Programme

Programme  
38th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India  
13 - 17, February, 2020, IISER, Tirupati

Thursday, 13 February 2020
  Workshops 1 to 4  
(Venue - IISER, Tirupati campus )
09:30 – 17:00 Workshop 1 - Broadband X-ray Polarization of Compact Objects  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati Campus, Class Room 1)
Workshop 2 - The Morphology of Galaxies from Classical Techniques to Deep Learning  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati Campus, Ramanujan Hall)
Workshop 3 - SKA in India: Science with Big Data  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati Campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
Workshop 4 - Ground-based Instrumentation for Solar Astronomy  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati Campus, Class Room 2)
         
         
 
Friday, 14 February 2020
9.30 - 10.45 Inauguration and Presidential Address   
(Venue - SV college of engineering auditorium)
 
10:45 – 11:15 Group Photo & Tea Break   
(Venue: SV college of engineering)
 
11:15 – 11:30 Special Session [Chairperson: Divya Oberoi]  
(Venue - SV college of engineering auditorium)
 
11:30 – 12:00 ASI Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award Lecture  
12:00 – 12:30 ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award Lecture  
12:30 - 13:00 Special Lecture - Neal J. Evans- The Central Problem of Star Formation: Why So Slow?  
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch (IISER, Tirupati campus)  
14:15 – 15:45 Stars, ISM and the Galaxy 1   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
Extragalactic Astronomy 1  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Ramanujan Hall)
General Relativity and Cosmology 1   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 1)
Instrumentation and Techniques 1  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 2)
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15:45 – 16:15 Tea Break + Poster Viewing  
(IISER, Tirupati campus)
 
16:15 – 17:45 Stars, ISM and the Galaxy 2  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
Extragalactic Astronomy 2  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Ramanujan Hall)
General Relativity and Cosmology 2  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 1)
Special Session (Teaching in Astronomy)   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 2)
 
18:15 – 19:45 General Body Meeting  
(Venue - IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
 
   
Saturday, 15 February 2020
  Plenary Session 1 [Chairperson: Amitesh Omar]  
(Galaxies, Cosmology, HI across the Universe)  
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
9.30 - 11.00 Surhud More - Cosmological constraints from weak lensing surveys  
Girish Kulkarni -When did cosmic reionization happen?  
         
Jayaram Chengalur - Evolution of the gas content of galaxies  
11.00 - 11:30 Tea Break  
(Venue: SV college of engineering)
 
11:30 – 12:45 Thesis Presentation I [Chairperson: Nandita Srivastava]   
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch  
(at IISER, Tirupati campus)
 
14:00 – 15:30 Stars, ISM and Galaxy 3  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
Extragalactic Astronomy 3   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Ramanujan Hall)
General Relativity and Cosmology 3  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 1)
Instrumentation and Techniques 2  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 2)
 
15:30 – 16:15 (Tea Break + Poster Viewing)  
(IISER, Tirupati campus)
 
16:30 Public Talk on Chandrayaan-2 [Chairperson: G. C. Anupama]   
P. Sreekumar - India's expanding lunar exploration program   
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
18:00 – 19:30 WGGE (Working Group for Gender Equity) session  
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
   
Sunday, 16 February 2020
  Plenary Session 2 [Chairperson: Preeti Kharb]  
(AGN, Astrophysical Jets, Plasma Astrophysics)  
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
9.30 - 10.00 Prateek Sharma - AGN feedback and cooling and heating cycles in massive halos  
10.00 - 10.30 Bhargav Vaidya - Dissecting AGN jets through simulations in the era of multi-messenger Astronomy  
10.30 - 11.00 C. S. Stalin - Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies: The current scenario  
11.00 - 11:30 Tea Break  
(Venue: SV college of engineering)
 
11:30 – 12:45 Thesis Presentation II [Chairperson: Devendra Ojha]  
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch (at IISER, Tirupati campus)  
14:00 – 15:30 Stars, ISM and Galaxy 4  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
Extragalactic Astronomy 4   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Ramanujan Hall)
Sun and the Solar System 1   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 1)
Instrumentation and Techniques 3  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 2)
 
15:30 – 16:00 (Tea Break + Poster Viewing)  
(IISER, Tirupati campus)
 
16:00 – 17:30 Stars, ISM and Galaxy 5  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
Extragalactic Astronomy 5   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Ramanujan Hall)
Sun and the Solar System 2  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 1)
Special Session on Exoplanets, Sub Stellar Objects and Astrochemistry / Astrobiology  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 2)
 
18:15 Special Lecture [Chairperson: Nirupam Roy]   
Eduardo Ros - Black Hole with Event Horizon Telescope  
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
   
Monday, 17 February 2020
  Plenary Session 3 (Compact Object Astrophysics) [Chairperson: Kuntal Misra]   
Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
9.30 - 10.00 Shriharsh Tendulkar - Probing the Fast Radio Burst Population  
10.00 - 10.30 Manjari Bagchi - The most fascinating member of the compact object family: neutron stars as the celestial laboratoy to probe fundamental physics  
10.30 - 11.00 Bhaswati Bhattacharya - Challenges in neutron star laboratories  
11.00 - 11:30 Tea Break  
(Venue: SV college of engineering)
 
  Special Session on Future Astronomy Payloads / Missions [Chairperson: Sarita Vig]  
(Venue - SV College of engineering auditorium)
 
11:30 – 12:00 Anandmayee Tej - ExoWorlds - An Overview  
12:00 – 12:30 Annapurni Subramaniam - Indian Spectroscopic and Imaging Space Telescope: INSIST  
12:30 – 13:00 Santosh Vadawale - DAKSHA – On alert for high-energy transients  
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch (at IISER, Tirupati campus)  
14:15 – 15:45 Stars, ISM and Galaxy 6   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, C. V. Raman Hall)
Extragalactic Astronomy 6   
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Ramanujan Hall)
Sun and the Solar System 3  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 1)
Special Session (ASI-POEC)  
(Venue: IISER, Tirupati campus, Class Room 2)
 
List of Posters