Apoorva D Patel

Research Interests: Lattice gauge theories Renormalisation group Heavy quark physics Light-front QCD Quantum computation Languages of genes and proteins Black hole thermodynamics

In case you want to get a better idea of what I do, have a look at my list of publications.

My work on genetic languages has received wide publicity.

• First paper: "Quantum Algorithms and the Genetic Code"
• Cover story in New Scientist (15 April 2000): "Life Force"
• Talk at NASA-AMES (1 October 2003): "Languages of Genetic Information"
• Review: "Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages"
  (Chapter 10 in the book "Quantum Aspects of Life")
• A coupled oscillator model of Grover's algorithm in action and in words

My page in the Silver Jubilee Reunion Book, Class of 1980, IIT Bombay, is here.

You can inspect my personal book collection here.

• Centre for High Energy Physics and Supercomputer Education and Research Centre
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  Professor: 2006 - present
  Associate Professor: 1995 - 2006
  Assistant Professor: 1989 - 1995
• Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  Scientific Associate: 1987 - 1989
• Theoretical Physics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
  Research Fellow: 1987
• Physics Department, University of California (San Diego), La Jolla, USA
  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: 1984 - 1986
• California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
  Ph.D. in Theoretical High Energy Physics: 1980 - 1984
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
  M.Sc. in Physics (5-year integrated course): 1975 - 1980

• Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy: August 1996 - December 2003.
• "Rajiv Gandhi" research grant for innovative ideas in science and technology, 1997, awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.
• Associate Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore: July 1990 - December 1995.
• "President of India" gold medal for topping the class of 1980 at Indian Insitute of Technology, Mumbai.

• A. Sarva Lakshmi Devi
  M.Tech. (Computational Science), 2003
  Project: Simulation of a Quantum Computer
• Raghunath A. Ratabole
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2004
  Thesis: A Transverse Lattice QCD Model for Mesons
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi
  Ph.D. (Physics), 2009
  Thesis: Generalizations of the Quantum Search Algorithm
• Md. Aminoor Rahaman
  M.Sc.(Engg.) (Supercomputer Education and Research Centre), 2009
  Thesis: Search on a Hypercubic Lattice using Quantum Random Walk