ASI-2015: Parallel Sessions Wednesday, 18 February 2015 Time: 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: NCRA Auditorium Sun & Solar System - II [Chairperson: P K Manoharan] Time Speaker Title 11:30 - 12:00 (I) R. Ramesh Observations of the solar corona at low radio frequencies 12:00 - 12:15 Jishnu Bhattacharya Frequency shifts of resonant modes of the Sun due to near-surface convective scattering 12:15 - 12:30 Nithin Mohan Radio Observation of Venus at Meter Wavelengths using the GMRT 12:30 - 12:45 Hajime Kita Study on short-term variation mechanism of the Jovian radiation belt based on radio interferometer observations 12:45 - 13:00 Rajbir Kaur Whistler-mode Instability in Presence of Parallel Electric Field in Magnetosphere of Uranus Venue: NCRA E-LAB Extragalactic - II [Chairperson: Mousumi Das] Time Speaker Title 11:30 - 12:00 (I) J. Bagchi Spiral galaxy radio jets: The secret sits in the middle and knows 12:00 - 12:15 Narendra Patra Modeling HI distribution and kinematics in the edge-on dwarf irregular galaxy KK250 12:15 - 12:30 T Mageshwaran Stellar dynamics around BHs and it observational implications for quiescent galaxies 12:30 - 12:45 K Vaghmare Where do S0 Galaxies Fit in the Overall Picture of Galaxy Formation and Evolution? 12:45 - 13:00 Honey M Secular evolution in barred Low Surface Brightness Galaxies Venue: NCRA East Campus Instrumentation & Techniques - II [Chairperson: A Ramprakash] Time Speaker Title 11:30 - 12:00 (I) Koshy George WFOS - TMT first light instrument 12:00 - 12:15 Saurabh Sharma TIFR-ARIES Near Infrared spectrometer (TANSPEC) on the 3.6m DOT 12:15 - 12:30 Yashwant Gupta GMRT: current status and future 12:30 - 12:45 Niruj Mohan Realtime pipeline @ GMRT for detection of transients 12:45 - 13:00 Sasi Kumar Raja Design and performance study of a meter wavelength narrow band cross-polarized log-periodic dipole antenna to observe the polarized radio emission ASI-2015: Parallel Sessions Wednesday, 18 February 2015 Time: 14:30 - 16:00 Venue: NCRA E-LAB Stars, The Galaxy and its Neighbours - II [Chairperson: Anandmayee Tej] Time Speaker Title 14:30 - 15:00 (I) Santosh Joshi Asteroseismic Investigation of the Chemically Peculiar Stars 15:00 - 15:15 Anupam Bharadwaj The Variation of Fourier Parameters for Galactic and LMC Cepheids at Optical, Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared Wavelengths 15:15 - 15:30 Supriyo Ghosh Phase dependent spectro-photometric studies of a new Mira variable MASTER Optical Transient J212444.87+321738.3 15:30 - 15:45 Vishal Joshi Detection of strong shock wave during the 2014 outburst of recurrent nova V745 Sco 15:45 - 16:00 N.G. Kantharia Evolution of radio emission at GMRT frequencies from the recurrent nova system V745 Scorpii Venue: NCRA Auditorium GR & Cosmology - II [Chairperson: Archana Pai] Time Speaker Title 14:30 - 15:00 (I) P. Ajith Gravitational-wave observations and multi-messenger astronomy 15:00 - 15:15 Kanhaiya Pandey Reionization constraints on primordial magnetic fields 15:15 - 15:30 Priyanka Singh CMB distortion from circumgalactic gas 15:30 - 15:45 Sumanta Chakrabarty Evolution of Spacetime arises due to the departure from Holographic Equipartition in all Lanczos-Lovelock Theories of Gravity 15:45 - 16:00 D Narsimha Gravitational Lensing as a probe of Ultraviolet and Infrared modifications of Gravity