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DHEP Annual Meeting -2018

from Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 09:30 to Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 20:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

09:30 - 09:50 Opening Remarks

09:30 Remarks by the Chair, DHEP 20'

Speaker:	Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)
Material:	Slides

09:50 - 10:30 Session on Silicon Photomultipliers

Convener:

S. K. Gupta (TIFR)

09:50 Introduction to Group Activities 15'

Speaker:	Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Material:	Slides

10:05 Development of SiPM, Characterization, Associated Instrumentation & Applications 25'

Speaker:	Raghunandan A Shukla (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:30 - 11:00 TEA BREAK

11:00 - 11:40 Session on Belle

Convener:

Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)

11:00 Moving from Belle to Belle II 10'

Speaker:	Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)
Material:	Slides

11:10 Building the Layer 4 of Belle II SVD 15'

Speaker:	K Kameshwar Rao (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

11:25 Getting Ready for Belle II 15'

Speaker:	K. P PRASANTH KRISHNAN (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

11:40 - 13:00 Session on CMS B

Convener:

Tariq Aziz (TIFR)

11:40 Physics Analysis and Results from the CMS Experiment 30'

Speaker:	Monoranjan Guchait (TIFR, Mumbai, India)
Material:	Slides

12:10 Phase 1 Upgrade of CMS Hadron Calorimeter 20'

Speaker:	Mandakini Patil (TIFR Mumbai)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Grid Computing Facility at TIFR 15'

Speaker:	Puneet Kumar Patel (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:45 Phase 2 Trigger Upgrade of CMS Experiment 15'

Speaker:	Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)
Material:	Slides

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 15:00 Session on CMS A

Convener:

Rajiv V. Gavai (DTP, TIFR)

14:00 Current Activities and Future Plans 15'

Speaker:	Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Material:	Slides

14:15 Looking for Elusive Leptoquarks and Supersymmetry 15'

Speaker:	Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:30 Searching for Charged Higgs Bosons at CMS 15'

Speaker:	R Verma (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:45 Development of PCIe-IPBus Framework and Hardware for Phase 2 Upgrade 15'

Speaker:	Irfan R Mirza (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

15:00 - 16:00 Special Session on Outstanding Technology: Theme: Approaches to High Performance Computing

Convener:

N. Krishnan (TIFR)

15:00 How to Build an Inexpensive, Low-Maintenance and Scalable Supercomputing Cluster? 30'

Speaker:	B Hariharan (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Computing in High Energy Physics 30'

Speaker:	Brij Jashal (TIFR DHEP)
Material:	Slides

16:00 - 18:30 TEA & Poster Session 1

Location:
- 16:00 Determination of Shower front Curvature by GRAPES-3 experiment 5'
  
  Speaker: Jhansi Bhavani V
- 16:05 GRAPES-3 Shower Reconstruction 5'
  
  Speaker: Saswat Mishra
- 16:10 GEANT4 simulation of GRAPES-3 scintillator detector 5'
  
  Speaker: Saswat Mishra
- 16:15 Search for gamma rays produced in thunderstorms by NaI detectors 5'
  
  Speaker: Diptiranja Pattnaik
- 16:20 Measurement of electric potential in thunderstorm using GRAPES-3 muon telescope 5'
  
  Speaker: B. Hari Haran
- 16:25 GRAPES-3 data analysis framework 5'
  
  Speaker: B. Hari Haran
- 16:30 GRAPES-3 Computer Cluster 5'
  
  Speaker: B Hari Haran
- 16:35 Modelling of Geomagnetic storms by GRAPES-3 5'
  
  Speaker: Meeran Zuberi
- 16:40 Selection of Time Delay Range in Air Shower Data 5'
  
  Speaker: Hrushikesh Mahapatra
- 16:45 A Novel Encoder-Micrometer Controller 5'
  
  Speaker: Simon M. Pereira
- 16:50 Gauribidanur Thermal Control System -- New Developments 5'
  
  Speaker: A Vaidyanathan
- 16:55 The Stiffening of Gauribidanur Mechanical Structures 5'
  
  Speaker: B. S Mallikarjuna
- 17:00 Hardware developments for CMS Phase-2 upgrade 5'
  
  Speaker: Raghunathan A Shukla
- 17:05 Microscopic scanning of the HO and HE Hybrid Photo Detectors (HPD) with Micron Resolution Optical Scanner (MROS) 5'
  
