ROMES Seminar Series Talk : Is Reality Really Real?

Prof. Muhammad Suhail Zubairy is a University Distinguished Professor as of 2014 in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas A&M University and is the inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics. His research interests include quantum optics and laser physics. He is the co-author of two books, one on Quantum Optics and the other on Quantum Computing Devices. Recently, he published a book on Quantum Mechanics for Beginners.

He has received many honors including the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, the Outstanding Physicist Award from the Organization of Islamic Countries, the Abdus Salam Prize in Physics, the Int'l Khwarizmi Award from the President of Iran, the Orders of Hilal-e-lmtiaz and Sitara-e-lmtiaz from the President of Pakistan. He is an elected member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society.