IndIGO Consortium
Members
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Bala Iyer (Council Chair) | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore |
| Tarun Souradeep (Spokesperson) (Council Member) | IUCAA, Pune |
| Sanjeev Dhurandhar (Science Advisor, Council) | IUCAA, Pune |
| C Unnikrishnan (Coordinator Experiments, Council) | TIFR, Mumbai |
| Somak Raychaudhury | IUCAA, Pune |
| Ajit Kembhavi | IUCAA, Pune |
| Sanjit Mitra | IUCAA, Pune |
| Sukanta Bose | IUCAA, Pune |
| Sharad Gaonkar | IUCAA, Pune |
| Ranjan Gupta | IUCAA, Pune |
| Jayanti Prasad | IUCAA, Pune |
| Sarah Ponrathnam | IUCAA, Pune |
| Prathamesh Dalvi | |
| Anirban Ain | |
| Anuradha Gupta | Penn State, US |
| Bhooshan Gadre | AEI, Golm |
| Javed Rana | Penn State, US |
| Nikhil Mukund | GEO, AEI, Hannover |
| Ajay Vibhute | IUCAA, Pune |
| Jishnu Suresh | KAGRA |
| Malathi Deenadayalan | IUCAA, Pune (Technical Staff) |
| V. Keerthana N | IUCAA, Pune |
| Varun Srivastava | |
| Sheelu Abraham | IUCAA, Pune |
| Kabir Chakravarti | IUCAA, Pune (Ph D student) |
| Pandurang Pole | IUCAA, Pune ( Consultant) |
| Deepak Bankar | IUCAA, Pune (System Administrator) |
| Vaibhav Savant | IUCAA, Pune (EPO Staff) |
| Ankit Bhandari | IUCAA, Pune (EPO Staff) |
| Rameshwar Bankar | IUCAA, Pune (EPO Staff) |
| Samir Dhurde | IUCAA, Pune (EPO Staff) |
| Anupreeta More | IUCAA, Pune (Scientific Staff) |
| Santosh Roy | IUCAA, Pune (Post-Doc) |
| Ashish Mhaske | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Shreejit Jadhav | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Sudhagar Suryaprakasam | IUCAA, Pune (Scientific Staff) |
| Shivaraj Kandhasamy | IUCAA, Pune (Scientific Staff) |
| Sunil Choudhary | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Kanchan Soni | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Deepali Agarwal | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Bhaskar Biswas | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Harshad Laxman Sawant | IUCAA, Pune (Technical Staff) |
| Subhadeep De | IUCAA, Pune |
| Sayak Datta | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Tathagata Ghosh | IUCAA, Pune (Graduate Student) |
| Sayantani Bera | IUCAA, (Post Doc) |
| Debarati Chatterjee | IUCAA, |
| Surhud More | IUCAA |
| Divya Rana | IUCAA (Graduate Student) |
| Anuj MIshra | IUCAA (Graduate Student) |
| Varun Bhalerao | IIT- Bombay, Mumbai |
| Archana Pai | IIT- Bombay, Mumbai |
| V. Gayathri | Univ of Florida |
| Disha Sawant | IIT, Bombay (Post-Doc) |
| R.S. Pranjal | IIT, Bombay (Student, Short-term) |
| Tanazza Khanam | IIT, Bombay (MSc student) |
| Arvind B. | IIT, Bombay (BS+MS student, IISER, Pune) |
| Koustav Chandra | IIT, Bombay (Ph D student) |
| Debnandini Mukherjee | IIT, Bombay (Post-Doc) |
| Nirban Bose | IIT, Bombay (Ph D student) |
| Sagar Kumar Gupta | IIT, Bombay (Long Term UG) |
| Remya Nair | Montana State Univ |
| G Rajalakshmi | TIFR, Hyderabad |
| A Gopakumar | TIFR, Mumbai |
| P. G. Rodrigues | TIFR Mumbai |
| T. R. Saravanan | IUCAA |
| Maria Haney | ETH, Zurich |
| Srishti Tiwari | IUCAA (PostDoc) |
| Abhimanyu Susobhanan | TIFR Mumbai (Student) |
| Sashwat Tanay | |
| Bhal Chandra Joshi | NCRA, Pune |
| Poonam Chandra | NCRA, Pune |
| Rajesh Nayak | IISER, Kolkata |
| Supriyo Mitra | IISER, Kolkata |
| Nirmalya Ghosh | IISER, Kolkata |
| Souradeep Pal | IISER, Kolkata (Ph. D. Student) |
| Gopi K Patel | IISER, Kolkata ( Long Term UG) |
| Anuradha S | Nikhef (Post-doc) |
| Basabendu Barman | IISER, Kolkata (Ph. D. Student) |
