DHEP Annual Meeting 2026

14 Oct 2026, 16:00 → 16 Oct 2026, 18:00 Asia/Kolkata

Auditorium (The GRAPES-3 experiment)

Hari Haran B (CRL, TIFR, OOTY)

Wednesday, 14 October

16:00 → 16:30 Tea

16:30 → 18:00 Tour of GRAPES-2 facility (Raj Bhavan campus)

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Thursday, 15 October

07:45 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 09:30 Departure to GRAPES-3 facility

09:30 → 11:00 Talks: Overview

09:30 Welcome address

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

DHEP-AnnMtg-Oct2026.pdf

09:40 Overview of Accelerator-Based Activities: CMS and BELLE II

Speaker: Rajdeep Chatterjee (TIFR)

10:05 Overview of Astroparticle Physics Activities: GRAPES-3, HAGAR and IceCube

Speaker: Mohamed Rameez (TIFR)

10:30 An Indigenous Space-based Detector for High Energy Astroparticle Physics

Speaker: Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

10:45 Positronium Experiment

Speaker: Shilpi Jain (TIFR, Mumbai)

11:00 → 11:30 Tea

11:30 → 13:00 Talks: Detectors and readouts

11:30 Overview of Silicon Detector Activity

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

11:45 Indigenous Development and Fabrication of Plastic Scintillators

Speaker: Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

12:00 Indigenous Development and Fabrication of Proportional Counters

Speakers: Mr Manjunath K (CRL, TIFR), Mr Rajesh B (CRL, TIFR)

12:15 SiPM Technology: Applications, Challenges and Prospects

Speaker: Bharat Singh (TIFR)

12:30 Design & Development of a Readout System for a 4*x SiPM Array

Speaker: ROHITSINGH SOLANKI (TIFR MUMBAI)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Talks: Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - I

14:00 Overview of GRAPES-3 DAQ Systems

Speaker: Mr Atul Jain (Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

14:20 FPGA DAQ of GRAPES-3 Muon Telescope

Speaker: Mr Suresh Kumar R (CRL, TIFR)

14:35 Digitisers for Upgrade of GRAPES-3 Scintillator System

Speaker: JAGADEESAN paranjothi (SCIENTIFIC OFFICER)

14:50 Overview of 256-pixel SiPM-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Camera

Speaker: Sandeep Duhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

15:05 Front-end of SiPM camera

Speaker: Mr N.K. Parmar (TIFR)

15:20 SiPM Camera Control Software

Speaker: Mr Mano Ranjan (TIFR)

16:00 → 16:30 Tea

16:30 → 19:30 Tour of GRAPES-3 facility (RAC campus)

19:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday, 16 October

09:30 → 11:15 Talks: Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - II

09:30 Overview of the Cosmic Muon Veto Detector Activities

Speaker: Mr Mandar Saraf (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

09:45 Activities in the INO lab excluding CMVD

Speaker: Mr R.R. Shinde (TIFR)

10:00 Front-End and Back-End Electronics for HGCAL

Speaker: Irfan Mirza (Tata Institute of Fundamental of Research, Mumbai)

10:15 Setting of a Multi-module Test Stand

Speaker: Mr Piyush Verma (TIFR)

10:30 Towards High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Reconstruction with a Monolithic GAGG–SiPM Detector [Online]

Speakers: Ashish Narayan (TIFR), Avik Das (TIFR Mumbai)

11:15 → 12:30 Tea, Group photo, and Poster session

12:30 → 13:15 Space-based Astroparticle Physics Experiments: DAMPE and upcoming NUSES

Speaker: Prof. Ivan De Mitri (GSSI)

13:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Discussion on Possible Areas of Collaboration

Detectors, electronics, and AI/ML, computing

16:00 → 16:15 Vote of thanks

16:15 → 16:45 Tea

16:45 → 17:30 RAC visit

17:30 → 18:00 Departure to Ooty town