IIT-Hyderabad to organise two day international workshop on Dec 7 & 8

Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) will host a two-day international workshop on “Laboratory Astrophysics with Intense Laser: Particle Generation and Application” on December 7 and 8.

The workshop covers broadly two topics, Intense Laser Physics – Generation and its Applications and Laboratory astrophysics with Lasers. The last date to register is November 25.

It is being organised by Dr Vandana Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT-H in in association with University of Oxford UK, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Central Laser Facility.

The conference is likely to be attended by over 150



participants from all over the world. It is expected that this conference will lead the academia to a better understanding of this field and various successful national and international collaborations in future.

Speakers include eminent academicians like Prof Alex Schekochihin, University of Oxford UK, Prof Amrita Das IIT Delhi, Dr Amit Lad, TIFR, Dr Brian Reville,MPIK, Heidelberg, Germany, Dr Charlotte Palmer, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, Dr Hye-Sook Park,Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA, Dr Ram Gopal, TIFR, Prof Robert Bingham, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK, Dr Sivarama Krishnan, II- M and Planetary Speaker, Prof Paul Mckenna, University of Strathclyde, UK.