- Apoorva D. Patel
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fields =Physicist
workplaces =Indian Institute of Science CERN
alma_mater =Indian Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology
doctoral_advisor = Geoffrey Fox
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doctoral_students =Raghunath A. Ratabole Tathagat Avatar Tulsi
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known_for = QCD theory
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footnotes =Apoorva D. Patel is a Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics,
Indian Institute of Science ,Bangalore . He is notable for his work onquantum algorithms , and the application ofinformation theory concepts to understand the structure ofgenetic language s. [ [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16622344.400-life-force.html Mark Buchanan, "Life force," "New Scientist", 2234, 15th April 2000.] ] His major field of work has been the theory ofQCD , where he has usedlattice gauge theory techniques to investigate spectral properties, phase transitions, and matrix elements.Education
He obtained his MSc in Physics (1980) from the
Indian Institute of Technology ,Mumbai , and PhD in Physics from theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech) under Geoffrey Fox (1984), resulting in a thesis entitled: "Monte Carlo Renormalisation Group for Lattice QCD."Career
He was a Scientific Associate, Theory Division,
CERN ,Geneva ,Switzerland , 1987-1989,and the in 1989 he joined theIndian Institute of Science , Bangalore, as a faculty member.Personal life
In 1989 he married Rashmi, a surgeon specializing in
laparoscopy andendosurgery . His son, Aavishkar, was born 1990.Erdős Number
Patel's
Erdős Number is four, and his path toPaul Erdős is as follows:* Tathagat Tulsi,
Lov K. Grover , and Apoorva Patel, "A new algorithm for fixed point quantum search," "Quantum Inf. Comput.," 6(6), pp.483-494, (2006).
*Lov K. Grover andTerry Rudolph , "How significant are the known collision and element distinctness quantum algorithms?" "Quantum Inf. Comput.," 4(3), pp. 201-206, (2004).
*Koenraad Audenaert ,Chris Godsil ,Gordon Royle , andTerry Rudolph , "Symmetric squares of graphs," "J. Combin. Theory Ser.," B 97(1), pp. 74-90, (2007).
*Paul Erdös ,Chris D. Godsil ,S. G. Krantz , and T. D. Parsons, "Intersection graphs for families of balls in $Rsp n$." "European J. Combin." 9(5), pp. 501-505, (1988).Notes
ee also
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Quantum Aspects of Life "External links
* [http://cts.iisc.ernet.in/Personnel/adpatel.html Patel's homepage]
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