Guest Lectures

 "When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bounds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world"

- Ex-president of India, His Excellency A.P.J. Abdul Kalam quoting Maharishi Patanjali during Quark '09

Vic Hayes

Father of Wi-Fi

Mr. Victor Hayes, is popularly known as the ‘Father of Wi-Fi’ for his role in establishing and chairing the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks.

He presently is a Senior Research Fellow at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He has coauthored a book titled ‘The Innovation Journey of Wi-Fi’, which gives his personal account of the research and development of Wireless Networking.

For his pioneering work on Wi-Fi, Mr. Hayes was awarded, The Innovation Award 2004 of "The Economist", The Dutch Vosko Trophy, 2 Wi-Fi Alliance Leadership Awards, The IEEE Standards Medallion, The IEEE Leadership Award, The IEEE Hans Karlsson Award, and The IEEE Steinmetz Award.

Mr. Vic Hayes will be delivering the lecture on 27th January during a Pre-Quark Session.

Douglas D. Osheroff

Nobel Laureate

Douglas Dean Osheroff is a Professor of Physics at the Stanford University. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1996 for discovering the Superfluid Phase of 3He.

His Research efforts center on studies of quantum fluids and solids and glasses at ultra-low temperatures. Prof. Osheroff says, “I was drawn to low-temperature work because it was so counterintuitive. Who would ever expect a liquid to flow up and out of the top of a beaker?”

During his fifteen years at Bell, Osheroff continued to probe the mysteries of the cold world, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, and was courted by numerous universities, finally accepting Stanford's offer to join the Physics department in 1987. He is also the recipient of numerous national and international awards, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prof. Douglas Osheroff’s lecture is scheduled for 5th February, the second day of Quark 2010.

Sir Harry Kroto

Nobel Laureate

Prof. Harry Kroto was knighted in 1996 for contributions to chemistry and later that year, received Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of C60 Buckminsterfullerene, a new form of carbon famously called the ‘Football Molecule’.

His research areas include Spectroscopy of Unstable Species and Reaction Intermediates, Astrophysics, Cluster Science, Fullerene Chemistry, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1990), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (US), and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002 -2004). He has been awarded Longstaff Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1993), Faraday Lecturer by Royal Society (2001), Copley Medal of the Royal Society (2002), and 29 Honorary Degrees to name a few.

Sir Harry Kroto’s lecture is scheduled on 6th February, the last day of Quark 2010.