Name: 2nd DAE Conclave
Start: 2026-01-14T09:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-01-18T21:30:00+05:30
Location: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

2nd DAE Conclave

from Wednesday, 14 January 2026 (09:00) to Sunday, 18 January 2026 (21:30)

Monday, 12 January 2026
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Wednesday, 14 January 2026

09:00

09:00 - 09:45
09:45
09:45 - 10:30
Contributions

09:45 Note from Director BARC - Vivek Bhasin BARC (BARC)

10:00 Molten salt & gas-cooled reactors - Ved Prakash Sinha (BARC)
10:30 HI Tea
HI Tea
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Bharat small modular reactors - Dharmanshu Mittal (BARC) Neha Sharma (BARC)

11:30 Fast-breeder reactors - Ramachandra Aithal (IGCAR)

12:00 Isotope-production reactors - Jit Pal Singh (BARC)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Quantum technology
Quantum technology
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Unconventional superconductors realized by twisting layers of a few-atom-thick 2D materials - Mandar Deshmukh (TIFR)

14:30 Quantum sensors (gravimetry...) - Ashok Mohapatra (NISER)
15:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Quantum technology
Quantum technology
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Quantum communications - Sushil Mujumdar (TIFR)

16:00 Quantum computers - Vijayaraghavan Rajamani (TIFR)

16:30 Quantum information (theory) - Ujjwal Sen (HRI)
17:00

17:00 - 18:00

18:00

18:00 - 19:30

19:30

19:30 - 21:30
Thursday, 15 January 2026
09:30 Next-generation materials
Next-generation materials
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Overview - R. Tewari (BARC)

10:00 Spintronics: A Pathway to Energy-Efficient Technology - Subhankar Bedanta (NISER)
10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Materials for nuclear & reactor applications - Diptimayee Samantray (IGCAR)

11:30 Novel electronic materials - Pabitra Nayak (TIFR-H)

12:00 Crystal growth for detectors - Shashwati Sen (BARC)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Title: Metabolome Meets Microbiome: Systems Chemistry of Health and Disease - Palok Aich (NISER)

14:30 Epigenetic regulators as driver of tumor heterogeneity - Chandrima Das (SINP)
15:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Connecting past with future (ecology) - Uma Ramakrishnan (NCBS)

16:00 Clinical Cancer Research : Practical Solutions for India and the World - Vanita Noronha (TMC)

16:30 Radioisotopes for healthcare - Tapas Das (BARC)
17:00

17:00 - 18:00

18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Friday, 16 January 2026
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Mega Science Frontier in Nuclear and High Energy Physics: Present and Future - Amol Dighe (TIFR)

10:00 Sensing gravitational waves with galactic clocks - Bhal Chandra Joshi (NCRA)
10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 The dark matter direct search initiative at JUSL, India - Mala Das (SINP)

11:30 Multimessanger astronomy - K.K Singh (BARC)

12:00 Particle colliders - Aruna Nayak (IOP)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:30

15:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Cutting-edge technology
Cutting-edge technology
16:00 - 18:30
Contributions

16:00 Ultra-high intensity laser-driven plasma based accelerators - Anand Moorti (RRCAT)

16:30 Infrared free electron laser (IR-FEL) - K. K. Pant (RRCAT)

17:00 Seeing the Unseen: Detectors for Nuclear and High Energy Physics Research - Tilak K. Ghosh (VECC)

17:30 Machine Vision System for Nuclear fuel inspection - B. Kamalesh Kumar (NFC)
Saturday, 17 January 2026
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Emergence, Universality and Theory in a time of Big-Data Biology - Archishman Raju (NCBS)

10:00 Complexity in its various guises - Meena Mahajan (IMSc)
10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 AI & ML - Piyush Srivastava (TIFR)

11:30 Inverse problems and applications - Ventateswaran Krishnan (CAM-TIFR)

12:00 Recent advances in string theory - Arnab Kundu (SINP)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:30

15:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 R&D related to fusion technologies - Paritosh Chaudhuri (IPR)

16:30 Technology: from lab to life - Sreehari . (ECIL)
17:00

17:00 - 18:00
Sunday, 18 January 2026
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Igniting young minds through equity and excellence in STEM education - Arnab Bhattacharya (HBCSE-TIFR)

10:00 Physics in your pocket: experiment with a smartphone - Praveen Pathak (HBCSE-TIFR)
10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Infusing creativity and collaboration in teaching - Sonia Kapoor (AECS-2, Mumbai)

11:30 Training for cancer awareness, detection, and prevention - Gauravi Mishra (TMC)
12:00

12:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

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