Program

Programme       
42nd Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India       
31st Jan - 4th Feb 2024

Pleanary sessions streaming link
 
Wednesday, 31st Jan 2024
 Workshops 1 to 6
09:30 – 17:00Workshop 1 - Aditya-L1: India’s Solar & Heliospheric Observatory in space       
(Venue: Auditorium, ISRO HQ)
Workshop 2 - (Sub)Millimeter Astronomy: Introduction to ALMA and Indian perspectives       
(Venue: RBM Hall, Chemical Sciences Building, IISc)
Workshop 3 - CME propagation in the interplanetary space to predict Bz and space weather impact       
(Venue: Conference Hall, ISRO HQ)
Workshop 4 - Daksha Science Workshop       
(Venue: LH 5 (F1 09), Physical Sciences Building, IISc)
Workshop 5 - Planning a more robust followup of transient astronomical sources from India       
(Venue: LH 4 (F0 11), Physical Sciences Building, IISc)
Workshop 6 - UV-Optical-IR Astronomy in India: Prospects of the next decade       
(Venue: Auditorium, Physical Sciences Building, IISc)
17:30Public Lecture - Prof. Anil Bhardwaj - Lunar Exploration Program of India       
(Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium)
 
Thursday, 1st Feb 2024
09:00 - 09:30Registration
 Inaugural Session       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
09:30 - 09:35Welcome (LOC Chair - Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, ASI Secretary - Sarita Vig)
09:35 - 09:40Welcome Address by Jaydeep K. Basu (Chair, Dept of Physics, IISc)
09:40 - 09:45Address by B. R. Guruprasad (Director, JNP)
09:45 - 09:50Address by Kaushal Verma (Dean, IISc)
09:50 - 10:05Inaugural address by Chief Guest Shri M. Sankaran, Director - URSC, ISRO
10:05 - 10:10ASI 2024 Scientific programme - SOC Chair Jasjeet Bagla
10:10 - 10:40ASI Presidential Address - Dipankar Banerjee
10:40 - 10:43Release of ASI Vision Document 2024
10:43 - 10:58Announcement and presentation of ASI Awards
10:58 - 11:00Acknowledgements - Nirupam Roy
11:00 - 11:10Group Photo
11:10 - 11:40Tea Break and Poster Viewing       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
 Plenary Session I [Chairperson: Kuntal Misra]       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
11:40 - 12:20Anil Bhardwaj - Indian Planetary Missions
12:20 - 13:00K. Sankarasubramanian - Aditya L-1 Mission
13:00 – 14:00Lunch Break        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
14:00 – 16:00Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets and Astrobiology I (Venue: J N Tata Hall A)Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way I       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall B)
High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy I       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
Galaxies and Cosmology I       
(Venue: Satish Dhawan Auditorium)
Facilities, Technologies and Data science I       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall C)
16:00 – 17:00Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
 Talk by Awardees [Chairperson: Sarita Vig]       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
 Justice Oak Award for Outstanding Thesis in Astronomy Lectures
17:00 - 17:15Silpa Sasikumar - Understanding Radio Outflows in Radio-quiet AGN
17:15 - 17:30Harsh Kumar - An exploration of the relativistic transients realm with GROWTH-India Telescope
17:30 - 17:45Biswajit Mondal - Coronal X-ray characteristics: From Sun as a star to imaging spectroscopy
 ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award Lectures
17:45 - 18:10Team of Global elemental mapping of lunar surface by payloads on Chandrayaan-2 - Title - Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) mapping of the lunar surface elemental composition 
18:10 - 18:35Team members of the Infrared Astronomy Group of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at TIFR - Title: Infrared Astronomy at TIFR over the years
 Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award Lecture
18:35 - 19:00Ajith Parameswaran - Lensing of gravitational waves: A new tool for astronomy
 
Friday, 2nd Feb 2024
 Plenary Session II [Chairperson: K G Arun]       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
09:00 – 09:40B C Joshi - Ultra-long wavelength gravitational waves with the pulsar timing array experiments
09:40 – 10:20V Marthi - Fast Radio Bursts
10:20 – 11:30Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
11:30 - 13:00Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets and Astrobiology II       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall A)
Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way II       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall B)
High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy II       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
Galaxies and Cosmology II        
(Venue: Satish Dhawan Auditorium)
Education, Outreach and Heritage I        
(Venue: J N Tata Hall C)
13:00 – 14:00Lunch Break        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
14:00 – 16:00Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets and Astrobiology III       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall A)
Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way III (Venue: J N Tata Hall B)       
 
High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy III       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
Galaxies and Cosmology III       
(Venue: Satish Dhawan Auditorium)
Facilities, Technologies and Data science II       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall C)
16:00 – 17:15Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
17:15 – 19:00General Body Meeting       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
19:00Banquet        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
 
Saturday, 3rd Feb 2024
 Plenary Session III [Chairperson: J S Bagla]        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
09:00 – 09:40Arif Babul - Modeling Galaxy Formation: Successes and Challenges
09:40 – 10:20Nissim Kanekar - HI at intermediate and high redshifts
10:20 – 11:00Preeti Kharb - Radio-quiet AGN and their Impact on Galaxies
11:00 – 11:30Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
 Industry Academia Session [Chairperson - Dipankar Banerjee]   
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
11:30 - 11:40Presentation by Tanveer Ahmed - Digantara
11:40 - 11:50Presentation by S. Ramakrishna - Optica
11:50 - 12:00Presentation by Avyarthana Ghosh - TCS
12:00 - 13:00Panel discussion moderated by Chairperson - Panel: Ajit Kembhavi (Pune Knowledge Cluster, Pune), Representatives of Digantara, Optica, TCS, Artpark, Global Foundaries, Informatics    
13:00 – 14:00Lunch Break        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
14:00 – 16:00Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets and Astrobiology IV       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall A)
Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way IV       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall B)
High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy IV       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
Galaxies and Cosmology IV       
(Venue: Satish Dhawan Auditorium)
Facilities, Technologies and Data science III       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall C)
16:00 - 17:00Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
 SKA, POEC and WGGE Session       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
17:00 - 17:30SKA India Session
17:30 - 18:00POEC Session
18:00 - 19:00WGGE Session
 
Sunday, 4th Feb 2024
09:00 - 11:10Thesis Presentations (Final Round) [Chairperson: Dipankar Bhattacharya]         
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
11:10 - 11:40Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
 Plenary Session IV [Chairperson: H K Jassal]       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
11:40 - 12:20Shadab Alam - Large Scale Structure
12:20 - 13:00Surya Snata Rout - Cosmochemistry and Meteorite studies
13:00 – 14:00Lunch Break       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
14:00 – 15:30Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets and Astrobiology V       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall A)
Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way V       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall B)
High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy V       
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
Galaxies and Cosmology V       
(Venue: Satish Dhawan Auditorium)
Education, Outreach and Heritage II       
(Venue: J N Tata Hall C)
15:30 - 16:00Award announcements (thesis + posters) + Concluding session        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium)
16:00 - 16:30Tea and Dispersal        
(Venue: J N Tata Main Auditorium complex)
List of Posters