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  • Dr. Raghunath Sahoo, FInstP
    Professor
    Department of Physics
    Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
    Telephone : +91 8989122921/6265 284 066
    Email : raghunath [AT] iiti.ac.in, Raghunath.Sahoo [AT] cern.ch

    Presentations

    1. "Charmonia as a probe of Quark Gluon Plasma at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      National Seminar on "Recent Developments in Frontiers of Physics" (RDFP-2024), Sambalpur University, 15-16 March, 2024 (Invited Talk).

    2. "Towards QGP in Small Systems at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-XVII), IIT Gandhinagar, 02-11 Jan., 2024 (Invited Talk).

    3. "Understanding the formation of a deconfined medium in small collision systems at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      India-JINR workshop on elementary particle and nuclear physics, and condensed matter research, JINR, Dubna, Russia, 16-19 Oct., 2023 (Keynote Speaker).

    4. "Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Heavy-ion collisions in search for quark-gluon plasma at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      School and Workshop on Statistical Methods And Machine Learning in High Energy Physics (ML4HEP), ICTS, Bengaluru, India, 05-08 September 2023 (Work in project mode).

    5. "Small system QGP: Observations and Challenges.”
      52nd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD-2023), MATE KRC, Hungary, 21-26 August 2023 (Invited Plenary).

    6. "ALICE Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and Quark-Gluon Plasma.”
      VIETNAM CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY VINANST-15, Nha Trang city, Vietnam, 09-11 August 2023 (Invited Plenary).

    7. "Charmonia Production at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      Workshop: HHHPS, IIT Gandhinagar, 24-25 March 2023 (Invited talk).

    8. "Application of Machine Learning Techniques in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      Workshop: ADA - Astronomy, Data Science and Al Applications, IIT Indore, 28 Feb. 2023 (Invited talk).

    9. "Hadronic Collisions at TeV energies and Possible formation of QGP Droplets.”
      DAE-BRNS Workshop on Hadron Physics, NIT Jalandhar, 16-20 January 2023 (Invited Inaugural talk).

    10. "Possible formation of QGP droplets in small collision systems at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      XXV DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, IISER Mohali 12-16 December 2022 (Invited Mini-review).

    11. "Physics at Teraelectron Volt and Societal Applications.”
      UGC Academic Staff College Refresher Program for University and College teachers, DAVV, Indore (2-lectures), 12 and 14 Nov. 2022.

    12. "The Exciting Journey from Atoms to Quarks.”
      Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat, IIT Indore and Ministry of Education, M.P. Govt. (YouTube, Public Lecture in Hindi), 22 Sept. 2021.

    13. "Probing Proton+Proton Collisions at the LHC using Resonances and Charmonia.”
      Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary, 07 Sept. 2021.

    14. "Quark-Gluon Plasma: A New State of Matter.”
      Invited Plenary Lecture in the International Conference on Physical Sciences-2021 [ICPS-2021], SVNIT, Surat, 05 Feb. 2021.

    15. "From WWW to Hadron Therapy: Applications of High-energy Nuclear Physics.”
      Workshop on Advances in Applied Physics (AAP-2021), SVNIT, Surat, Gujurat, 18 January 2021.

    16. "Accelerating Science: Atto-scale Physics.”
      Evening Lecture, VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 15 December 2020.

    17. "Quark-Gluon Plasma: The Primordial Matter.”
      e-Short Term Course on Advances in High Energy Physics, NIT Jalandhar, India, 21 Sept. 2020 (2-Lectures): (YouTube)

    18. "Social Benefits of Big Bang Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.”
      Organized by Pabna University of Science and Technology, Pabna, Bangladesh, 09 August 2020
      ( International Public Lecture: YouTube )

    19. "The Big Bang Experiment and Technological Spin-offs.”
      Organized by MIT, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, 31 July 2020 (Public Lecture)

    20. "Collider Experiments and Societal Benefits.”
      Central University of South Bihar, Gaya; 25 July 2020 ( Public Lecture: YouTube )

    21. "Recreating the Big Bang in Laboratory: Science and Technology.”
      DAE, DST and Ministry of Culture Organized Vigyan Samagam (MegaScience Exhibition), National Science Center, New Delhi, 25 Jan. 2020 (Public Lecture)

    22. "A Journey to the Beginning of the Universe.”
      DAE, DST and Ministry of Culture Organized Vigyan Samagam (MegaScience Exhibition), National Science Center, New Delhi, 24 Jan. 2020 (Public Lecture)

    23. "Understanding medium formation in small systems using heat capacity.”
      64th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, University of Lucknow, India, 23-27 Dec., 2019 (Talk)

    24. "Event shape and multiplicity dependence of identified particle production and freeze-out scenario in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 13 TeV using PYTHIA8.”
      Quark Matter-2019, Wuhan, China, 4-9 Nov. 2019

    25. "Comparison of Chemical freeze-out parameters in p+p, p+Pb, Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb collisions at LHC energies.”
      Quark Matter-2019, Wuhan, China, 4-9 Nov. 2019

    26. "Do Proton-Proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider Energies produce droplets of Quark-Gluon Plasma?”
      International Workshop on Frontiers in High Energy Physics (FHEP-2019), University of Hyderabad-IIT Hyderabad, 14-17 Oct., 2019 (Invited Speaker)

    27. "New Directions in Physics of Proton+Proton Collisions at the LHC energies.”
      Workshop on Dynamics of QCD Matter, NISER, Bhubaneswar, 15-17 August, 2019 (Invited Speaker)

    28. "Big Bang, Little Bang and Mini-Bang: Characterizing a Partonic matter with ALICE at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.”
      VINANST-13, Ha Long City, Vietnam, 07-09 Aug., 2019 (Invited Speaker: ALICE Overview)

    29. "Possible Formation of Droplets of Quark-Gluon Plasma in Proton+Proton Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider Energies.”
      36th Convention of Orissa Physical Society (OPS) and International Seminar on ``Emerging Trends in Physics and Applications (ISETPA-2019)", Parala Maharaja Engineering College, Berhampur, 02-04 Feb., 2019 (Keynote Speaker)

    30. "Revealing The Secrets of the Universe.”
      The Millennium School, Indore, 01 October, 2018 (Public Lecture)

    31. "Sponsored Research Projects: Achieving a Greater Height.”
      Indore Institute of Science and Technology, Indore (IIST), 07 August, 2018 (Faculty Recharge Seminar)

    32. "Understanding the Beauty of Nature: Importance of Science and Technology.”
      Students Induction Program, Indore Institute of Science and Technology, Indore (IIST), 07 August, 2018 (Public Lecture)

    33. "Insight into the multipartonic interactions and charmonia production in p+p collisions at the LHC energies.”
      16th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP violation (FPCP 2018), IIT Hyderabad, 14-18 July, 2018.

    34. "The Hunt for QCD Plasma: The Primordial Matter.”
      BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, 17 July, 2018 (Invited Colloquium).

    35. "Autonomy, Governance & Management: Faculty-Student Collaboration in 
Institution Building.”
      TEQIP Summer Training Program on "Active Learning", WOW Hotel, Indore, 11-15 June, 2018 (Invited Lecture).

    36. "Study of Quarkonia Production in p+p collisions at the LHC and the Role of Multipartonic Interactions.”
      Quark Matter-2018, Lido Island, Venice, Italy 14-19 May, 2018.

    37. "A Journey to the Beginning of the Universe.”
      IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, 24 April, 2018 (Colloquium).

    38. "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC): A Marvel of Science and Technology.”
      College of Basic Science and Humanities, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, 23 April, 2018 (Colloquium).

    39. "Comprehending Particle Production in Proton+Proton and Heavy-Ion Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.”
      DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Thapar University, Patiala, India, 20-24 December, 2017 (Invited Talk)
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    40. "Multiple Partonic Interaction and Production of Charmonia in proton+proton collisions at the LHC energies.”
      IX International Workshop on Multipartonic Interactions at the LHC (MPI-2017), Peterhof Hotel, Simla, India, 11-15 December, 2017
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    41. "Relativistic Nuclear Collisions.”
      IUAC School on Nuclear Reactions 2017, IUAC, New Delhi, 30 October-04 November, 2017 (Invited Lectures)
      .

    42. "Relativistic Kinematics.”
      ALICE-India Training Program, VECC Kolkata, 07-12 August, 2017 (Invited Lectures)
      .

    43. "A Journey to the Beginning of the Universe.”
      Expert Lecture on Physics for MHRD's Ishan Vikash Programme (North-East BTech Students), IIT Indore, 27 June 2017 (Public Lecture).

    44. "Transverse energy per charged particle at the LHC: Is it a signature of Non-equilibrium or Gluon Saturation?”
      XII Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF-2017), NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Nethrlands, 12-16 June 2017 (Invited Talk).

    45. "The Subatomic Universe and the Large Hadron Collider.”
      Public Lecture in Physics, MHRD Ishan Vikash Program (for School children from North-East India), IIT Indore, 20 December, 2016. (Public Lecture).

    46. "Revealing Secrets of the Universe at the LHC.”
      Vani Vihar Physics Association (VPA) organized conference on "Physics with ALICE at the LHC", Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India, 23 Nov. 2016 (Invited Talk).

    47. "Universality in Particle Production and Freeze-out in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      XIV Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-2015), IIT Kanpur, 10 Dec. 2015 (Invited Talk).

    48. "From Rutherford Scattering to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) .”
      Expert Lecture on Physics for MHRD's Ishan Vikash Programme (North-East School Children), IIT Indore, 02 Dec. 2015 (Public Lecture).

    49. "The q-statistics and QCD Thermodynamics at RHIC and LHC: A Systematic Study of Particle Spectra.”
      XI Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF-2015), Warsaw, Poland, 03-07 Nov. 2015 (Invited Talk).

    50. "Evolution of Temperature Fluctuation in a Thermal bath and, its impications in Hadronic and Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      XI Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF-2015), Warsaw, Poland, 03-07 Nov. 2015.

    51. "Universality of particle production and energy balance in hadronic and nuclear collisions.”
      Quark Matter 2015-XXV International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Kobe, Japan, 27 Sept-03 Oct. 2015.

    52. "The q-statistics and QCD Thermodynamics at LHC.”
      Quark Matter 2015-XXV International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Kobe, Japan, 27 Sept-03 Oct. 2015.

    53. "Effective Energy Dissipation and Particle Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      Quark Matter 2014-XXIV International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Darmstadt, Germany, 18-24 May 2014.

    54. “A Journey to the Beginning of the Universe: The Big Bang Experiment at LHC.”
      Colloquium at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Roopnagar, India, 04th March, 2014.

    55. “The Discovery of The God Particle.”
      Foundation Day seminar on Nobel Prizes-2013, IIT Indore, 17th Feb, 2014.

    56. "Relativistic Kinematics”
      IX SERC School on Experimental High Energy Physics, IIT Madras, Dec. 2013 (Invited Lectures).

    57. “The Big Bang Experiment at LHC: An Indian Prospective.”
      One day seminar on Hadron Physics, IIT Indore, 23rd October, 2013.

    58. “Towards a Universal Law of Particle Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      International Conference on Recent Trends in Applied Physics and Material Science-2013, Govt. College of Engineering and Technology, Bikaner, Rajasthan 01-02 Feb. 2013.

    59. “Constituent Quarks and Charged Particle Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Delhi University, New Delhi, India, 03-07 Dec. 2012.

    60. “LHC: A Marvel of Science and Technology.”
      Colloquium, IIT Indore, India, 15th Nov. 2011.

    61. “Constituent Quarks and Enhancement of Multi-Strange Baryons in Heavy- Ion Collisions.”
      DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, 26-30 Dec. 2011.

    62. “QGP Phase Boundary and Plasma Lifetime from Thermal Properties of φ mesons.”
      DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BITS, Pilani, India, 20-24 Dec. 2010.

    63. “Probing QCD Matter in Heavy Ion Collisions using Heavy Flavors.”
      IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India, 25th June 2010 (for IIT-Indore, remote seminar).

    64. “Constituent quarks and multi-strange baryon production in heavy-ion collisions"
      International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Trombay, India, 08-12 Dec. 2009.

    65. “Probing QCD Matter in Heavy Ion Collisions using Heavy Flavors.”
      NISER, Bhubaneswar, India, 08th Nov. 2009.

    66. “Probing QCD Matter in Heavy Ion Collisions using Heavy Flavors.”
      IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India, 30th Oct. 2009.

    67. “Measurement of D* mesons in jets from p+p collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV.”
      INFN-Padova, Italy, July 22, 2009.

    68. “The QCD Phase transition and the Thermal Properties of φ Mesons.”
      Excited QCD, Zakopane, Poland; 8-14 February 2009.

    69. “Thermal Properties of φ Mesons and the QCD Equation od State.”
      DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics-2008, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorke, India, Dec. 22-26, 2008.

