10 August 2011
09:00 - Registration
10:00 - 11:30 Session I : Inaugural Session
10:00 Welcome : S.S. Hasan, Director IIA
10:10 Release of the 'VBT commemorative volume' by M.G.K. Menon
Founder's Day Lecture: M.G.K. Menon
The Founder of IIA - Vainu Bappu: Many memories and the lessons we can learn from him
10:50 Felicitations and presentation of mementos
11:00 Vote of thanks: H.C. Bhatt, Dean, IIA
11:15 Group photograph
11:30 - 12:00 Tea
Session II : Science with the VBT -1
12:00 - 12:30 K.P. Singh – Elliptical Galaxies: Hot and Dusty
12:30 - 12:45 Swara R. - Mapping the ionized gas in star-forming galaxies
12:45 - 13:00 S. Annapurni - Understanding the convective core of intermediate mass stars: The contribution of young star clusters
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Session III :Science with the VBT –2
14:30 – 15:00 A.K. Kembhavi – Early Observation of Early Type Galaxies With the VBT and Some Consequences.
15:00 – 15:15 Y. D. Mayya – Study of star-forming regions in nearby galaxies.
15:15 – 15:30 Prajval Shastri -Variability of Relativistically Beamed Emission from AGN
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
Session IV : The VBT Project
16:00 – 16:15 A.K. Pati – Overview of the 90-inch Telescope Project
16:15 – 16:40 S.C. Tapde – The 90-inch – Bappu's Palomar
16:40 – 17:00 A.K. Saxena – Optics of the VBT – challenges and achievements
17:00 – 17:20 B.N. Karkera – VBT’s Controls, Power Supplies & Mirror Coating by BARC
Evening Lecture
18:30 – 19:30 David Lambert – In my craft or sullen art
11 August 2011
Session V : Science with the VBT –3
09:30 – 10:00 Ram Sagar – Contribution of VBT in the studies of star clusters
10:00 – 10:15 G.C Anupama – Nova science with the VBT
10:15 – 10:30 N.M. Ashok – Probing Explosive Stellar Outbursts
11:00 – 11:30 Tea
Session VI:Science with the VBT -4
11:30 – 12:00 Gopal Krishna – VBT and the initial exploration of intranight optical microvariability of radio–quiet quasars
12:15 – 12:30 Sunetra Giridhar – Yellow Supergiants: probes of stellar and galactic evolutions
12:30 – 12:45 G. Pandey – Surface Composition of H-Deficient Stars - Clues to their Origins
12:45 – 13:00 T.Sivarani – AGB stars through the history of the Galaxy
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Session VII:Science with the VBT –5
14:30 – 14:45 Bharat Yerra – Origin of Lithium Anomaly in K Giants
14:45 – 15:00 Ranjan Gupta – ANN based Effective Temperatures of G-K Dwarf Stars from VBT spectroscopic data & Current Developments
15:00 – 15:15 S.K. Saha – High resolution imaging by means of Speckle interferometry at IIA
15:15 – 15:30 Vasundhara Raju – Solar system science with the VBT
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
Session VIII :Science with the VBT –6
16:00 – 16:15 Maheswar G. – My First encounter with stars at VBO: Young stellar objects
16:15 – 16:30 Rumpa Choudhury – Variable Circumstellar Activity of Herbig Ae/Be Stars
16:30 – 16:45 S.G. Bhargavi – Search for the afterglows of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) using VBT
Evening Lecture
18:30 – 19:30 J.V Narlikar – Chance and Accident in Astronomy
12 August 2011
07:00 – 11:00 Travel to Vainu Bappu Observatory
11:00 – 11:30 Tea
Valedictory Talk
12:00 – 13:00 Govind Swarup – Astronomy in India: Challenges
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Session IX : Reminiscences of the VBT Project
14:30 – 14:45 S.C. Tapde – Six best years of my professional life
14:45 – 15:00 B.N. Karkera – Time-Travel to 1984-85 - Few Untold Excitements at VBT
15:00 – 15:20 N.K Rao – VBT- A Massive Mechanical structure to an Astronomical Telescope-initial trials and the first science paper
15:30 – 16:30 Future Perspectives
15:30 – 15:45 C. Muthumariappan, P. K. Mahesh & Anbazhagan – Enhancing the efficiency of the VBT
15:45 – 16:00 A.K. Pati – The 1.3 m Telescope
16:00 – 16:15 S.N. Tandon – Current status of UVIT project
16:15 – 16:30 Eswar Reddy – India's participation in the Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opportunities and Challenges
17:00 – 17:30 Tea