India-Based Neutrino Observatory

Graduate Training Programme (GTP) is one of the most successful initiatives of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project which become operational almost exactly 17 years back - from August 2008. The programme was affiliated to the Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI). GTP has technically come to an end today as its last (41st) student successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Note the gender ratio from the table. It must be noted that besides these 40+, another dozen or so students from various collaborating institutes and universities had also worked on INO topics and were graduated. INO will ever be proud of its role in training many talented students into matured young scientists.

On 27th March, Institute of Physics (IOP) Bhubaneswar has successfully IceCube MasterClass event in which students and teachers from various schools in Bhubaneswar participated. There were several talks on neutrinos, the IceCube project and its physics, hands-on sessions on IceCube data analysis, and live discussions with the IceCube winterovers from the South Pole. Mr. Krishnamoorthi Jayakumar from Madurai (who was earlier associated with INO) and is the Ph.D. student of Prof. Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, played an important role in making this event successful. It shows INO's contribution to HEP in India.

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Hari Prasad Kolla for winning the IPA Prof. C.V.K. Baba Award for best thesis presentation in Nuclear Physics. This was awarded to his thesis titled “Evolution and implementation of precision time interval measurement techniques in ASIC and FPGA technologies” and was presented during the DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics held at IIT Roorkee, during Dec 7-11, 2024. Dr. Kolla's thesis work was largely motivated by the requirement of ICAL experiment of the INO project.

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-particle-closer-physicists-outline-years.html

"UC Professor Jure Zupan, UC Associate Professor Adam Aurisano, UC visiting scholar Tarak Thakore, UC postdoctoral fellow Michael Wallbank and UC physics students Herilala Razafinime and Miriama Rajaoalisoa also contributed to the paper."

INO wishes to congratulate Tarak for this excellent work. He has worked extensively on INO physics and its data analysis tools.

Particle research gets closer to answering why we're here: Physicists outline next 10 years of neutrino research Physicists soon will be closer than ever to answering fundamental questions about the origins of the universe by learning more about its tiniest particles.

Prof. Rohini Godbole (12 November 1952 - 25 October 2024) was a great motivator and mentor for the entire HEP community. She was champion of women in science. She was a strong supporter of the INO project. And she did everything that she could to make it into a reality. In her passing away, the community lost its collective voice. It’s hard to believe that this guiding light for many and a fierce advocate for women in science is no longer with us. INO joins thousands of her colleagues, students and HEP community in general from all over the word in paying a deep homage 🙏.

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Heartiest Congratulations to Prof. Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar and INO/HBNI Faculty for winning this prestigious Award 💐💐💐

Latest paper by one of the senior graduate students of INO (Sadashiv Sahoo) on the unique capability of INO's ICAL detector in constraining the "non-unitary neutrino mixing". ICAL uses naturally produced atmospheric neutrinos. Sadashiv works at the Institute of Physics (Bhubaneswar) under guidance of Prof. Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla. Congratulations Sadashiv Sahoo and all the best for your future endeavours 👏.

mini-ICAL detector in the INO/IICHEP Campus, Madurai
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A brief video on the motivation and working of mini-ICAL detector. This detector is a 1/600 scaled-down version of the INO's flagship detector called ICAL. Even though its purpose was to test out many engineering aspects of ICAL, mini-ICAL on its own has produced a few Ph.D. theses.

Video credit: Rajkumarbharathi Sivagnanam and Krishnamoorthi Jayakumar

mini-ICAL detector in the INO/IICHEP Campus, Madurai A brief video on the motivation and working of mini-ICAL detector. This detector is a 1/600 scaled-down version of the INO's flagship detector called ICAL. E...

KGF Neutrino Experiment (Telescope 2) - 1965.
From left to right: Roderick Craig (Durham University UK), A.M. Vinze, (TIFR Mumbai), R. Wa**er (TIFR Mumbai), and D.R. Creed (Durham University UK).

Group photos of some of the INO Collaboration meetings 🙂