Thursday, November 20, 2014

The IPA Rahul Basu Memorial Award (2014)

The winners of the Rahul Basu Memorial Award (2014) for the best thesis  in high energy physics have been announced.

The winners are

1. Pratishruti Saha (Univ. of Delhi) for her thesis entitled

Addressing some issues beyond the standard model at Hadron Colliders

2. Nikhil Karthik (TIFR Mumbai) for his thesis entitled.

Studies on gauge link smearing and their applications to lattice QCD at finite temperature.

The following theses have received Honourable Mention

1. Ritu Aggarwal (Panjab University) for her thesis entitled

Measurement of High x neutral current ep cross sections and extraction of xF3 structure function using Zeus detector at Hera

2. Amaresh Jaiswal (TIFR, Mumbai) for his thesis entitled

Formulation of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics and its applications in heavy-ion collisions

Congratulations to all winners. The awards will be presented at the next DAE Symposium on High-Energy Physics, being held in Guwahati from December 8-12, 2014. The award ceremony has been scheduled on December 12th from 4-5:30 PM. Dr. Saha and Dr. Karthik will present talks on their theses and receive a cash award, and Drs. Aggarwal and Jaiswal will be presented with citations.

The  Award committee members were Sunanda Bannerjee, Rohini Godbole, Sourendu Gupta, Neelima Gupte, Bedanga Mohanty, and Sunil Mukhi. The award is administered by the Indian Physics Association.


This blog post is by Neelima Gupte and Sumathi Rao.


A short report of the award ceremony can be found in the post on 26/12/2014.



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