Schedule

Day 01 - 29 September 2020
09:30 – 10:20 Inaugural Session [Chair: Annapurni Subramaniam]
Welcome Address by the Director, IIA
Inauguration and Address by DST Secretary
Address by Dr. V.S. Ramamurthy, Former Secretary, DST
Address by Dr. Avinash C Pandey, Chairman, IIA Governing Council
Brief details of the Meeting by Organising Committee Chair
10:20 – 10:30 Break
Session I The Making of IAO [Chair: Jayant Murthy]
10:30 – 11:00 T.P. Prabhu Making of Indian Astronomical Observatory: From site identification to Himalayan Chandra Telescope
11:00 - 11:20 R. Srinivasan Technical Challenges
Session II Galactic star forming regions, YSOs and star cluster systems [Chair: H.P. Singh]
11:20 – 11:40 A. Subramaniam HCT spectroscopic survey of Classical Be stars in Open clusters and Galactic field
11:40 – 12:00 D.K. Ojha The Episodic Accretion in Young Low Mass Stars and NIR instrumentation with 2-meter HCT
12:00 – 12:20 Soumen Mondal Understanding of Pre-main Sequence Stars in Galactic Star-Forming Regions
12:20 – 12:40 Jessy Jose Star formation studies in outer Galaxy with HCT
Session III Poster Talks (12:40 - 13:00) [Chair: D.K. Sahu] View Posters
Piyali Saha Spectroscopic Study of Young Stars towards NGC 7023
Partha Pratim Goswami Spectroscopic study of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor stars
Ananda Hota Revisiting the exotic spiral-host radio galaxy Speca with HCT, Subaru, XMM-Newton & GMRT
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session IV Evolved stars - I [Chair: Ranjan Gupta]
14:00 – 14:20 A. Arellano Ferro 17 years of Hanle Globular Clusters CCD Photometry
14:20 – 14:40 B.E. Reddy Puzzle of Li enhancement in red giants
14:40 – 15:00 Aruna Goswami In search of chemical imprints of the first stars: clues from the HCT survey of CH/CEMP stars
15:00 – 15:20 Shejeelammal J. Characterizing the companion AGBs: new results from HCT/HESP studies of barium stars
15:20 – 15:40 Break
Session V Evolved stars - II [Chair: Gajendra Pandey]
15:40 – 16:00 T. Sivarani Stellar archeology with HCT
16:00 – 16:20 Avarjit Bandopadhyay Origin and abundances of r-process rich stars in the Galaxy
16:20 – 16:40 Susmitha Rani Milky Way halo through the eyes of HCT
16:40 – 17:00 Anirban Bhowmick Exploring the evolutionary origins of low-mass hydrogen-deficient stars using HCT.
Day 02 - 30 September 2020
Session I Solar System objects and exoplanets [Chair: Brijesh Kumar]
09:30 – 09:50 Karen Meech Formation of habitable world with small solar system body
09:50 – 10:10 Shasikiran Ganesh Spectroscopy of comets from the HCT
10:10 – 10:30 Sujan Sen Gupta HCT Eyes Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
10:30 – 10:50 Parijat Thakur Probing Possible Origin of Transit Timing Variations of Extra-solar Planets through Follow-up Observations of their Transits using 2-m HCT Telescope
10:50 – 11:10 Break
Session II Time Domain Astronomy - I [Chair: Ram Sagar]
11:10 – 11:30 Kuntal Misra Assessment of supernova explosion parameters using optical observations
11:30 – 11:50 N.K. Chakradhari Observational studies of thermonuclear supernovae using HCT
11:50 – 12:10 Avinash Singh Follow-up of Supernovae from Himalayan Chandra Telescope
12:10 – 12:30 Firoza Sutaria FA postmortem study of the environments and evolution of massive stars
Session III Poster Talks (12:30 - 13:00) [Chair: Aruna Goswami] View Posters
Vineet Kumar Exploring Transit Timing Variation of Extra-solar Planet TrES-5b through follow-up observations using the 2-m HCT
Anirban Dutta SN 2017hpa: A Carbon-rich High Velocity Gradient Supernova
Anjasha Gangopadhyay Probing the progenitor scenario of stripped envelope supernovae using HCT
Raya Dastidar SN 2016B: an intermediate type II Supernova
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Session IV Time Domain Astronomy - II [Chair: Ashok Pati]
14:00 – 14:20 M. Pavana To understand novae, through the HCT
14:20 – 14:40 S.B. Pandey 2.0m HCT: Afterglow observations of GRBs and key findings
14:40 – 15:00 Varun Balerao Studying rapidly evolving transients
15:00 – 15:20 Amit Mondal REMAP: REverberation Mapping of Active galactic nuclei Program at HCT
15:20 – 15:40 Break
Session V Extragalactic sources and Future prospects [Chair: T. P. Prabhu]
15:40 – 16:00 Mousumi Das Studying Low Luminosity Galaxies with the HCT
16:00 – 16:20 S. Ramya Insights into the star formation history of Dwarf galaxies: clues to their evolution
16:20 – 16:35 B.C. Bhatt Earth Science and Atmospheric studies at IAO-Leh/Hanle-Ladakh
16:35 – 16:50 Angchuk Dorje Hanle Dark Sky Sanctuary
16:50 – 17:10 G.C. Anupama Future prospects at IAO
17:10 – 17:15 Closing Remarks by Organizing committee Chair