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.