Workshop on Physics and Astrophysics of Dust
Formation, Probes and Astrophysical Implications
24-27 February 2007
Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur Organised by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics |
Coordinators: | S.Chatterjee & H.C.Bhatt | ||
Local Organizing Committee: | S.Chatterjee, H.C.Bhatt & S.Muneer |
Dust in Astrophysics: The Effect of Dust on Different Astrophysical Phenomena |
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Session I | |||
Chair: | Ranjan Gupta | ||
14.00-14.15 | Introduction: Sabyasachi Chatterjee | ||
14.15-14.45 | Umesh C. Joshi | Polarization observations of cometary dust | |
14.45-15.15 | Sujan Sengupta | Radiative transfer in dusty astrophysical systems | Applications to brown dwarfs and planetary systems |
15.15-15.45 | Mathew Mekkaden | Circumstellar dust in T Tauri stars | |
15.45-16.00 | |||
Session II | |||
Chair: | Prajval Shastri | ||
16.00-16.30 | B.G. Anandarao | Evolution of circumstellar dust in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars | |
16.30-17.00 | Madhav K.Patil | Dust extinction observations in galaxies | |
17.00-17.30 | Shantanu Rastogi | Spectroscopic properties of PAHs in the ISM | |
17.30-18.30 | |||
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Session III | |||
Chair: | B.G. Anandarao | ||
10.00-10.30 | S. Ganesh | Dust and interstellar extinction in the inner Milky Way | |
10:30-11.00 | Prajval Shastri | Dust in starburst and active galaxies | |
11.00-11.30 | Jayant Murthy | Observation of dust scattering in the UV | |
11.30-11.45 | |||
11.45-12.15 | Ulysses J. Sofia | Composition of dust grains from UV spectroscopy | |
12.15-13.00 | |||
13.00-14.00 | |||
Physics and Chemistry of Dust: Formation and Destruction, Dynamics and Coupling with Gas , 25th February 2007 |
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Session I\/ | |||
Chair: | B.R.S. Babu | ||
14.30-15.00 | Jayesh Bhatt | Heterogeneous chemistry on very small dust particles | Replacing chemical kinetics with a stochastic approach |
15.00-15.30 | Sabyasachi Chatterjee | Crystallization,sizes and morphology | |
15.30-16.00 | Avinash Khare | Phenomena associated with electrically charged dust | |
16.00-16.30 | |||
16.30-16.45 | |||
Session \/ | |||
Chair: | Jayant Murthy | ||
16.45-17.15 | Harish C.Bhatt | Dustgas separation:dynamical aspects | |
17.15-17.45 | Gopal Hegde | Optical visualization of flows in dusty gases | From laboratory to astrophysics Gopal Hegde |
17.45-18.30 | |||
Spectroscopy and Light Scattering as Probes:Observations and Laboratory Studies |
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Session \/I | |||
Chair: | Avinash Khare | ||
09.00-09.30 | Deepak B. Vaidya | Extinction properties of composite and fluffy dust grains | Application to interstellar dust |
09.30-10.00 | Ranjan Gupta | Interstellar extinction and dust modeling | |
10.00-10.30 | Subodh K.Sharma | Light scattering by dust | Theoretical approaches |
10.30-11.00 | |||
11.00-11.15 | |||
Session \/II | |||
Chair: | Subodh K.Sharma | ||
11.15-11.45 | Rajat Chaudhuri | Energy states of some molecules, tools for the study of chemistry of dust | |
11.45-12.15 | S.L.N.G. Krishnamachari | Spectroscopic studies in the identification of species in dust | |
12.15-12.45 | Asoke Sen | Light scattering by dust: laboratory studies | |
12.45-13.15 | |||
13.15-14.15 | |||
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Session XI | |||
14.45-15.15 | Dipankar C.V.Mallik | Summary | |
15.15-17.15 | Discussions and identification of areas of overlap | ||
17.15-17.30 | S. Muneer | Vote of Thanks |
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