Programme schedule

Tentative Programme for the Celebration of 150 years of Periodic Table: Chemical elements in the Universe

DAY 1 - 16/12/2019

09:30 Welcome - OC chair
09:35 Welcome - IIA Director
09:40 Chief Guest's address
10:00 TEA - BREAK
Session 1 – Chair:
10:45 The Periodic Table         --(Susanta Lahiri, SINP, Kolkata, India)
11:20 Past Studies in Cosmic Abundances          --(N. Kameswara Rao, IIA, Bangalore, India)
11:55 Nuclear capture and inelastic reactions to study Nucleosynthesis.         --(Indranil Mazumdar, TIFR, Mumbai, India)
12:30 Evolution of Lithium and Beryllium in the Galaxy.          --(Piercarlo Bonifacio, Observatory de Paris, France)
01:05 Lunch
Session 2 – Chair:
14:30 Cosmic origin of fluorine.          --(Nils Ryde, Lund Observatory, Sweden)
15:05 Metals and dust at high-z as probed by quasar absorption lines.          --(Raghunathan Srianand, IUCAA, Pune, India)
15:40 TEA - BREAK
16:05 Blue Stragglers in Star Clusters.         --(Annapurni Subramaniam, IIA, Bangalore, India)
16:25 Status of nuclear physics behind nucleosynthesis processes: the role of exotic neutron-rich nuclei .        --(Rajdeep Chatterjee, IIT Roorkee, India)
17:30 A PUBLIC TALK: Heaven’s Kitchens - Origins of the Chemical Elements.         --(David Lambert, University of Texas at Austin, USA)
19:00 Conference Dinner

DAY 2 - 17/12/2019

Session 1 – Chair: Stellar studies Massive stars, Stellar Explosions - big & small yields(O, B, WR, SN II, SN I)
09:30 Massive stars evolution and nucleosynthesis.         --(Georges Meynet, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland)
10:05 Synthesis of Elements in Core-Collapse Supernova.         --(Projjwal Banerjee, IIT Palakkad, India)
10:40 Supergiant progenitors of type IIP supernovae.        --(Alak Ray, TIFR, Mumbai, India)
11:15 TEA - BREAK
11:40 Observations of stable massive stars.          --(Norbert Przybilla, University of Innsbruck, Ausrtia)
12:15 Recurrent novae: single degenerate progenitors of Type Ia supernovae          --(G. C. Anupama, IIA, Bangalore, India)
12:40 Elemental Abundances in Novae.          --(Ramkrishna Das, SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India)
13:05 Novae: The major source of 13C.          --(Vishal Joshi, PRL, Ahmedabad, India)
13:30 Lunch
Session 2 – Chair:
14:30 Lithium evolution in low-mass red giants: an observational perspective          --(Bharat Kumar Yerra, NAOC, China)
15:05 Recent advances in RV Tauri stars.          --(Sunetra Giridhar, IIA, Bangalore, India)
15:40 TEA - BREAK
16:10 Evolution of lithium in the Milky Way.        --(Deepak, IIA, Bangalore, India)
16:30 Investigating the helium-enhancement in the super lithium-rich K-giant HD 77361 .        --(B. P. Hema, IIA, Bangalore, India)
16:50 CNO abundance in the early Galaxy.         --(Susmitha Rani Antony, TIFR, Mumbai, India)
18:00 -entertainment-

DAY 3 - 18/12/2019

Session 1 – Chair: Stars - advanced evolution + mergers + binaries, Odd balls
09:30 Post-AGB stars as tracers of the origin of elements and isotopes in the Universe.        --(Devika Kamath, Macquarie University, Australia)
10:05 Hot white dwarfs as stellar laboratories for trans-iron elements.         --(Lisa Löbling, University of Tübingen, Germany)
10:40 White dwarf mergers - Hydrogen deficient stars + abundance yields.        --(Simon Jeffery, Armagh Observatory, UK)
11:15 TEA - BREAK
11:40 Key nucleosynthesis diagnostics in Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP)-r/s stars.        --(Drisya Karinkuzhi, IISc, Bangalore, India)
12:00 Abundances of neutron-capture elements in CH and Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars.          --(P. Meenakshi, IIA, Bangalore, India)
12:20 [Rb/Zr] ratio in Ba stars as a diagnostic of the companion AGB stellar mass.         --(J. Shejeelammal, IIA, Bangalore, India)
12:40 Fluorine in Extreme Helium Stars.         --(Anirban Bhowmick, IIA, Bangalore, India)
13:00 Abundances of Fluorine and Oxygen isotopes in DY Per.         --(N. Kameswara Rao, IIA, Bangalore, India)
13:20 Lunch
Session 2 – Chair:
14:30 Solar abundances - current status & w.r.t. helio-seismology.         --(H. M. Antia, TIFR, Mumbai, India)
15:05 The Chemical Composition of the Sun.        --(Carlos Allende Prieto, IAC, Spain)
15:40 TEA - BREAK
16:10 DUSTy windows to the formation of elements!.         --(Kuljeet Marhas, PRL, Ahmedabad, India)
18:00 -entertainment-

DAY 4 - 19/12/2019

Session 1 – Chair: Metal poor/rich stars/Chemical evolution of the Galaxy/Galaxies/QSO absorption lines etc.
09:30 Extremely iron poor stars.        --(Piercarlo Bonifacio, Observatory de Paris, France)
10:05 Abundance studies in young clusters - anomalies, new insights.        --(A. B. Sudhakara Reddy, IIA, Bangalore, India)
10:40 Diversity, anomalies and origins of abundances in Globular clusters.        --(Avrajit Bandyopadhyay, India)
11:15 TEA - BREAK
11:40 The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment.         --(Carlos Allende Prieto, IAC, Spain)
12:15 Active Galactic Nuclei: X-ray spectroscopy - abundance implications?          --(Gulab Chand Dewangan, IUCAA, Pune, India)
12:50 i-process nucleosynthesis: observational evidences from CEMP stars.         --(Partha Pratim Goswami, IIA, Bangalore, India)
13:10 Study of Globular cluster NGC 1261.         --(Sharmila Rani, IIA, Bangalore, India)
13:30 Lunch
Session 2 – Chair:
14:30 TMT and Future surveys: Mauna Kea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE).         --(T. Sivarani & Aruna Goswami, IIA, Bangalore, India)
15:05 – Facilities for the study of Cosmic elemental abundances in the country – High resolution spectroscopy and others (present/planned)- presentation/Discussion
– PRL facilities & M dwarfs stellar parameters and Chemical abundances (Arvind Singh, PRL, Ahmedabad, India)
3.6 meter DOT - ARIES          --(Ram Sagar, IIA, Bangalore, India)
15:40 Summary (Impressions) of the Conference and/or General Discussion.         --(David Lambert, UT Austin, USA)
15:40 TEA - BREAK