Speakers

Prof. Bindu A. Bambah

Senior Professor, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Prof. Bambah did her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1983 under the guidance of the Nobel Laureate Prof. Y Nambu. Her research is focused on high-energy physics (theory and experiment) and non-linear dynamics. She was awarded the UNESCO, ROSTCA Young Scientists Award for South Asia in 1991. She is currently leading the University of Hyderabad group in the Experimental neutrino program in Fermilab, USA. She has started undergraduate courses in scientific methodology and given lectures to school students on the importance of scientific thinking in all spheres in life. She also works on methods of inducting and training women to assume leadership roles in the physical sciences.

Dr. Despina-Hatzifotiadou

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.

Dr. Ramni Gupta

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's area of research 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 by studying multiplicity fluctuations. 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.

Ms. Zarina Banoo

She started her journey in this exciting field of high energy physics around two and half years back as a Ph.D. Scholar under the guidance of Dr. Ramni Gupta. Currently she is working on Intermittency analysis of charged particle produced in ultra-relativistic collision. In this field we are expecting to unravel the mysteries of the fundamentals of matter. She has done B.Sc Honors in Physics from University of Delhi and also has completed her Masters of Science in Physics from PU,Chandigarh. She has also qualified NET-JRF, JKSET.

Ms. Sheetal Sharma

I am a PhD student in the High Energy Physics group of the Department of Physics, University of Jammu. Presently I am analyzing data from the first RUN of LHC to understand the multi-particle production processes using Intermittency analysis.

Ms. Pratibha Bhagat

I am a research scholar in the Department of Physics, University of Jammu. I am working in STAR experiment at RHIC. My specialization is Strange baryon productions at RHIC energies.

Ms. Meenakshi Sharma

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.

Mr. Vikash Sumberia

I am a PhD student and working in ALICE experiment. Currently, I am working on the production of hadronic resonances.

Mr. Randhir Singh

I am a PhD student and working in ALICE experiment. Currently, I am working on heavy-flavor physics.