| Santanu Tripathy | IISER, Kolkata (Ph. D. tudent) |
| Joy Mitra | IISER, Thiruvananthapuram |
| Kumar Atmjeet | |
| Soham Mukherjee | |
| Umakant Rapol | IISER, Pune |
| Shivprasad Patil | IISER, Pune |
| Suneeta Varadarajan | IISER, Pune |
| Prasad Subramanian | IISER, Pune |
| K.G. Arun | Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai. |
| N V Krishnendu | AEI, Hannover |
| Muhammed Saleem | Univ of Minnesota (Post Doc) |
| Sayantani Datta | Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai. (Ph. D Student) |
| Shilpa Kastha | AEI, Hannover |
| Manjari Bagchi | IMSc, Chennai |
| Anand Sengupta | IIT, Gandhinagar |
| Gurudatt Gaur | IAR, Gandhinagar |
| Chetan Verma | IAR, Gandhinagar (Ph.D student) |
| Samarth Vaijanapurkar | |
| Soumen Roy | IIT, Gandhinagar (Ph.D student) |
| Amit Reza | IIT, Gandhinagar (Ph.D student) |
| Akshay Khadse | IIT, Gandhinagar (Short Term UG student) |
| Mohini Ramwala | IIT, Gandhinagar (Long Term UG student) |
| Ayon Biswas | IIT, Gandhinagar (Short Term UG student) |
| Lalit Pathak | IIT, Gandhinagar (Ph.D student) |
| Narola Harsh Bharatbhai | IIT, Gandhinagar (Long Term UG student) |
| Abhishek Sharma | IIT, Gandhinagar (Ph.D student) |
| T R Seshadri | Delhi University, Delhi |
| Patrick Dasgupta | Delhi University, Delhi |
| Sanjay Jhingan | Jamila Milia Islamia, Delhi |
| Anjan Ananda Sen | Jamila Milia Islamia, Delhi |
| Abhishek Parida | Jamila Milia Islamia, Delhi, IUCAA (Ph. D. student) |
| Prasad Naik | RRCAT Indore |
| A. S. Joshi | RRCAT, Indore |
| P.D. Gupta | RRCAT, Indore |
| S.K. Shukla | RRCAT, Indore. |
| P.K. Gupta | RRCAT, Indore |
| Sendhil Raja | RRCAT, Indore |
| Siddhesh A Pai | RRCAT, Indore |
| Ishnat Dave | RRCAT, Indore |
| Rohan Bhandare | RRCAT, Indore |
| Brijesh C Pant | RRCAT, Indore |
| Jogy George | RRCAT, Indore |
| C. Rajan | RRCAT, Indore |
| S. Shyam Sundar | RRCAT, Indore |
| Asmita Malik | RRCAT, Indore |
| Mohammad Khursheed | RRCAT, Indore |
| Thondapu Sivananda Reddy | RRCAT, Indore |
| Priyanka Sharma | RRCAT, Indore |
| Mayank Chaturvedi | RRCAT, Indore |
| Yogesh Verma | RRCAT, Indore |
| A.S. Raja Rao | (ex-RRCAT), consultant UHV |
| Sanjay Sahay | BITS, Goa |
| Shashank Chaturvedi | IPR, Bhatt |
| Dhiraj Bora | IPR, Bhatt |
| Predhiman K Kaw | IPR, Bhatt |
| Ziauddin Khan | IPR, Bhatt |
| Subroto Mukherjee | IPR, Bhatt |
| Ajai Kumar | IPR, Bhatt |
| Shailesh B Bhatt | IPR, Bhatt |
| Manoj Kumar Gupta | IPR, Bhatt |
| Amit Kumar Srivastava | IPR, Bhatt |
| Dilip C Raval | IPR, Bhatt |
| Karmesh Mehta | IPR, Bhatt |
| Subodh M Patel | IPR, Bhatt |
| Sunil S | IPR, Bhatt |
| Arnab Das Gupta | IPR, Bhatt |
| Rakesh Kumar | IPR, Bhatt |
| Atul K Prajapati | IPR, Bhatt |
| Vijaykumar Bedakihale | IPR, Bhatt |
| Naresh Chand Gupta | IPR, Bhatt |
| Jadhav, Sameer Janardan | DCSEM, Mumbai |
| Janthalur, Nagaraj Nagabhushanarao | DCSEM, Mumbai |
| Prasanna, Raghurama | DCSEM, Mumbai |
| Anil Kumar | DCSEM, Mumbai |
| Pratap Kumar Panda | DCSEM, Mumbai |
| Bhim Prasad Sarmah | Tezpur University, Napaam |
| Anil Prabhakar | IIT Madras, Chennai |
| Shanti Bhattacharya | IIT Madras, Chennai |
| L. Sriramkumar | IIT Madras |
| Chandra Kant Mishra | IIT Madras |
| Deepa Venkitesh | IIT Madras |
| Anjali Prabhakaran Sheela | IIT Madras (Graduate Student) |
| Rajat Kumar Basak | IIT Madras (Technical Staff) |
| Divyajyoti | IIT Madras (Graduate Student) |
| Arjun Kurur | IIT Madras (Technical Staff) |
| Kaushik Paul | IIT Madras (Graduate Student) |
| Pranav Satheesh | IIT Madras, Long term UG) |
