Past Colloquia

Date	Speaker	Title
02 April 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	N. Udayashankar Raman Research Institute	Adventures in Low Frequency Radio Astronomy and Cosmology
20 November 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Siva Athreya Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore	Random Processes on Fractal like objects
25 September 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Rajesh Kochhar Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali	Kodaikanal Observatory as a world astronomy heritage site
06 August 2012 Monday 00:00 hrs	G. Rajasekaran IMSc	Standard Model, Higgs boson and what next?
06 March 2012 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard -Smithsonian CfA	Stellar and Planetary Theory: New Insights from the Kepler Mission
31 January 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Sourav Pal National Chemical Laboratory	Predictive theories for structure and dynamics of molecules
08 November 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Changbom Park Center for Advanced Computation, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea	How Are Galaxy Properties Related With Their Environment?
21 June 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Girjesh Gupta Indian Institute of Astrophysics	On the Nature of Propagating MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere
14 June 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Uma Gorti NASA Ames/SETI, US	Gas Emission Lines from Protoplanetary Disks
12 April 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Sudhir Vempati Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science	From Tiny scales to Large Scales: What is the LHC going to tell us ?
29 March 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	S.Sridhar Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Interstellar, Interplanetary and MHD Turbulence
01 March 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Diptiman Sen Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc	Quantum Games
15 February 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Wei-Tou Ni National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Probing the Co-Evolution of Galaxies with Black Holes via Space Gravitational-Wave Detection
25 January 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	David Buckley SALT, South Africa	Science with SALT
18 January 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	N. Udaya Shankar Raman Research Institute	A southern Sky Survey at 150 MHz using the Mauritius Radio Telescope:
04 January 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Indranil Chattopadhyay ARIES, Nainital	Effect of plasma composition on black hole  accretion disc solutions
21 December 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Ramarao Tata Institiuto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain	A multi-wavelength survey of the young open cluster NGC6823
14 December 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Frank Hill National Solar Observatory, USA	Helioseismic Observations of Solar Convection Zone Dynamics and their Relationship to Solar Activity
23 November 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	P.R. Vishwanath Indian Institute of Astrophysics	HIGH ENERGY SKY: PROGRESS IN GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY
05 October 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	T.N. Rengarajan Former member, TIFR, Mumbai	UNDERSTANDING THE RADIO-FAR-INFRARED CORRELATION IN GALAXIES
28 September 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Viktor Fedun University of Sheffield, UK	3D numerical simulations of torsional Alfven waves
07 September 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Arnab Rai Choudhuri Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science	Can we predict sunspot cycles?
31 August 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	G. Vigeesh Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Structure, dynamics and heating in magnetized regions of solar atmosphere
17 August 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Blesson Mathew Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of emission-line stars in young open clusters
03 August 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	A. Arellano Ferro Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	CCD Photometry of globular Clusters: the ongoing program
13 July 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Stuart Jefferies Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii	Observing the Sun from the Geographic South Pole
22 June 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Kiran Jain National Solar Observatory, Tucson, USA	GONG and MDI Observations over a Solar Cycle
01 June 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Chiranjib Konar Indian Institute of Astrophysics	RADIO GALAXIES AND THEIR DYNAMICS
25 May 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	N. Mukunda Indian Institute of Science (Retd)	The Three Roles of Symmetry in Fundamental Physics
13 April 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Jean-Claude Vial Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France	New French Programmes in Space Instrumentation for Solar Research
30 March 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Margarita Safonova Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The Quest for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters
02 March 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Gargi Shaw Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai	Spectroscopic Signatures of Star Formation at High Redshift
23 February 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Manoj Puravankara University of Rochester, Rochester, USA	The Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
16 February 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	David J Thompson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA	Highlights from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
05 January 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Dhrubaditya Mitra Queen Mary College, University of London, London, UK	Understanding the Solar Dynamo: Some Recent Results
22 December 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Mousumi Das Birla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani, Hyderabad	The Dark Side of Galaxy Evolution : Extreme Late Type Galaxies
24 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Ramit Bhattacharyya National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA	Spontaneous Current Sheet Formation: Untwisted Magnetic Field Lines
17 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Yuri Schekinov Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia	Gas in Gamma-ray Burst Hosts
10 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Peter L Biermann Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie & Univeristy of Bonn, Germany	Understanding Supermassive Black Holes
03 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Sun Kwok University of Hong Kong, China	The Synthesis of Organic Compounds in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
27 October 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	B. S. Shylaja Bangalore Association for Science Education	The Madras Observatory and Contemporary Indian Astronomy
13 October 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Varun Sahni Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Puzzling over Einstein´s `Blunder´: Why does the Universe Accelerate?
29 September 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	K. Elankumaran RKM Vivekananda College, Chennai	Non-linear Effects in Waves: Experimental Studies with Ultrasonics
08 September 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Pratik Majumdar Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany	Recent Highlights from the MAGIC Experiment
11 August 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	P Narayana Bhat University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA	Gamma-ray Burst Astronomy in the FERMI Era
28 July 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	M Sampoorna Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain	The Enigma of the Scattering Polarization in the Wings of the Solar Ca I 4227 A Line
14 July 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Rafael Garcia Service d´Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Solar-like Stars: From the Core of the Sun to the Stars
30 June 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Noah Brosch Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel	Discovery of a Nearby Dark Matter Filament
02 June 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d´Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	On the Formation of Extremely Massive Star Clusters
31 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	David Pérez-Suárez Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Northern Ireland	Structure and Evolution of Coronal Bright Points in the Sun
24 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Andrea Borch Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Investigating Globular Clusters using the Technique of Simulated Spectra
17 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Andrea Borch Indian Institute of Astrophysics	POSTPONED
03 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Varsha Chitnis Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	The Universe at Very High Gamma-Ray Energies
10 February 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Robert J. Rutten Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht, The Netherlands	Observing, Interpreting, and Using the Solar Chromosphere
03 February 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Savita Mathur Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Tracking Solar Gravity Modes: The Holy Grail Quest for Helioseismology
27 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Karen J Meech University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA	Origin of Earth´s Water
20 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Super-Earth Planets: Exploring Environments with Habitable Potential
13 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dhrubaditya Mitra Queen Mary College, University of London, London, UK	Understanding the Solar Dynamo : Some Recent Results
06 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Rahul Shetty Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Spiral Arm Structure and Cloud Formation in Disk Galaxies
23 December 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jan Olof Stenflo Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland	The Second Solar Spectrum
16 December 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Alain Omont Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France	High Redshift Ultra-Luminous Far-IR Galaxies (Submillimeter Galaxies) in Spitzer Surveys
25 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Paola di Matteo Observatory of Paris, Meudon, France	Evolution of Galaxies in Pairs: Learning from Simulations
18 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Hamed Moradi Monash University, Victoria, Australia	The Role of Near-Surface Magnetic Fields in Sunspot Seismology
11 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Inwoo Han Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea	Searching for Exoplanets
04 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jayaram Chengalur National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	FIGGS: The Faint Irregular Galaxy GMRT Survey
14 October 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Developments in the Helioseismic Imaging of the Deep Solar Interior and Sunspot Structure
07 October 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	K Nagaraju Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thesis Colloquium: Spectropolarimetry of Active Regions on the Sun
16 September 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sampoorna M. Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thesis Colloquium: The Nature of Solar Surface Magnetism: Theoretical Approaches Based on Spectropolarimetry
26 August 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dipak Munshi Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK	Finger-printing the Universe : Error in Error-bars
12 August 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Monica Valluri University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA	The Dynamical Evolution of Dark Matter Halos
08 July 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA	The Space Interferometer Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More
24 June 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	John Hutchings Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	Quasars in SDSS and GALEX Databases
13 May 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Katharina Lodders Washington University, St. Louis, USA	Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
29 April 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Amanda Karakas Mt Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Australia	Nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
22 April 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Simon Jeffery Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Northern Ireland	FG Sagittae - Chemical Evolution Over Half a Century: Was the Thermal Pulse Late or Very Late?
