| Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 14:00 - 15.30 | ||
| Venue: Room 911, 9th Floor, Central Block | ||
| Stars, ISM and the Galaxy I [Chairperson: Manoj Puravankara] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Shantanu Rastogi | Interstellar molecules in understanding astrophysical environments(I) | 30 |
| Ekta Sharma | Molecular filament formation and filament-hub interaction: LDN 1172/1174 dark nebula | 15 |
| Eswaraiah Chakali | Probing magnetic fields at the footprints of the bipolar bubbles - a case study towards Sh201 with JCMT/SCUBAPOL2 | 15 |
| Gulafsha Choudhury | Study of Magnetic Field Geometry of Some Star Forming Clouds | 15 |
| Anju Maurya | Study of nitrile substituted PAHs in relation to mid-infrared emission bands | 15 |
| Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 14:00 - 15.30 | ||
| Venue: Room 105, First floor, Central Block | ||
| Extragalactic Astronomy I [Chairperson: K S Dwarakanath] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Apurba Bera | Atomic hydrogen and star formation in galaxies at intermediate redshifts | 15 |
| Pranav Kukreti | Study of star formation in the EGS at z ~ 1 using the GMRT | 15 |
| Poonam Chandra | Inhomogeneous shock structure in supernovae revealed via low frequency radio observations | 15 |
| Mousumi Mahato | Multifrequency radio properties of Giant radio quasars using GMRT | 15 |
| Amitesh Omar | Observations of high redshift radio galaxies with 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope | 15 |
| Ankit Singh | Study of filament galaxies in EAGLE simulation | 15 |
| Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 14:00 - 15.30 | ||
| Venue: Council Room, Ground Floor, Central Block | ||
| General Relativity and Cosmology I [Chairperson: Harvinder Jassal] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Avinash Singh | Growth of Structure in the Presence of Perturbed Tachyon Dark Energy | 15 |
| Atanu Guha | Constraints on light Dark Matter fermions from relic density consideration, SN1987A cooling and the role of Tsallis statistics | 15 |
| Madhurima Choudhury | Extracting the 21cm Global Signal using artificial neural networks | 15 |
| Suvedha Naik | Probing primordial features using red-shifted 21 cm line | 15 |
| Prateek Gupta | Detection possibilities of 'Galaxy groups' using Numerical modelling of Radio emission & Large Scale Cosmological Simulation | 15 |
| Soumen Mondal | On the properties of dissipative shocks in relativistic accretion flows around black holes. | 15 |
| Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Room 911, 9th Floor, Central Block | ||
| Stars, ISM and the Galaxy II [Chairperson: Manoj Puravankara] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Yogesh Joshi | Optical characterization and Radial velocity monitoring of stellar candidates having Exoplanet or low-mass EB companion | 15 |
| Soumya Sengupta | Model transmission and Reflected Spectra of Exoplanets | 15 |
| Aritra Chakrabarty | Precise Transit Photometric Observation of the Extra-solar Planets Using Indian Astronomical Facilities | 15 |
| Shashanka Gurumath | Study on Angular Momentum of G-Stars and Their Exoplanets | 15 |
| Gayathri Viswanath | Star-Planet Interactions: a study in UV using GALEX and GAIA | 15 |
| Namitha Issac | Initial phases of high-mass star formation: A case study of Extended Green Object, G12.42+0.50 | 15 |
| Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Room 105, First floor, Central Block | ||
| Extragalactic Astronomy II [Chairperson: K S Dwarakanath] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Amit Shukla | Implications of observed short-timescale gamma-ray variabilities on blazars jets | 15 |
| Jitesh V | Long-term X-ray spectral variability of the ultra-luminous X-ray source M81 X-6 | 15 |
| Rukaiya Khatoon | The flux distribution of individual blazars as a key to understand the dynamics of particle acceleration | 15 |
| Rudrani Kar Chowdhury | Effect of AGN feedback on the simulated galaxy groups and clusters | 15 |
| Bhoomika Rajput | Gamma-ray flux variability and spectral characteristics of Fermi blazars | 15 |
| Krishna Mohana | Multiwavelength timing studies of blazar subclasses | 15 |
| Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Council Room, Ground Floor, Central Block | ||
| General Relativity and Cosmology II [Chairperson: Harvinder Jassal] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Archana Pai | First Gravitational Wave transient catalog (I) | 30 |
| Haris MK | Identifying strongly lensed gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers | 15 |
| Ashish Meena | Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves | 15 |
| Parita Mehta | Understanding the astrophysical formation channels of binary black holes | 15 |
| Abhimanyu Susobhanan | The Indian Pulsar Timing Array Experiment | 15 |
| Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Seminar Hall Block II Ground Floor | ||
| Special session on Astronomy Teaching [Chairperson: S K Pandey ] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Ajit Kembhavi | Opening remarks | 5 |
| D J Saikia | Activities of the IUCAA Astronomy Centre for Educators | 15 |
| Ranjeev Misra | Initiating Astronomy in Universities: The SITARE project and beyond | 15 |
| M K Patil | Experiments/Exercises for Astronomy teaching I | 10 |
| Priya Hasan | Experiments for Astronomy teaching II | 10 |
| Joe Jacob | Strategies for effective astronomy education | 10 |
| Open/Panel Discussion - Moderators/Panelist : H P Singh & Shantanu Rastogi | 25 | |