15th February 2020

Saturday, 15 February 2020
Time: 11:30 – 12:45
Venue: SV College of engineering auditorium
Thesis Presentation I [Chairperson: Nandita Srivastava]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Abhishek Paswan Spectro-photometric Studies of Star-forming Galaxies 15
Avyarthana Ghosh Dynamic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere: Instrumentation and Observations 15
Alok Ranjan Tiwary Measurement of Solar Magnetic Fields: Development of a Polarimeter for Multi-Application Solar Telescope 15
Prithish Halder Study of physical properties of cosmic dust from light scattering 15
N. Sindhu Multiwavelength study of old open clusters: NGC 188 and M67 15


Saturday, 15 February 2020
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall
Stars, ISM and the Galaxy III [Chairperson: Projjwal Banerjee]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Drisya Karinkuzhi Key nucleosynthesis diagnostics in Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP)-r/s stars (I) 30
Saumya Gupta Unveiling Low Mass Stellar Regime In A Young Proto-Globular Cluster With Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam 15
Ananta Pradhan A catalogue of 108 extended planetary nebulae observed by GALEX. 15
Bharti Arora X-ray study of a deeply embedded Wolf-Rayet star WR 121a 15
Krishna Prakash Nunna Stability analysis of a differentially rotating, hot, hypermassive Neutron Star merger remnant 15


Saturday, 15 February 2020
Time:14:00 – 15:30
Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Ramanujan Hall
Extragalactic Astronomy III [Chairperson: Bhargav Vaidya]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Nand Kumar Chakradhari A glimpse of Thermonuclear Supernovae (I) 30
Kuntal Misra The low frequency afterglow of the MAGIC burst GRB 190114C 15
Rahul Gupta Progenitor and environment of complete sample of Ultra-long Gamma Rays Bursts 15
Sreelakshmi P. Chakyar The Effect of Viewing Angle in Gamma Ray Burst Properties 15
Anirban Dutta Observation of Carbon-rich Supernova SN 2017hpa 15


Saturday, 15 February 2020
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 1
General Relativity and Cosmology III [Chairperson: Manjari Bagchi]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Jasjeet Bagla Dark Energy Perturbations in Non-Linear Collapse (I) 30
Akash Kumar Patwa The 21-cm Signal Power Spectrum using Drift Scan: Correlation of Time-ordered Visibilities 20
Archana Sangwan Primordial magnetic fields and B-mode polarization in CMB 20
Arun Kenath s the Binding Energy of Galaxies related to their Core Black Hole Mass? 20


Saturday, 15 February 2020
Time: 14:30 – 16:00
IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 2
Instrumentation and Techniques II [Chairperson: Devendra Ojha]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Saurabh Sharma Status of 3.6m DOT and ARIES back-end instruments (I) 30
Mudit Srivastava Design and Development of Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (FOSC) Instruments for PRL Telescopes (I) 30
S. Sriram Primary Mirror error budget development for National Large Optical Telescope 15
Tanya Das Using a stabilized Fabry-Perot etalon for determining instrumental artifacts in a spectrograph 15