    70. “The QCD Equation of State with Thermal Properties of φ Mesons.”
      Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM-2008), Beijing, China; October 06- 10, 2008.

    71. “Overview of D0 Measurement in STAR.”
      Rencontres QGP France-2008; Hotel Dormy House, Etretat, France; September 15-17, 2008.

    72. “Saturation of ET/Nch and Freeze-out Criteria in Heavy Ion Collisions.”
      Quark Matter 2008-XX International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus Nucleus Collisions, Jaipur, India; February 4-10, 2008.

    73. “Transverse Energy Measurement in Au+Au Collisions by the STAR Experiment.”
      Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India; February 4-10, 2008.

    74. “Saturation of ET/Nch and Freeze-out Criteria in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      STAR International Collaboration Meeting, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, India; 28th January - 2nd February, 2008.

    75. “Saturation in ET/Nch and Freeze-out Criteria in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Trombay, Mumbai, India; 8th October, 2007 Van de Graaff Seminar .

    76. “Saturation in ET/Nch and Freeze-out Criteria in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India; 4th October, 2007 Free Meson Seminar .

    77. “Transverse Energy Measurement: Saturation in ET/Nch and Freeze-out Criteria in Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Central University, Hyderabad, India; Sept. 26, 2007 TPSC Seminar.

    78. “Transverse Energy Measurement and Fluctuation Studies in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions.”
      Dept. of Physics, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, India; July 17, 2007.

    79. “Transverse Energy Measurement, Particle Production, Freeze-out Criteria and QGP”
      “Advanced School on QGP”, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, India; July 9, 2007.

    80. “Transverse Energy Measurement and Fluctuation Studies in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC”
      Ecole Polytechnique, Saclay, France; June 5, 2007 (Remote seminar).

    81. “Transverse Energy Measurement, Particle Production and QGP.”
      UCT-CERN Research Center, Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa; May 14, 2007.

    82. “Transverse Energy Measurement and Fluctuation Studies in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC”
      University of California, Davis, USA; April 30, 2007 (Remote seminar).

    83. “Transverse Energy Measurement and Fluctuation Studies in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC”
      Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India, April 25, 2007.

    84. “Transverse Energy Production at RHIC”
      DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics.
      The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India, Dec. 11-15, 2006.

    85. “Transverse Energy Measurement in 62.4 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC.“ .
      Spectra Physics Working Group, STAR Collaboration meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA, July 11, 2006.

    86. “Transverse Energy production at RHIC.“
      Junior’s day, STAR Collaboration meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA, July 10, 2006.

    87. “Transverse Energy Measurement in 62.4 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC.“
      2006 RHIC & AGS Annual Users’ Meeting and Workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, June 5 - 9, 2006.

    88. “Transverse Energy Production at RHIC”
      QGP-Meet-2006, 5-7 Feb.2006, VECC, Kolkata, India.

    89. “Transverse Energy Measurement in 62.4 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC.“
      Quark Matter 2005-XVIII International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions , Budapest, Hungary, August 4-9, 2005.

    90. “Transverse Energy Measurement in 62.4 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC.“
      International Workshop on Hadron Physics, Toshalisands, Puri, India, March 7-17, 2005.

    91. “Transverse Energy Measurement in 62.4 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC.“
      ICPAQGP’ 2005, VECC-SINP, Kolkata, India, February 8-12, 2005.

    92. “Photon multiplicity, transverse energy measurement and fluctuation studies in 62.4 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC.”
      Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India, 28th January, 2005.

    93. “Online Calibration of PMD using FTPC.”
      STAR/ALICE-PMD collaboration meeting, Jammu University, Jammu, 27-30 May’04.

    94. “Analysis results on ALICE pre-production prototype test beam 2003.”
      STAR/ALICE-PMD collaboration meeting, Rajasthan University, Jaipur, Oct 16-18’2003.

    95. “Fluctuations and QGP.”
      STAR/ALICE-PMD collaboration meeting, VECC, Kolkata, May’2003.

    96. “The STAR Photon Multiplicity Detector.”
      DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, MSU, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India, Dec. 2002.

    97. “Physics of Chemical Potential : A Statistical Approach.”
      30th November, 1998, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.

    98. “Virial Theorem and Classical Mechanics.”
      25th April, 1997, Kendrapara College, Orissa, India.