Academic Year 2017-18

MS project students at IISc:

Spandan Mondal (BS-MS programme student)
CERN-THESIS-2018-075: Search for Dark Matter produced in association with bottom quarks in √s = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with the CMS detector

BSc project students at IISc:

Varuneswar Reddy
Study of sequential clustering algorithms using simulated events of top pair production at Large Hadron Collider"

MSc project students at St. Joseph’s college, Bangalore:

Priyanka SN
CERN-THESIS-2018-046: Study of jet clustering algorithms using simulated events of the top pair production at the Large Hadron Collider

Jobish Jose
Verification of Bethe-Bloch formula using GEANT4 toolkit

Previous Academic Year 2016-17

Summer project students (May-July 2017)

UG-4th year Spandan Mondal

UG-2nd year Abhay Gupta, Kaustubh Kamal, Aneesh Baburaj, Sai Teja, Aravind S

UG-1st year Sainmitre Passah, Hitesh Kishore Das, Shivnag Sista, Shashank Dattathri, Aishik Panja, Vyshnav Mohan

Outside IISc: N Sushree Ipsita, M.Sc. in Physics, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India

Integrated Ph.D. project students at CHEP

Deepak Kumar (2nd year) : projects PH250A and PH250B.

Krishna Jha (1st year) : summer project during May - June 2017.

Abhijit Das (1st year) : summer project during May - June 2017.

Praveen Chandra Tiwari (2nd year) worked on a simulation project: "Physics of Jets at Large Hadron Collider" during Jan-Apr 2016 semester and summer semester.

Sayantan Ghosh (1st year) worked on a reading project: "Passage of particles through matter" during May - July 2016, summer semester.

Deepak Kumar (1st year) worked on a reading project during June - July 2016, summer semester.

Undergraduate project students at IISc

Diptaparna Biswas (BS-MS degree student) is working on couple of projects: "MadAnalysis Recast code for dark matter searches in association with bottom quarks" and "Search for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state for Phase-II upgrade of CMS detector".
CERN-THESIS-2017-026: MadAnalysis Recast Code for Dark Matter Production in Association with Bottom Quarks

Spandan Mondal (B.Sc. Research programme student) worked on "Measurement of top quark pair production cross section and estimation of top quark mass at 7TeV using Open data released by CMS".
CERN-THESIS-2017-032: Measurement of Top Quark Pair Production Cross section at √s = 7 TeV and Estimation of Top Quark Mass using CMS Data

Arvind S (B.Sc. Research) programme student worked on summer project during June - July 2016.

Undergraduate Faculty Advisor

Bharath Katabathuni (B.Sc. Research) programme student – 2014 Batch Physics Major

Mahendra Kumar Sahu (B.Sc. Research) programme student – 2015 Batch Physics Major

Masters by Research candidates at NCPP

Co-supervised Siew Yan HOH who graduated in 2017. He won prestigious CMS Fundamental Physics Scholarship in 2015 and visited CERN for one year 2016-2017. His master thesis can be found here. He recently got funding under Fermilab LHC Physics Center Guest & Visitors Program and is visiting Fermilab at present.

Co-supervised Afiq Aizuddin ANUAR who graduated in 2015. His master thesis can be found here. He received CMS Fundamental Physics Special Recongnition Award in 2014. He is presently pursuing Ph.D. at DESY.

Final Year Project (FYP) candidates at NCPP, Malaysia

Ooi Chong Seng worked on a simulation project: "Physics of Jets at Large Hadron Collider" during 2015-2016.

Tan Wei Khang worked on project: "Reconstructing Higgs events using Large Hadron Collider data" during 2015-2016.

Abu Ubaidah Amir Bin Ab Maalek worked on a simulation project: "Jets at Large Hadron Collider" during 2014-2015.