BCVSPIN Conference 2024: Particle Physics and Cosmology in the Himalayas

from Monday 9 December 2024 (07:30) to Friday 13 December 2024 (17:15)
Kathmandu, Nepal

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024
AM
07:30
Registration (until 09:00) ()
09:00
Opening Ceremony (until 09:30) ()
09:00 Welcome - Qaisar Shafi   ()
09:10 Welcome   ()
09:20 Logistics - Digesh Raut (St. Mary's College of Maryland)   ()
09:30
Plenary - Bibhushan Shakya (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) (until 10:45) ()
09:35 The KAGRA gravitational wave project - Takaaki Kajita   ()
10:10 Dark Matter and Neutrino Mass from a Conformal Dark Sector - Prof. Maxim Perelstein (Cornell University)   ()
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:05
Plenary - Anjan Giri (until 12:30) ()
11:05 The Path to Future Particle Physics Experiments - Harris Kagan (O) Harris Kagan (Ohio State University (US))   ()
11:40 Cosmic Colliders - Bibhushan Shakya (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   ()
12:05 HEP Research in Nepal: Status and Prospects - Niraj Dhital   ()
09:00
Plenary - Suyog Shrestha (Washington College (US)) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 The latest and the near-future physics highlights from the ATLAS experiment - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT))   ()
09:35 Latest results and near-future highlights from CMS - Gagan Mohanty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))   ()
10:10 The latest and the near-future physics highlights from the ALICE experiment - Amrit Gautam (The University of Kansas (US))   ()
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:05
Plenary - Anil Thapa (Colorado State University) (until 12:15) ()
11:05 Modular Flavor Symmetries - Michael Ratz   ()
11:40 Modular Symmetries and Neutrino Mixing - Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)   ()
09:00
Plenary - JESSICA TURNER (until 10:45) ()
09:00 De Sitter Spacetime and High Frequency Gravitational Waves from String Theory - Fernando Quevedo (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)   ()
09:35 Light shining through astrophysical walls - Amol Dighe (TIFR)   ()
10:10 Heavy Neutral Leptons without Prejudice - Marta Losada (NYUAD)   ()
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:05
Plenary - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College) (until 12:15) ()
11:05 Overview of Dark Matter Models - Joshua Ruderman (Princeton University)   ()
11:40 Dark Matter Freeze-out Beyond the WIMP Paradigm - Jan Heisig   ()
09:00
Plenary - Joseph Haley (Oklahoma State University (US)) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 Latest and near-future highlights from DUNE - Dr Alessandro Minotti (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))   ()
09:35 Latest and near-future highlights from Belle - Mario Merola (University of Napoli Federico II and INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)   ()
10:10 Highlights from the IceCube neutrino observatory - Mohamed Rameez (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)   ()
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:05
Plenary - Dr. Rukmani Mohanta (until 12:15) ()
11:05 Neutrino-Dark Matter Interactions - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)   ()
11:40 Unveiling a non-trivial Temporal structure in Neutrino Emissions from SN1 - Giulia Ricciardi   ()
09:00
Plenary - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 The CMB frontier: Status and prospects - Francois BOUCHET   ()
09:35 EIC Overview - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)   ()
10:10 FCC Overview - Prolay Mal (National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) (IN))   ()
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:05
Plenary -Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine) (until 12:15) ()
11:05 Hidden Sectors in the Early Universe and Today - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)   ()
11:40 Primordial Black Holes and the Early Universe - JESSICA TURNER   ()
PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Parallel Session - Santosh Parajuli (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)) (until 15:08) ()
14:00 LHC Results: Vector-like quark searches from ATLAS - Joseph Haley (Oklahoma State University (US))   ()
14:17 LHC Results: Dark Matter Searches at CMS - Mr Shriniketan Acharya (University of Hyderabad,India)   ()
14:34 Searches for BSM physics using long-lived signatures with the CMS detector - Shubham Dutta (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))   ()
14:51 LHC Results: Search for the rare decays of the Higgs and Z boson to a J/Psi or Psi' meson and a photon in CMS at √s = 13 TeV - Sweta Baradia (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))   ()
14:00
Parallel Session - Lukas Graf (Nikhef) (until 15:08) ()
14:00 Accidental quality axion from gauged flavor symmetry - Sai Charan Chandrasekar (PhD Student at Oklahoma State University)   ()
14:17 Structure formation in axion-like Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) in String Theory - Somesh Tiwari   ()
14:34 Are Fractals Behind Flavor Mixing of the SM? - Aadarsh Singh   ()
14:51 Generalized Symmetries and Model Building - Seth Koren (University of Notre Dame)   ()
15:10 --- Coffee Break ---
17:30 Oscillating neutrinos - Takaaki Kajita   ()
12:15 --- Lunch Break ---
13:45
Plenary -Dr Sudip Jana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik) (until 15:30) ()
