Professor A. Selvarajan Memorial Lecture
Applied Photonics Initiative Indian Institute of Science
International Day of Light 2018
Professor A. Selvarajan Memorial Lecture
Topic: Progress and Challenges in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication
Speaker: Bishnu P Pal*, School of Engineering and Applies Sciences, Bennett University, Greater Noida *(Formerly with IIT Delhi)
Date/Time: 16 May 2018 4pm-5pm
Venue: Faculty Hall, IISc
All are welcome.
Prof. A Selavarajan (1938-2017) was outstanding researcher and educator of Photonics of India. He joined ECE Department, Indian Institute of Science in 1972, and has been with the department for nearly three decades. He was the Chairman of the Department during the period April 1995 to September 1999. He successfully organised the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Department in 1996 and the construction of Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall thereafter. Prof. A Selavarajan was instrumental in leading the department into the Photonics era, shaping the present Applied Photonics Laboratory. He developed and nurtured one of the few groups in India working in both theoretical and experimental areas of Applied Photonics. He has played a key role in organising the biannual international conference on Photonics in India, the first two of which were held in Bangalore in 1991 and 1994 under his Technical Chairmanship. He has held visiting positions at University of Uppsala, Sweden. University of Arizona, USA, Technical University of Denmark, University College London and International Centre for Theoretical Physics Italy.
