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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Apoorva D. Patel is a Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is notable for his work on
quantum algorithms, and the application of information theory concepts to understand the structure of genetic languages. [ [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 of QCD, where he has used lattice 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 the California 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 the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as a faculty member.

Personal life

In 1989 he married Rashmi, a surgeon specializing in laparoscopy and endosurgery. His son, Aavishkar, was born 1990.

Erdős Number

Patel's Erdős Number is four, and his path to Paul 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 and Terry 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, and Terry 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

* "Quantum Aspects of Life"

External links

* [http://cts.iisc.ernet.in/Personnel/adpatel.html Patel's homepage]