08 April 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Attila Grandpierre Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary	Dynamics in the Solar Core
25 March 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Neeharika Verma Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	The Galactic Cosmic Ray Flux Decline and the Periodicities Revealed by Meteorites
11 March 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sankarasubramanian Kasiviswanathan ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore	Science Using Solar Adaptive Optics: Successes and Future Requirements
04 March 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Rajaram Nityananda National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	Astronomical Data: Separating Baby and Bathwater
19 February 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Guido Risaliti Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy	Unveiling the Structure of the Circum-nuclear Medium of AGNs through Time-resolved X-ray Spectroscopy
12 February 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sanjeev Dhurandhar Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics	The Global Search for Gravitational Waves
05 February 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Almudena Alonso-Herrero Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC), Madrid, Spain	Characterizing Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies: Towards Understanding their More Distant Cousins
29 January 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Nandita Srivastava Udaipur Solar Observatory, PRL, Udaipur	Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun in 3-D: Early Results from the Coronagraph COR1 aboard STEREO
18 December 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jnanadeva Maharana Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Unification of Fundamental Forces and String Theory
04 December 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dibyendu Nandi Montana State University, Bozeman, USA	The Sun´s Magnetic Cycle: Current State of our Understanding
27 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dipankar P. K. Banerjee Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad	Postponed
27 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Trevor C. Weekes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	CANCELLED: The TeV Gamma-ray Universe; Photons from Hell
13 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Luca Teriaca Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany	Polar Plumes as Seen in the Vacuum Ultraviolet
06 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Christopher Reynolds University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Constraining Black Hole Spin with X-ray Spectroscopy
18 September 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Bala Iyer Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Deciphering the Universe with Gravitational Wave Astronomy
04 September 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Joanna Mikolajewska Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland	Mass Transfer in Symbiotic Binaries
21 August 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	David Lambert University of Texas, Austin, USA	Stellar Abundance Anomalies - Always Nucleosynthetic?
07 August 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Naresh Dadhich Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics	Gravity and Higher Dimensions - A Classical Motivation
24 July 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Abhijit Saha National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA	A New Survey of Stars in the Outer Extremities of the Magellanic Clouds
10 July 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Alok Gupta Yunnan Observatory, Kunming, China	Variability of AGNs on Diverse Time Scales
17 April 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	K.V.P. Latha Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thesis Colloquium: Probing CP Violation with Atomic Electric Dipole Moment of Hg
10 April 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Pijushpani Bhattacharjee Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata	Probing Supernovae - Gamma Ray Burst Connection with Neutrinos
03 April 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Varendra Das Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The Narrow-line Region Kinematics in Seyfert Galaxies
20 March 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Reji Mathew Thomas Indian Institute of Astrophysics	THESIS COLLOQUIUM: Emission of Radiation in a Pulsar Magnetosphere Owing to Charged Acceleration
13 March 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Gary Ferland University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA	Orion: A Case Study of Star Formation in a Magnetized Medium
06 March 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Ajit Kembhavi Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Warm Absorbers in Active Galactic Nuclei
27 February 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Achamveedu Gopakumar Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany	Gravitational Wave Astronomy
06 February 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jeffrey Crelinsten The Impact Group, Toronto, Canada	Einstein`s Jury : Trial by Telescope
16 January 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Banibrata Mukhopadhyay Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science	The Accretion disk and its Transport Mechanism The Current Status
09 January 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Richard Conn Henry The Johns Hopkins University	SIM, Stellar Aberration, and Special Relativity
02 January 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Ken´ichi Nomoto University of Tokyo, Japan	First Star - Hypernova Connection: Explosive Nucleosynthesis and Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
12 December 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Wilhelm H. Kegel Zentrum fuer Astronomie & Astrophysik, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany	Line Formation in Media with Stochastic Velocity Fields
21 November 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Miruna D. Popescu Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland	Small-scale dymanics in coronal holes
31 October 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Palash Baran Pal Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkota	Level-crossing Phenomena in Astrophysics
03 October 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Mike Dopita Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University	All About HII Regions
19 September 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Firoza Sutaria Pennsylvania State University, USA	Magnetars under the Chandra and XMM-Newton Eye
12 September 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sudip Bhattacharyya NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA	What Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts can tell us about Neutron Stars
05 September 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Tiziana Venturi Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy	Occurrence of Radio Halos and Relics in Galaxy Clusters: Hints on their Origin and Properties from a Deep GMRT 610 MHz Cluster Survey
29 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	David Lambert Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, USA	The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
22 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Holger Merlitz Department of Physics, Xiamen University, China	Sliding Down the Double Helix: How do Proteins Find their Binding Sites Inside the Cell Nucleus?
08 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jogesh Babu Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA	Statistical Problems in Astronomy
01 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	P. Shalima Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Studies of Interstellar Dust
25 July 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Biman Nath Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Clues to Early Universe from Fossil Stars
11 July 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	D. Indumathi Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Cosmic-ray Muons, Atmospheric Neutrinos and Neutrino Oscillations in the Back-drop of the India-based Neutrino Observatory
27 June 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Chanda Jog Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Vertical Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies
20 June 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Vinay Kashyap Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA	X-raying Stellar Coronae: Structure, Composition, and Energetics
20 June 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Hari Dass Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Do you need to understand General Relativity to understand Gravitation?
30 May 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Armando Arellano Ferro Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Fourier decomposition of RR Lyrae Light Curves and the Oosterhoff Dichotomy
23 May 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	R. T. Gangadhara Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Pulsar Radio Emission Altitude
02 May 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Pushpa Khare Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar	Metal and Dust Content of the Universe as Determined through QSO Absorption Lines
04 April 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Tarun Deep Saini Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science	The Mystery of the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
28 March 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Hagai Netzer Tel-Aviv University, Israel	Cosmic Evolution of Black Hole Mass and Metallicity in Active Galactic Nuclei
14 March 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Kumar Chitre Dept. of Physics, University of Mumbai	Seismic View of the Solar Interior
28 February 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Vojtech Rusin Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, The Slovak Republic	Large-scale Circulations of Prominences and the 530.3 nm Corona
14 February 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jim E. Pringle Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK	Spinning Black Holes - Which Way do they Point?
07 February 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Wolfgang Kalkofen Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Is The Solar Chromosphere Always Hot?
31 January 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Mousumi Das Raman Research Institute Bangalore	Observations of Radio Jets and Molecular Gas in Nearby Radio Loud Galaxies
19 January 2006 Thursday 16:30 hrs	Richard Conn Henry The Johns Hopkins University	The Diffuse Ultraviolet Background
17 January 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	S. Kawakami Osaka City University Japan	Origin of the most Energetic Cosmic Rays

Past Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title
20 May 2013 Monday 11:30 hrs	M. Bianda Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno, IRSOL, Switzerland	IRSOL Locarno and the collaboration with IIA
17 May 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	K. Nagaraju MaxPlanck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany	Fast Solar Polarimeter: Concept and laboratory test results
13 May 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	Pankaj Agrawal Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Searching the Missing Piece in the Standard Model - the Higgs Boson
19 April 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Surajit Paul IUCAA, Pune	Blast wave like evolution of energy and galaxy cluster medium
25 March 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	Subhadeep De National Physical Laboratory, Delhi	Experiments with Mixtures of Bose-Condensed Rubidium and Degenerate Fermionic Lithium
22 March 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	Michael Dopita Australian National University, Australia	Non-thermal Electron Distributions in HII regions?
