Bose Institute Indo-FAIR Coordination Centre

Bose Institute Indo-FAIR Coordination Centre (BI-IFCC) is an extramural project at Bose Institute, Kolkata for facilitating the coordination of India’s participation in building the largest upcoming accelerator facility worldwide -- Facility for antiproton and ion research (FAIR) at Darmstadt-Germany. India is a founder member and the third largest contributor of this upcoming International facility with Bose Institute as the shareholding institute of the country. BI-IFCC is the nodal centre in India to facilitate Indian activities in FAIR at GSI, Germany.

FAIR, founded on 4th October 2010, will be fully operational by 2025. It will deliver beams for research in nuclear physics, hadron physics, high energy heavy ion collisions, atomic and plasma physics. A short Video of FAIR construction site may be found here.


FAIR GmbH is guided by a shareholder's assembly and run by a management team and a number of expert bodies. Several experts from India are members of various committees.

BI-IFCC is guided by an Executive Council with following members.

Sl. No.

Composition of Executive Council

Name of the Member

Position

1

Secretary, DST

Prof. A Karandikar

Co-Chair

Ex-Officio

2

Chairman, AEC & Secretary, DAE

Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty

Co-Chair

Ex-Officio

3

Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata

Prof. Kaustuv sanyal

Member

Ex-Officio

4

Director, VECC, Kolkata

Dr. Sumit Som

Member

Ex-Officio

5

Financial Adviser, DST

Shri Vishvajit Sahay

Member

Ex-Officio

6

JS (R&D), DAE, Mumbai

Ms. Sushma Taishete

Member

Ex-Officio

7

Head, ICPD, NCPW, DAE, Mumbai

Shri Sunil Ganju

Member

Ex-Officio

8

Head, International Division, DST

Dr. Praveen Somasundaram

Member

Ex-Officio

9

DST Scientist Handling the FAIR Project

Shri Gaurav Aggarwal

Member

Ex-Officio

10

One Representative from Indian Industry Participating in FAIR Activities (to be nominated by DST & DAE)

CMD, ECIL, Hyderabad

Member

Ex-Officio

11

Two Distinguished Scientist/Engineers with relevant research Experience (nominated jointly by DST & DAE)

a) Director, RRCAT, Indore (Shri U. D. Malshe)

 

b) Dr. D. Kanjilal

Member

Ex-Officio

12

One Scientist-Member of Bose Institute Council as its Nominee

Prof. Basant Kumar Nandi, IIT, Bombay

Member

Ex-Officio

13

Programme Director, Indo-FAIR Project

Prof. Supriya Das

Member- Secretary

Ex-Officio

14

Associate Programme Director, Indo-FAIR Project

Dr. Kaushik Banerjee

Convenor

Ex-Officio

India’s participation in FAIR is two-fold:
  (a)  design, fabrication, installation and commissioning of advanced accelerator
        equipment for FAIR and
   (b) participation in FAIR experimental programme including development
        and fabrication of detector systems for the experiments.

BI-IFCC is involved in following activities:
(a)    Coordination with FAIR on accelerator and detectors to be built in India
(b)    Coordination with Indian industry and laboratories for delivery of the in-kind equipment
(c)    Coordination with Indian scientific community for participation in FAIR experiments
(d)    Student development programme for FAIR research
(e)    Facilitating the organisation of workshops/schools related to FAIR physics and technology