| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 11:30 - 13:00 | ||
| Venue: KE Auditorium | ||
| Thesis Presentation II [Chairperson: Suchetana Chatterjee] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Prakash Gaikwad | Efficient simulations of the intergalactic medium and parameter estimation | 15 |
| Vedavathi P | Emission line and continuum variability study of active galaxies for redshift 0 < z ≤1.0 | 15 |
| Ajanta Datta | Waves in Solar Atmosphere and their Role in Dynamics of the Corona | 15 |
| Gopal Hazra | Understanding the behavior of the Sun's large scale magnetic field and Its relation with the meridional flow | 15 |
| Vaibhav Pant | Dynamics of coronal transients as seen from space observations | 15 |
| Sudip Mandal (Provisional) |
Multi-wavelength study of waves and Solar atmospheric magneto-seismology | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | ||
| Venue: Room 911, 9th Floor, Central Block | ||
| Stars, ISM and the Galaxy III [Chairperson: Mousumi Das ] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Bhaswati Mookerjea | Photon Dominated Regions: The secrets they reveal (I) | 30 |
| Tapas Baug | Influence of stellar wind of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars on parent molecular clouds | 15 |
| Suchira Sarkar | Vertical distribution of stars and flaring in the Milky Way | 15 |
| Deepak | The Galactic Halo: Stellar Populations and Formation History | 15 |
| Bharat Kumar Yerra | Identifying Li-rich giants from LAMOST low resolution spectra using machine learning | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | ||
| Venue: Room 105, First floor, Central Block | ||
| Extragalactic Astronomy III [Chairperson: Sushmita Chakraborty] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Smitha Subramanian | Tracing the connection between compact spheroids in early Universe with the local Universe massive bulges (I) | 30 |
| Chayan Mondal | UVIT view of IC 2574 : Are the star formation driven by expanding and colliding shells? | 15 |
| Chrisphin Karthick | Photometric Study of Starburst Galaxy NGC 2403 | 15 |
| Prasanta Nayak | UVIT-HST-GAIA study of star cluster KRON 3 in the Small Magellanic Cloud: A cluster with a large spread in metallicity | 15 |
| Ashish Devaraj | Identification of quasar candidates behind the SMC fields observed by UVIT | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | ||
| Venue:Council Room, Ground Floor, Central Block | ||
| General Relativity and Cosmology III [Chairperson: Anupreeta More] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Ujjani Alam | TBA (I) | 30 |
| Ranbir Sharma | Dark energy equation of state reconstruction by Principal Component Analysis | 15 |
| Arun Kenath | Alternate to Dark Matter: MOND, MONG or MORG | 15 |
| Sangita Chatterjee | Impact of accretion disk on the gravitational wave-profile emitted from binary merger. | 15 |
| Kazuyuki Furuuchi | Weak Gravity Conjecture and Bottom-Up Inflation Model Building | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | ||
| Venue: Seminar Hall, Block II Ground Floor | ||
| Instrumentation and Techniques I [Chairperson: Dipankar Bhattacharya] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Ravindra B | Imaging Instruments for Large Solar Optical Telescopes (I) | 30 |
| Ankala Raja Bayanna | Fizeau Mask Interferometry of Solar Features using the Multi Application Solar Telescope at the Udaipur Solar Observatory | 15 |
| Govinda KV | Concept design of retractable dome for the proposed 2m class National Large Solar Telescope | 15 |
| Hemanth Pruthvi | Solar Scanning Polarimeter at Kodaikanal Tower-tunnel Telescope for Ca II 854.2 nm line | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Room 911, 9th Floor, Central Block | ||
| Stars, ISM and the Galaxy IV [Chairperson: Mousumi Das ] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Shejeelammal J | Chemical and Kinematic analysis of metal-deficient Barium stars | 15 |
| Raghubar Singh | Spectroscopic and asteroseismic study of Li-rich giants | 15 |
| Meenakshi P | Abundance of neutron-capture elements in extrinsic Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor stars | 15 |
| Devika Divakar | Study of Horizontal Branch stars in the faint Milky Way satellite galaxies | 15 |
| Gayathri Raman | Are kilonovae standardizable candles? | 15 |
| Pavana M | Modelling the ejecta of Galactic Nova, ASASSN-16ma | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Room 105, First floor, Central Block | ||
| Extragalactic Astronomy IV [Chairperson: Sushmita Chakraborty] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Anupreeta More | SuGOHI: Strong lens systems from Hyper Suprime Cam-Survey | 15 |
| Ishwara Chandra CH | Deep uGMRT 400 MHz observations of XMMLSS region | 15 |
| Avinash Singh | SN 2016gfy: A slow-declining, luminous type II-P SN | 15 |
| Rahul Gupta | Multiwavelength Investigation of the Gamma Ray Burst Afterglow | 15 |
| Sagnick Mukherjee | The accretion disk-jet connection in blazers | 15 |
| Indranil Chattopadhyay | Relativistic Flows around black holes | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Council Room, Ground Floor, Central Block | ||
| Sun and the Solar System I [Chairperson: Divya Oberoi ] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Ishan Sharma | Mechanics of granular minor planets: Getting to know our small neighbors (I) | 30 |
| Deepthi Ayyagari | Ionospheric response to space weather events using IRNSS and GPS TEC observations from Indore | 15 |
| Anuj Gupta | Thermodynamical Equilibrium Condensation Calculations in Primitive Solar Gas | 15 |
| Anshu Kumari | Estimation of Strength of the Solar Coronal Magnetic Field using Contemporaneous Radio and Whitelight Observations | 15 |
| Hariharan Krishnan | Study of Fine Structures in Solar Radio Emission | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 16.30 - 18.00 | ||
| Venue: Seminar Hall, Block II Ground Floor | ||
| Instrumentation and Techniques II [Chairperson: Dipankar Bhattacharya ] | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Mudit Srivastava | The Development of Mt. Abu Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera - Pathfinder (MFOSC-P) for PRL 1.2m Mt. Abu Telescope | 15 |
| Brijesh Kumar | FUpdate on performance of 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope and prospects for science observations | 15 |
| Krishna Reddy | Different observing modes in faint object spectrograph and camera on 3.6-m Devasthal optical telescope | 15 |
| Sreekanth Reddy | Development and on-sky performance analysis of tip-tilt adaptive optics system | 15 |
| Ramya Anche | Polarization effects due to the segmented primary mirror of the Thirty Meter Telescope | 15 |
| Varun Kumar | Testing the Performance of Inductive Edge Sensor Against Environmental Changes. | 15 |
| Thursday, 21 February, 2019 | ||
| Time: 18:00 - 19:30 | ||
| Venue: KE Auditorium 5th Floor | ||
| WGGE (Working Group for Gender Equity) session | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time in Minutes |
| Preeti Kharb | Introduce new WGGE members and update gender statistics | 5 |
| Suchetana Chatterjee | Diversity & Inclusion in Physics: Past Present and the Future | 15 |
| Paul Ho | Gender Balance on Mauna Kea | 15 |
| Nandita Jayara | Lab Hopping in the Physical Sciences World | 25 |
| Open Discussion | ||