18 March 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	Michael Dopita Australian National University, Australia	Close Encounters and Gas Stripping in Galaxies
08 March 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Rodney Delgado Serrano Panama Univ Astronomical Observatory	The Evolution of the Hubble Sequence: Morpho-Kinematics of Distance Galaxies
05 March 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	L. S. Anusha Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany	Advanced Numerical Methods For Polarized Line Formation Theory.
27 February 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Bindusar Sahoo National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), Amsterdam	Topologically massive higher-spin gravity
21 February 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Sravani Vaddi Rochester Institute of Technology	Feedback in the local universe: The Relation between star formation and AGN activity in typical elliptical galaxies
15 February 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	Shriharsh Tendulkar Caltech	Magnetars: Kinematics, ages and birth places
14 February 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shriharsh Tendulkar Caltech	Robo-AO: Automated Adaptive Optics for Small Telescopes
14 February 2013 Thursday 11:30 hrs	A K Sen Assam University, Silchar	Photopolarimetric Observations of some recent comets
13 February 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Pratik Majumdar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics	Very High Energy Gamma Ray astronomy : A tool to study the very high energy universe
28 January 2013 Monday 11:30 hrs	Giono Gabriel University of Lyon, France	Segmentation of Coronal Features to Understand EUV & UV Irradiance Variability
15 January 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	JinLin Han National Astronomical Observatories , Beijing, China	Galaxy clusters as tracers of cosmic web
11 January 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Rahul Shetty University of Heidelberg, Germany	A non-universal Kennicutt-Schmidt relationship and star formation self-regulation
10 January 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Pratika Dayal Royal Observatory, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh	The earliest galaxies: probing cosmic dawn
09 January 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Debanjan Bose Inter-university Institute for High Energies (IIHE), Brussel, Belgium	Study of AGN and GRBs in Very High Energy Regime
09 January 2013 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Manoj Puravankara Department of Physics & Astronomy , University of Rochester , USA	Infrared Spectroscopy of Protostars with Spitzer and Herschel: Probing the earliest stages of stellar birth
08 January 2013 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Girjesh Gupta Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Lindau, Germany	Nature of propagating disturbances in the polar coronal hole
04 January 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Akondi Vyas School of Physics Science Centre - North Belfield Dublin 4	Detecting lower order aberrations: an analysis of Hartmann Shack, curvature and confocal wavefront sensors
04 January 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	Bidya Binay Karak Department Of Physics , Indian Institute Of Science , Bangalore	Theoretical study of the solar magnetic cycle and its irregularities
02 January 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	K. Nomoto Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study (TODIAS), The University of Tokyo	Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
31 December 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Shri Kulkarni Caltech, USA	ULTRASAT: An Ultra-Violet Time Domain Explorer
27 December 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Siddharth Savyasachi Malu School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore	A Window into the early history of the Universe
30 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	C. Muthumariappan Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	On the nature of IRAS 18333-2357: a very rare and peculiar PN located in the Globular cluster M22
29 November 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Natalie Batalha San Jose State University, USA	Catching Shadows: Kepler
19 November 2012 Monday 11:30 hrs	Seshadri T.R. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi	Constraining Primordial Magnetic Fields using Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
16 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	G. Thejappa Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Emission Modes of Solar Type I Radio Bursts
15 November 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shrikanth G. Kanekal NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center	The dynamics of Relativistic Electrons in the Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts: current understanding and future prospects
09 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Kanak Saha Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany	Secular evolution and structure of disk galaxies: impact of dark matter halos
02 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Petrus C. Martens Physics and Computer Science Departments, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA	Computer Vision for Solar Physics
31 October 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Ashok K. Singal Physical Research laboratory, Ahmedabad	Our large peculiar motion in the universe determined from the radio sky brightness anisotropy at 1.4 GHz
12 October 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Subinoy Das Institute for Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Aachen, Germany	Mysteries of dark matter, dark energy and their possible connection to the neutrino
27 September 2012 Thursday 11:30 hrs	L. N. Hazra Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata	Selected Topics from Contemporary Research in Applied Optics
17 August 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Peeyush Prasad University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Amsterdam-ASTRON Radio Transients Facility and Analysis Center, and the search for Radio transients using LOFAR
16 August 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Sandeep Gautam Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad	Mixtures of Bose-Einstein Condensates
27 July 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	G. Thejappa Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Bispectral Analysis of a Langmuir Wave Packets Associated with Solar Type III Radio Bursts
25 July 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Debi Prasad Choudhary California State University, Northridge, USA	The Nature of Sunspot Phenomena - An Observer's View
24 July 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Marcel Goossens Center for Plasma Astrophysics, KU Leuven, Belgium	Coronal Seismology Using Standing and Propagating MHD Waves
24 July 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	A. Bemporad INAF-Turin Astrophysical Observatory, Turin, Italy	Solar mass ejections: what we learnt from coronal spectroscopy
23 July 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Jorg Buchner Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and Georg August University Gottingen, Germany	Magnetic energy release in the laboratory and in astrophysics, the Sun and other stars
13 July 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Cristina H. Mandrini Instituto de Astronomia y Fi­sica del Espacio, Universidad de Buenos Aires	Combined quantitative study of CMEs - ICMEs
12 July 2012 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Marian Karlicky Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	PLASMA PROCESSES IN THE ELECTRON BEAM-RETURN CURRENT SYSTEM OF SOLAR FLARES
11 July 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Stanislav Gunar Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	Complex modelling of fine structures of the solar quiescent prominences
11 July 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Marian Karlicky Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	CASCADING MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN SOLAR FLARES
10 July 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Petr Heinzel Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	Radiative relaxation in solar prominences
04 July 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Bhimsen Shivamoggi Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando. USA	Electron MHD (EMHD) Turbulence
19 June 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Shalima P. IUCAA, Pune	Mid-IR counterparts of X-ray sources in NGC1399
28 May 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Vikram Rana Caltech	The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
25 May 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Formerly at IIA	Ragoonatha Chary and his Astronomy at Madras Observatroy
23 May 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Jasjeet Singh Bagla IISER, Mohali	Forming Galaxies in Dark Matter Haloes
23 April 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Ananda Hota NCRA-TIFR, Pune	Panchromatic Snapshots of Galaxy Evolution: Infall, Merger and Feedback
20 April 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Gert de Geyter Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Ghent, Belgium	Radiative Transfer Simulations: Fitting and Applications
30 March 2012 Friday 11:30 hrs	Bharat Kumar Yerra Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of Li-rich K Giants
21 March 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Sudhakar Panda Harish-Chandra Research Institute	Inflation and Quintessence from String theory
14 March 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Per Kjaergaard Rasmussen Copenhagen University	The SONG Project
13 March 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Smitha Subramanian Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Stellar Populations in the Magellanic Clouds
24 February 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Sumati Surya Raman Research Institute	Phenomenology from Quantum Gravity -- a brief introduction to causal set theory
22 February 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Koji Kawabata Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University	Transient Object Studies with Hiroshima `Kanata` 1.5-m Telescope
17 February 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Keiichi Maeda Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institute for Advanced Studies (TODIAS), University of Tokyo	Studying nearby Type Ia Supernovae for future cosmological applications
08 February 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Preeti Kharb Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA	A Multi-wavelength, Multi-scale Study of Jets in Radio-Powerful AGNs: Clues to Jet formation and Challenges to Unification
07 February 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Arnold Hanslmeier Institut fur Physik, Universitat Graz, Austria	Solar convection in the ascending solar activity phase
25 January 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	M. B. Roopashree Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Wavefront correction using MEMS deformable mirror
25 January 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Amit Shukla Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Multiwavelength studies of selected TeV Blazars
24 January 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Princeton University, USA	The Rapidly Rotating Solar Convection Zone
20 January 2012 Friday 11:30 hrs	Steven Tomczyk High Altitude Observatory/NCAR	Observation of Alfven waves in the Solar Corona
09 January 2012 Monday 11:30 hrs	Trinh X. Thuan University of Virginia	Blue Compact Dwarf and Green Pea Galaxies: Laboratories for star formation studies in a nearly primordial environment
04 January 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Kartik Sheth NRAO	ALMA: A Revolutionary Telescope For Transformational Science, Technology and Computing
02 January 2012 Monday 11:30 hrs	Luca Baiotti Osaka university, Japan	Binary neutron-star simulations and short gamma-ray bursts
19 December 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Dominik Utz Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria	Dynamics of magnetic bright points as observed by Hinode/SOT
16 December 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Birgit Lemmerer IGAM, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria	Segmentation Algorithms applied to Data from Simulations and Observations - First Results and Outlook
12 December 2011 Monday 11:30 hrs	Manjari Bagchi West Virginia University	What do the orbital and stellar properties of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters tell us ?
05 December 2011 Monday 11:30 hrs	Neha Choksi Project 88, Mumbai	A talk about an artist's work and a materially bound search for absence
24 November 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shiv Sethi RRI, Bangalore	Primordial magnetic fields in cosmological context
09 November 2011 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Y Schekinov South-Federal University, Rostov, Russia	Mixing of metals in low-surface brightness galaxies and all that
08 November 2011 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	G. Thejappa Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Emission Patterns of Solar Type III Radio Bursts: Stereoscopic Observations
01 November 2011 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Gaspar Bakos Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University	Searching for planets with HATNet and HATSouth
10 October 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Formerly with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Megalithic stone alignments: A fast disappearing astronomical heritage
29 September 2011 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Paramita Barai Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA	Investigating the Cosmological Impact of Expanding Radio Galaxies on Large-Scales
13 September 2011 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Varun Bhalerao Caltech, USA	Weighing in on Neutron Stars
12 September 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Varun Bhalerao Caltech, USA	NuSTAR: Unveiling the Hard X-ray Universe
26 August 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Sujit Sarkar Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, Bangalore	Perfect Entanglement Transport in Quantum Spin Chain Systems
25 August 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Arunima Banerjee Indian Institute of Science	Vertical Structure of Disk Galaxies and their Dark Matter Halos
24 August 2011 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Sridharan Rengaswamy European Southern Observatory, Chile	The Very Large Telescope Interferometer
18 August 2011 Thursday 10:00 hrs	Rumpa Choudhury Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Studies of Young Stellar Objects and Their Evironment
17 August 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	L. N. Hazra Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta	Optical System Design: A prophylactic strategy for Global synthesis
02 August 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Suchetana Chatterjee Yale University, USA	Cosmological Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
01 August 2011 Monday 16:00 hrs	Meridith Rawls New Mexico State University, USA	Light Curve Solutions of Eclipsing Binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud
01 August 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Brandon Patel Rutgers University, USA	SN2010a: is it a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova?
01 August 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Ritaban Chatterjee Yale University, USA	The AGN/X-Ray Binary Connection
21 July 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Durgesh Tripathi IUCAA, Pune	Heating of Solar Active Regions
14 July 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Aruna Goswami Indian Institute of Astrophysics	HE 1015-2050: Discovery of a hydrogen-deficient carbon star at high Galactic latitude
11 July 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Kinsuk Acharyya S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata	How Molecules form in the Star Forming Regions ?
07 July 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shiva Kumar, M. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris	A study of magnetic helicity in forced and decaying 3D-MHD turbulence
06 July 2011 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Kanak Saha Humboldt fellow, MPE, Garching, Germany	Dynamical evolution of a low mass classical bulge in barred galaxies
23 June 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Anusha L.S. Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Polarized line formation in multi-dimensional media with partial frequency redistribution
22 June 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	N.M. Ashok PRL, Ahmedabad	Infrared Studies of Recent Outbursts of Recurrent Novae
20 June 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Jens Kauffmann Jet Propulsion Laboratory	How the structure of Dense Cores and Molecular Clouds influences the Formation of Stars
17 June 2011 Friday 11:30 hrs	Meredith Rawls New Mexico State University, Las Cruces	Refined Neutron Star Mass Determinations for Six Eclipsing X-Ray Pulsar Binaries
17 June 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	Brandon Patel Rutgers University, USA	Analysis of a State Changing Supersoft X-ray Source in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
14 June 2011 Tuesday 12:20 hrs	H. D. Supriya Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of Novae rate in Local Group Galaxies
14 June 2011 Tuesday 11:40 hrs	K. Sowmya Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The planetary nebula associated with the classical nova V458 Vul
14 June 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	C. R. Sangeetha Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Development of Atmospheric Turbulence Simulator
06 May 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	V. Ramesh Kumar Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	Soliton and its dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates
04 May 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Sanhita Joshi NCRA, PUNE	The first polarization maps with the GMRT
28 April 2011 Thursday 11:00 hrs	A. B. Sudhakara Reddy Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Observational aspects of Galaxy formation theory
11 April 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Ananda Hota Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics,Academia Sinica,Taipei,Taiwan	Panchromatic Snapshots of Galaxy Evolution: Infall, Merger and Feedback Processes
28 March 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Phani Murali Krishna R Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune	High Performance Computing (HPC) and its Applications in Atmospheric Sciences and Physics
28 March 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Priyam Das Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata	Investigation of various Nonlinear Excitations of Bose-Einstein Condensates
18 March 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	John Hutchings Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	Isolating QSO types with the combined GALEX-SDSS database
16 March 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	John Hutchings Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	An overview of plans to upgrade the CFHT to 10m
08 March 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Rajesh Gopal Bose Institute, Kolkata	Magnetic field effects in galaxy clusters
17 February 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Vijay Kapur IGNOU, NEW DELHI	The Role of the Administrative Bureaucracy in Promoting Technology and Scientific Research - A Reality Check in the Indian Context
10 February 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Buckyballs's bounce to R Coronae Borealis stars
01 February 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Almudena Alonso-Herrero Centro de Astrobiologia, INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain	Testing the Unified Model of AGN: Fitting the IR emission of Seyfert
28 January 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Princeton University, Princeton, USA	Seismic constraints on global solar convection
27 January 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	G. Thejappa University of Maryland & NASA/GSFC, USA	Some Recent Results from STEREO
24 January 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	S. Turck-Chièze SAp/IRFU/CEA	A global view of the solar magnetism
24 January 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Donald M. Hassler Southwest Research Institute, Colorado, USA	Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) on the Solar Orbiter Mission
10 January 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Shri Kulkarni California Institute of Technology	Next Generation Transient Facility
07 January 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	H. Frisch Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France	The Hanle effect: (i) Action of a random Markovian magnetic field, (ii) A scattering expansion method of solution
03 January 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Masayuki Yamanaka Hiroshima University	Observational study of the extremely luminous Type Ia SN 2009dc
30 December 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Nozomu Tominaga Konan University, Japan	Shock breakouts of Type II plateau supernovae and future survey plans
16 December 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Poonam Chandra Royal Military College, Canada	Cosmological transient objects
15 December 2010 Wednesday 15:00 hrs	G. Sindhuja Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Temporal variations in the Solar chromosphere-Ca K line profiles
14 December 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	S. Sumangala Rao Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Chemical Compositions of a sample of post-AGB stars
02 December 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	P. K. Mukherjee Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University & Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal	Spectroscopy of atoms under liquid helium
25 November 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Ram Ajor Maurya Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad	SEISMIC STUDY OF SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS USING RING DIAGRAMS
28 October 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Rohan Eugene Louis Udaipur Solar Observatory	Achieving high spatial resolution using Adaptive Optics at the Udaipur Solar Observatory
28 October 2010 Thursday 11:00 hrs	P. Ramya Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of stellar streams in the Galaxy
22 October 2010 Friday 15:30 hrs	Neeharika Sinha Indian Institute of Astrophysics	An implication of recent prolonged solar minimum through Almahata Sitta meteorite fall
