaran, Indian theoretical physicist; Distinguished Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada; Emeritus Professor, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai.

The link for the live screening of the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/IITBombayOfficialChannel

About the Speaker:

Prof. Ganapathy Baskaran is an Indian theoretical physicist, known for his work on condensed matter physics and strongly correlated quantum materials. Since 2012, Baskaran is a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, He is a distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, since 2019. He is an Emeritus at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai.

Baskaran completed his college studies at Thiagarajar College and the American College in Madurai, India. He then received his PhD in theoretical physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1975.

In 1987–88, Baskaran, along with P.W. Anderson (Nobel Laureate) at Princeton University, developed the resonating valence bond theory to describe the behavior of high-temperature superconductors. Baskaran is also known for his discovery of emergent gauge fields in strongly correlated systems, predictions of p-wave superconductivity in strontium ruthenate and possibility of high-temperature superconductivity in graphene and graphitic systems at optimal doping.

In 1983, Baskaran was the first recipient of the ICTP Prize awarded by the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, in 1996. He shared Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize with Ajay Sood, in 1990; he shared G.N. Ramachandran-SASTRA Award with M. Lakshmanan, in 2019.

He received the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2008) and The Thiagarajar College, Madurai (2019).

Speaker's wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganapathy_Baskaran

Abstract:

In 1924, Bose communicated a derivation of Planck distribution, to Einstein, where Bose introduced a key notion of indistinguishability of photon quanta. This was a turning point in the history of quantum mechanics. Bose's article is considered the fourth most important article, in the development of quantum mechanics, following those of Planck, Einstein and Niels Bohr. It was Dirac, who coined the names Bosons and Fermions. I will briefly present history and physics in a pedagogical fashion and indicate how Bosons have bloomed [1] in the worlds of physics to quantum computing.

[1] Boson Bloom, G. Baskaran and A. May, J. Physics B, 57, 142001 (2024).

This talk is being organised to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.