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Invited Talks and Presentations

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Invited Talks:


1. Optical spectroscopic techniques to measure mesoscopic to nanoscopic light transport properties of weakly disordered media
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at the Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, Februar 15, 2012.
   
   
2. "Mesoscopic to nanoscopic light transport properties biological media,"
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at the Department of Physics, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, March 20, 2012.
   
   
3. Light transport properties of a single biological cells
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, August 31, 2011.
   
   
4. Light transport properties of biological cells and tissues
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at the Department of Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, February 27, 2011.
   
   
5. Mesoscopic light transport properties of a single biological cell: Early detection of cancer
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at Department of Physics, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, September 2010.
   
   
6. Optical imaging of nano-architecture of a single biological cell
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at Bioengineering Departmnet, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 2009.
   
   
7. Mesoscopic light transport properties of a single biological cell: Early detection of cancer
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 2009.
   
   
8. Mesoscopic light transport properties of a single biological cell: Early detection of cancer
   Prabhakar Pradhan
   Invited Talk at Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 2009.
   
   

   Conference Presentations:
   

9. Inverse Participation Ratio (IPR) Analysis of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Images: Quantification of Optical Disorder Strength Due to Nanoscale Refractive Index Fluctuations of Tissues/Cells
   P. Pradhan, V. Turzhitsky, H. Subramanian, A. Heifetz, D. Damania, J. L. Hoogheem, M. J. Jung H. K. Roy, and V. Backman
   American Physical Society March Meeting, March 10-–14, 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana
   
   
10. Application of mesoscopic light transport theory to ultra-early detection of cancer in a single biological cell
    P. Pradhan, H. Subramanian, Y. Liu, Y. Kim, H. K. Roy, V. Backman
    American Physical Society March Meeting, March 5-–9, 2007; Denver, Colorado
    
    
11. Circular polarization memory effect in low-coherence enhanced backscattering of light
    Y. Kim, P. Pradhan, M. H. Kim, and V. Backman
    American Physical Society March Meeting, March 5-–9, 2007; Denver, Colorado
    
    
12. Penetration depth of low-coherence enhanced backscattering photons in the sub-diffusion regime
    H. Subramanian, P. Pradhan, Y. Kim, and V. Backman
    American Physical Society March Meeting, March 5-–9, 2007; Denver, Colorado
    
    
13. Mesoscopic light transport properties of a single biological cell : Early detection of cancer
    P. Pradhan, Yang Liu, Young Kim, Xu Li, Ramesh K. Wali, Hemant K. Roy, Vadim Backman
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006
    
    
14. Effect of the anisotropy factor of scattering and the finite spatial coherence length of light source on enhanced backscattering
    P. Pradhan,Young Kim, Hariharan Subramanian, Yang Liu, and Vadim Backman
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006
    
    
15. Probing minimal scattering events in enhanced backscattering of light using low-coherence induced dephasing
    Young Kim, Prabhakar Pradhan, Min Kim, Hariharan Subramanian, Yang Liu, Vadim Backman
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006
    
    
16. Modeling Low-Coherence Enhanced Backscattering (LEBS) using Photon random walk model of Light Scattering
    Hariharan Subramanian, Prabhakar Pradhan, Young Kim, Yang Liu, Vadim Backman
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006
    
    
17. Effects of the Bloch-Siegert Oscillation on the Precision of Qubit Rotations: Direct Two-Level vs. Off-Resonant Raman Excitation
    Prabhakar Pradhan, George C. Cardoso, M.S. Shahriar
    American Physical Society March Meeting, March 22-26, 2004, Montreal, Canada
    
    
18. Statistics of the Eigenvalues and the Eigenfunctions of Chaotic and Disordered Quantum Systems: Tight-Binding Model Calculations and Microwave Experiments
    Prabhakar Pradhan, Wentao Lu, and S. Sridhar
    Symposium on Understanding Complex Systems, May 17-20, 2004, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    
    
19. Statistics of the Eigenfunctions of Chaotic and Disordered Quantum Systems: A Disordered Tight Binding Model Calculatin
    Prabhakar Pradhan, Wentao Lu, and S. Sridhar
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Austin, TX, March 3-7, 2003
    
    
20. Spectra Statistics of Microwave Disordered Billiard
    D. Sato, W. Lu, Prabhakar Pradhan and S. Sridhar
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Austin, TX, March 3-7, 2003
    
    
21. Observation of the Bloch-Siegert Oscilllation and its Application to Wavelength Teleportation
    G. Cardoso, P. Pradhan, J. Morzinski, M. S. Shahriar
    Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, October 13-16, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    
    
22. Determination and Teleportation Of The Phase Of An Electromagnetic Field Via Incoherent Detection Of Fluorescence
    Prabhakar Pradhan and M. S. Shahriar
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March 18-22, 2002
    
    
23. Periodic orbit bifurcation and escape rate of chaotic repeller
    Prabhakar Pradhan
    Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting Saturday, October 21, 2001 Brandeis University, Waltham
    
    
24. Periodic orbit bifurcations and quantum and classical escape rates of an open chaotic system
    Prabhakar Pradhan, Wentao Lu, and S. Sridhar
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 12-16, 2001
    
    
25. Fingerprints of classical Ruelle-Pollicott resonances in the quantum microwave spectra of open chaotic billiards
    Wentao Lu, Prabhakar Pradhan, S. Sridhar
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 12-16, 2001.
    
    
26. Correlations due to localization in quantum eigenfunctions of disordered microwave cavities
    Prabhakar Pradhan
    Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting Saturday, October 14, 2000 Brandeis University, Waltham
    
    
27. Invited talk for "Wave propagation in diffusive and nonlinear media", Corsica, France, 4-8 September, 2000
    Prabhakar Pradhan
    
    
28. From Localization to Chaos in experimental eigenfunctions of microwave cavities
    Prabhakar Pradhan, Kristi Pance, Michel Rose and S. Sridhar
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 20-24, 2000
    
    
29. Quantum computation by optically coupled steady atoms/quantum-dots inside a quantum cavity
    P. Pradhan, T. Mor, V. P. Roychowdhury, K. L. Wang and M. P.Anantram
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 20-26, 1999
    
    
30. Geometric phase for a dimerized disordered continuum: Topological shot noise
    Prabhakar Pradhan
    American Physical Society March Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 20-26, 1999
    
    
31. Quantum computation using optically coupled quantum dot arrays
    Prabhakar Pradhan, M. P. Anantram, K.L. Wang and V.P. Roychowdhury
    1st NASA International Conference on Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications (NASA QCQC'98),Palm Springs, CA, February 17-20, 1998
    
    
32. Coherent light amplification using Anderson localization
    Prabhakar Pradhan
    NASA Ames Research Center, Mofett Field, CA, Dec, 1997
    
    
33. Classical wave propagation in an active (coherently amplifying/absorbing) random media
    Prabhakar Pradhan
    Localization'96, International Conference on Electron Localization and Quantum Transport in Solids, Jasozowiec, Poland, August 3-6, 1996
    
    
34. Conductance fluctuations in 1-D disordered media
    Prabhakar Pradhan,
    Spring College on 'Disorder and Chaos in Quantum systems', International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy , (May, 1996)
    
    
35. Light localization in coherently amplifying media : Mirrorless laser
    Prabhakar Pradhan
    `Spring College' on `Quantum Phases', International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy , (May 1994)

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