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The School of Engineering, Applied Science, and Health presents the Annual Nagib-Kalpakjian Lecture, featuring Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and professor of physics at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. Sreenivasan will present, “Quantum Computing for Turbulence?” This event is open to the public and will take place on Friday, November 20, from 3:15–4:15 p.m. in the Galvin Tower Academic Lecture Hall (IT 1F6-1). A reception with light refreshments will immediately follow the lecture in the 16th floor lunchroom.

Abstract

There has been considerable excitement about quantum computing in fields that involve high complexity, molecular simulation, and massive data optimization. Such fields include chemistry, materials science, logistics and optimization, cryptography and security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and financial modeling. Will it help turbulence simulations? Can we expect any breakthroughs, as claimed in some other fields? The subject of the lecture will be aimed at a general audience and engage specialists through references to my own work with that of my collaborators.

Biography

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan is a fluid dynamicist and applied physicist whose research spans turbulence, nonlinear and statistical physics, astrophysical fluid mechanics, and low temperature fluid dynamics. He is the Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon and professor of physics at NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Formerly president of Brooklyn Polytechnic University, dean of engineering and executive vice provost for science and technology at NYU, he previously directed the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste Italy, and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland. He began his faculty career at Yale, spanning a period of 20+ years, becoming The Harold W. Cheel Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering, while also holding appointments in physics, applied physics, and mathematics. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honors including the APS Otto Laporte Memorial Award, Fluid Dynamics Prize, Leo Kadanoff Prize and Medal, and Dwight Nicholson Medal, the AAAS International Scientific Cooperation Award, the UNESCO Medal for International Scientific Cooperation, a Humboldt Research Award (2023), and a number of other international recognitions, including election to Accademia dei Lincei (Galileo’s Academy). Sreenivasan earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Sydney, the University of Newcastle, and at Johns Hopkins University. He has held visiting positions at Caltech, the Rockefeller University, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge), and Texas A&M’s Institute for Advanced Study, and holds several honorary degrees. He has served the scientific community through leadership roles in the American Physical Society, including chairing the Division of Fluid Dynamics and founding the Topical Group in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

About the Lecture

The Nagib and Kalpakjian Lecture is held annually in November. Each year, alternating between manufacturing and turbulence, a prominent expert in the discipline is invited to speak.