Nilanjana Kumar
Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary (SGT) University, Gurugram
Nilanjana Kumar has a Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University, Illinois, USA. She was a Postdoc at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. She was also a D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Delhi. She is currently working at the Thanu Padmanabhan Centre for Cosmology and Science Popularization (CCSP) at SGT University, Gurugram. She has research experience in particle physics and high-energy physics. Her research interest spans the area of model building beyond Standard Model theories. She has expertise in collider phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider and future collider experiments. She is a member of the International Linear Collider (ILC) working group and the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC). Her current research interest also includes the study of dark matter, heavy neutrinos, primordial black holes and baryogenesis in the Early Universe. She was selected Associate of IASc in 2023.
Session 3A: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
Chairperson: U C Mohanty, Centre for Climate Smart Agriculture, Bhubaneswar
Crashing into the Unknown: The Role of Colliders in Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe
From the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that explains how other particles acquire mass, to dark matter, an elusive force that shapes the cosmos, colliders have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. By recreating the conditions of the universe's earliest moments, scientists can glimpse the underlying forces that govern the behaviour of matter and energy. As scientists continue to push the boundaries of what is possible, colliders will likely reveal even more secrets, allowing us to better comprehend the universe and our place within it.