The WHEPPs are a series of International Workshops on Particle Physics, with the main focus being on particle phenomenology and its relation to both formal theory and experiment. They are held every alternate year and constitute the most important international event in particle physics phenomenology which is held regularly in India. Every WHEPP has led to several international collaborations and publications. Many particle phenomenologists of note around the world have been participants in previous WHEPPs, and they have served as a nursery for Indian particle physicists right since their inception.

Some well-known participants from outside India who have attended previous WHEPPs include: R.Aleksan, G.Altarelli, K.S.Babu, H.Baer, U.Baur, R.Brandenberger, S.-Y.Choi, E.-J.Chun, D.Denegri, A.deRoeck, N.G.Deshpande, M.Drees, H.Dreiner, E.Dudas, G.Dvali, W.Grimus, J.Gunion, H.Haber, D.Hitlin, W.S.Hou, J.Kalinowski, J.E.Kim, S.F.King, G.Landsberg, J.Learned, M.Lindner, E.Ma, M.Mangano, U.Meissner, R.N.Mohapatra, S.N.Nandi, W. van Neerven, Y.Nir, S.Pakvasa, E.Paschos, J.C. Pati, R.N. Phillips, G.Raffelt, L.Randall, E.Reya, A.I. Sanda, S.Sarkar, H.Satz, A.Soni and X.Tata.

This will be the twelfth in the series of WHEPPs. A list of the WHEPPs is given below: 

      

WHEPP Year Organising Instiitute(s) City Convenor(s)
I 1989 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai D.P. Roy, Probir Roy
II 1992 Jadavapur U. & U. of Calcutta Kolkata

Amitava Datta, Amitava Raychaudhuri

III 1994 Institute of Mathematical Sciences   Chennai S. Uma Sankar
IV 1996 S.N.Bose Nat. Centre for Basic Sciences  Kolkata Amitava Datta, Partha Ghosh, Amitava Raychaudhuri
V 1998 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Pune Rajiv V. Gavai
VI 2000 Institute of Mathematical Sciences   Chennai Rahul Basu
VII 2002 Harish-Chandra Research Institute Allahabad Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
VIII 2004 Indian Institute of Technology  Mumbai S. Uma Sankar
IX 2006 Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar Pankaj Agrawal
X 2008 Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai Rahul Basu
XI* 2010 Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad Subhendra Mohanty
XII* 2012 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mahabaleshwar Sreerup Raychaudhuri

*ICTS programmes.