DAE Symposium Jaipur

DAE symposium 2010 was in Jaipur this time as I had mentioned earlier. It was held in a brand new institute called L N Mittal Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), around 17 km away from the main city. The institute campus was really cool, and the organizers also did a great job I believe with the arrangement of food, accommodations etc. There were two things I did not like about the campus: it is located in a very deserted place away from the city and the campus has too many flies which keep annoying you in the lecture halls as well as in the dining room. The symposium brought many old friends together, it was really nice for me to be in a conference where more than half of the participants are known. Most of them, I met in various other schools in the last few years. This symposium was also very exciting for me since it was the first time I gave a talk in a conference. Although I was a little bit nervous, but my talk went quite well. Each day of the conference was divided into two sessions: one for plenary talks and the other for parallel sessions. The invited speakers for plenary talks were well-known experts in their respective fields and it was really great listening to them, particularly the talks by Sandip Trivedi, A Joshipura and others. Anyway it was a great academic experience for me. The non-academic experiences of Jaipur will follow this post shortly ;-)

DAE Symposium 13-18th Dec'2010, Jaipur

Finally my trip to Jaipur next month is finalized. The abstract I submitted got accepted for an oral presentation. I will be presenting my paper with the PRL guys on D-parity breaking and TeV scale left-right symmetry (http://compactified.blogspot.com/2010/06/arxiv-number-2.html ) . This is going to be the first conference where I will be giving an oral presentation. I am a little scared but I already have enough of such presentations in IITB, so won't be a big deal I guess. Apart from the main results of the paper, I might include some other stuff also which could be a mere proposal at this stage since I have not completed those studies in details. I am looking forward to meeting couple of old friends as well as some well-known people in HEP from all over India. Apart from that Jaipur is one of the hottest (not in terms of temperature :P) tourist destinations in India and most importantly I have never been there except the train station through which my train passed through on the way to Delhi many times. If time permits I am planning to go to Ranthambore, Bharatpur also. These are very famous for wildlife (specially tigers and migratory birds). December will be very tight it seems as I am also planning to come to PRL, Ahmedabad after the conference for some work. I am not at all sure about new years eve party this time. I might not be able to celebrate it in Delhi like in last couple of years. Hope it happens once again. Keeping my fingers crossed right now.