CERN70 at IIT Madras, India

Saturday 22 Feb 2025, 14:00 → 18:30 Asia/Kolkata

IIT Madras Research Park Auditorium (D block, 7th floor), Chennai, India

In honor of CERN's 70th anniversary, IIT Madras is proud to host a special event celebrating the achievements and global impact of one of the world’s premier scientific research organizations. As an associate member state, India has played a vital role in CERN’s research, fostering a deep and productive collaboration in advancing fundamental physics. This event will bring together delegates from CERN, esteemed scientists, and general public.

Join us for an engaging afternoon of talks, discussions, and presentations, where we reflect on CERN’s seven-decade legacy of pushing the frontiers of knowledge in high-energy physics, its discoveries that have transformed our understanding of the universe, and the role that India continues to play as part of this historic journey.

Let’s come together to celebrate this momentous milestone and inspire the next generation of scientific explorers!

Registrations are now closed.

If you couldn’t secure a seat, you can still join us via our live YouTube streaming at: https://youtube.com/live/UkqJb0WpboU 

 

Please find below the link to some snapshots from the the event: 

Google Drive Link

 

Distinguished Guests:

1. Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN, Director for International Relations)

2. Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (CMS Collaboration Spokesperson)

3. Elisabetta Gallo (CMS Collaboration Board Chairperson)

4. Lucia Silvestris (CMS Collaboration Deputy Spokesperson, 2022-2024)

5. Bedangadas Mohanty (ALICE Collaboration Deputy Spokesperson)

 

Speakers:

1. Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle

2. Gautier Hamel de Monchenault

3. Bedangadas Mohanty

 

Convenors:

1. Dr. Prafulla Kumar Behera (Prof., Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

2. Dr. Manu Santhanam (Dean IC&SR, IIT Madras)

 

Local organizing committee:

1. Dr. Prafulla Kumar Behera (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

2. Dr. Prabhat Pujahari (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

3. Dr. Santosh PN (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

4. Dr. Sunethra Ramanan (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

5. Dr. Nagendra Krishnapura (Dept. of Electrical ENGG, IIT Madras)

6. Dr. Prasanta Kumar Tripathy (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

7. Dr. Suresh Govindarajan (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

8. Dr. M. S. Ramachandra Rao (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

9. Dr. Sivarama Krishnan (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

10. Dr. Raghuveer Garani (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

11. Dr. Ipsita Saha (Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

Registrations

Inauguration

Keynote Presentations

1 CERN: 70 years of international collaboration and impact on society

Speaker: Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)

2 Recreating microsecond old universe conditions in A Large Ion Collision Experiment (ALICE)– a perfect fluid of quarks and gluons

Speaker: Bedangadas Mohanty (National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) (IN))

3 The CMS Experiment: the Higgs boson and the origin of matter

Speaker: Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

GHM_2025-02-22_Madras.pdf

Closing Remarks

High Tea