| Shashank Gandhi | IIT Madras, Long term UG) |
| Pradeep Kumar | IIT Kanpur |
| Pankaj Jain | IIT Kanpur |
| Khun Sang Phukon | IIT Kanpur |
| Bhaskar Kanseri | IIT Delhi |
| Joyee Ghosh | IIT Delhi |
| P. Ajith | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore |
| Aditya Vijaykumar | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore (Graduate Student) |
| Apratim Ganguly | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore (Post Doc) |
| Archisman Ghosh | Nikhef, |
| Arunava Mukherjee | SINP, Kolkata |
| Nathan Johnson-McDaniel | Cambridge (Post doc) |
| R. Srinivasa | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore |
| Abhirup Ghosh | AEI-Potsdam, Post-doc |
| Sudarshan Ghonge | Georgia Tech |
| Sumit Kumar | AEI Hannover |
| Rahul Kashyap | Penn State, USA |
| Ajit Kumar Mehta | AEI, Potsdam |
| Hemanta Kumar | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore |
| Harris M. K. | Nikhef |
| Md Arif Shaikh | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore ( Post Doc) |
| Mukesh Kumar Singh | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore (Ph. D Student) |
| Srashti Goyal | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore (Ph. D Student) |
| Soummyadip Basak | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore (Ph. D Student) |
| Vasant Natarajan | IISc, Bangalore |
| Sanjay Kumar Swain | NISER, Bhubaneswar |
| Nishikanta Khanadi | NISER, Bhubaneswar |
| Devendra Kumar Mishra | Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi |
| Kuntal Mishra | ARIES, Nainital |
| T.S. Kumar | ARIES, Nainital |
| Surendra Nadh Somala | IIT Hyderabad |
| Shantanu Desai | IIT Hyderabad |
| L. Resmi | Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, Trivandrum |
| Ninan Sajeeth Philip | St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry |
| Biswajit Paul | NIT Agartala |
| Rana Adhikari | Caltech, Pasadena |
| Ashish Mahabal | Caltech, Pasadena |
| Suresh Doravari | GEO, Hannover |
| Rijuparna Chakraborty | |
| Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam | |
| Arjit Sharma | IIT, Tirupati |
| Mohana Mageswaran | LIGO, Caltech, Pasadena |
| Badri Krishnan | Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover |
| Aparna Bisht | Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover (Ph. D Student) |
| B Sathyaprakash | Penn State, Cardiff University |
| Chinmay Kalaghatgi | Cardiff University,(Ph. D Student) |
| Vaibhav Tewari | Cardiff Univ, Cardiff (PDF) |
| Soumya Mohanty | University Texas, Brownsville |
| Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra | |
| Rahul Kumar | LIGO, Caltech (PDF) |
| Shaon Ghosh | |
| Krishna Venkateswara | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Basanta Bhaduri | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| Gaurav Khanna | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| Deepak Kumar | University of Florida, LIGO Hanford |
| Prayush Kumar | Cornell (PDF) |
| Shweta Bhagwat | Syracuse University, Syracuse (Ph.D. Student) |
| Soumi De | Syracuse University, Syracuse (Ph.D. Student) |
| Viswanath Bavigadda | |
| Sujit Bandyopadhyay | Nanometrics, UK |
| Robinjeet Singh | Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge (Ph.D. Student) |
| Nairwita Mazumder | Washington State University, Pullman ( Post Doc) |
| Karan Jani | Georgia Tech (Post-doc) |
| Reetika Dudi | University of Jena, Germany (Ph. D. student) |
| Total = 230(T=19.5,DA=113.5,Exp=97) |
LIGO-India Scientific Collaboration:
