IIA In-House Scientific Meeting April 17-18, 2006

17 April 06
09:20-09:25 Vinod Krishan Opening remarks
09:25-09:30 S.S.Hasan Inauguration
Session I Chair: C.Sivaram Solar Physics
09:30-09:45 K.M.Hiremat Solar Seismic model and Neutrino fluxes
09:45-10:00 S.P.Bagare Molecular lines in sunspot umbral spectra
10:00-10:15 K.Sundara Raman Photospheric magnetic field changes in the active regions
10:15-10:30 K.E.Rangarajan Two-beam spectro-polarimeter for Kodaikanal tunnel telescope
10:30-10:45 Jagdev Singh Chromospheric variations with the solar cycle phase derived from Ca - K line profiles
10:45-11:00 R.Kariyappa Intensity oscillations in UV bright points and Network elements from TRACE observations
11:00-11:15   Coffee
Session II Chair: Jagdev Singh Solar Physics
11:15-11:30 K.P.Raju Differences between a polar coronal hole and its equatorial extension
11:30-11:45 K.B.Ramesh Solar X-ray spectral irradiance variability
11:45-12:00 K.R.Subramanaian An estimation of coronal magnetic field using type II doublet radio bursts
12:00-12:15 D.Banerjee Coronal holes and the fast solar wind
12:15-12:30 J.H.Sastri Couplings in Geospace
12:30-12:45 Arun Mangalam Constraints on mean field strengths from relative magnetic helicity
12:45-13:00 A.Satyanarayanan Effect of gravity on Alfven waves with flows
13:00-13:15 M.S.Sundar Rajan Back-end receiver system for observations of polarized radio emission from solar corona
13:15-14:00   Lunch
Session III Chair: H.C.Bhatt Stars and Stellar System
14:00-14:15 Sujan Sengupta Polarimetric detection of earth like planets
14:15-14:30 Parihar P.S Exploring disk accretion in classical T Tauri stars
14:30-14:45 M.V. Mekkadan T Tauri research at VBO
14:45-15:00 Sushma Mallik Colour-Magnitude diagram for the Alpha Persei cluster
15:00-15:15 G.Pandey Fluorine abundances in extreme Helium stars
15:15-15:30 Sunetra Giridhar Chemical compositions of post-AGB candidates HD 27381 and HD
15:30-15:45 Vinod Krishan Hall effect in accretion disks
15:45-16:00   Coffee
Session IV Chair: Sunetra Giridhar Novae, Planetary Nebulae
16:00-16:15 G.C.Anupama 2006 Outburst of nova RS Oph
16:15-16:30 U.S.Kamath Study of quiescent and late outburst stages of Novae
16:30-16:45 D.K.Sahu Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of type IIp supernova SN 2004 et
16:45-17:00 D.C.V.Mallik/J.Baliga Incidence of planetary nebulae in star clusters:the case of NGC 2818
17:00-17:15 H.C.Bhatt Formation of stars and planets: disk dispersal time scales

18 April 06
Session V Chair: A.V.Raveendran Pulsars, Galaxies
09:30-09:45 R.T.Gangadhara Pulsar emission altitude from relativistic phase shift
09:45-10:00 Reji Thomas Dynamics of plasma particles in the pulsar magnetosphere
10:00-10:15 B.C.Bhatt Photometric studies of selected open clusters
10:15-10-30 Aruna Goswami CEMP stars and early galactic chemical evolution
10:30-10:45 Annapurni Subramanian Large Megallanic cloud: new puzzles in the disk and halo
10:45-11:00 Eshwar Reddy Decomposition of the galactic disk:Kinematics and abundances
11:00-11:15 Prajval Shastri The outflow from the Nucleus of a purportedly obscured Seyfert
11:15-11:30 Jayant Murthy Diffuse FUV radiation in the LMC
11:30-12:00   Coffee
Session VI Chair: S.P.Bagare Earth Atmosphere, Optics
12:00-12:15 Shanti Kumar Total ozone column and its variability over Indian Astronomical observatory
12:15-12:30 T.P.Prabhu Atmospheric water vapour column above Mt.Saraswati Hanle
12:30-12:45 R.Prasad Holographic data storage and image compression
12:45-13:00 S.Chatterjee Scattering of light by random structures: Detection of periodicities hidden behind randomness by the matched filtering method
13:00-14:00   Lunch
Session VII Chair: T.P.Prabhu Theoretical Astrophysics
14:00-14:15 K.N.Nagendra Polarised line transfer
14:15-14:30 M.Srinivasa Rao Study of irradiation effects in close binary components
14:30-14:45 C.Sivaram Dark energy linking the six numbers of Rees
14:45-15:00 Rajat Chaudhuri Some aspects of many body theories
15:00-15:15 H.S.Nataraj Electric dipole moment of the electron and its cosmological implications
15:15-15:30 K.V.P.Latha Application of CC theory to two interesting many-body problems in atomic physics
15:30-15:45 G.Ramachandran Meson production: seventy years after Yukawa theory
15:45-16:00   Coffee
Session VIII Chair: Sundara Rajan Instrumentation
16:00-16:15 V.Chinnappan A new approach to stellar image coorection for atmospherically degraded images
16:15-16:30 V.Chinnappan/ S.K.Saha Speckle interferometry at IIA
16:30-16:45 Yeshwant L Speckle interferometry
16:45-17:00 P.K.Mahesh Mechanical aspects of HAGER telescope
17:00-17:15 G.Srinivasalu Mosaiced 4Kx4K CCD
17:15-17:30 Faseehana S Embedded system as controller for an array of gamma ray telescopes
17:30-17:45 J.P.Lancelot Polarization shearing interferometer (PSI) based wavefront sensor for adaptive optics
17:45-18:00 R.Ramachandra Reddy Overview of civil works
18:00   High Tea

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