Speakers

Prof. Anju Bhasin is senior academician, researcher in the field of High Energy Physics and able administrator. She is currently a Professor in Physics in the Department of Physics, University of Jammu. She is the first woman to be appointed as a Vice-Chancellor in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. A proficient research professional with more than 28 years of experience of working in five international Collaborations in Experimental Particle Physics in world famous accelerator sites, A Large Ion Collider Experiment(ALICE) at CERN, Geneva ;STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) at BNL, USA and CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) at GSI, Germany, INO (Indian Neutrino Observatory) at Tamil Naidu, India. Prof. Bhasin is STAR Experiment and ALICE experiment, University of Jammu Team leader and is member of many National and International committees in various capacities. She has 27 years of teaching experience and has taught core courses and specialized courses for Post Graduates at University of Jammu and have been lecturer for undergraduate teaching at University of Birmingham, UK. Prof.. Bhasin received Fulbright Professional and Academic Excellence fellowship 2014-2015 (For Nine months starting Mid Nov, 2014), Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK (June, 2012-June 2018), Marie Curie International incoming Fellowship to UK (2006-2008), Marie Curie International incoming Fellowship( return Phase) at University of Jammu, (2009 -2010), Commonwealth Fellowship to U.K,(1998 -1999 ), Young Scientist Award by J& K State Department of Science and Technology (1992). CSIR Research Associateship, (1993 -1994), CSIR Senior Research Fellow and has Qualified the GATE examination.

Dr. Despina-Hatzifotiadou is researcher at INFN Bologna, Italy, outreach coordinator of the ALICE experiment. Dr. Despina studied physics at the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece(AUTH), and received her PhD from the same department, based on an experiment at the CERN Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR). She worked as scientific collaborator and then lecturer in the section for Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics of the Physics Department of AUTH. During the period 1987-1989 she was a CERN fellow at the Experimental Physics Division. Since then she continues to be based at CERN, participating in particle physics experiments (OPAL and L3 at LEP) as well as in detector Research and Development. During the last 20 years she is a member of ALICE, the heavy ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). She is part of the ALICE Time of Flight detector system, one of the ALICE detectors providing particle identification, and she had a major role in the development of this detector, based on the Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber technology. She is also the ALICE outreach coordinator, responsible for science popularisation and communication, representing ALICE in IPPOG (the International Particle Physics Outreach Group). She has a researcher’s position in Bologna, Italy at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). She is also a member of the Extreme Energy Events project, an experiment studying cosmic rays via an extended array of muon telescopes installed in Italian schools, which combines outreach with scientific research.

Associate Professor of Physics, University of Jammu , member of the ALICE experiment at CERN and coordinator of this event at University of Jammu. Dr. Gupta dis her post graduation in Physics from University of Jammu during year 1996-98 and then joined the experimental highe energy Physics group in the same university for her PhD in Physics in the 1999. For her Ph.D. work she analysed data from PMD detector installed in WA98 experiment at CERN SPS. While pursuing her Ph.D. she joined tthe Department of Physics, University of Jammu as Lecturer in Physics after qualifying National Eligibility Test in Physics. She completed her doctorate degree in year 2006. She participated in the fabrication of PMD detector that was installed in the STAR experiment at BNL, USA and in ALICE experiment at CERN, Geneva. In 2009 she joined ALICE experiment as member. Dr. Gupta's area of interest is to understand the properties of multiparticle production processes in heavy ion collisions, quark-hadron phase transition and to comprehend the properties and behaviour of the system so created in these collisions. In the last 19 years as faculty in the University of Jammu she has taught variety of courses such as electronics, spectroscopy, quantum physics, nuclear and particle physics, C++, numerical methodology, at post graduate level and research methodology course.

I am a PhD student and working in ALICE experiment. One of the person at LHC and ALICE to analyse the strange particles production at LHC energies.