Abstract: Optimization plays a crucial role in making decisions and in analyzing systems. Specifically, it deals with finding the best solution from among many feasible solutions. Such problems are ubiquitous across social science, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, big data and artificial intelligence. Many such problems are classified as computationally hard problems, and solving them efficiently and rapidly with physical systems has become an emerging field of research. In my talk, I'll present a physical simulator based on the coupled lasers, including the examples of solving a phase retrieval problem and performing statistical fair sampling of XY spin Hamiltonian. 

About the Speaker: Vishwa Pal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, Punjab, India. He earned his PhD degree in 2014 from the School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. As part of his doctoral research, he conducted a portion of his work at the CNRS Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France, under the Indo-French collaborative framework. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Pal was awarded the prestigious PBC Fellowship for Outstanding Postdoctoral Researchers by the Council for Higher Education of Israel. He joined the research group of Prof. Nir Davidson and Prof. Asher A. Friesem at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. In 2018, Dr. Pal joined CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, in Florida, USA, as a Research Scientist. In the same year, he was awarded the Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship by the European Commission.

His research interests include high-power lasers, quantum-inspired computing with lasers, Structured light (Classical & Quantum) and Quantum imaging.

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