  Speaker: Irfan R Mirza
- 17:10 Search for Charged Higgs Boson, Decaying into cs quarks at √ s =13 TeV, In Lepton +Jets Channel with 2016 Data 5'
  
  Speaker: Ravindra Kumar Verma
- 17:15 Search for Lepton flavor violating tau decays at BELLE 5'
  
  Speaker: Debashis Sahoo
- 17:20 Timing Calibration of HAGAR Telescope 5'
  
  Speaker: Bharat Singh (TIFR)
- 17:25 Temporal Study and Estimation of Jet Parameters for Ton 599 5'
  
  Speaker: Shobha K. Rao
- 17:30 Prototype Back End Electronics for G-APD Based Imaging Camer 5'
  
  Speaker: Sandeep Duhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
- 17:35 A Compact Cosmic Muon Veto Detector 5'
  
  Speaker: Neha Panchal
- 17:40 Measurement of Azimuthal dependence of cosmic muon flux using 2mx2m RPC stack at IICHEP Madurai 5'
  
  Speaker: S Pethuraj
- 17:45 Expected tracking performance of miniICAL 5'
  
  Speaker: Apoorva Bhat
- 17:50 Feasibility study for development of a PET device based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers 5'
  
  Speaker: Mohammad Nizam
- 17:55 Charge track multiplicities in 2mx2m RPC stack at IICHEP Madurai 5'
  
  Speaker: Surayanarayan Mondal
- 18:00 BSM Higgs at the LHE 5'
  
  Speaker: Arvind
- 18:05 Study of Anti-kt reconstructed jets for semi-leptonic decay of top quark in CMS experiment 5'
  
  Speaker: Murli K Maurya

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

09:30 - 10:25 Session on HAGAR

Convener:

Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

09:30 Ground-based Gamma Ray Astronomy with Cherenkov Telescopes: An Update 10'

Speaker:	Varsha Chitnis (T.I.F.R)
Material:	Slides

09:40 Progress on G-APD-based Imaging Camera for ACT 20'

Speaker:	S. S. Upadhya (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:00 Status of Back-end Electronics for Imaging Camera 10'

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

10:10 VHE Measurements of Crab Nebula with HAGAR Telescope System 10'

Speaker:	Bharat Singh (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:20 Common Discussion Time 5'

10:25 - 10:55 TEA BREAK

10:55 - 12:10 Session on GRAPES-3

Convener:

B. S. Acharya (T.I.F.R.)

10:55 An Overview of the GRAPES-3 Experiment 25'

Speaker: S. K. Gupta (TIFR)

11:20 A New Muon Detector: Challenges & Perspectives 25'

Speaker:	Atul Jain (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

11:45 New Results from GRAPES-3 spanning a Large Energy Range 25'

Speaker:	P. K. Mohanty (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:10 - 13:00 Session on Gravity – 1

Convener:

V. M. Datar (TIFR)

12:10 Lighting Micro-cavities with Microfibres 10'

Speaker:	M. Gaira (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:20 A Cold-Atom Interferometer for Metrology 10'

Speaker:	S. Sankaranarayanan (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Gravitational Waves, Optics, Relativity and High Energy Condensed Matter Physics 30'

Speaker:	C. S. Unnikrishnan (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 14:45 Session on Gravity-2

Convener:

Kajari Mazumdar (DHEP, TIFR)

14:00 Overview of Activity on the Gauribidanur Experiment 15'

Speaker:	N Krishnan (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:15 FEM Studies of the Gauribidanur EP Apparatus 30'

Speaker:	B. S Mallikarjuna (Gravitation Laboratory, Gauribidanur)
Material:	Slides

14:45 - 15:30 Session on INO

Convener:

Amol Dighe (TIFR)

14:45 Mini-ICAL Status and Feasibility of Shallow Depth ICAL 20'

Speaker:	V. M. Datar (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

15:05 Development of INO Electronics 20'

Speaker:	S. S. Upadhaya (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

15:25 Common Discussion Time 5'

15:30 - 16:00 Vote of Thanks; Break, then Reconvene at 4 pm for the Special Colloquium
16:00 - 17:00 Special Colloquium: Fundamental Physics at the Technology Frontier 1h0'

Speaker: Tariq Aziz (TIFR)
17:00 - 18:30 TEA & Poster Session 2

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