Beyond LIGO - India: 

Indian Deci-Hz GW Space Mission

Draft Schedule

Day 1: 16th March 2026

Time 

Title/Topic

Speaker

9:50AM - 10:00AM

Opening remarks

Director IISER Kolkata,

Rajesh Nayak,

Mohammad Hasan

10:00AM - 10:20AM

Overview Deci-Hz Mission(general)

Rajesh Nayak

10:20AM - 11:00AM

Instrumentation overview

Sendhil Raja

11:00AM - 11:20AM

Deci-Hz astronomy with LGWA-like mission

Ajith Parameswaran

11:20AM - 11:40AM

Coffee/Tea Break

11:40AM - 12:00Noon

Deci-Hz Science overview

Arun KG

12:00Noon - 1:00PM

Panel Discussion and Feedback from reviewers

Ajit Kembhavi, Sreekumar, Bala Iyer

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Lunch Break

2:00PM - 2:15PM

Strong-field Tests of Gravity

Sumanta Chakraborty

2:15PM - 2:30PM

Neutron star EOS

Debarati Chatterjee

2:30PM - 2:45PM

Continuous GWs in decihz band

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

2:45PM - 3:00PM

Physics of DWD systems

Rahul Kashyap

3:00PM - 3:15PM

Astrophysics with decihz

Shasvath Kapadia

3:15PM - 3:30PM

Cosmology with decihz

Suvodip Mukherjee

3:30PM - 4:00PM

Tea/Coffee Break

4:00PM - 4:15PM

Synergy with LIGO-India

Anand Sengupta

4:15PM - 4:30PM

Waveform Challenges

Prayush Kumar

4:30PM - 4:45PM

Data Analysis challenges

Ajit Kumar Mehta

4:45PM - 5:00PM

Harnessing Quantum Interference for Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

Shankaranarayanan

5:00PM - 5:15PM

Testing the coherent state description of gravitational radiation with quantum sensing

Sreenath Manikandan

5:15PM - 5:30PM

LGWA instrumentation

Suresh Doravari

5:30PM - 6:00PM

Coffee/Tea/Snacks

8:00PM -

Dinner

Day 2: 17th March 2026

Challenges for a Deci-Hz Space Mission and the Way Forward

10:00AM - 10:30AM

"Development of Indian GW astronomy community"

Archana Pai

10:30AM - 11:00AM

Co-evolution with LIGO-India

Sanjit Mitra

11:00AM - 11:30AM

Coffee/Tea Break

11:30AM - 1:00PM

Path forward (Panel discussion)

Sreekumar, Hasan

1:00PM -

Lunch and Disperse