Name: MMAP 2020
Start: 2022-05-09T10:00:00+05:30
End: 2022-05-13T18:30:00+05:30
Location: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Main Auditorium

Monday, 9 May
- 10:00 → 10:45
  
  Inauguration 45m
  
  Present in the podium :-
  • M. K. Narayanan, Former Governor of West Bengal and former National Security Advisor
  • K. N. Vyas, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India
  • Partha Chatterjee, Hon’ble Minister of Industry, Commerce & Enterprise, Information Technology and Electronics and Parliamentary Affairs
  • Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
  • Jairam Ramesh, M P, Rajya Sabha
  • Sumit Som, Director, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
  • Gautam Bhattacharya, Director, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Sibaji Raha, Former Director, Bose Institute
  • Bikash Sinha, INSA Senior Scientist
- 10:45 → 11:15
  
  Tea / Coffee 30m
- 11:15 → 11:30
  
  Release of the Collected works of Bikash Sinha 15m
  
  Chairperson: Krishnan Srinivasan, INDIA
  Vol. I. To be released by Shri M. K. Narayanan
  Vol. II. To be released by Roger Penrose
  Cover tearing by Subir Sarkar
- 11:30 → 12:15
  
  Black Holes, Singularities, and Cyclic Cosmology 45m
  
  Speaker: Roger Penrose
- 12:15 → 13:00
  
  The Quark-Gluon Plasma and the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider 45m
  
  Speaker: Federico Antinori
- 13:00 → 13:45
  
  Creation of Ideas, Ideals and Institutions — An Odyssey 45m
  
  Speaker: Sushanta Dattagupta
- 13:45 → 15:00
  
  L U N C H 1h 15m
- 15:00 → 15:45
  
  Quarkyonic Matter and Neutron Stars 45m
  
  Speaker: Larry McLerran
- 15:45 → 16:30
  
  Emergence of hydrodynamics in expanding quark-gluon plasmas 45m
  
  Speaker: Jean-Paul Blaizot
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Tea / Coffee 30m
- 17:00 → 17:45
  
  Sphaleron explosions and baryogengesis in cosmological electroweak phase transition 45m
  
  Online
  
  Speaker: Edward Shuryak
- 19:30 → 21:00
  
  R e c e p t i o n 1h 30m Reception at Bikash Sinha’s home
  
  Reception at Bikash Sinha’s home
Tuesday, 10 May
- 10:00 → 10:45
  
  Experimental studies of transport in dense gluon matter 45m
  
  Speaker: Barbara Jacak
- 10:45 → 11:30
  
  Phase transitions in electron-hole plasmas: A superfluid of light 45m
  
  Online
  
  Speaker: Peter Littlewood
- 11:30 → 12:00
  
  Tea / Coffee 30m
- 12:00 → 12:45
  
  String Theory: Elephant in the Room of Conditioned Viewpoints 45m
  
  Speaker: Sunil Mukhi
- 12:45 → 13:30
  
  Quantum information tools for the S-matrix bootstrap 45m
  
  Speaker: Aninda Sinha
- 13:30 → 14:45
  
  L U N C H 1h 15m
- 14:45 → 15:30
  
  The making of .. ALICE 45m
  
  Speaker: Jurgen Schukraft
- 15:30 → 16:15
  
  Title will be informed soon.. 45m
  
  Speaker: Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
- 16:15 → 16:45
  
  Tea / Coffee 30m
- 16:45 → 17:15
  
  VECC – the Centre for the “City of Cyclotrons” 30m
  
  Speaker: Sumit Som
- 17:15 → 18:00
  
  J-PARC - Today and Tomorrow in Nuclear and Particle Physics 45m
  
  Online
  
  Speaker: Shoji Nagamiya
Wednesday, 11 May
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  160th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore and 100th Birth Anniversary of Satyajit Roy 30m
  
  M. K. Narayanan (Inauguration)
  and
  Book release, “Visva – Bharati 1921 – 2021 – a vision betrayed” by Sushanta Dattagupta
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Tea / Coffee 30m
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Why Rabindranath and Science? 30m
  
