' Indian Institute of Astrophysics ' Kodaikanal  Observatory, India August 27 - September 7, 2007    
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TENTATIVE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

27 August, 2007
Inauguration Session Chair: S. S. Hasan
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome: S. S. Hasan, Director, IIA
Session I: Astrophysical Turbulence
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 J. Niemela Hydrodynamic Turbulence in classical and quantum fluids (I)
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 M. L. Goldstein Turbulence and global properties of the solar wind (I)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 J. Niemela Rayleigh-Benard convection at very high Rayleigh numbers (II)
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 M. L. Goldstein Efforts to simulate solar wind turbulence (II)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
28 August, 2007
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 P. K. Manoharan Solar Wind Turbulence and Scintillation Studies
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 V. Krishan Modeling of spectral distribution in the solar wind though Hall-MHD
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 S. Sridhar Plasma turbulence in the interstellar medium (I)
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 R. Bingham Neutrino driven plasma turbulence and supernovae explosions
18:00 - 19:00 S. Sridhar MHD turbulence (II)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
29 August, 2007
Session II: Astrophysical Dynamos
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 A. R. Chouduri Dynamo process in the astrophysical universe (I)
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 V. K. Gaur The Earth's main geomagnetic field: Operation of a self excited dynamo (I)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 A. R. Chouduri The flux transport dynamo in the Sun (II)
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 V. K. Gaur Kinematic theory and the dynamo conditions (II)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
30 August, 2007
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 A. Mangalam Constraints on dynamo action
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 V. Krishan Alpha effect in partially ionized plasmas
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 Piyali Chatterjee Predicting solar cycles with a flux transport dynamo model
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 Poster Viewing
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
31 August, 2007
Session III: Pulsar Radiation Mechanism
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 J. L. Han Manifestation of pulsars -- General introduction (I)
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 A. A. Deshpande Individual Pulses (I)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 R. T. Gangadhara Radio Pulsar Emission Geometry (I)
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 G. J. Qiao High Energy Observations of pulsars (I)
18:00 - 19:00 Chen Wang Wave propagation in magnetosphere
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
3 September, 2007
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 J. L. Han Pulsars as probes (II)
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 G. J. Qiao Particle acceleration and radiation in magnetosphere (II)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 A. A. Deshpande Pulsar evolution (II)
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 R. T. Gangadhara Possible Pulsar Radiation process (II)
18:00 - 19:00 G. S. Lakhina An overview of the magnetosphere,substorms and geomagnetic storms
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
4 September, 2007
Session IV: Quantum Plasmas
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 P. K. Shukla Collective Nonlinear Processes in Very Dense Plasmas (I)
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 P. K. Shukla Collective Interactions in Complex Plasmas (II)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
Session V: Accretion
14:30 - 15:45 V. Krishan MRI in accretion disks
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 B. P. Pandey The dynamics of magnetized accretion discs (I)
18:00 - 19:00 P. Subramanian Hybrid viscosity and the magnetoviscous instability
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
5 September, 2007
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 B. P. Pandey Hall MHD in astrophysics (II)
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 B. Mukhopadhyay Transonic properties of the accretion disk around compact objects
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
Session VI: Solar and Space Plasmas
14:30 - 15:45 G. Thejappa Propagation Effects on Visibility and Directivity of Interplanetary Radio Bursts (I)
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 - 17:30 P. Venkatakrishnan Measurement of Solar Magnetic Fields
18:00 - 19:00 Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari Evolution of Helicity in The Sun
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
6 September, 2007
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 11:15 G. Thejappa Low Frequency Waves Observed by Lunar Prospector above the Day side Surface of the Moon (II)
11:15 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 13:00 R. Bingham Coherent Radiative Processes (II)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 R. M. C. Thomas Emission of radiation in pulsar magnetosphere owing to charged particle acceleration
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
Session VII: Seminars
16:15 - 16:45 A. K. Singal The maximum brightness temperature limit - Inverse Compton vs. Diamagnetic effects
16:45 - 17:15 R. P. Sharma Generation Of Nonlinear Localized Wave Packets Of Kinetic Alfven Waves in Solar Plasmas and particle acceleration
17:15 - 17:45 Mradual Sharma Hydromagnteic Instability in differentially rotating flow
17:45 - 18:15 Nilay Bhatt Broadband spectral modeling of microquasars
18:15 - 18:45 Binil Aryal Coexistence of chiral symmetry restoration and random orientation of galaxies
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
7 September, 2007
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 10:30 Nikhil Chakrabarti Nonlinear Jeans instability in presence of uniform rotation
10:30 - 11:00 Raju Khanal Kinetic Trajectory Simulation Model of Magnetized Plasma Sheaths
11:00 - 11:30 Tea Break
11:30 - 12:00 Siomel Savio Odriozola Simulation of the dynamics in the magnetospheric current sheet for ifferent conditions of the interplanetary magnetic field
12:00 - 12:30 Tarsem Singh Gill Ion acoustic solitons in a weakly relativistic plasma with non-thermal electrons and other electron distributions relevant to space plasma
12:30 - 13:00 K. E. Rangarajan Concluding Remarks
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch