DHEP Annual Meeting
16 Mar 2026, 08:30
→
17 Mar 2026, 18:00
Asia/Kolkata
AG66 (Lecture Theatre) (TIFR, Mumbai)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
Gagan Mohanty
(
TIFR, Mumbai
)
Monday, 16 March
Mon, 16 Mar
Tue, 17 Mar
Opening Session
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
1
Inauguration by the Director
Speaker
:
Prof.
Jayaram N Chengalur
2
Welcome address by Dean-NSF
Speaker
:
Prof.
Shankar Ghosh
3
Overview of activities of DHEP
Speaker
:
Gagan Mohanty
(
DHEP, TIFR
)
High Tea
West canteen terrace
West canteen terrace
Astroparticle Physics
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
4
Overview of GRAPES-3 Activities
Speaker
:
Dr
Pravata K Mohanty
(
TIFR
)
5
Updates on Thunderstorm Studies
Speaker
:
Dr
Hari Haran B
(
CRL, TIFR, OOTY
)
6
Characterization of thunderstorm induced muon events
Speaker
:
Dr
Pranaba Nayak
(
TIFR
)
7
Searches for gamma-ray sources with GRAPES-3
Speaker
:
Mr
Mohan Karthik G
(
TIFR
)
8
A GNN-based geometric graph node converter for PMT nonlinearity correction in GRAPES-3
Speaker
:
Mr
Sambit Sarkar
(
TIFR
)
9
Introduction to the Gamma Ray Activities
Speaker
:
Dr
Atreyee Sinha
(
TIFR, Mumbai
)
10
First data from the SiPM camera
Speaker
:
Dr
Bharat Singh
(
TIFR
)
11
Introduction to the IceCube Activities
Speaker
:
Dr
Mohamed Rameez
(
TIFR
)
12
Neutrino signals from the Cygnus region
Speaker
:
Mr
Ashish Narayan
(
TIFR
)
Lunch
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
Instrumentation for HEP: Part I
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
13
FPGA-based backend electronics for GRAPES-3 muon telescopes
Speaker
:
Mr
Suresh Kumar R
(
TIFR
)
14
Electronics upgrade of the GRAPES-3 scintillator array
Speaker
:
Jagadeesan Paranjothi
(
SCIENTIFIC OFFICER
)
15
Ongoing activities on SiPM camera commissioning
Speaker
:
Sandeep Duhan
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
)
16
SiPM Camera control Software
Speaker
:
Mr
Mano Ranjan
(
TIFR
)
17
Development of Si detector modules for the CMS HGCAL
Speaker
:
Mr
Kameshwar Rao
(
TIFR
)
18
Development of the QA/QC protocols for HGCAL Si modules
Speaker
:
Mr
Simon Pereira
(
TIFR
)
19
Overview of development of CMS HGCAL backend electronics
Speaker
:
Mr
Irfan Mirza
(
TIFR
)
8_DHEP_Annual_Meeting_2026_1_irfan.pdf
Tea Break
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
Instrumentation for HEP: Part II
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
20
Overview of group activities
Speaker
:
Gobinda Majumder
(
TIFR
)
21
Development of CMVD backend electronics, firmware and a capacitive charge injection board
Speaker
:
Mandar Saraf
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
22
Upgrade of frontend electronics of C217 RPC stack
Speaker
:
Mr
Ravindra Shinde
(
TIFR
)
23
Development of an SiPM power supply and trigger boards
Speaker
:
Mr
Prajjalak Chattopadhyay
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
)
Prajjalak_DHEP_annual_meeting_2026.pdf
24
Muon flux measurement using miniICAL data
Speaker
:
Mr
Pethuraj S
(
TIFR
)
25
Commissioning of the scintillator-based cosmic muon veto detector
Speaker
:
raj shah
(
India-Based Neutrino Observatory, TIFR
)
26
Mechanical Design of a Threshold Cherenkov Detector
Speaker
:
Mr
Piyush Verma
(
TIFR
)
27
Performance of a Charge Injection Board to Test the Connectivity of CMS HGCAL frontend boards
Speaker
:
Jasmine Chhikara
(
Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research(IN)
)
Annual meeting 2026.pdf
Tuesday, 17 March
Mon, 16 Mar
Tue, 17 Mar
Collider Physics: Part I
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
28
Overview of activities at the CMS and Belle II experiments
Speaker
:
Dr
Shilpi Jain
(
TIFR, Mumbai
)
29
TIme-dependent CP violation study in B0 → Ks pi0 gamma decays at Belle II
Speaker
:
Rishabh Mehta
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
30
ML-based optimization to improve luminosity delivery to Belle II
Speaker
:
Mr
Sarthak Tripathy
(
TIFR
)
31
Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, a lepton, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions
Speaker
:
Dr
Tribeni Mishra
(
Postdoctoral Fellow
)
32
Measurement of cross-section and a search for anomalous neutral triple gauge coupling in the photon + MET using CMS Run 3 data
Speaker
:
Ms
Riya Pramanik
(
TIFR
)
Tea Break
West canteen terrace
West canteen terrace
Collider Physics: Part II
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
33
Test of lepton flavor universality in W boson decays using top quark pair events
Speaker
:
Mr
Pruthvi Suryadevara
(
TIFR
)
34
A GNN based energy correction for electrons and photons in CMS
Speaker
:
Avik Das
(
TIFR Mumbai
)
35
Measurement of collider-independent asymmetries in the semileptonic final state of top quark pair events
Speaker
:
Mr
Mukund Shelake
(
TIFR
)
36
A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of pseudo-scalars in bbGG final state in Run 2
Speaker
:
Mr
Anirban Bala
(
TIFR
)
Future DHEP Projects: Positronium
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
37
An end-end physics program with the positronium system
Speaker
:
Dr
Rajdeep Chatterjee
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
38
A novel application of quantum dots for future detectors
Speaker
:
Mr
Santanu Mahata
(
TIFR
)
Lunch
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
Poster Session
HBA foyer area
HBA foyer area
HBA foyer area
Tea Break
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
Instrumentation for HEP: Part III
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
39
CMS level-1 trigger upgrades for the HL-LHC
Speaker
:
Mandakini Patil
(
TIFR Mumbai
)
Mandakini-TriggerUpgrade_annualmeet2026.pdf
Summary and Closeout
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
40
Feedback from the external expert
Speaker
:
Prof.
James Libby
(
IITM
)
41
Vote of Thanks