Notice
You are cordially
invited to the following talk, organized by the Department of Physics, IIT (BHU), Varanasi. Please find the details of the colloquium below, along with the
attached poster.
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Title: Roads to Quantum Mechanics: Celebrating 100 years of Schrodinger's
Equation
Speaker: Prof. Sreerup Raychaudhuri, Dept of Physics, Banaras
Hindu University
Abstract:
Despite some ancient philosophical
speculations to the contrary, at the start of the modern era, matter and energy
were generally thought to be continuous. From the time of Newton and Dalton,
however, the idea emerged that these might not be continuous after all, but
granular. For matter, this led to atomic theory; for energy the quantum theory.
Establishment of quantum theory had to overcome many tough questions, which
were finally resolved - or sidestepped - in quantum mechanics. Quantum
mechanics itself has had its own share of controversies, and it creates a
bizarre world very different from that of our macroscopic perceptions. This
talk will describe the progress of the idea of granularity in qualitative terms
and then go on to describe how the principal ideas of quantum mechanics arose,
with some focus on Schrodinger's own contributions. The story will be told with
minimal mathematics and should be accessible to all undergraduates.
Venue: Dev & Vardhana Goswami Lecture Hall
Complex: Hall 1A, IIT (BHU), Varanasi
Date: 24th March 2026
Time: 4:00 PM
Looking
forward to seeing you all at the talk.
Best wishes,
Newton