Name: DHEP Annual Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-10-14T16:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-10-16T18:00:00+05:30
Location: The GRAPES-3 experiment

DHEP Annual Meeting 2026

from Wednesday, 14 October 2026 (16:00) to Friday, 16 October 2026 (18:00)

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

16:00 Tea
Tea
16:00 - 16:30

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

19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Thursday, 15 October 2026

07:45 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:45 - 08:30

08:30 Departure to GRAPES-3 facility
Departure to GRAPES-3 facility
08:30 - 09:30
09:30 Overview
Overview
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 Welcome address - Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

09:40 Overview of Accelerator-Based Activities: CMS and BELLE II - Rajdeep Chatterjee (TIFR)

10:05 Overview of Astroparticle Physics Activities: GRAPES-3, HAGAR and IceCube - Mohamed Rameez (TIFR)

10:30 An Indigenous Space-based Detector for High Energy Astroparticle Physics - Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

10:45 Positronium Experiment - Shilpi Jain (TIFR, Mumbai)
11:00 Tea
Tea
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Detectors and readouts
Detectors and readouts
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 Overview of Silicon Detector Activity - Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

11:45 Indigenous Development and Fabrication of Plastic Scintillators - Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

12:00 Indigenous Development and Fabrication of Proportional Counters - Manjunath K (CRL, TIFR) Rajesh B (CRL, TIFR)

12:15 SiPM Technology: Applications, Challenges and Prospects - Bharat Singh (TIFR)

12:30 Design & Development of a Readout System for a 4*x SiPM Array - ROHITSINGH SOLANKI (TIFR MUMBAI)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - I
Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - I
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Overview of GRAPES-3 DAQ Systems - Atul Jain (Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

14:20 FPGA DAQ of GRAPES-3 Muon Telescope - Suresh Kumar R (CRL, TIFR)

14:35 Digitisers for Upgrade of GRAPES-3 Scintillator System - JAGADEESAN paranjothi (SCIENTIFIC OFFICER)

14:50 Overview of 256-pixel SiPM-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Camera - Sandeep Duhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

15:05 Front-end of SiPM camera - N.K. Parmar (TIFR)

15:20 SiPM Camera Control Software - Mano Ranjan (TIFR)
16:00 Tea
Tea
16:00 - 16:30

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

19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 20:30
Friday, 16 October 2026
09:30 Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - II
Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - II
09:30 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 Overview of the Cosmic Muon Veto Detector Activities - Mandar Saraf (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

09:45 Activities in the INO lab excluding CMVD - R.R. Shinde (TIFR)

10:00 Front-End and Back-End Electronics for HGCAL - Irfan Mirza (Tata Institute of Fundamental of Research, Mumbai)

10:15 Setting of a Multi-module Test Stand - Piyush Verma (TIFR)

10:30 Towards High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Reconstruction with a Monolithic GAGG–SiPM Detector [Online] - Ashish Narayan (TIFR) Avik Das (TIFR Mumbai)
11:15 Tea, Group photo, and Poster session
Tea, Group photo, and Poster session
11:15 - 12:30
12:30 Space-based Astroparticle Physics Experiments: DAMPE and upcoming NUSES - Ivan De Mitri (GSSI)
Space-based Astroparticle Physics Experiments: DAMPE and upcoming NUSES
- Ivan De Mitri (GSSI)
12:30 - 13:15
Room: Auditorium
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00

14:00 Discussion on Possible Areas of Collaboration
Discussion on Possible Areas of Collaboration
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium Detectors, electronics, and AI/ML, computing

16:00 Vote of thanks
Vote of thanks
16:00 - 16:15
Room: Auditorium

16:15 Tea
Tea
16:15 - 16:45

16:45 RAC visit
RAC visit
16:45 - 17:30

17:30 Departure to Ooty town
Departure to Ooty town
17:30 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium