Assistant Professor of Physics Digesh Raut served as chair of the organizing committee for the BCVSPIN conference: Particle Physics and Cosmology in the Himalayas, held from Dec. 9-13, 2024, in Kathmandu, Nepal. BCVSPIN (an acronym for Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Nepal) was initiated in the late 1980s by Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam and Professors Jogesh Pati, Yu Lu and Qaisar Shafi.