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)
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