  Speaker: Bikash Sinha
- 11:30 → 12:15
  
  Imprints of Science in RabindraSangeet 45m
  
  Speaker: Sushanta Dattagupta
- 12:15 → 12:45
  
  Jagadish Chandra & Rabindranath, kindred spirits 30m
  
  Speaker: Sibaji Raha
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  L U N C H 1h 30m
- 14:30 → 15:15
  
  Dialogue between Rabindranath Tagore & Albert Einstein “Reality” 45m
  
  Speakers: Bikash Sinha, Partha Ghose
- 15:15 → 16:00
  
  A centenary of Satyajit Roy 45m
  
  Speaker: Samik Bandyopadhyay
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Tea / Coffee 30m
- 16:30 → 17:30
  
  “Song offerings” - Seasons of Bengal 1h
  
  Rahul Mitra (narration by Sushanta Dattagupta) on “Song offerings” - Seasons of Bengal
  
  Speakers: Rahul Mitra, Sushanta Dattagupta
Thursday, 12 May
- 10:00 → 10:45
  
  Polarized quark gluon plasma 45m
  
  Speaker: Bedangadas Mohanty
- 10:45 → 11:30
  
  Title will be informed soon... 45m
  
  Speaker: Rolf Heuer
- 11:30 → 12:00
  
  Tea / Coffee 30m
- 12:00 → 12:45
  
  Title will be announced soon... 45m
  
  Speaker: Vivek Datar
- 12:45 → 13:30
  
  Thermodynamics of the ‘Little Bang’ 45m
  
  Speaker: Tapan Nayak
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  L U N C H 1h
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  Title will be informed soon... 30m
  
  Speaker: Subhasis Chattopadhyay
- 15:00 → 15:45
  
  Title will be informed soon.. 45m
  
  Speaker: Jajati Kesari Nayak
- 15:45 → 16:30
  
  Rare Isotope Beams – their discovery potential and VECC’s efforts 45m
  
  Speaker: Arup Bandyopadhyay
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Title will be informed soon... 30m
  
  Speaker: Chandana Bhattacharya
- 17:00 → 17:30
  
  High Energy Accelerators: One stop solutions for exotic radioisotopes of multiple uses – from therapy to neutrino mass measurement 30m
  
  Speakers: Nabanita Naskar, Susanta Lahiri
- 19:30 → 21:30
  
  Conference Dinner 2h B A N Q U E T
  
  B A N Q U E T
  
  B A N Q U E T
Friday, 13 May
- 10:00 → 10:45
  
  Parton Distribution Functions for Discovery Physics at the LHC 45m
  
  Speaker: Amanda Cooper-Sarkar
- 10:45 → 11:30
  
  Testing the cosmological principle 45m
  
  Speaker: Subir Sarkar
- 11:30 → 12:15
  
  Tea / Coffee 45m
- 12:15 → 13:00
  
  Unlocking Mysteries of Neutron Stars 45m
  
  Speaker: Debades Bandyopadhyay
- 13:00 → 13:30
  
  Holographic bound on area of a compact binary merger remnant 30m
  
  Speaker: Partha Sarathi Majumdar
- 13:30 → 14:45
  
  L U N C H 1h 15m
- 14:45 → 15:30
  
  The 21cm Hydrogen absorption line observed by EDGES; Dark Matter-Baryon and Dark Matter-Dark Energy interactions in early Universe 45m
  
  Speaker: Debasish Majumdar
- 15:30 → 16:15
  
  Title will be informed soon.. 45m
  
  Speaker: Paolo Giubellino
- 16:15 → 16:45
  
  The discovery of a large scale helium basin in West Bengal and Jharkhand States in Eastern India 30m
  
  Speaker: Debasis Ghose
- 16:45 → 17:15
  
  Cosmic Archaeology: Preparating for the exciting expedition ahead 30m
  
  Online
  
  Speaker: Swapan Chattopadhyay
- 17:15 → 17:30
  
  “In Celebration of Bikash Chandra Sinha: A Brilliant Life in Science, Arts, Education, Leadership and Public Service”. 15m
  
  Online
  
  Speaker: Swapan Chattopadhyay
- 17:30 → 17:40
  
  Concluding Remarks: Bikash Sinha 10m
  
  Speaker: Bikash Sinha
- 17:40 → 17:45
  
  E N D 5m

MMAP 2020

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Main Auditorium

Reception at Bikash Sinha’s home

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