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OBJECTIVES
• To foster, encourage and promote the growth of advanced studies in selected branches of basic sciences.
• To conduct original research in theoretical and mathematical sciences and other basic sciences in frontier areas, including challenging theoretical studies of future applications.
• To provide a forum of personal
contacts and intellectual interaction among scientists within the country and also between them and scientists abroad.
• To train young scientists for research in basic sciences.
Prof. CK Majumdar, physicist and founder director of SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, during a visit to the campus while it was being constructed
like FIB, E-Beam lithography, dry etching and mask- less lithography. The technical cell of the centre with a large number of state-of-the-art characterization facilities caters to the research need of internal and external users, which are available for use through Indian Science, Technology and Engineering facilities map (ISTEM) portal. The centre possesses a well-equipped library and a state-of-the-art computer centre.
Academic Collaborations: Strong academic collaborations exist with the universities/institutes
at national and international levels for the award
of MSc/PhD degrees, exchange of students, joint extramural projects with Uppsala University, Sweden; Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart, Germany. An MOU with The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) allows the visit of scholars from third-world countries for PhD and post-doctoral research studies.
Conferences and Schools of Significance: The centre organized several international conferences and symposia to mark major milestones such
as Bose Centenary celebrations (1993-94),
Silver Jubilee of the centre (2011) and Bose 125 celebration (2018-19).
SUCCESS STORIES
Important scientific achievements have been made by the centre in several different branches of theoretical, experimental and computational physical sciences, and technology development.
Quantum Science & Technology: Since its inception, SNBNCBS has been contributing to these developments in a vigorous manner, with a number of impactful breakthroughs. These were primarily in the areas of foundations of quantum mechanics, such as on wave-particle duality, photon trajectories in realist interpretations, and macroscopic limit of quantum mechanics and in the realm of atom-photon interactions, such as cavity quantum electrodynamics. Subsequently, a large thrust of work shifted towards newly emerging areas of quantum information processing protocols. Notable advances were made in the theory of