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Programme |
| Youtube links for various sessions |
| ASI 2021 Slack Channel Youtube links for various sessions Inaugural, awards session and public lecture Plenary Sessions POEC and WGGE sessions Sun and Solar System Stars, ISM and Galaxy Extragalactic Astronomy Instrumentation and Techniques General Relativity and Cosmology Thesis Session |
| Thursday, 18 February 2021 | |||||
| Workshops 1 to 4 | |||||
| 09:30 – 17:00 | Workshop 1 - Computational Astrophysics: An Emerging Avenue for Indian Astronomy Community | ||||
| Workshop 2 - Ultraviolet Space Astronomy : UVIT and Beyond | |||||
| Workshop 3 - SKA in India: Preparing for building the SKA | |||||
| Workshop 4 - Recent Insights into Solar Active Region Dynamics | |||||
| Friday, 19 February 2021 | |||||
| Workshops 5 to 8 | |||||
| 09:30 – 17:00 | Workshop 5 - Generating realizations of distribution function and mock catalogs | ||||
| Workshop 6 - Multi-payload and Multi - Observatory Science with Aditya - L1 | |||||
| Workshop 7 - Sub-Millimeter Astronomy : The Indian Perspective | |||||
| Workshop 8- Science with CTA | |||||
| Saturday, 20 February 2021 | |||||
| 09.30 – 10.30 | Inauguration and Presidential Address | ||||
| Awards Session [Chairperson: Divya Oberoi] | |||||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Vainu Bappu Gold Medal Award Lecture Shirharsh Tendulkar - Understanding Fast Radio Bursts |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | ASI Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award Lecture Poonam Chandra - Lives of massive stars: exploring the aspects of magnetism |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 | ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award Lecture 1 Vivek Monteiro - Universalizing the Universe, with Daytime Astronomy and the People's Science Movement |
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award Lecture 2 Samir Dhurde - Organised Outreach that reaches - the mantra of IUCAA SciPOP |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Stars, ISM and the Galaxy 1 | Instrumentation and Techniques 1 | Extragalactic Astronomy 1 | ||
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Tea Break + Poster Session | ||||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Stars, ISM and the Galaxy 2 | Instrumentation and Techniques 2 | Extragalactic Astronomy 2 | ||
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Break | ||||
| 18:00 – 19:00 | ASI General Body Meeting |
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| Sunday, 21 February 2021 | |||||
| 09.30 – 11:00 | Public Lecture [Chairperson: Dipankar Bhattacharya] G. Srinivasan - Of Stars and Singularities |
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| 11.00 – 11:15 | Tea Break | ||||
| Plenary Session 1 (Transient Astrophysical Phenomena) [Chairperson: G. C. Anupama] | |||||
| 11.15 – 11.45 | Nayantara Gupta - Transient Astrophysical Phenomena | ||||
| 11.45 – 12.15 | Poonam Chandra - Transient phenomena in radio bands - critical insights into lives and deaths of massive stars | ||||
| 12.15 – 12.45 | Amit Shukla - Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux | ||||
| 12.45 – 13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| Thesis Session I [Chairperson: Tushar Prabhu] | |||||
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Justice Oak Best Thesis Award Presentation I Prantika Bhowmik - Data Constrained Models for Solar Activity Predictions |
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| 14:00 – 15:15 | Thesis Presentation I | ||||
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Tea Break + Poster Session | ||||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Sun and Solar System I | Stars, ISM and the Galaxy 3 | Extragalactic Astronomy 3 | ||
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Break | ||||
| 17:45 – 19:15 | POEC (Public Outreach and Education Committee) session | ||||
| Monday, 22 February 2021 | |||||
| Plenary Session 2 (Sun and Heliosphere) [Chairperson: P. Sreekumar] | |||||
| 09.30 – 10.00 | K. Sankarasubramanian - Sun and Heliosphere: Remote Sensing with Aditya-L1 | ||||
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Dibyendu Chakrabarty- Why are in-situ measurements from Aditya-L1 important? | ||||
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Bidya Binay Karak- Recent Developments in the Babcock-Leighton Solar Dynamo Theory | ||||
| 11.00 – 11:15 | Tea Break | ||||
| Special Lecture [Chairperson: Kandaswamy Subramanian] | |||||
| 11:15 – 12:45 | In memoriam Prof. Govind Swarup by Yashwant Gupta | ||||
| In memoriam Prof. S. M. Chitre by H. M. Antia | |||||
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| Thesis Session II [Chairperson: Dipankar Banerjee] | |||||
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Justice Oak Best Thesis Award Presentation – II Panini Singam - Design and development of Multilayer mirrors for astronomical applications |
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| 14:00 – 15:15 | Thesis Presentation II | ||||
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Tea Break + Poster Session | ||||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Sun and Solar System 2 | Stars, ISM and the Galaxy 4 | General Relativity and Cosmology 1 | ||
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Break | ||||
| 18:00 – 19:30 | WGGE (Working Group for Gender Equity) session | ||||
| Tuesday, 23 February 2021 | |||||
| Plenary Session 3 (Star formation, Galaxies and ISM) [Chairperson: Annapurni Subramaniam] | |||||
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Kanak Saha - AstroSat detection of Lyman continuum photons from a galaxy at z=1.42 | ||||
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Liton Majumdar - From Molecular Clouds to Planetary Systems: A new era of ALMA and JWST | ||||
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Sarita Vig - Star Formation and its effect on the surrounding interstellar medium | ||||
| 11.00 – 11:15 | Tea Break | ||||
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Sun and Solar System 3 | Extragalactic Astronomy 4 | Stars, ISM and Galaxy 5 | ||
| 12:45 –13:30 | Lunch + poster session | ||||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Sun and Solar System 4 | Extragalactic Astronomy 5 | General Relativity and Cosmology 2 | ||
| 15.00 – 15:30 | Break | ||||
| 15.30 – 16:00 | Awards announcements, Concluding Session | ||||