Shivalik HEPCATS Summer 2026

Day 1 Schedule — 4 June 2026
Venue: LT 202, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun

Inauguration Ceremony

  • 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM
  • 10:10 AM – 10:20 AM
  • 10:20 AM – 10:28 AM
  • 10:28 AM – 10:30 AM
  • Welcome and felicitation of Guest by Hon’bl VC GEHU.
  • Address by Hon’bl VC GEHU
  • Address by Prof. K. D. Purohit
  • Vote of thanks

Session I
Session Chair: Prof. K. D Purohit (Former  Professor HNBGU)

  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Talk 1
Speaker: Dr. Hemwati Nandan (HNBGU)
Title: The Raychaudhuri Equations

  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Talk 2
Speaker: Dr. Ayan Chatterjee (HPCU)
Title: Hawking radiation from BTZ black Holes

Tea Break (11:30 AM – 12:00 PM)

Session II
Session Chair: Prof. Hemwati Nandan (HNBGU)

  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Talk 3
Speaker: Shivam Singh Kushwah (IIT Roorkee)
Title: ζ/η, Photoproduction in Paramagnetic MQGP and (Almost)
Contact Structures

  • 12:30 PM – 01:00 PM

Talk 4
Speaker: Ritesh Pandey (NWU South Africa)
Title: Light Deflection and Greybody Bound Around a BTZModMax
Black Hole in Plasma Medium Horizon structure, thermodynamics,
and shadow observables of slowly rotating dyonic
Euler–Heisenberg black holes in dark matter and plasma

Lunch Break (01:00 PM – 02:00 PM)

Session III
Session Chair: Dr. Sumit Pokhariyal (GEHU)

  • 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM

Talk 5
Speaker: Dr. Balender Pratap Singh (UPES Dehradun)
Title: Black hole evaporation process and Tangherlini–
Reissner–Nordstr¨om black holes shadow

  • 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM

Talk 6
Speaker: Siddhant Tiwari (IIT Ropar)
Title: SO-coupled Bosonic System

  • 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM

Talk 7
Speaker: Abhinav Jaguri (HNBGU)
Title: Rotating Kerr-Like wormholes: Probing the exotic nature
through MCMC-based analysis on plasma-induced Gravitational
Lensing

Tea Break (03:30 PM – 04:00 PM)

Session IV
Session Chair: Dr. Ayan Chatterjee (HPCU)

  • 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM

Talk 8
Speaker: Dr. Pritam Nanda (IISER Mohali)
Title: Cavity-Induced Amplification of Quantum Decay Channels

  • 04:30 PM – 05:00 PM

Talk 9
Speaker: Abhishek Negi (GEU)
Title: Horizon structure, thermodynamics, and shadow observables
of slowly rotating dyonic Euler–Heisenberg black holes in
dark matter and plasma

  • 05:00 PM – 05:15 PM

Talk 10
Speaker: Shrishti Kukreti (HNBGU)
Title: Light Deflection around a Hairy Kiselev Black Hole

  • 05:15 PM – 05:30 PM

Talk 11
Speaker: Bhaskar Singh Rawat (HNBGU)
Title: Zoom-whirl orbital dynamics and kludge gravitational
waveforms in extreme mass-ratio inspirals near charged black holes
surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter

Shivalik HEPCATS Summer 2026

Day 2 Schedule — 5 June 2026
Venue: LT202, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun

Session V
Session Chair: Dr. K. P Yogendren (IISER Mohali)

  • 09:00 AM – 09:30 AM

Talk 12
Speaker: Dr. Kinjalk Lochan (IISER Mohali)
Title: Inhibition of Decoherence in Accelerated Quantum Detectors

  • 09:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Talk 13
Speaker: Kush Maithani (HNBGU)
Title: Gravitational Waves from Spinning Particles Orbiting a
Rotating Wormhole

  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Talk 14
Speaker: Dr. Shankhadeep Chakrabortty (IIT Ropar)
Title: Carrollian Boundaries

Tea Break (10:30 AM – 11:00 AM)

Session VI
Session Chair: Dr. Sanjay Pant (GEHU)

  • 11:00 AM – 11:30
    AM

Talk 15
Speaker: Pronoy Chakrabortty (IIT Ropar)
Title: Representation Theory of BCCFT2

  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Talk 16
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Talk 17
Speaker: Anchita Chetia (IIT Mandi)
Title: Momentum Space Correlation Functions in 2D Galilean
Conformal Algebra (based on arXiv:2512.21733)

Concluding Remarks and Vote of Thanks (12:30 PM – 01:00 PM)

Lunch Break (01:00 PM – 02:30 PM)

May 2026

Last Date of Registration