DHEP Annual Meeting -2018
8 May 2018, 09:30
→
9 May 2018, 20:00
Asia/Kolkata
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Tuesday, 8 May
Tue, 8 May
Wed, 9 May
09:30
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09:50
Opening Remarks
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09:30
Remarks by the Chair, DHEP
20m
Speaker
:
Sudeshna Banerjee
(
Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR
)
Slides
09:50
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10:30
Session on Silicon Photomultipliers
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Convener
:
S. K. Gupta
(
TIFR
)
09:50
Introduction to Group Activities
15m
Speaker
:
Shashikant Raichand Dugad
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
Slides
10:05
Development of SiPM, Characterization, Associated Instrumentation & Applications
25m
Speaker
:
Raghunandan A Shukla
(
TIFR
)
Slides
10:30
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11:00
TEA BREAK
30m
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11:00
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11:40
Session on Belle
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Convener
:
Sudeshna Banerjee
(
Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR
)
11:00
Moving from Belle to Belle II
10m
Speaker
:
Gagan Mohanty
(
DHEP, TIFR
)
Slides
11:10
Building the Layer 4 of Belle II SVD
15m
Speaker
:
K Kameshwar Rao
(
TIFR
)
Slides
11:25
Getting Ready for Belle II
15m
Speaker
:
K. P PRASANTH KRISHNAN
(
TIFR
)
Slides
11:40
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13:00
Session on CMS B
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Convener
:
Tariq Aziz
(
TIFR
)
11:40
Physics Analysis and Results from the CMS Experiment
30m
Speaker
:
Monoranjan Guchait
(
TIFR, Mumbai, India
)
Slides
12:10
Phase 1 Upgrade of CMS Hadron Calorimeter
20m
Speaker
:
Mandakini Patil
(
TIFR Mumbai
)
Slides
12:30
Grid Computing Facility at TIFR
15m
Speaker
:
Puneet Kumar Patel
(
TIFR
)
Slides
12:45
Phase 2 Trigger Upgrade of CMS Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Sudeshna Banerjee
(
Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR
)
Slides
13:00
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14:00
LUNCH BREAK
1h
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15:00
Session on CMS A
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Convener
:
Rajiv V. Gavai
(
DTP, TIFR
)
14:00
Current Activities and Future Plans
15m
Speaker
:
Shashikant Raichand Dugad
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
Slides
14:15
Looking for Elusive Leptoquarks and Supersymmetry
15m
Speaker
:
Gagan Mohanty
(
DHEP, TIFR
)
Slides
14:30
Searching for Charged Higgs Bosons at CMS
15m
Speaker
:
R Verma
(
TIFR
)
Slides
14:45
Development of PCIe-IPBus Framework and Hardware for Phase 2 Upgrade
15m
Speaker
:
Irfan R Mirza
(
TIFR
)
Slides
15:00
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16:00
Special Session on Outstanding Technology: Theme: Approaches to High Performance Computing
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Convener
:
N. Krishnan
(
TIFR
)
15:00
How to Build an Inexpensive, Low-Maintenance and Scalable Supercomputing Cluster?
30m
Speaker
:
B Hariharan
(
TIFR
)
Slides
15:30
Computing in High Energy Physics
30m
Speaker
:
Brij Jashal
(
TIFR DHEP
)
Slides
16:00
→
18:30
TEA & Poster Session 1
16:00
Determination of Shower front Curvature by GRAPES-3 experiment
5m
Speaker
:
Jhansi Bhavani V
16:05
GRAPES-3 Shower Reconstruction
5m
Speaker
:
Saswat Mishra
16:10
GEANT4 simulation of GRAPES-3 scintillator detector
5m
Speaker
:
Saswat Mishra
16:15
Search for gamma rays produced in thunderstorms by NaI detectors
5m
Speaker
:
Diptiranja Pattnaik
16:20
Measurement of electric potential in thunderstorm using GRAPES-3 muon telescope
5m
Speaker
:
B. Hari Haran
16:25
GRAPES-3 data analysis framework
5m
Speaker
:
B. Hari Haran
16:30
GRAPES-3 Computer Cluster
5m
Speaker
:
B Hari Haran
16:35
Modelling of Geomagnetic storms by GRAPES-3
5m
Speaker
:
Meeran Zuberi
16:40
Selection of Time Delay Range in Air Shower Data
5m
Speaker
:
Hrushikesh Mahapatra
16:45
A Novel Encoder-Micrometer Controller
5m
Speaker
:
Simon M. Pereira
16:50
Gauribidanur Thermal Control System -- New Developments
5m
Speaker
:
A Vaidyanathan
16:55
The Stiffening of Gauribidanur Mechanical Structures
5m
Speaker
:
B. S Mallikarjuna
17:00
Hardware developments for CMS Phase-2 upgrade
5m
Speaker
:
Raghunathan A Shukla
17:05
Microscopic scanning of the HO and HE Hybrid Photo Detectors (HPD) with Micron Resolution Optical Scanner (MROS)
5m
Speaker
:
Irfan R Mirza
17:10
Search for Charged Higgs Boson, Decaying into cs quarks at √ s =13 TeV, In Lepton +Jets Channel with 2016 Data
5m
Speaker
:
Ravindra Kumar Verma
17:15
Search for Lepton flavor violating tau decays at BELLE
5m
Speaker
:
Debashis Sahoo
17:20
Timing Calibration of HAGAR Telescope
5m
Speaker
:
Bharat Singh
(
TIFR
)
17:25
Temporal Study and Estimation of Jet Parameters for Ton 599
5m
Speaker
:
Shobha K. Rao
17:30
Prototype Back End Electronics for G-APD Based Imaging Camer
5m
Speaker
:
Sandeep Duhan
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
)
17:35
A Compact Cosmic Muon Veto Detector
5m
Speaker
:
Neha Panchal
17:40
Measurement of Azimuthal dependence of cosmic muon flux using 2mx2m RPC stack at IICHEP Madurai
5m
Speaker
:
S Pethuraj
17:45
Expected tracking performance of miniICAL
5m
Speaker
:
Apoorva Bhat
17:50
Feasibility study for development of a PET device based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers
5m
Speaker
:
Mohammad Nizam
17:55
Charge track multiplicities in 2mx2m RPC stack at IICHEP Madurai
5m
Speaker
:
Surayanarayan Mondal
18:00
BSM Higgs at the LHE
5m
Speaker
:
Arvind
18:05
Study of Anti-kt reconstructed jets for semi-leptonic decay of top quark in CMS experiment
5m
Speaker
:
Murli K Maurya
Wednesday, 9 May
Tue, 8 May
Wed, 9 May
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10:25
Session on HAGAR
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Convener
:
Shashikant Raichand Dugad
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
09:30
Ground-based Gamma Ray Astronomy with Cherenkov Telescopes: An Update
10m
Speaker
:
Varsha Chitnis
(
T.I.F.R
)
Slides
09:40
Progress on G-APD-based Imaging Camera for ACT
20m
Speaker
:
S. S. Upadhya
(
TIFR
)
Slides
10:00
Status of Back-end Electronics for Imaging Camera
10m
Speaker
:
Sandeep Duhan
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
)
Slides
10:10
VHE Measurements of Crab Nebula with HAGAR Telescope System
10m
Speaker
:
Bharat Singh
(
TIFR
)
Slides
10:20
Common Discussion Time
5m
10:25
→
10:55
TEA BREAK
30m
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12:10
Session on GRAPES-3
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Convener
:
B. S. Acharya
(
T.I.F.R.
)
10:55
An Overview of the GRAPES-3 Experiment
25m
Speaker
:
S. K. Gupta
(
TIFR
)
11:20
A New Muon Detector: Challenges & Perspectives
25m
Speaker
:
Atul Jain
(
TIFR
)
Slides
11:45
New Results from GRAPES-3 spanning a Large Energy Range
25m
Speaker
:
P. K. Mohanty
(
TIFR
)
Slides
12:10
→
13:00
Session on Gravity – 1
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Convener
:
V. M. Datar
(
TIFR
)
12:10
Lighting Micro-cavities with Microfibres
10m
Speaker
:
M. Gaira
(
TIFR
)
Slides
12:20
A Cold-Atom Interferometer for Metrology
10m
Speaker
:
S. Sankaranarayanan
(
TIFR
)
Slides
12:30
Gravitational Waves, Optics, Relativity and High Energy Condensed Matter Physics
30m
Speaker
:
C. S. Unnikrishnan
(
TIFR
)
Slides
13:00
→
14:00
LUNCH BREAK
1h
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14:45
Session on Gravity-2
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Convener
:
Kajari Mazumdar
(
DHEP, TIFR
)
14:00
Overview of Activity on the Gauribidanur Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
N Krishnan
(
TIFR
)
Slides
14:15
FEM Studies of the Gauribidanur EP Apparatus
30m
Speaker
:
B. S Mallikarjuna
(
Gravitation Laboratory, Gauribidanur
)
Slides
14:45
→
15:30
Session on INO
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Convener
:
Amol Dighe
(
TIFR
)
14:45
Mini-ICAL Status and Feasibility of Shallow Depth ICAL
20m
Speaker
:
V. M. Datar
(
TIFR
)
Slides
15:05
Development of INO Electronics
20m
Speaker
:
S. S. Upadhaya
(
TIFR
)
Slides
15:25
Common Discussion Time
5m
15:30
→
16:00
Vote of Thanks; Break, then Reconvene at 4 pm for the Special Colloquium
30m
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16:00
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17:00
Special Colloquium: Fundamental Physics at the Technology Frontier
1h
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Speaker
:
Tariq Aziz
(
TIFR
)
17:00
→
18:30
TEA & Poster Session 2