A Symposium on “Amazing Particles and Light – Horizons in Accelerators and Enabled Sciences” In Honour of Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (December 15 – 16, 2011) PROGRAMME Venue: Faculty Hall, Main Building, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore December 15, 2011 (THURSDAY) 9:00AM - 9:30AM: Inauguration Introduction of Swapan by Bikash Sinha; Vote of Thanks 9:30AM - 10:00AM: “Cyclotrons and other Accelerator Development at VECC” Rakesh Bhandari, VECC Kolkata 10:00AM - 10:30AM: “Accelerator as a tool for Science & Technology-Indian Scenario” S. Kailas, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 10:30AM – 11:00AM: Coffee/Tea Break 11:00AM - 11:30AM: “Accelerator Programme at RRCAT: Recent Developments and Applications” P. D. Gupta, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 11:30AM - 12:00PM: “Superconducting Cavity Development at Inter-University Accelerator Centre” Amit Roy, Nuclear Science Centre, Delhi 12:00AM - 12:30PM: “The ESS accelerator” Mats Lindroos, ESS, Sweden 12:30PM - 02:00PM: LUNCH BREAK 02:00PM - 03:30PM: Panel Discussion on the "Future of Accelerators in India" Chaired by V. S. Ramamurthy (NIAS); Members: R. K. Bhandari (VECC), K. Chattopadhyay (IISc), P D Gupta (RRCAT), S. Kailas (BARC), R G Pillay (TIFR), Amit Roy (IUAC) 03:30PM – 04:00PM: Coffee/Tea Break 04:00PM – 04:20PM: “Opportunity” Shekhar Mishra, Project-X, Fermilab, USA 04:20PM – 04:40PM: “R&D on High Intensity Proton Accelerator for ADS” P. Singh, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 04:40PM – 05:00PM: “India-based Neutrino Observatory” Naba K Mondal, Bhabha TIFR Mumbai 05:00PM – 05:20PM: “Light and Life” Amitabha Chattopadhyay, CCMB Hyderabad 05:00PM – 05:20PM: Swapan Chattopadhyay, The Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science & Technology A Symposium on “Amazing Particles and Light – Horizons in Accelerators and Enabled Sciences” In Honour of Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (December 15 – 16, 2011) PROGRAMME Venue: Lecture Hall I, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore December 16, 2011 (FRIDAY) 9:00AM - 9:30AM: “Phase separation in strongly correlated systems investigated by microscopic techniques” D. D. Sarma, IISc Bangalore 9:30AM - 10:00AM: “Peering at the heart of matter with accelerators” Rohini M Godbole, IISc Bangalore 10:00AM - 10:30AM: “To be announced” R G Pillay, TIFR Mumbai 10:30AM – 11:00AM: Coffee/Tea Break 11:00AM - 11:20AM: “Beta beams, Magic baseline, and INO” Amitava Raychaudhuri, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 11:20AM - 11:40AM: “Status of Indus-2 Synchrotron Radiation Source” Gurnam Singh, RRCAT, Indore 11:40AM - 12:00PM: “Collective Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Supernovae” Kamales Kar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata 12:00PM - 12:20PM: “Towards a Rare Ion Beam Facility at VECC, Kolkata” Alok Chakrabarti, VECC Kolkata 12:20AM - 12:40PM: “Swapan and (our) Connections” Vinod Chohan, CERN Switzerland 12:40PM - 02:00PM: LUNCH BREAK 02:00PM - 03:30PM: Panel Discussion on the "Future of Light Sources" Chaired by Swapan Chattopadhyay (Cockcroft); Members: Alok Chakrabarti (VECC), S. Krishnagopal (BARC), Pitamber Singh (BARC), D D Sarma (IISc), Gurnam Singh (RRCAT) 03:30PM – 04:00PM: Coffee/Tea Break 04:00PM – 04:20PM: “Watching paint dry and peel: physics at low energy in slow motion” S. Bhattacharya, TIFR Mumbai 04:20PM – 04:40PM: "Cosmic accelerators" Subir Sarkar, University of Oxford, UK 04:40PM – 05:00PM: “CW SRF Systems with Ingot Niobium* and Their Applications” Ganapati Myneni, University of Virginia, USA .