P. Rajagopalan Memorial Lectures
The P. Rajagopalan Memorial Lectures have been established at ICTS through the generous support of Ms. Vidya Rajagopalan (Vice President of Electrical Hardware at Rivian) in honour of her father, Mr. P. Rajagopalan. The lecture series celebrates Mr. P. Rajagopalan’s profound love for the sciences, his spirit of innovation, and his deep devotion to India. An engineer by profession, Mr. Rajagopalan had a long and illustrious career, rising to the rank of Chairman of the Indian Ordnance Factories.
Past Lectures
Quantum Entanglement in Nature: From Superconductors to Black Holes
Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
13 July 2026, 16:00 to 18:30
Chandrasekhar Auditorium, ICTS-TIFR
Abstract: Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance”: the strange quantum connection between particles that can persist even when they are far apart. What once seemed like a philosophical puzzle is now helping us understand some of the most remarkable phenomena in nature. When huge numbers of...more