Wednesday, 3rd January 2007

Session I : Solar and Planetary Physics (Chair: M. C. Ramadevi)

Speaker

Title

Gagan Gupta, Punjab University, Chandigarh

X-ray Flares and the Irradiation Environment in the Early Solar System

Shyama N K.C., ISAC, Bangalore

X-ray Studies of the Moon

Sampoorna M., IIA, Bangalore

Polarized Spectral Line Formation in Turbulent Magnetized Solar Atmospheres

Session II : Stellar Astronomy (Chair: Rekesh Mohan)

Speaker

Title

Amit Shukla, IUCAA, Pune

Detection of UXOR Variables

Jessy Jose, ARIES, Nainital

Studies on Young Open Cluster : Stock8

Blesson Mathew, IIA, Bangalore

Emission Line Stars in Young Open Clusters

Manash Ranjan Samal, ARIES, Nainital

Signs of Triggered Star Formation at the Border of the HII Region Sh 294

Malay Maiti, IIA, Bangalore

Brown Dwarf : A Missing Link Between Stars and Planets

Ananta Charan Pradhan, IIA, Bangalore

Formation of Interstellar Dust

Prashant Shukla, Bangalore

Listening to Stellar Music

Session III : Compact Objects (Chair: Abhishek Rawat)

Speaker

Title

Manjari Bagchi, Presidency College, Kolkata

Searching Strange Stars by Observing X-rays, Gamma rays and Radio Waves

Soumini Chaudhury, SINP, Kolkata

Critical Properties and Stability of Stationary Solutions in Multi-transonic Pseudo-Schwarzschild Accretion

Reji Mathew Thomas, IIA, Bangalore

Review Talk on Pulsars

Gopal Dixit, IIT, Madras

High Precision Many Body Electronic Properties Calculation of Astrophysical Amportance

Colloquium : Dr. Dipankar Banerjee

Thursday, 4th January 2007

Session IV : Galactic & Extragalactic Astronomy (Chair: Varendra Das)

Speaker

Title

Abhishek Rawat, IUCAA, Pune

Mapping the Evolution of Merger-rates of Galaxies with Redshift using the HST/ACS GOODS Survey

Veeresh Singh, IIA, Bangalore

Probing the Unification Hypothesis of AGNs

Koshy George, ISAC, Bangalore

A late, Infrared Flash from the Afterglow of GRB 050319

Nikhil Ashok Pawar, Pune University, Pune

A Series of H1 Observations along the Galactic Plane using a Single Dish

Session V : High Energy Astrophysics (Chair: K. V. P. Latha)

Speaker

Title

M. C. Ramadevi, ISAC, Bangalore

X-ray Binaries - An Overview

Ramanpreet Kaur, ARIES, Nainital

Quasi-periodic Oscillations in X-ray Binaries

Shilpashree S. P.,IIA, Bangalore

Deuteron Photo-disintegration and n-p Fusion at Astrophysical Energies

Debbijoy Bhattacharya, ISAC, Bangalore

Gamma-ray Astronomy (Review Talk)

Friday, 5th January 2007

Session VI : Cosmology and Structure Formation (Chair: Meetu Sethi)

Speaker

Title

Aseem Paranjape, TIFR, Mumbai

Spatial Averaging of Inhomogeneities - A Possible Alternative to Dark Energy?

Jaswant Yadav, Delhi University, Delhi

Fractal Dimension of Large Scale Structure

Nishikanta Khandia, HRI, Allahabad

Adaptive TREEPM: Building a High Resolution Collisionless Code for Cosmological n-body Simulation

Preshanth Jagannathan, Pune University, Pune

CMB Power Spectrum Estimation from WMAP

Shashikant, IISc, Bangalore

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Tuhin Ghosh, IUCAA, Pune

Study of Hidden Patterns in the CMB maps

Session VII : Astronomical Tools & Techniques (Chair: Reji Mathew Thomas)

Speaker

Title

Gajjar Vishal, NCRA, Pune

Introduction to SETI

Mudit Kumar Srivastava,IUCAA, Pune

Development of Optical Fiber based Integral Field Unit (IFU) for 2-D Spectroscopy

Jaydeep Sanjay Belapur, Pune University, Pune

FM Radio Observations of Various Meteor Showers during 2005- 2006 from India

Colloquium : Prof. Jayant Murthy