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 Tea

1 Tour of GRAPES-2 facility (Raj Bhavan campus)

19:30 Dinner

Thursday, 15 October

07:45 Breakfast

2 Departure to GRAPES-3 facility

Talks: Overview

3 Welcome address

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

DHEP-AnnMtg-Oct2026.pdf

4 Overview of Accelerator-Based Activities: CMS and BELLE II

Speaker: Rajdeep Chatterjee (TIFR)

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

Speaker: Mohamed Rameez (TIFR)

6 An Indigenous Space-based Detector for High Energy Astroparticle Physics

Speaker: Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

7 Positronium Experiment

Speaker: Shilpi Jain (TIFR, Mumbai)

11:00 Tea

Talks: Detectors and readouts

8 Overview of Silicon Detector Activity

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

9 Indigenous Development and Fabrication of Plastic Scintillators

Speaker: Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

10 Indigenous Development and Fabrication of Proportional Counters

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

11 SiPM Technology: Applications, Challenges and Prospects

Speaker: Bharat Singh (TIFR)

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

Speaker: ROHITSINGH SOLANKI (TIFR MUMBAI)

13:00 Lunch

Talks: Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - I

13 Overview of GRAPES-3 DAQ Systems

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

14 FPGA DAQ of GRAPES-3 Muon Telescope

Speaker: Mr Suresh Kumar R (CRL, TIFR)

15 Digitisers for Upgrade of GRAPES-3 Scintillator System

Speaker: JAGADEESAN paranjothi (SCIENTIFIC OFFICER)

16 Overview of 256-pixel SiPM-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Camera

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

17 Front-end of SiPM camera

Speaker: Mr N.K. Parmar (TIFR)

18 SiPM Camera Control Software

Speaker: Mr Mano Ranjan (TIFR)

16:00 Tea

19 Tour of GRAPES-3 facility (RAC campus)

19:30 Dinner

Friday, 16 October

Talks: Frontend and backend electronics, and DAQs - II

20 Overview of the Cosmic Muon Veto Detector Activities

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

21 Activities in the INO lab excluding CMVD

Speaker: Mr R.R. Shinde (TIFR)

22 Front-End and Back-End Electronics for HGCAL

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

23 Setting of a Multi-module Test Stand

Speaker: Mr Piyush Verma (TIFR)

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

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

11:15 Tea, Group photo, and Poster session

25 Space-based Astroparticle Physics Experiments: DAMPE and upcoming NUSES

Speaker: Prof. Ivan De Mitri (GSSI)

13:15 Lunch

26 Discussion on Possible Areas of Collaboration

Detectors, electronics, and AI/ML, computing

27 Vote of thanks

16:15 Tea

28 RAC visit

29 Departure to Ooty town