Chapters

The compilation of the ASI Vision Document is coordinated by the following ASI members.

G. C. Anupama (IIA Bengaluru, India) - Coordinator
Divya Oberoi (NCRA - TIFR Pune, India)
Sarita Vig (IIST Thiruvananthapuram, India)

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Sl No Chapter Convenors Working Group Members
1 Solar & Heliospheric Physics
  • Dibyendu Nandi (IISER Kolkata)
  • Vaibhav Pant (ARIES)
  • Prasad Subramanian (IISER Pune)
  • Durgesh Tripathi (IUCAA)
  • Piyali Chatterjee (IIA)
  • K. Sankararasubramanian (ISRO)
  • Divya Oberoi (NCRA-TIFR)
  • Wageesh Mishra (IIA)
  • Jayant Joshi (IIA)
  • Nandita Srivastava (PRL)
  • Ankush Bhaskar (VSSC)
  • Abhishek Kumar Srivastava (IIT-BHU)
  • Vema Reddy Panditi (IIA)
  • Nitin Yadav (IISER TVM)
  • Shravan Hanasoge (TIFR)
2 Solar System Objects
  • Shyama N. (ISRO)
  • Shashikiran Ganesh (PRL)
  • Guneshwar Thangjam (NISER)
  • Sumanta Sarkhel (IIT-R)
3 Exoplanets
  • Manoj P. (TIFR)
  • Anandmayee Tej (IIST)
  • Sujan Sengupta (IIA)
  • Ravinder Banyal (IIA)
  • T. Sivarani (IIA)
  • Sourav Chatterjee (TIFR)
  • Liton Majumdar (NISER)
  • Abhijit Chakraborty (PRL)
  • Dibyendu Nandi (IISER Kolkata)
  • Shyama N. (ISRO)
  • Jayesh Goyal (NISER)
4 Star formation and ISM
  • Maheswar G. (IIA)
  • Bhaswati Mookerjea (TIFR)
  • D. K. Ojha (TIFR)
  • Tapas Baug (SNBNCBS)
  • Sarita Vig (IIST)
  • Manash Samal (PRL)
  • Jessy Jose (IISER Tirupati)
  • Prasun Dutta (IIT-BHU)
  • Archana Soam (IIA)
  • Nirupam Roy (IISc)
  • Blesson Mathew (CHRIST Univ.)
  • D. Jagadheep (IIST)
  • Kinsuk Acharya (PRL)
5 Compact Objects
  • Indranil Chattopadhyay (ARIES)
  • Shriharsh Tendulkar (TIFR/NCRA)
  • Bhaswati Bhattacharya (NCRA-TIFR)
  • Manjari Bagchi (IMSc)
  • Manoneeta Chakraborty (IIT Indore)
  • Dipankar Bhattacharya (Ashoka Univ.)
  • Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR)
  • Aru Beri (IISER Mohali)
  • Ranjeev Mishra (IUCAA)
6 Stellar populations, Milky Way and Satellites, Nearby Galaxies
  • T. Sivarani (IIA)
  • Smitha Subramanian (IIA)
  • Bharat Kumar Yerra (IIA)
  • Yogesh Joshi (ARIES)
  • Drisya K. (Calicut University)
  • Gajendra Pandey (IIA)
  • Arunima Banerjee (IISER Tirupati)
  • Mahavir Sharma (IIT Bhilai)
  • Eswar Reddy (IIA)
  • S. Sahijpal (Panjab Univ.)
  • Projjwal Banerjee (IIT Pkd)
  • Sourav Chatterjee (TIFR)
7 Galaxies, Clusters & IGM
  • Ruta Kale (NCRA)
  • Sowgat Muzahid (IUCAA)
  • R. Srianand (IUCAA)
  • Nissim Kanekar (NCRA-TIFR)
  • Amitesh Omar (ARIES)
  • Hum Chand (Central Univ. of HP)
  • Arunima Banerjee (IISER Tirupati)
  • Anand Narayanan (IIST)
  • Suchetana Chatterjee (Presidency Univ.)
  • Biman Nath (RRI)
  • Sudhanshu Barway (IIA)
  • Smriti Mahajan (IISER Mohali)
  • Dharam Vir Lal (NCRA-TIFR)
  • Veeresh Singh (PRL)
  • Prateek Sharma (IISc)
  • Sharanya Sur (IIA)
  • Mousumi Das (IIA)
  • Kanak Saha (IUCAA)
8 Supermassive Black holes & AGN
  • Gulab Dewangan (IUCAA)
  • Amit Shukla (IIT-I)
  • Preeti K (NCRA-TIFR)
  • C. S. Stalin (IIA)
  • Ravi Joshi (IIA)
  • Vaidehi Paliya (IUCAA)
  • Arun Mangalam (IIA)
  • Ritaban Chatterjee (Presidency Univ.)
9 Magnetic fields and Radiative processes
  • Nishant Singh (IUCAA)
  • Pallavi Bhat (ICTS)
  • Sharanya Sur (IIA)
  • M. Sampoorna (IIA)
  • Luke Chamandy (NISER)
  • Nitin Yadav (IISER TVM)
  • Anusha LS (IIA)
  • Mahavir Sharma (IIT Bhilai)
10 Cosmology
  • Tarun Souradeep (RRI)
  • Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (NCRA)
  • Surhud More (IUCAA)
  • L Sriramkumar (IIT Madras)
  • Jasjeet Bagla (IISER Mohali)
  • Girish Kulkarni (TIFR)
  • Pravabati C. (IIA)
  • Subinoy Das (IIA)
  • Suvodip Mukherjee (TIFR)
  • Rajeev Jain (IISc)
  • Dhiraj Hajra (IMSc)
11

