IISER Pune invites you for its

13th FOUNDATION DAY FUNCTION of IISER Pune 

Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023

Time: 11.00 am

Venue:  C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC, IISER Pune

The Foundation Day Address will be delivered by Prof. Sandip Trivedi from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Further, the function will include the distribution of various awards and recognitions to students, faculty and staff, for their outstanding contributions to the Institute. 

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Programme

1100 hrs: Welcome of Dignitaries  

1105 hrs: Director’s Report  

1115 hrs: Introduction of the Chief Guest

1120 hrs: Foundation Day Lecture by Prof. Sandip Trivedi  

1200 hrs: Foundation Day awards to students, faculty and staff   

1220 hrs: Vote of Thanks by Dean, Academics, IISER Pune

 

Chief Guest will be

Prof. Sandip Trivedi
Distinguished Professor,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Prof. Sandip Trivedi will deliver the Foundation Day address on The Entanglement Frontier.

Abstract of the talk

Although Quantum Mechanics is about a century old we are only slowly beginning to grasp how truly strange it is. It is now clear that there is an essential weirdness in Quantum Systems  which  makes them very different from classical ones. This weirdness is called Entanglement and it is responsible for many things such as the violations of Bell's inequalities. Entanglement is also a key reason to hope that we can build quantum computers which are much more powerful than their classical counterparts. In the colloquium, I will discuss the concept of Entanglement and describe how it can be precisely quantified in various settings including Gauge Theories which arise in particle physics and condensed matter physics. More broadly, I will discuss some of the promise that our growing understanding of Quantum Mechanics holds for the future in various branches of science.