Nguyen Ba An (or just Prof An in accordance with the Vietnamese customs) is a professor of physics at Thang Long Institute of Mathematics and Applied Sciences (TIMAS), Thang Long University in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) in Hanoi, Vietnam. He was a professor of physics at the latter institute from 1975 to 2017. Since 2017 when he retired from the VAST, he has been teaching at the Thang Long Institute of Mathematics. He can be contacted at the email address [mailto:nban@iop.vast.ac.vn nban@iop.vast.ac.vn].
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He received his B.Sc. from the Azerbaijan State University, Baku (former USSR) in 1975 and acquired his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam in 1983.
Nguyen Ba An is Professor at Thang Long Institute of Mathematics and Applied Sciences (TIMAS), Thang Long University (TLU), Hanoi, Vietnam and Professor at Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Hanoi, Vietnam. He is also a trustee of Asia Pacific Center of Theoretical Physics (APCTP), Pohang, Korea. From 2002 to 2005 he was Professor at School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS), Seoul, Korea.
He is working in various fields of quantum information physics and quantum computation as well as other related fields including
Prof. An received his B.Sc. from Azerbaijan State University, Baku, Azerbaijan (former USSR) in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Institute of Physics, VAST, in 1983.
quantum optics (nonclassical states/phenomena), nonlinear optics (multimode laser dynamics), and condensed matter (electronic & optical properties of organic/inorganic heterostructures).
In 2014, he was awarded the Ta Quang Buu Prize.
His research interests include quantum information/quantum computation, quantum optics (nonclassical phenomena), nonlinear optics (multimode laser dynamics), and condensed matter (electronic & optical properties of organic/inorganic heterostructures).
He has supervised many prominent former students of his, including the PhD theses of Nguyen Trung Dan (1993), Tran Thai Hoa (1997), Vo Tinh (2001), Hyo Seok Yi (2004), Truong Minh Duc (2006), Nguyen Thi Xuan Hoai (2016), Tran Quang Dat (to defend); and the M.Sc. theses of Truong Minh Duc (1999), Ho Ngoc Phien (2007), Cao Thi Bich (2012), Nung Van Don (2014), Le Thanh Dat (to defend).
In 2014, he was one of the two first awardees of Ta Quang Buu prize (the most prestigious prize in science in Vietnam). The full list of his publications is available [http://newton.kias.re.kr/~nbaan/publication.html here].
He has served as a referee several physics journals such as Phys. Rev. A/B/E, Physica A, Phys. Lett. A, Opt. Commun., J. Phys. A/B, Eur. Phys. J. D, Mod. Phys. Lett. B, Intern. J. Mod. Phys. B, Int. J. Quant. Info., Int. J. Net. Sec., Quant. Inf. Process., Int. J. Theor. Phys., J. Kor. Phys. Soc., etc.
==Contributions==
==International Cooperation==
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* 1991-1996 (short-term visits): AS ICTP Regular Associate, Trieste, Italy.
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* 1998-2001 (short-term visits): APCTP Regular Fellow, Seoul, Korea.
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* 1998-2003 (short-term visits): AS ICTP Senior Associate, Trieste, Italy.
* 1992-1999 (3 months per year): Regular Visiting Professor, Optique Nonlineaire Theorique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
* 1992-1993 (1 year): Visiting Professor, International Center of Condensed Matter Physics, Brasilia, Brazil.
* 1994 (3 months): Stuttgart Max-Plank Institute of Solid State Physics Research Award, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Sygenetics, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
* 1994-1995 (11 months): JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan.
* 2001 (4 months): Visiting Professor, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
* 2002- 2005 (3 years): Professor, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, Korea.
* 2006 (3 months): Visiting professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics I, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
* 2006-2009 (2 months per year): KIAS Scholar, KIAS, Seoul, Korea.
* 2009-2010 (3 months per year): KOFST Brain-Pool Program Award, Inha University, Incheon, Korea.
* 2010-2016 (2 months per year): Visiting Professor, KIAS, Seoul, Korea.
==Other Scientific Activities==
* Visiting Lecturer on Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Nonlinear Physics, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Information, etc. at various universities.