07 October 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Dharam Vir Lal Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA	Constraining the nature of X-shaped radio galaxies - new insights from radio and X-ray data
04 October 2010 Monday 15:00 hrs	B.P. Hema Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Clues to the origin of RCB stars
04 October 2010 Monday 11:00 hrs	G. Indu Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Recent star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds
02 September 2010 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Arya Dhar Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Novel Quantum Phases in ultracold atoms in optical superlattices
30 August 2010 Monday 11:30 hrs	Prashanth Mohan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Models for observational signatures of black holes
26 August 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Jayesh Bhatt Brunel University, UK	Molecular simulations and internal dynamical properties of particulate systems
19 August 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	K.B. Ramesh Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Coronal activity and sunspots – solar cycle perspective
30 July 2010 Friday 11:00 hrs	PAUL J. WIITA The College of New Jersey, USA	Testing Active Galactic Nuclei Unification via Quasar Optical Spectra and Radio Morphologies
29 July 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Alok C. Gupta ARIES, Nainital	Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in Blazars on Diverse Time Scales
28 July 2010 Wednesday 16:30 hrs	Gordon MacDonald University of California-Northridge	Studies of Waves in Sunspots Using Spectropolarimetric and Imaging Observations
28 July 2010 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Kristopher Vorren University of North Carolina	Probing of solar core rotation
28 July 2010 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Megan Force University of Vermont	Infrared and Optical Observations of R Corona Borealis Stars
28 July 2010 Wednesday 15:00 hrs	Christene Lynch University of Iowa	Optical Photometry and Spectroscopy of SN 2006be, a Type IIP Supernova
23 July 2010 Friday 11:00 hrs	Noah Brosch Tel Aviv University, Israel	The fascinating world of ring galaxies
13 July 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	M.B. Roopashree Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Multilayered temporally evolving phase screens based on statistical interpolation
08 July 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Jean-Pierre ROZELOT Nice University, France	A story of the solar oblateness: from Princeton, 1966 to future space missions
06 July 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Bharat Kumar Yerra Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Survey for Li-rich K giants
01 July 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Georgeta Maris Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy, Romania	Specific Features of the High Speed Streams in Solar Wind during Solar Cycle 23
01 July 2010 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Mansi Kasliwal California Institute of Technology	The Palomar Transient Factory
30 June 2010 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Megan Force University of Vermont	SUBPULSE MODULATION AND MODING OF THE FIVE-COMPONENT PULSAR B1737+13
30 June 2010 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Kristopher Vorren University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	CAROLINA PHYSICS
29 June 2010 Tuesday 14:30 hrs	Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Oscillations and heating of the Solar Chromosphere at the sites of fine scale features as seen with Hinode/SOT and SoHO/MDI
29 June 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Smitha H.N. Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Analysis of the polarimetric data of Ca 4227 line
28 June 2010 Monday 11:30 hrs	Gordon MacDonald University of California-Northridge	FLOWS IN THE MAGNETIZED REGIONS NEAR SUNSPOTS
28 June 2010 Monday 11:00 hrs	Christene Lynch University of Iowa	FIRST CALCULATIONS OF GROWTH RATES FOR SATURN KILOMETRIC RADIATION AS MEASURED BY CASSINI
24 June 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	C.S. Stalin Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Quasars in the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey
22 June 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	A. Vyas Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thresholded Zernike reconstructor and dither based sensor towards improved wavefront reconstruction in adaptive optics systems
18 June 2010 Friday 11:00 hrs	Sundar Srinivasan Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France	The GRAMS AGB Models: Calculating the Mass-Loss Return to the LMC from SED fits to SAGE Data
03 June 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Sumedh V. Anathpindika Indian Institute of Astrophysics	A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE FORMATION OF PRESTELLAR CORES
25 May 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	A.C. Pradhan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	FAR ULTRAVIOLET DIFFUSE EMISSION FROM THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD
18 May 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Rumpa Choudhury Indian Institute of Astrophysics	VARIABLE CIRCUMSTELLAR ACTIVITIES OF HERBIG Ae STAR HD 38238
17 May 2010 Monday 11:00 hrs	Pravabati Chingangbam Sejong University, South Korea	Search for primordial non-Gaussian signals in the CMB
24 March 2010 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Hari Dass Indian Institute of Science	CPU and GPU Computing
25 February 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Atul Deep Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands	Use of AO PSF Models to Study Resolved Stellar Populations
18 January 2010 Monday 15:30 hrs	Vikram Soni Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi	Magnetars Incognito: Magnetars that have not been Recognized
17 December 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Durgesh Tripathi University of Cambridge, U.K.	Source Region Magnetic Configuration in CMEs and their Initiation
17 December 2009 Thursday 11:00 hrs	N. Gopalswamy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA	Some Recent Findings on Interplanetary Shocks Driven by Coronal Mass Ejections
10 December 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	J Vivekanandan National Center for Atmospheric Research, , USA	Remote Sensing of Cloud Microphysics, Aerosols, and Water Vapor Using Microwave Radiometers and Lidars
05 November 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	C H Ishwara-Chandra National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, & Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	A Deep Search for High-redshift Radio Galaxies
29 October 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Andrea Borch Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Direct NBODY Simulation
16 September 2009 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Celine Joseph Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore	On the Development of 10.5 micron Quantum-well Infrared Photo-detector for Astronomical Applications
24 August 2009 Monday 11:30 hrs	Jürgen Schmitt Hamburger Sternwarte, Hamburg, Germany	A High-resolution Stellar Spectrograph for the NLST
13 August 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Richard Britto Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAGAR Telescope System in the Himalayas
31 July 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Anvesh Vagiri Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad	Accessing FITS Files over the Internet
23 July 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Rekhesh Mohan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	An Introduction to High-performance Computing using Graphics Processors
02 July 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Noah Brosch Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel	Grey extinction in the Milky Way
11 June 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d´Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Differential Gravitational Lensing to Unveil Molecular Structures around High Redshift AGN
14 May 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Amit Pathak School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK	Polycyclic Hydrocarbons in Space
30 March 2009 Monday 16:00 hrs	Mukul Kundu University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Recent Progress in Solar Radio Physics in Microwaves
05 February 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Wolfgang Kalkofen Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	The Structure of the Sun, from the Deep Interior to the Outer Layers: What we believe we know about it
29 January 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Jaroslaw Kijak Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland	Turn-over in Pulsar Radio Spectra
07 January 2009 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Vikram Soni National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi	A Solution to the Puzzle of Magnetars
17 December 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Bhimsen Shivamoggi University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA	Driven Magnetic Field Reconnection in Hall MHD
27 November 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sami Dib Service d'Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay, France	Formation and Properties of Dense Cores in Molecular Clouds
24 November 2008 Monday 11:30 hrs	C. S. Stalin Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Estimation of H0 through Monitoring of Lensed Quasars
21 November 2008 Friday 11:30 hrs	Tanya A. Ryabchikova Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	The Vienna Atomic Line Database and its use in Stellar Atmosphere Structure and Abundance Analysis
20 November 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Mikhail E. Sachkov Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	The World Space Observatory: An Ultraviolet Mission for the Next Decade
19 November 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Tanya A. Ryabchikova Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Chemical Structure of the Atmospheres of Ap Stars
31 October 2008 Friday 11:30 hrs	Mausumi Dikpati National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA	Simulating Solar Climate: Opportunities and Challenges
08 October 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Tapas K Das Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Astrophysical Accretion as an Analogue Gravity Phenomenon
03 October 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Patrick McCarthy Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, USA	The Giant Magellan Telescope Project
18 September 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Manas Mukherjee Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata	Particle Trap: A Universal Tool for Atomic and Molecular Physics Experiments
28 August 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sabyasachi Chatterjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	What is Graphite? Its Formation, Morphology and Extinction
01 August 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Ashish Mahabal California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA	Transient Detection and Classification
17 July 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Benjamin Trakhtenbrot Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel	Measuring the Mass and Accretion-rate of Super-Massive Black Holes in AGN through Cosmic Epochs
16 July 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	S. P. Bagare Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Status Report of NLST
11 July 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Bidhan Saha Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, USA	Slow Ion-Molecule Collisions: Molecular State Treatment
07 July 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	Claudio Ricci Data Centre for Astrophysics, Geneva University, Switzerland	The INTEGRAL View on AGN
26 June 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Chiranjib Sur Ohio State University, Columbus, USA	Fe K-lines : Applications to X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy
19 June 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	A. R. Ganesan Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai	Optical Wavefront Sensing and Control for Adaptive Optics Applications
12 June 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Ritaban Chatterjee Boston University, Boston, USA	Correlated Multi-frequency Time Variability in the Blazar 3C 279
15 May 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Bruce Fegley Washington University, St. Louis, USA	Atmospheric Chemistry during the Accretion of Earth-like Exoplanets
10 April 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Dirk Soltau Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik ,Freiburg, Germany	Adaptive Optics at the German Solar Telescopes on Tenerife
24 March 2008 Monday 12:00 hrs	Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA	Rayleigh Scattering System for Palomar 60-inch
06 March 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Anand Narayanan Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA	The Origins and Evolution of Weak Low Ionization Quasar Absorption Systems
21 February 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Yu-Qing Lou Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Magnetohydro dynamic Shock Flows in Clusters of Galaxies
20 February 2008 Wednesday 04:00 hrs	Oskar Steiner Kiepenheuer-Institut fuer Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany	The Structure of the Solar Internetwork Magnetic Field: Comparison of Numerical Simulations with Hinode Observations
18 February 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	Colin Cunningham Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK	The European Extremely Large Telescope
08 February 2008 Friday 04:00 hrs	Gregg Hallinan National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland	Looking for a Pulse: The Search for Radio Emission from Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets
31 January 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Bruce Hrivnak Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, USA	Mulitiwavelength Studies of Proto-planetary Nebulae
25 January 2008 Friday 11:00 hrs	Barnali Chakrabarty Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata	Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Quantum Many-body Approach
24 January 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Theoretical Studies of Wave Interactions in the Sun
18 January 2008 Friday 11:00 hrs	Bharat Kumar Yerra Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	Lithium-rich K Giants
14 January 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	David Schade & Séverin Gaudet Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	Multiwavelength Data at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
10 January 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Dipankar Banerjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Global Solar and Stellar Coronal Seismology
09 January 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Heath Jones Anglo-Australian Observatory, Epping, Australia	The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Initial Results and Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Evolution
03 January 2008 Thursday 12:00 hrs	Shashi M. Kanbur State Univerisity of New York, Oswego, USA	The Non-linear Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation: Implications for H0 and Cepheid Physics
03 January 2008 Thursday 10:30 hrs	Rumpa Choudhury Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	Young Stellar Objects and their Environment
03 December 2007 Monday 11:00 hrs	M. Sampoorna Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	Effects of Magnetic Turbulence and Scattering on Line Polarization
15 November 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sivarani Thirupathi Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA	Relics from the Dawn of Time: Abundance patterns of Extreme Metal Poor Stars of the Galaxy
25 October 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	C. Muthumariappan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	An Investigation of Dust in the Reflection Nebula OH231.8 + 4.2 using Mid-IR Imaging
11 October 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Annamaneni Peraiah formerly Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Radiative Transfer on X-Y Geometry
03 October 2007 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Prateek Sharma University of California, Berkeley, USA	Transport and Heating in Low Luminosity Accretion Flows
27 September 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Kanak Saha Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Dynamics of Warps in Spiral Galaxies
12 September 2007 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Indian Institute of Astrophysics	R Coronae Borealis Stars - Their Evolutionary Status and Dust Production : An Observational Approach
24 August 2007 Friday 16:00 hrs	Thejappa Golla Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA	Observations of Low Frequency Magnetic Field Fluctuations Near the Moon
23 August 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	T.N. Rengarajan formerly Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Compact HII Regions and Massive Star Formation
13 August 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Ranjan Vasudevan Institute of Astronomy Cambridge, UK	Piecing Together the X-ray Background: the Bolometric Output from AGN
13 July 2007 Friday 16:00 hrs	Sanjaya Paudel Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Spin-vector Orientation of Galaxies in Seven Abell Clusters of BM Type II
09 July 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Nagaraj Naidu UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, U.K.	Low Light Level CCDs: Performance and Issues
21 June 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sam Barden Anglo-Australian Observatory, Epping, Australia	On-going and Future Instrumentation Efforts at the Anglo-Australian Observatory
14 June 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Jayant Kumar Pendharkar Osmania University, Hyderabad	Anticorrelated Hard X-ray Time Lags in Galactic Blackhole Sources - Evidence for Truncated Accretion Disk Models
05 April 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Subharthi Ray Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Strange Quark Stars: From Theory to their Current Standings
12 March 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Humeshkar Nemala University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA	HII Regions
01 March 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Achamveedu Gopakumar Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany	Inspiral Dynamics of Compact Binaries: its Applications and Implications
26 February 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Dan McKenzie Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK	The Internal Structure of Venus and Mars from Satellite Tracking
05 February 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Subhashis Roy ASTRON, The Netherlands	Recent Low-frequency Studies near the Galactic Centre
01 February 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	N. Gopalswamy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center USA	Halo Coronal Mass Ejections and their Geoeffectiveness
12 January 2007 Friday 16:00 hrs	Sydney Barnes Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, USA	Ages for Illustrative Field Stars using Gyrochronology
11 January 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Frédéric Courbin Ecolé Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland	Quasar time delays, Ho and Dark Matter
11 January 2007 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Mina Koleva Observatoire de Lyon, France	Analysis of Stellar Populations: New Tools, New
10 January 2007 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Dilip Ghosh Roy University of Utah, USA	Multiple and Multi-centred Scattering in Bounded and Unbounded Media
10 January 2007 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Philippe Prugniel Observatoire de Lyon, France	Diffuse Elliptical galaxies A Rosette stone to Understand the Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters?
07 December 2006 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Yogesh Wadadekar Princeton University, USA	Star-forming galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field parallels
22 November 2006 Wednesday 16:30 hrs	H. M. Antia Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Temporal Variations of Solar Rotation during Solar Cycle 23
02 November 2006 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Satoshi Yamamoto University of Tokyo, Japan	Chemical Evolution of Molecular Clouds
26 September 2006 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Abhishek Kumar Srivastava Banares Hindu University, Varanasi	On the Role of MHD Waves in Solar Wind Source Region
31 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	David Lambert Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, USA	The Giant Magellan Telescope
24 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Pratik Majumdar Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Germany	Observation of VHE Gamma Ray Sources with the MAGIC Telescope
10 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Sawant H.S BDA Team -Brazilian National Space Research Institute - INPE Brazil	Status of the development of the Brazilian Decimetric Array and other activities of the solar physics Group at INPE
03 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Margarita Safonova Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Detection of Intermediate-mass Black Holes from Microlensing in Globular Clusters
02 August 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Palahalli R. Vishwanath Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Multi-wavelength Studies of the Galactic Centre
28 July 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Shrinivas R. Kulkarni California Institute of Technology,	An Explosion of Cosmic Explosions
13 July 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Nimisha Kantharia National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune	GMRT Observations of Galaxy Group Holmberg 124: Signatures of Tidal Interaction and Ram Pressure Stripping
10 July 2006 Monday 00:00 hrs	Nozomu Tominaga Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Japan	Core-Collapse Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: Type Ib SN2005bf and Type Ic SN2006aj/GRB060218
07 July 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Koji S. Kawabata Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University, Japan	Spectropolarimetric and Spectroscopic studies of Circumstellar Environments of Explosive stars, and the Hiroshima 1.5-m Telescope Project
06 July 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Mamoru Doi Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Japan	Distant SN Surveys for Cosmological Expansion Measurements using SUBARU
03 July 2006 Monday 00:00 hrs	Nagaraja Naidu UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, UK	Optical and Near-Infrared Instrumentation at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre
29 June 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Indranil Chattopadhyay Chungnam National University, South Korea	Relativisitic Numerical Hydrodynamics and Equation of State
29 June 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Abhishek Rawat Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Unravelling the morphologies of Luminous Compact Galaxies using the HST/ACS GOODS survey
15 June 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Dipanjan Mitra National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	PSR B0329+54 - A Pulsar with Unique Emission Properties
14 June 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Pavan Chakraborty Assam University, Silchar	Exposure Time Calculator for IFOSC and Sky Background Estimation
02 June 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Bhas Bapat Laboratory Astrophysics Group, Physical Research Laboratory	Photo Triple Ionization of CO2
21 April 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Tomotsugu Goto Department of Infrared Astrophysics, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan	The Origin of E+A (post-starburst) Galaxies
12 April 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Malaya Kumar Nayak Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Theoretical Investigation of Relativistic Effects in Heavy Atoms and Polar Molecules Thesis Seminar
06 April 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Shashi Bhushan Pandey Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain	Optical observations of GRB afterglows
16 March 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Kavan Ratnatunga Carnegie-Mellon University, USA	Gravitational Lensing Studies with the Hubble Space Telescope
06 March 2006 Monday 00:00 hrs	Meetu Sethi Luthra	Coasting Cosmology: An Alternative to the Big Bang
01 March 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Luc Damc Service dAcronomie du CNRS, FRANCE	The Ultimate High Resolution View of the Sun: the SOLARNET Mission
24 February 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Parthasarathi Majumdar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata	The Mysterious Warmth of Blackholes
23 February 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Uma Vijh Space Telescope Science Institute, USA	Photoluminescence by Interstellar Dust and a Look at the Dust Characteristics in the LMC using the Sptizer Space Telescope
03 February 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Denis J. Sullivan Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand	Asteroseismology with Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
03 February 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	B.Ananthanarayan Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Low Energy Interactions at High Precision
20 January 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Richard Conn Henry The John Hopkins University	Physics and Astronomy
19 January 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	John Hearnshaw Mt John University Observatory	Measuring Precise Radial Velocities with the Hercules Spectrograph at Mt John University Observatory
18 January 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	John Hearnshaw Mt John University Observatory	The MOA 1.8-m alt-az Wide-field Survey Telescope at Mt John and the MOA Microlensing Project
16 January 2006 Monday 16:00 hrs	Sabine Kram CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	Synergy between Colliders and Cosmology

Special Lectures

Date	Speaker	Title
10 August 2012 Friday 11:00 hrs	Anil Kakodkar DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor & former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India	Management of Mega Science Programmes
09 March 2012 Friday 17:30 hrs	N. O. Weiss University of Cambridge	THE CHAOTIC DYNAMO IN THE SUN
31 October 2011 Monday 11:30 hrs	A. Mangalam, G. C. Anupama, Pravabati Chinganbam Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Discussion on 2011 Physics Nobel Prize
30 September 2011 Friday 17:30 hrs	Vidyanand Nanjundiah Indian Institute of Science	The biological roots of altruism
30 September 2011 Friday 17:00 hrs	Laurent Gizon Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany	Seismology of the Sun and Sun-like Stars
15 September 2011 Thursday 00:00 hrs	N. Mukunda Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Truth, Beauty and the meaning of understanding Nature
10 August 2011 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	M. G. K. Menon Formerly Director of TIFR	The Founder of IIA - Vainu Bappu
25 July 2011 Monday 17:00 hrs	Prof. G. S. Agarwal, FRS Noble Foundation Chair and Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.	Quantum Interference between Independent Photons
28 June 2011 Tuesday 18:00 hrs	Deirdre Coffey DIAS, Dublin	Disks and jets in young stars: observations and unsolved problems
08 April 2011 Friday 17:30 hrs	Prof. Mushirul Hasan National Archives of India, New Delhi	Is there a Gandhian Legacy?
16 February 2011 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Jim Burge University of Arizona	Mirror Technology for the Giant Magellan Telescope
13 January 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Arthur I. Miller University College London, UK	Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
11 January 2011 Tuesday 17:00 hrs	Ambrogio Fasoli Ecole Polytechnique Federal of Lausanne, Switzerland	Plasma Physics for Magnetic Fusion Research
12 October 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	C. Sivaram Indian Institute of Astrophysics	2010 Physics Nobel Prize
17 September 2010 Friday 18:30 hrs	Seyed E.Hasnain Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad	TUBERCULOSIS: THE VICIOUS TRIANGLE OF PATHOGEN, HOST AND ENVIRONMENT CONTINUES TO POSE A CHALLENGE TO SCIENCE
17 September 2010 Friday 18:00 hrs	Dirk Soltau Kiepenheuer-Institut fur Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany	Looking into the fire (The future of solar observation)
10 August 2010 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Professor Govindarajan Padmanaban Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru - 560012	Growth of Biotechnology in India
18 February 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Valerie Connaughton National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, USA	Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts
04 November 2009 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	S. M. R. Ansari IUPS, Aligarh	Modern Astronomy in Persian sources
27 August 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	David Lambert University of Texas, Austin, USA	A Half-century of Spectroscopic Astrophysics: Personal Recollections
25 August 2009 Tuesday 16:45 hrs	Jürgen Schmitt Hamburger Sternwarte, Hamburg, Germany	Magnetic Activity of the Sun and the Stars: Insights and Problems
25 August 2009 Tuesday 16:05 hrs	P Balaram Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Reinventing the Research University in India
10 August 2009 Monday 17:00 hrs	Govind Swarup National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	Experimental Astronomy in India: Some Lessons
19 June 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Vikram Soni National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi	River Floodplains : An Invaluable Natural Storage for Water
23 January 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Anil Pradhan Ohio State University, Columbus, USA	From Astrophysics to Cancer Theranostics via Nanotechnology
15 January 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	B S Chandrasekhar Walther-Meißner-Institut, Garching, Germany	Low Temperature Physics and Physicists Six Decades Ago
11 December 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	B S Chandrasekhar Walther-Meißner-Institut, Garching, Germany	Low Temperature Physics and Physicists Six Decades Ago: POSTPONED
14 November 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Phil Charles South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa	Time Domain Astrophysics with the Southern African Large Telescope
06 October 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	Tapas K Das Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Black Holes in Your Bathtub
11 August 2008 Monday 11:00 hrs	C.N.R. Rao Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Indian Institute of Science	Doing Science in India: Personal Reflections
30 May 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Roger Blandford Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA	New opportunities with Gravitational Lenses
14 December 2007 Friday 11:30 hrs	Arnold Hanslmeier Karl Franzens Univeristy, Graz, Austria	Sun - the Star we Live With [NOTE CHANGED TIME]
06 August 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Naresh Dadhich Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics	Why Einstein (Had I been born in 1844!) ?