The participation of Indian researchers in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration is managed through the umbrella organisation LIGO-India Scientific Collaboration (LISC). Please see the LISC website
for more information.LISC Institutions
- CGCRI, Kolkata
- Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai
- DCSCEM, Mumbai
- ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore
- IISER-Pune, Pune
- IISER-Kolkata, Kolkata
- IIT, Bombay, Mumbai
- IIT Madras, Chennai
- IIT, Hyderabad
- IIT, Gandhinagar
- IPR, Bhatt
- IUCAA, Pune
- NIT, Calicut
- RRCAT, Indore
- SINP, Kolkata
- TIFR, Mumbai
Organization
LIGO-India Scientific Collaboration (LISC):
Archana Pai (PI) (IIT, Bombay))
Bala Iyer (co-PI) (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
K.G. Arun (CMI, Chennai)
Poulami DuttaRoy ( CMI, Chennai) (Postdoc)
Rajesh Nayak (IISER, Kolkata)
Souradeep Pal(IISER, Kolkata)(Graduate student)
Anand Sengupta (IIT, Gandhinagar)
Abhishek Sharma (IIT, Gandhinagar) ( Graduate Student)
Sanjeev Dhurandhar (IUCAA, Pune)
Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA, Pune)
Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA, Pune)
Sharad Gaonkar (IUCAA, Pune)
Ninan Sajeeth Philip (IUCAA, Pune)
Malathi Deenadayalan (IUCAA, Pune)
Deepak Bankar (IUCAA, Pune) (Systems Admin)
Rameshwar Bankar (IUCAA, Pune) (EPO)
Samir Dhurde (IUCAA, Pune) (EPO)
Anupreeta More (IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific Staff)
Ashish Mhaske (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Shreejit Jadhav (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Shivaraj Kandhasamy(IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific Staff)
Manasadevi Priyamvadha Thirugnanasambandam(IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific Staff)
Suresh Doravari(IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific Staff)
T. R. Saravanan (IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific Staff)
Harshad Laxman Sawant (IUCAA, Pune) (Technical Staff)
Tathagata Ghosh (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Debarati Chatterjee (IUCAA,Pune )
Surhud More (IUCAA, Pune)
Apratim Ganguly (IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific staff)
Pradhan, Bikram Keshari (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
De, Subhadeep (IUCAA, Pune)
P. Prasia (IUCAA) (PostDoc)
Shasvath Kapadia (IUCAA,Pune )
Avinash Tiwari, (I (UCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Sourabh Suryakant Magare, (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Ravi Kesharwani (IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific staff)
Sankar Majhi (IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific staff)
Sandeep K Joshi (IUCAA, Pune) (Scientific staff)
Swarnim Shirke (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Nilaksha Barman (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Bhat, Sajad Ahmad (IUCAA, Pune) (Postdoc)
Saurabh Umesh Salunkhe (IUCAA, Pune)(Scientific staff)
Gopalkrishna Shrikant Prabhu (IUCAA, Pune) (Graduate Student)
Divya Dileep (IUCAA,Pune) (Short term Undergraduate)
Ashmita Roy (IUCAA,Pune) (Short term Undergraduate)
Abhay Karia (IUCAA,Pune) (Short term Undergraduate)
Dhatri Raghunathan (IUCAA,Pune) (Short term Undergraduate)
Varun Bhalerao (IIT, Bombay)
Gaurav Waratkar (IIT, Bombay) (Graduate Student)
GHOSH, SAYANTAN (IIT, Bombay) (Graduate Student)
Johann Fernandes (IIT, Bombay) (Graduate Student)
Praveer Tiwari (IIT, Bombay) (Post Doc)
Ravi Kumar(IIT, Bombay) (Short term UG)
Shashank Chaturvedi (IPR, Bhatt)
