IIA In-House Scientific Meeting April 12-13, 2007

12April 2007(Thursday)
Session I Chair: C. Sivaram Solar Physics
09:30-09:45 Dipankar Banerjee
 Multi-wavelength study of the dynamics of the sunspot and its surroundings
09:45-10:00 Jagdev Singh Long period variations in the sun using Kodaikanal data
10:00-10:15 Vinod Krishan
 Magnetic Induction in Partially Ionized lower solar atmosphere
10:15-10:30 Prasad Subramanian Energetics of solar coronal mass ejections
10:30-10:45 K. P. Raju
 Coronal Hole Studies from SOHO/CDS: Some Recent Results
10:45-11:30 Coffee Break & Group Photograph
Session II Chair: Jagdev Singh Sun & Solar System
11:30-11:45 K.B. Ramesh Photospheric large scale strong field regions as a measure of coronal
x-ray brightness
11:45-12:00 V. C. Kathiravan Type-I radio noise storms and Coronal Mass Ejections
12:00-12:15 K. E. Rangarajan
 Calibration of Kodaikanal Tower Telescope polarimeter
12:15-12:30 J. H.Sastri Solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling at times of storm sudden commencements
12:30-12:45 K. R.Subramanian Periodicities in the global solar radio flux spectral indices

during 2000- 2004
12:45-13:00 R. Vasundhara Modeling the Deep-impact ejecta plume
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session III Chair: H. C. Bhatt Stars and Stellar System
14:00-14:15 Jayant Murthy
 Topics in UV astronomy
14:15-14:30 D. K. Sahu
 The peculiar type Ia supernova SN 2005hk
14:30-14:45 Aruna Goswami
 Abundance distribution of neutron-capture elements in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
14:45-15:00 S. Annapurni
 Survey of emission line stars in young open clusters
15:00-15:15 C. S. Stalin Nature of Quasars without emission lines in SDSS and 2dF surveys
15:15-16:00 Coffee Break
Session IV Chair: K.R .Subramanian Stars and Stellar System
16:00-16:15 U. S. Kamath Observations of quiescent novae
16:15-16:30 Sujan Sengupta Planets around Pulsars
16:30-16:45 Gajendra Pandey Fluorine in R CrB stars
16:45-17:00 G. C. Anupama Multiwavelength Observations of RS Oph outburst in 2006
17:00-17:15 Sunetra Giridhar Automated parameterisation of OMR spectra
17:15-17:30 Veeresh Singh X-ray Emission from Seyfert Galaxies and The Unification Scheme

13 April 2007 (Friday)
Session V Chair: Sunetra Giridhar Theoretical Astrophysics
10:00-10:15 A. Mangalam Aspects of  2D MHD flows and its applications
10:15-10-30 M. Srinivas Rao

 Hydrogen line ratios in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC  4151
10:30-10:45 S. Chatterjee

 Acoustic-optic Raman-Nath cell for wave front sensing and correction
10:45-11:00 P. M. S. Namboodiri

 Density profiles of merger remnants in interactions of galaxies
11:00-11:15 R. T. Gangadhara

 Millisecond pulsar emission altitude from relavistic phase shift :  PSR  J  0437 - 4715
11:15-11:30 C. Sivaram

 Phase space constraints on neutrino luminosities
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
Session VI Chair: S. P. Bagare Theoretical Astrophysics
12:00-12:15 R. Chaudhari Effects of partial triple excitations in coupled Cluster calculations
12:30-12:45 R. M. C. Thomas Polarization of coherent curvature radiation in pulsars
12:45-13:00 Tapan Mishra
 		Quantum Phase Transitions in Mixture of Ultracold Bosonic
Atoms
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Session VII Chair: T. P. Prabhu Instrumentation
14:00-14:15 G.
Srinivasulu
 Microthermal Data Acquisition system for prospective sites for Solar Telescopes
14:15-14:30 K. Anupama

 Implementation of 4 K X 4 K CCD camera System for DFM Telescope
14:30-14:45 V. Arumugam
 Ongoing Software development Projects under LINUX / QNX operating systems
14:45-15:00 P. Anbazhagan

 SMB / CIFS Network protocol for file sharing across heterogeneous operating systems
15:00-15:15 N. Sivaraj
 Modernized systems for 24" Solar Tower Tunnel Telescope at Kodaikanal
15:15-15:30 R. Ramesh
 A new spectrometer for low frequency solar radio observations
15:30-15:45 V. Chinnappan Proposed Adaptive Optics System for VBO
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
Session VIII Chair: Sundara Rajan Instrumentation
16:00-16:15 J. P. Lancelot
 Wavefront sensing using polarization shearing interferometer
16:15-16:30 A. K. Saxena

 Thin films for photo robotics and other applications
16:30-16:45 S. Nagabhushana
 UVIT Mechanical configuration and design
16:45-17:00 B. Raghavendra Prasad
 Photorefractive optics for information storage and wavefront correction
17:00-17:15 P. K. Mahesh Thermal Analysis of the UVIT  payload on Astrosat
17:15-17:30 S. Kathiravan

 Prof.MGK Menon Laboratory for space science
17:30-17:45 P. U. Kamath

 Present assignments at the Mechanical Engineering Division
17:45-18:00 R. Ramachandra Reddy Mistakes and Misconceptions in concrete and concrete constructions
18:00 High Tea



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