ASI-2015: Parallel Sessions Thursday, 19 February 2015 Time: 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: NCRA E-LAB Extragalactic - III [Chairperson: T. Roy Choudhury] Time Speaker Title 11:30 - 12:00 (I) Nissim Kanekar The Nature of High-Redshift Damped Lyman-alpha Systems 12:00 - 12:15 Gargi Shaw Effect of metallicity and cosmic ray ionization rate on the 21cm spin temperature 12:15 - 12:30 Ruta Kale Probing cluster and super-cluster scale radio emission with the Murchison Widefield Array 12:30 - 12:45 Girish Kulkarni The Jeans Scale of the Inter-Galactic Medium 12:45 - 13:00 Rupal Basak The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts: signature of the thermal component Venue: NCRA East Campus Instrumentation & Techniques - III [Chairperson: N. Udaya Shankar] Time Speaker Title 11:30 - 12:00 (I) R.C. Rannot HiGRO - The Indian High Altitude Gamma-Ray Observatory 12:00 - 12:15 Nagendra Neerudu Development of high altitude balloons for scientific and other applications 12:15 - 12:30 Shashi Kiran Ganesh EMCCD based imaging polarimeter for the 1.2m Mt. Abu Telescope 12:30 - 12:45 Jyotirmay Paul Performance Analysis of iRobo-AO system and Laboratory calibration unit 12:45 - 13:00 Brajesh Kumar Upcoming 4m liquid mirror telescope ASI-2015: Parallel Sessions Thursday, 19 February 2015 Time: 14:30 - 16:00 Venue: NCRA Auditorium Sun and Solar System - III [Chairperson: Dibyendu Nandi ] Time Speaker Title 14:30 - 15:00 (I) Durgesh Tripathi The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard ADITYA 15:00 - 15:15 Nishtha Sachdeva Constraining near-earth mhd turbulence levels using forbush decrease precursors 15:15 - 15:30 Upendra Kumar Singh Kushwaha Large-scale implosion in coronal loops during the preflare phase of an M6.2 flare and associated failed eruption of a filament. 15:30 - 16:00 (I) Nandita Srivastava CME -CME interaction: Kinematics & Consequences Venue: NCRA E-LAB Stars, The Galaxy and its Neighbours - III [Chairperson: Ranjan Gupta] Time Speaker Title 14:30 - 15:00 (I) Kanak Saha Is there a classical bulge in our Milky Way? 15:00 - 15:15 Arabindo Roy The Line-mass Power Spectrum of Interstellar Filaments - A Possible Link to the IMF? 15:15 - 15:30 Lab Saha Radiative recombination structures in galactic supernova remnants 15:30 - 15:45 Pragati Pradhan Broadband properties of accretion powered X-ray pulsars: a study with Suzaku 15:45 - 16:00 Prasanta Bera Mass–radius relation of strongly magnetized white dwarfs: nearly independent of Landau quantization