* NAFOSTED Scientific Committee Member in Physics (2009-2011, 2012-2014, 2015-2017)
* Editor, Journal of Physics & Astronomy (2012 – now)
* APCTP Board of Trustees member, Pohang, Korea (2013-2016, 2016-2019)
* Scientific Committee Member, Type-II International Advanced Center on Physics under auspices of UNESCO (2015 – now)
* AAPPS-DQIS Founding member from Vietnam (2016 – now)
* Editor, Communication in Physics (2016 – now)
* Research Group Head; Chairman, National Scientific Project "Physics of nonlinear systems in condensed matter physics" (1998); Co- Chairman, National Scientific Project "New Methods in Quantum Theories" (1999-2000); Co- Chairman, National Scientific Project "New Effects in Quantum Physics" (2001-2003); Chairman, National Scientific Project "Theory of Quantum Information Processing " (2004-2008); Chairman, NAFOSTED Project "Theoretical Study of Quantum Information" (2009-2011); Principal Researcher, NAFOSTED Project "Nonclassical states: properties and applications to quantum information" (2012-2013), Chairman, NAFOSTED Project "Quantum Entanglement and Related Problems" (2015-2017); Chairman, NAFOSTED Project "Hybrid Approach to Quantum Information Processing" (2017-2019).
===International Scientific Conferences/Workshops Attended (some with oral/invited talks)===
* 1982: Spring Colleges in Condensed Matter Physics, ICTP, Trieste (Italy).
* 1986: Adriatico Conf. on Quantum Chaos, ICTP, Trieste (Italy).
* 1988: Int. Conf. on Optical Nonlinearity and Bistability of Semiconductors, Berlin (Germany).
* 1990: Research Workshops on Condensed Matter Physics, ICTP, Trieste (Italy).
* 1991: Int. Workshop "Dynamics Days", Berlin (Germany).
* 1993: XVI All-Brazil Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics, Caxambu (Brazil).
* 1994: CLEO/Europe EQEC'94, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
* 1995: Workshop on Nonlinearity: Noise in Nonlinear Systems; Adriatico Research Conference on Randomness, Stochasticity and Noise, ICTP, Trieste (Italy).
* 1996: CLEO/Europe EQEC'96, Hamburg (Germany).
* 2000: VIII Asia Pacific Physics Conference, Taipei (Taiwan).
* 2002: Workshop on Quantum Information and Quantum Computation; Workshop on Entanglement at the Nanoscale, ICTP, Trieste (Italy).
* 2003 I KIAS-KAIST Workshop in Quantum Information Science, Seoul (Korea).
* 2004: Director of the National Scientific Project "Physics of nonlinear systems in condensed matter physics" (1998); APCTP-KIAS Workshop on Quantum & Classical Noise in Mesoscopic Systems, Pohang (Korea)
* 2005: Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Information Sciences, Ventura, California (USA).
* 2006: The 14 th KIAS-APCTP Workshop on Nanoscale & Masoscopic Systems, “Spin Hall Effect”, Seoul (Korea); 2nd Asia-Pacific Conf. on Quantum Information Science, Seoul (Korea).
* 2007: KIAS-KAIST Workshop in Quantum Information Science, Seoul (Korea).
* 2008: Asia Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS08), Seoul (Korea). 2010: KIAS Workshop in Quantum Information Sciences, Seoul (Korea); The 9Th Asian Intern. Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics (AISAMP 9), Seoul (Korea).
* 2011: Asian Institutes for Advanced Study Forum (AIASF): Future of Basic Science in Asia, KIAS, Seoul (Korea).
* 2013: Asia Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS13), Chennal (India).
* 2013: International Workshop on ADS with Thorium, KIAS, Seoul (Korea).
* 2014: Open KIAS School & QUC Workshop on Quantum Information Science, KIAS, Seoul (Korea)
* 2015: Asia Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS15), KIAS, Seoul (Korea)
Latest revision as of 07:28, 3 April 2019
Professor NGUYEN Ba An
Nguyen Ba An is Professor at Thang Long Institute of Mathematics and Applied Sciences (TIMAS), Thang Long University (TLU), Hanoi, Vietnam and Professor at Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Hanoi, Vietnam. He is also a trustee of Asia Pacific Center of Theoretical Physics (APCTP), Pohang, Korea. From 2002 to 2005 he was Professor at School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS), Seoul, Korea.
Prof. An received his B.Sc. from Azerbaijan State University, Baku, Azerbaijan (former USSR) in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Institute of Physics, VAST, in 1983.
His research interests include quantum information/quantum computation, quantum optics (nonclassical phenomena), nonlinear optics (multimode laser dynamics), and condensed matter (electronic & optical properties of organic/inorganic heterostructures).
In 2014, he was one of the two first awardees of Ta Quang Buu prize (the most prestigious prize in science in Vietnam). The full list of his publications is available here.
