ASI-2015: Parallel Sessions Tuesday 17th February 2015 Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: NCRA East Campus Sun & Solar System - I: [Chairperson: Arnab Rai Choudhuri] Time Speaker Title 14:00 - 14:30 (I) Divya Oberoi First Murchison Widefield Array Observations of a Type II Solar Radio Burst 14:30 - 14:45 Avijeet Prasad Topological properties of coronal fields derived from nonlinear force-free (NLFF) magnetic field solutions 14:45 - 15:00 Soumitra Hazra Can Flux Transport Solar Dynamo Models Function with a Shallow Meridional Flow? 15:00 - 15:15 Shyama Narendranath New findings of solar coronal abundances from solar x-ray spectroscopic studies 15:15 - 15:30 Sowmya Krishnamurthy Influence of Paschen-Back effect on atomic spectral line polarisation Venue: NCRA Auditorium Stars, The Galaxy and its Neighbours - I [Chairperson: Bhaswati Mookerjea] Time Speaker Title 14:00 - 14:30 (I) T. Sivarani Stellar relics from the early galaxy 14:30 - 14:45 Bharath Kumar Yerra Role of RGB Stars in Galactic Li Evolution: Connection between Li enrichment and mass-loss 14:45 - 15:00 A. A. Ferro CCD time-series photometry of Variable Stars in Globular Clusters and the metallicity dependence of Horizontal Branch structure 15:00 - 15:15 Sujan Sengupta Upper Limit on Extreme-Ultraviolet Luminosity of Stars Hosting Habitable Planets 15:15 - 15:30 D. Jaghadeep Physical conditions of MYSOs through molecular spectroscopy Venue: NCRA E-LAB Extragalactic Astronomy - I [Chairperson: Prajval Shastri] Time Speaker Title 14:00 - 14:30 (I) S. Raychaudhury The early evolution of galaxies in small groups 14:30 - 14:45 Atreyee Sinha Blazar Monitoring from the HAGAR Cherenkov telescope 14:45 - 15:00 Prasad Subramanian "Blobs" in blazar jets: what are they, really? 15:00 - 15:15 Dharam Vir Lal Inverse-Compton Emission from the Powerful High-Redshift Radio Galaxy, 3C270.1 15:15 - 15:30 Preeti Kharb Clues about Jet formation and Propagation from Multi-wavelength Observations of Intermediate Quasars ASI 2015 Parallel Session - 17th February 2015 Time:16:30 - 18:00 Venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium Instrumentation - I [Chairperson: Annapurni Subramaniam] Time Speaker Title 16:30 - 17:00 (I) D. Bhattacharya An Overview of the ASTROSAT mission 17:00 - 17:15 S. Sriram Ground calibration of the UVIT 17:15 - 17:30 Kallol Mukherjee Ground Calibration and Creation of calibration database for Soft X-ray telescope of Astrosat mission 17:30 - 17:40 J.S. Yadav Calibration of LAXPC instrument 17:40 - 17:50 Varun Bhalerao The overall characteristics of the CZT-Imager 17:50 - 18:00 B. T. Ravishankar Calibration and ground tests of the SSM Payload Venue: NCRA Auditorium GR & Cosmology - I [Chairperson: K. Subramanian] Time Speaker Title 16:30 - 17:00 (I) Shiv Sethi Cosmology with 21 cm 17:00 - 17:15 Hamsa Padmanabhan Probing The Universe: Through Reionization and Later 17:15 - 17:30 Raghunath Ghara 21 cm signal from cosmic dawn 17:30 - 17:45 Mayuri Rao On the detection of spectral ripples from the Epoch of Recombination 17:45 - 18:00 Sourabh Paul Study of the 21 cm Epoch of reionization and foregrounds with Murchison Widefield Array
