QANSAS 2014 at DEI

N. International School on Quantum and Nano Computing Systems and Applications

QANSAS 2014 (November 27 – December 1, 2013)

International School on Quantum and Nano Computing Systems (QANSAS 2014) was organized from November 26–30, 2014 with 24 invited speakers from top academic and research institutes including University of Waterloo, University of California at Berkeley; University of California at Los Angeles; Mt. San Antonio College, California; IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, JNU Delhi, IMSc Chennai, ISI Kolkata, IISER Kolkata, IIT BHU, TIFR Mumbai, and of course, DEI, Dayalbagh.

A special forum on ‘Consciousness : Integrating Eastern and Western Perspectives’ was organized on November 26. Vision Talk was delivered by Revered Prof. P.S. Satsangi, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Education, Dayalbagh Educational Institutions entitled “Satyam – Shivam – Sundaram Revisited in the Perspective of Grand Macro / Micro Cosmology”. Plenary Talks were delivered by Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA; Prof. David Christopher Lane, Mt. San Antonio College, USA and Prof. Andrea Diem Lane, Mt. San Antonio College, USA. The Inaugural Talk on November 27 was delivered by Prof. Leonard Mlodinow, Caltech. A Special Workshop on SPAUN (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network model of brain consisting of 2.5 million simulated neurons.) was offered by Dr. Terence Stewart, Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo with active discussion on collaboration between the DEI and Waterloo research groups. DEI Institute prayer was recited before the Workshop to pay homage to Prof. H.K. Kesavan, Founder Chairman, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, one of the founding fathers of the close ties between DEI and University of Waterloo over five decades. A great patriarch and institution-builder, Prof. Kesavan departed from this world on November 26, 2014 at Waterloo. The Valedictory Talk on November 30 was delivered by Prof. Mani Lal Bhaumik, University of California at Los Angeles.