Subroto Mukherjee (IPR, Bhatt)
Amit Kumar Srivastava(IPR, Bhatt)
Arnab Das Gupta (IPR, Bhatt)
Rakesh Kumar (IPR, Bhatt)
Sunil S (IPR, Bhatt)
Gulati H (IPR, Bhatt)
Prajapati, Atul Kumar (IPR, Bhatt)
Vijaykumar Bedakihale (IPR, Bhatt)
Naresh Chand Gupta (IPR, Bhatt)
Sendhil Raja (RRCAT, Indore)
Ishant Dave (RRCAT, Indore)
Rohan Bhandare (RRCAT, Indore)
Brijesh C Pant (RRCAT, Indore)
Jogy George (RRCAT, Indore)
C. Rajan (RRCAT, Indore)
Asmita Malik (RRCAT, Indore)
Mohammad Khursheed (RRCAT, Indore)
Mayank Chaturvedi (RRCAT, Indore)
Priyanka Sharma (RRCAT, Indore)
Sivananda Reddy Thondapu (RRCAT, Indore)
ShyamSundar ShyamSundar (RRCAT, Indore)
Yogesh Verma (RRCAT, Indore)
Rahul Kaushik (RRCAT, Indore)
Subhamoy Chakraborty (RRCAT, Indore)
Jadhav, Sameer Janardan (DCSEM, Mumbai)
Janthalur, Nagaraj Nagabhushanarao (DCSEM, Mumbai)
Prasanna, Raghurama (DCSEM, Mumbai)
Anil Kumar (DCSEM, Mumbai)(
Pratap Kumar Panda (DCSEM, Mumbai)
A. Gopakumar (TIFR, Mumbai)
Suvodip Mukherjee (TIFR, Mumbai)
Mohit Sah (TIFR, Mumbai, Graduate Student)
Samsuzzaman Afroz (TIFR, Mumbai, Graduate Student)
Aniruddha Chakraborty (TIFR, Mumbai, Graduate Student)
Lalit Pathak (TIFR, Mumbai, Post-doc0
Ajith Parameswaran (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
R. Srinivasa (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
Hemanta Kumar(ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
Prayush Kumar (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
Akash Maurya (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, Graduate Student)
Uddeepta Deka (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, Graduate Student)
Ankur Barsode (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, Graduate Student)
Anuj Mishra (ICTS-TIFR, Post Doc)
Samanwaya Mukherjee (ICTS-TIFR, Post Doc)
SurendraNadh Somala (IIT-Hyderabad)
Chandra Kant Mishra (IIT-Madras, Chennai)
Anil Prabhakar (IIT-Madras, Chennai)
Kaushik Paul (IIT-Madras, Chennai, Graduate Student)
Sweta Sethi (IIT-Madras, Chennai, Graduate Student)
Rimo Das (IIT-Madras, Chennai, Graduate Student)
Soham Bhattacharyya (IIT-Madras, Chennai, Post Doc)
Syed Umair Naqvi,(IIT-Madras, Chennai, Post Doc)
Umakant D Rapol ( IISER-Pune, Pune)
Soorya Narayan R (IISER-Pune, Pune, Long term UG)
Arunava Mukherjee (SINP, Kolkata)
Md Emanuel Hoque (SINP, Kolkata, graduate student)
Akash Kumar Mishra (SINP, Kolkata, Post Doc)
Atasi Pal (CGCRI, Kolkata)
Haris M K ( NIT-Calicut, Calicut)
Sreedevi Mohan S ( NIT-Calicut, Calicut, graduate student)
Total=113 (Mgt=5, DA=55, Exp=53)
LSC Council Members:
Archana Pai (PI) ( IIT-Bombay)
Bala Iyer (co-PI) (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
Sendhil Raja (RRCAT, Indore)
Subroto Mukherjee ( IPR, Bhatt)
Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA, Pune)
Suresh Doravari (IUCAA, Pune)
Shivraj Kandhasamy (IUCAA, Pune)(
Yogesh Verma (RRCAT, Indore)
Anand Sengupta (IIT, Gandhinagar)
Rajesh Nayak (IISER, Kolkata)
Prayush Kumar (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
Suvodip Mukherjee (TIFR, Mumbai)
Chandra Kant Mishra (IIT, Madras)
K.G. Arun (CMI, CHennai)
LSC Management Team:
LSC Program Committee:
LSC Speakers and Awards Committee:
Bala Iyer (ICTS-TIFR)
LSC Post-O5 Study Group:
Sendhil Raja (RRCAT)
IGWN committee:
K.G. Arun
LISC Executive Committee:
Archana Pai
Bala Iyer
Sanjit Mitra
Anil Prabhakar
Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC):
Bala Iyer (LISC representative)
Sendhil Raja (LIGO-India representative)
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