Organisation of Academic Activities

Research Activities

  • Organising towards formation of an `Indian Working Group(WG) on Linear Collider Physics’ under the aegis of ACFA: Asian Committee for Future Accelerators. Managing a DST funded project to coordinate the activities of the Indian Working Group.
  • Coordinator of various Working Groups at five WHEPP (Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology) from 1990–2001.
  • Convener of the R-parity subgroup at the workshop on `Physics at TeV Colliders’,Les Houches, France, June 1999.
  • Convener, Supersymmetry at Linear Colliders, at the International Workshop on Linear Colliders, LCWS04, Paris, March 2004.
  • Convener, ‘SUSY04: THE 12th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions’, Tsukuba, Japan, June 2004.
  • Convener, ‘Top and QCD’, International Workshop on Linear Colliders, LCWS05, March 2005, SLAC,,Stanford (U.S.A.).
  • Organising Committee of the two year long ‘Workshop on CP studies and non-standard Higgs physics’ resulting in CERN Yellow report. May 2003 -May 2005, resulting in a CERN yellow report, which is a reference document on the subject.
  • Convener, ‘Top and QCD’, InternationalWorkshop on Linear Colliders, LCWS and ILC 2007, May-June 2007, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Convener, “Collider Physics Phenomenology and Beyond the Standard Model Physics”, International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008.
  • Convener, Supersymmetry Phenomenology,21st International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions, SUSY 2013, Trieste,Italy, August 2013.
  • Convener, Supersymmetry Phenomenology, 22nd International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions, SUSY 2014, Manchester, U.K., July 2014.
  • Convener, Session on Women in Science, 50th Anniversary of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, October, 2014.
  • Convener, ‘Diversity and Inclusion’, ICHEP 2016, 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, August 2016, Chicago, USA.
  • Convener, SUSY Models, 24th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY), July 2016, Melbourne, Australia.

International Symposia, Seminars and Workshops

  • Involved in the series of several International Workshops on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP1 to WHEPP12), right from its inception. Member of the National Organising Committees for almost all of them.
  • Member of the National Organising Committee of the International Conference on Non-accelerator Particle Physics, Bangalore, Dec. 1993.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, International Workshop on Linear Collider Physics, LCWS 2000, Fermilab, Batavia, U.S.A. & Organiser of the parallel session on Supersymmetry.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, ICPAQGP, International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark Gluon Plasma, Jaipur, November 2001.
  • Member,International Advisory Committee, International Workshop on Linear Collider Physics: LCWS 2002, 25-30 August,2002, Jeju Island,Korea, LCWS04, Paris, April 2004, LCWS05, USA, April 2005, LCWS07 and ILC 2007, Hamburg, LCWS10 – Beijing, China, and LCWS11 – Granada, Spain.
  • Member, Organising Committee, PASCOS, International Symposium on Particle, String and Cosmology, Jan. 2003, Mumbai,India; convener, Higgs Physics, for PASCOS to be held in Taiwan, 2013.
  • Member, Program Advisory Committee, the International Workshop on Physics at TeV colliders, Les Houches, France, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017.
  • Member International Advisory Committee, ‘XXI International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies ,LP03, Fermilab, Batavia, U.S.A., LP05, Daegu, Korea, LP07, Hamburg, Germany and LP13, San Francisco.
  • Member, Program Committee of the Meeting of the IUPAP working group on Plagiarism in Scientific Publication and the role of Journals in its prevention, Oct. 2003, London.
  • Convener, International Workshop On Linear Colliders, LCWS06, March 9-13, 2006, Bangalore, India.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification, SUSY06, Irvine, California, U.S.A., July 2006.
  • Organiser, International Workshop ‘From Strings to LHC-I’, January 3-10, 2007, Goa, India. 13. Organiser, International Workshop ‘From Strings to LHC-II’, December 11- 23, 2007. Bangalore, India.
  • Member, International Program Advisory Committee, Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, Galena, Illinois, U.S.A, May 27-31, 2008.
  • Member, Program Advisory Committee, International Conference on High Energy Physics, Paris, July 22-28, 2010.
  • Organiser, XXV International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies, 22–27 August, 2011, Mumbai, India.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High Energy Physics (2012-now).
  • Member, Program Advisory Committee, International Conference on High Energy Physics, Valencia, Spain, July 2014.
  • Organiser, ‘Indo-French Women in Science seminar through IFCPAR: Indo French Centre for Promotion for Advanced Scientific Research, February 2015.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, 3rd and (4th) International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, ICNFP-2014, (ICNFP-2015) August 2014 (August 2015), Kolymbari, Greece.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, XXVII International Conference on High Energy Lepton Photon Interactions, August 2015, Ljubljana , Yugoslavia.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, International Meeting on Higgs Coupling, Durham, U.K., October 2015.
  • Organiser, Indo-French Network (INFRE-HEPNET) Kick-off meeting, May 2016, Bangalore, IISc, India.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, Precision theory for precise measurements at LHC and future colliders, To be held in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, September-October 2016.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, Annual International Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics, To be held in Shanghai, 2016.

National Symposia, Seminars and Workshops

  • Organisation of the workshop on `Physics beyond Standard Model’, Univ. of Bombay, February 1991.
  • Organisation of the workshop on `Quark Matter in Nuclei’ , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, April 1991.
  • Member Program Advisory Committee, National Organising Committee etc, for the DAE symposia on high energy physics, held in 1992, 1994, 1996,1998,2000.
  • Member, Program Advisory Committee, ‘Workshop on Hadron Physics’, March 2005, Puri, India.
  • Organiser of numerous national workshops in India.

Educational Activities

  • Director, XII S.E.R.C. School in Theoretical High Energy Physics, Held in Bangalore Feb.- March 1997.
  • Editorial Board Member, TRIPS: Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences, Series of books being brought out by Hindustan Publishers.
  • Organiser and Chair (LOC), 2014 Asia Europe Pacific School of High Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2014, Bhubaneswar, India, November 2014.