20th Feb 2021

Saturday, 20 February 2021
Time: 13:30 – 15:00
Stars, ISM and the Galaxy I [Chairperson: Manash Samal]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Jeewan Pandey Colliding stellar winds in Wolf-Rayet binaries (I) 30
Vipin Kumar Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy studies of a very slow Nova V2891 Cyg 15
Tirthendu Sinha Pre-main sequence variables in young open clusters 15
Sadhana Singh A multi-band linear polarimetric study toward the cluster NGC 2345 15
Harmeen Kaur The Analysis of Maser Source 2masx J04183258+5326027 in the Physical Environment of Young Open Clusters S208 and WAT 01 15


Saturday, 20 February 2021
Time: 13:30 – 15:00
Instrumentation and Techniques I [Chairperson: S. Seetha]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
V Girish Five years of AstroSat (I) 30
Padmakar Parihar Creating a Large Optical-NIR Observing Facility in India: Challenges and Solutions (I) 30
Srinath Reddy Patti Optical Fourier Transform and its application in low latency LIGO data analysis 15
Mani Khurana Feasibility study of Duty cycle for MACE gamma-ray Telescope under partial Moonlit. 15


Saturday, 20 February 2021
Time: 13:30 – 15:00
Extragalactic Astronomy I [Chairperson: Nissim Kanekar]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Neeraj Gupta
MALS early science: evolution of cold gas in galaxies (I) 30
Main Pal
X-Ray/UV view of an NLS1 NGC 4748 15
N. Ganesh Dynamical Modelling of Spiral Arms in Low Surface Brightness galaxies 15
Sanna Gulati Multiwavelength studies of active galaxies NGC 1275 and Pictor A 15
Silpa Sasikumar
A radio polarization study of III Zw 2 revealing a composite jet and wind outflow 15


Saturday, 20 February 2021
Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Stars, ISM and the Galaxy II [Chairperson: K. Indulekha]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Aruna Goswami Metal-poor stars and Galactic chemical enrichment (I) 30
Swastik Chowbay
Host-star Metallicity of Directly Imaged Planets 15
Manami Roy Gamma-Ray and Radio Background Constraints on Cosmic Rays in Milky Way Circumgalactic Medium 15
Gargi Shaw Roll of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Cosmic-Ray ionization rate in the Galaxy 15
Supriyo Ghosh
Characterisation of cool giants from low-resolution near-infrared spectra 15


Saturday, 20 February 2021
Time: 16:00 – 17:45
Instrumentation and Techniques II [Chairperson: Bhal Chandra Joshi]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Subhadeep De Optical Atomic Clocks to Probe Fundamental Science(I) 30
Radhika Dharmadhikari Phasing Segmented Primary Mirror using the Dispersed Fringe Technique 15
Kushagra Upadhyay Observations of solar activities at low radio frequencies by CALLISTO at USO/PRL. 15
Bela Dixit L-band Aperture Array Beamformer: Prototype Implementation and Testing 15
Harsha Avinash Tanti Update on the IIT Indore Radio Interferometer (IIRI) 15
Dorje Angchuk Upgrading an old 50cm telescope for the robotic operation: The Current Status and the Plan for the Future. 15


Saturday, 20 February 2021
Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Extragalactic Astronomy II [Chairperson: Yogesh Wadadekar]
Speaker Title Time in Minutes
Smriti Mahajan
An insight into multi-wavelength star formation rates (I) 30
Shishir Sankhyayan Optical Identification and Radio Source Counts in the Saraswati Supercluster Region 15
Abhisek Mohapatra
Physical conditions and redshift evolution of low-z CIII absorbers 15
Varun Bhalerao (on behalf of Harsh Kumar)
Small Telescope Big Dreams: An effort to find kilonova with GROWTH-India Telescope 15
Shasvath Kapadia
Of Harbingers and Higher Modes: Improved gravitational-wave early-warning of compact binary mergers 15