26 July 2007 Thursday 15:00 hrs	A.Vagiswari Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Building and Managing Science Archives: An Overview of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics Archives
05 March 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Ajit Kembhavi Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Virtual Observatory Tools: A Demo
02 March 2007 Friday 17:30 hrs	Obaid Siddiqi National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore	Biology of Learning and Memory
13 February 2007 Tuesday 17:30 hrs	Habib Tanvir Naya Theatre, Bhopal	Contemporary Indian Theatre (Please note that this lecture has been postponed from 12th February)
07 December 2006 Thursday 12:00 hrs	Jean Audouze Institut d`Astrophysique, Paris, France	Science and Societies
13 September 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Nihita Goel Information Systems Development Group, TIFR Mumbai	e-Administration: A Move Towards Paperless Office
10 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Jogesh Babu Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA	Astrostatistics II
09 August 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Jogesh Babu Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA	Astrostatistics I
21 June 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Albert Tarantola Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris	Gravimetry, Relativity, and the Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Past Lecture Courses

Date	Speaker	Title
11 November 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Changbom Park KIAS, South Korea	Topology of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe- II
04 November 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Changbom Park KIAS, South Korea	Topology of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe- I
10 June 2009 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d´Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Galaxies II
04 June 2009 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d´Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Galaxies I
28 January 2009 Wednesday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars V
22 January 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars IV
21 January 2009 Wednesday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars III
19 January 2009 Monday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars II
16 January 2009 Friday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars I
09 August 2007 Thursday 11:30 hrs	K. R. Subramanian	Observational Techniques in Radio Astronomy
09 August 2007 Thursday 10:00 hrs	B. E. Reddy	Observational Techniques in Optical Astronomy
08 August 2007 Wednesday 14:30 hrs	C. Sivaram	Cosmology
08 August 2007 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	T. P. Prabhu	Galaxies
08 August 2007 Wednesday 10:00 hrs	H. C. Bhatt	Interstellar Medium
07 August 2007 Tuesday 14:30 hrs	R. T. Gangadhara	Structure and Evolution of Stars II
07 August 2007 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Aruna Goswami	Structure and Evolution of Stars I
07 August 2007 Tuesday 10:00 hrs	Dipankar Banerjee	The Sun
06 August 2007 Monday 14:30 hrs	Arun Mangalam	Introduction to the Physical Universe-II
06 August 2007 Monday 11:30 hrs	Arun Mangalam	Introduction to the Physical Universe-I
20 September 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Mike Dopita RSAA, The Australian National University	Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe

Past Popular Talks

Date	Speaker	Title
06 September 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	To the Moon and Beyond: A Neil Armstrong Retrospective and Perspective
10 July 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	B. P. Das IIA	God's Particle : What is it and Why is it important?
29 June 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Megha Bhatt Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung, Germany	The GalileoMobile Project
05 June 2012 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	VISHWANATH P. R. Indian Institute of Astrophysic	TRANSIT OF VENUS -2012
08 March 2011 Tuesday 17:00 hrs	Sabyasachi Chatterjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	In the Quest of Structure and Function Dorothy Hodgkin: Scientist and Social Activist
03 February 2011 Thursday 17:45 hrs	Professor Roddam Narasimha Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore	The Hydrodynamics of Cumulus Clouds
02 February 2011 Wednesday 17:30 hrs	Professor Hans Meinhardt Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tübingen, Germany	Pattern Formation in Biology: local self-enhancement and long-ranging inhibition as the driving force
16 April 2010 Friday 17:30 hrs	Andre Béteille Delhi University, New Delhi	Can Rights Undermine Trust? How Institutions Work and Why they Fail
19 March 2010 Friday 17:30 hrs	Mike Dopita Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Australia	Hubble´s New Window to the Universe
08 March 2010 Monday 17:30 hrs	Eric Cornell University of Colorado & National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA	Stone Cold Science: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Weird World of Physics a Millionth of a Degree Above Absolute Zero
15 February 2010 Monday 17:00 hrs	C V Vishveshwara Formerly Indian Institute of Astrophysics & J N Planetarium	Galileo´s Gift
25 January 2010 Monday 17:30 hrs	William D. Phillips National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA	3rd Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture: Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
06 January 2010 Wednesday 17:00 hrs	Alan Brody Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA	Enriching Science Education: The Role of Science Theatre
22 October 2009 Thursday 17:00 hrs	T Jayaraman Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai & Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	From Static Worlds to Evolving Systems: Philosophical Implications of Changes in the Natural World
29 May 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Sabyasachi Chatterjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Meghnad Saha: The Scientist and the Crusader
30 April 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Balachandra Rao Gandhi Centre of Science & Human Values,Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore	Classical Indian Astronomy - Some Landmarks
03 April 2009 Friday 17:30 hrs	Madhav Gadgil Agharkar Research Institute, Pune	Major Transitions in Evolution
13 March 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	R Rajaraman Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi	Hans Albrecht Bethe: A Giant in Physics and a Statesman in Nuclear Disarmament
16 February 2009 Monday 16:00 hrs	Loren W. Acton Montana State University, Bozeman, USA	Space Travel and Space Research
03 December 2008 Wednesday 18:30 hrs	Douglas Gough University of Cambridge, U.K.	2nd Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture: What is a Sunspot?
21 November 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Palahalli Vishwanath Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Galileo: The Scientist and the Man
26 August 2008 Tuesday 10:45 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
26 August 2008 Tuesday 10:10 hrs	H. C. Bhatt Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Birth of Stars
18 June 2008 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	C Sivaram Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Dark Universe
28 February 2008 Thursday 16:30 hrs	Prajval Shastri Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Harnessing Gravity – Shining Black Holes and Growing Galaxies
28 February 2008 Thursday 12:15 hrs	E. Ebenezer Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Sun & Radio Astronomy
28 February 2008 Thursday 11:45 hrs	Dipankar Banerjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The Sun-Earth Connection
10 August 2007 Friday 16:30 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Science from Space: 50 years of Space Flight
09 August 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Vivek Monteiro Navnirmiti, Mumbai	Sunderstanding - The Sun as a Learning Resource for Universalising Science