13:45 Flavorful Dark matter and B to K invisible excess - Xiao-Gang He   ()
14:20 Deciphering Neutrino Non-Standard Interactions - Anjan Giri   ()
14:55 Exploration of Physics beyond the Standard Model with Neutrinos - Dr. Rukmani Mohanta   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50
Parallel Session - Roshan Joshi (Ohio State University (US)) (until 17:15) ()
15:50 Accumulating Evidence for New Higgs Bosons at the LHC - Sumit Banik (University of Zurich & PSI)   ()
16:07 Probing Lepton Number Violation from Low to High Energies - Lukas Graf (Nikhef)   ()
16:24 Exploring new physics in the FCNC $B_c \to D_s \nu\Bar{\nu}$ channel - Tarun Kumar (University of Hyderabad)   ()
16:41 Probing flavor violation and baryogenesis via primordial gravitational waves - Zafri Ahmed Borboruah (IIT Bombay)   ()
16:58 Unique observational constraints on generalized Starobinsky inflationary model - SAISANDRI SAINI (MNIT, Jaipur)   ()
15:50
Parallel Session - Prajita Bhattarai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 17:15) ()
15:50 Search for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model at Belle and Belle II - Junewoo PARK (University of Tokyo (BELLE II Experiment))   ()
16:07 Recent results form Belle and Belle II on dark sector searches - Sungjin Cho   ()
16:24 Precision measurements of weak interaction parameters at Belle and Belle II (to include CKM and CPV) - Ansu Johnson (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)   ()
16:41 Recent studies of exotic hadrons from Belle and Belle II - Youngjoon Kwon   ()
16:58 Study of CP property of ggH coupling in Higgs production associated with two jets - Pratik Kafle   ()
18:00
Conference Dinner (until 20:00) ()
12:15 --- Lunch Break (Free Afternoon after Lunch) ---
12:15 --- Lunch Break ---
13:45
Plenary - Niraj Dhital (Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal) (until 15:30) ()
13:45 Electromagnetic Properties of Neutrino - Dr Sudip Jana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)   ()
14:20 Imaging the Deep Earth with Neutrinos - Prof. Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar and University of Wisconsin-Madison)   ()
14:55 What is AI, what is it not, how we use it in Physics and how it impacts... You. - Claire David (AIMS South Africa)   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50
Parallel Session -Dr Jan Heisig (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)) (until 17:15) ()
15:50 Exploring Neutrino Oscillations in the Japanese Long-Baseline Experiments - Unik Limbu (University of Liverpool)   ()
16:07 Effect of NSI on tripartite entanglement in neutrino oscillations - Bhavna Yadav   ()
16:24 Probing neutrino self-interactions with JWST data - Ranjini Mondol   ()
16:41 Exploring Legget-Garg type Inequality Violations in Light of NOvA and T2K Anomalies - Lekhashri Konwar   ()
16:58 Collider and CMB complementarity of leptophilic dark matter with light Dirac neutrinos - Bhavya Thacker (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)   ()
15:50
Parallel Session - Xucheng Gan (until 17:15) ()
15:50 SU(5) Grand Unified Theory in five-dimensional brane world scenario - Masato Arai (Yamagata University)   ()
16:07 Cosmology in metric affine theories of gravity - Ilaria Andrei   ()
16:24 Exploring wormhole solutions with global monopole charge in the context of $f(Q)$ gravity - MORESHWAR TAYDE   ()
16:41 Modular symmetry and mass hierarchies - Dr Xiang-Gan Liu   ()
16:58 A Semi-analytic Approach for Curvaton Scenario - Abhishek Naskar (ShanghaiTech University)   ()
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:45
Plenary - Michael Ratz (until 15:30) ()
13:45 Quantum tunneling in curved spacetime - Masahide Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)   ()
14:20 Radio pulsars as the best (natural) laboratory to test aspects of fundamental physics - Manjari Bagchi   ()
14:55 CERN International Relations - Luciano Musa (CERN)   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50
Parallel Session (until 17:15) ()
15:50 Shaping Dark Photon Spectral Distortions - Xucheng Gan   ()
16:07 Lights on the Dark using EFT approach - Ms Sanchari Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Science)   ()
16:24 Neutron Stars with BHF Modified Density-Dependent Nucleon Masses and Weakly Interacting Dark Matter - Mr Arijit Das (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India)   ()
16:41 Exploring High-Energy Neutrino Sources: A Comprehensive Analysis - Mr Rajendra Neupane (Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal)   ()
16:58 Ultraheavy multiscattering dark matter: DUNE, CYGNUS, kilotonne detectors, and tidal streams - Harsh Aggarwal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)   ()
15:50
Parallel Session - Susan Bataju (Southern Methodist University (US)) (until 17:15) ()
15:50 Inflationary Gravitational waves as test for low scale leptogenesis - Ms Lekhika Malhotra (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)   ()
16:07 The vGeN neutrino experiment at the Kalinin NPP - Alexey Konovalov (LPI/MEPhI)   ()
16:24 Design, Development and Characterization of Liquid Organic Scintillation Detector - Sunil Kumar Saini (CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BIHAR)   ()
16:41 Searching for Multi-Messenger Events with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA - Naresh Adhikari   ()
16:58 Simulating Negative Hydrogen ion acceleration in LINAC-4 using Unity 3D - manula dissanayake (University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka)   ()