Gravity

  • K. G. Arun (CMI)
  • Ajith P.(ICTS)
  • Sukanta Bose (IUCAA)
  • Archana Pai (IIT Bombay)
  • Shantanu Desai (IIT Hyderabad)
  • A. Gopakumar (TIFR)
  • Sumanta Chakrabarty (IACS)
  • Sudipta Sarkar (IIT Gandhinagar)
  • Sanved Kolekar (IIA)
  • Rajesh Nayak (IISER Kolkata)
12 Transient phenomena
  • Varun Bhalerao (IIT-B)
  • Kuntal Misra (ARIES)
  • Shriharsh Tendulkar (TIFR & NCRA)
  • Shashi B. Pandey (ARIES)
  • Devendra Sahu (IIA)
  • Nayana A. J. (IIA)
  • Jayanta Roy (NCRA-TIFR)
  • Shabnam Iyyani (IISER TVM)
  • Yogesh Maan (NCRA-TIFR)
  • Jagdish C. Joshi (ARIES)
13 Observing facilities
  • Eswar Reddy (IIA)
  • Jayanta Roy (NCRA)
  • Joe Philip Ninan (TIFR)
  • A. N. Ramaprakash (IUCAA)
  • Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA)
  • Vikram Rana (RRI)
  • D. K. Ojha (TIFR)
  • K. Sankarasubramanian (ISRO)
  • Pratik Majumdar (Saha Inst. of Nuclear Physics)
  • Pravata Mohanty (TIFR)
  • Maheswar Gopinathan (IIA)
  • Ramya Sethuram (IIA)
  • Bhaswati Mookerjea (TIFR)
  • Santosh Vadawale (PRL)
  • Girish V.(ISRO)
  • Varsha Chitnis (TIFR)
14 Computational facilities, Techniques, Data science & AI
  • Prateek Sharma (IISc)
  • Yogesh W. (NCRA)
  • Bhargav Vaidya (IIT-I)
  • Jasjeet Bagla (IISER Mohali)
  • Shravan Hanasoge (TIFR)
  • Prayush Kumar (ICTS)
  • Piyali Chatterjee (IIA)
  • Dipanjan Mukherjee (IUCAA)
  • Nishant Singh (IUCAA)
  • Ninan Sajeeth Philip (St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry)
15 Human Resource Development
  • Ajit Kembhavi (IUCAA)
  • Archana Pai (IIT-B)
  • Jasjeet Singh Bagla (IISER Mohali)
  • Manzoor Ahmad Malik (Kashmir Univ.)
  • Shantanu Rastogi (DDU Gorakhpur Univ.)
  • Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA)
  • Rupjyoti Gogoi (Tezpur Univ.)
  • C.D.Ravikumar (Univ. of Calicut)
  • S. K. Pandey (Formerly at Pt. Ravishankar Shukala Univ)
  • Mousumi Das (IIA)
  • Shashi B. Pandey (ARIES)
16 Astronomy and Society
  • Aniket Sule (HBCSE)
  • S. Seetha (RRI)
  • Niruj Mohan (IIA)
  • Samir Dhurde (IUCAA)
  • B. S. Shylaja (Formerly at JNP Bangalore)
  • M. Y Anand (JNP Bangalore)
  • Jayant Ganguly (Calicut Planetarium)
  • Ananda Hota (CEBS)
  • Virendra Yadav (ARIES)
  • Anand Narayanan (IIST)