
| 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 | |