Indo-Italian Wokshop in Physics 2026

26 Feb 2026, 09:00 → 28 Feb 2026, 19:35 Asia/Kolkata

IIT Delhi

The workshop aims to celebrate the rich scientific collaborations between scientists from India and Italy in various areas of physics, from fundamental to applied. It will host plenary talks, aimed at a broader audience, while identifying new areas of INDO-ITALIAN collaboration in these fields.

This workshop is being organized by IIT Delhi in collaboration with the Italian Embassy, New Delhi.

 

 

Local Organising Committee:

• Abhishek Iyer, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi
• Sergio Ledda, Scientific Attache', Italian Embassy, New Delhi
• Sarthak Parikh, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi
• Franco Pezzella, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN - sezione di Napoli)

Thursday 26 February

09:30 → 10:00 Welcome address

Director, PSA, DST, Embassy

10:00 → 10:40 Quantum Materials and Computing

Speaker: Prof. Francesco Tafuri (Universita di Napoli Federico II)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:40 Quantum Sensing and Metrology

Speaker: Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta (NPL, Delhi)

11:40 → 12:20 Quantum Communication

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Villoresi (University of Padova)

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Quantum Computing

Speaker: Prof. Rajamani Vijayraghavan (TIFR Mumbai)

14:40 → 15:20 Quantum Materials and Devices

Speaker: Prof. Chandni U (IISc, Bengaluru)

15:20 → 15:40 Coffee

15:40 → 16:20 Quantum Sensing and Metrology

Speaker: Prof. Kasturi Saha (IIT Bombay)

16:20 → 17:00 Quantum Communication

Speaker: Prof. Bhaskar Kanseri (IIT Delhi)

Friday 27 February

10:00 → 10:40 Particle Physics

Speaker: Prof. Sunil Mukhi (IISER Pune)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:40 Condensed Matter

Speaker: Prof. Shobana Narasimhan (JNCASR, Bengaluru)

11:40 → 12:20 Particles & AI/ML

Speaker: Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Condensed Matter

Speaker: Prof. Elissa Ercolessi (University of Bologna)

14:40 → 15:20 AI/ML in Physics

Speaker: Prof. Anoop Krishnan (IIT Delhi)

15:20 → 15:45 Coffee

15:45 → 16:25 Gender in STEM

17:30 → 18:30 Public talk

Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA, Trieste)

Saturday 28 February

10:00 → 10:40 Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Prof. Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:40 Synchrotron Physics

Speaker: Prof. Giorgio Paolucci (Elettra-Sincrotone, Trieste)

11:40 → 12:20 Astrophysics

Speaker: Prof. Marica Branchesi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Prof. Archana Pai (IIT Bombay)

14:40 → 15:20 Condensed Matter, Materials, and Synchrotron Physics

Speaker: Prof. DD Sarma (IISc, Bengaluru)

15:20 → 15:40 Coffee

15:40 → 16:20 TBD

Speaker: Prof. KR Sreenivasan (New York University)

16:20 → 18:15 Excursion to Humayun's Tomb

18:15 → 19:15 Public talk

Muon radiography in archeology

Speaker: Prof. Giulio Saracino (Università Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli)