It is our great pleasure to declare that the winners of the IPA Rahul Basu Memorial Award have been selected for the period 2020- 2022. These are:
Winners:
Dr. Anupam Ray, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Thesis Title: Unravelling the Mystery of Dark Matter with Stars & Black Holes.
Dr. Shubham Pandey, Indian Institute of Science Education and
research Pune
Thesis title: Performance of High Granularity Calorimeter
prototypes for the CMS HL-LHC upgrade in beam test experiments
at CERN.
Runners up:
Dr. Biswajit Sahoo, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj
Thesis title: Classical and Quantum Subleading Soft Theorem in
Four Spacetime Dimensions
.
Dr. Samir Banik, National Institute of Science Education and
Research, Bhubaneswar
Thesis title: Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles in SuperCDMS
and simulation of neutron backgrounds.
The award ceremony will be held as a part of the DAE symposium on High Energy Physics, 12th – 16th December 2022 at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali. The winners will be given a cash prize of Rs.25,000/- each and a citation. The runners up will be presented a citation.
