The workshop, sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, through TPSC Advanced Research Workshop Programme, Panjab University, Chandigarh, and the OEA, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, will bring together leading national and some international experts to review directions in Beyond-Standard-Model physics and Cosmology following the opening of the Higgs portal at 126 GeV in 2012. It will allow presentation of ongoing research in oral and poster sessions. The interface with current experiments and astrophysical observations will also be covered.
Topics
- Higgs Portal
- GUTs
- Neutrino Physics
- Dark matter and Leptogenesis
- Flavour Unification
Plenary Speakers
- C.S. Aulakh (PU, Chandigarh)
- Rabin Banerjee (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
- Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State Univ.)*
- Borut Bajc (JS, Ljubljana)
- Srubabati Goswami (PRL, Ahmedabad)
- Romesh Kaul (IMSc, Chennai)
- Yong-Yeon Keum (SNU, Seoul)
- Parthasarathi Majumdar (RMVU, Kolkata)
- Subhendra Mohanty (PRL, Ahmedabad)*
- R.N. Mohapatra (Univ. Maryland)*
- Amitava Raychaudhuri (Univ. Calcutta)
- G. Rajasekaran (IMSc, Chennai)
- L. Sriramkumar (IIT Madras)
- Z. Tavartkiladze (CEPP-ISU, Georgia)
- Sudhir Vempati (IISc, Bangalore)
- U.A. Yajnik (IIT Mumbai)
*Skype talk
Applications for participation from Indian or foreign researchers, including PhD scholars, are invited by email in the prescribed form. There is no registration fee. The number of seats is restricted to 40. Apply by 20 April 2014. Visit the Registration page for details.
Contact
Dr. Kuldeep Kumar, Department of Physics, Panjab University,
Chandigarh-160014, India
unicos2014@pu.ac.in
