Programme

January 07, 2019

  • Welcome and Inaugruation by Director , IIA : 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
  • Introduction : 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

    Speaker : Ajit Kembhavi (Chairman, IIA Governing Council, Vice President, IAU executive committee)

Session 1

Exoplanets Observation in India : Chair – Ajit Kembhavi

  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Abhijit Chakrabarty (PRL, Ahmedabad) : Recent advancements in Radial Velocity: an Indian perspective
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Aritra Chakrabarty (IIA, Bangalore) : Precise Transit Photometric Observation of the Extra-solar Planets Using Facilities of IIA
Tea Break : 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM - Yogesh Joshi (ARIES, Nainital) : Optical and RV monitoring of bright stars having possible exoplanet or low-mass EB companion
  • 12:00 AM - 12:30 PM - Parijat Thakur (Guru Ghasidas Univ. Bilashpur) : Exploring Close-in Extra-solar Planets through Photometric Follow-up Observations of their Transits using Ground Based Telescopes
  • 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM - C. Sireesha (IIA, Bangalore) : Precision Doppler spectroscopy with VBT Echelle spectrograph
Lunch Break : 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Session 2

Exoplanets Theory in India : Chair- Jayant Murthy

  • 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Manoj Puravankara (TIFR, Mumbai) : Demographics of exoplanetary systems: a tale of three different planet populations
  • 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM - Sujan Sengupta (IIA, Bangalore) : Transmission spectra and polarization of Exoplanets
  • 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM - Sourav Chatterji (TIFR, Mumbai) : Formation and Dynamical Processing of Tightly-Packed Exoplanets
  • 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM – Mayank Narang (TIFR, Mumbai) : The exoplanet - host star connection: clues to the formation and evolution of planetary systems
Tea Break : 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM

Session 3

Solar System: Chair - Marcell Tessenyi

  • 04:30 PM – 05:00 PM - Anil Bhardwaj (PRL, Ahmedabad) : The Solar-Planetary connection
  • 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM - Kuljeet Marhas (PRL, Ahmedabad) : Infrastructure of Planetary system
Director’s Dinner : 7:30 PM

January 08, 2019

Session 4

Exoplanets - Theory and Observation in UCL : Chair - G. C. Anupama

  • 10:00 AM- 10:30 AM - Angelos Tsiaras (UCL, London) : A review of current observations of exoplanet atmospheres
  • 10:30AM – 11:00 AM - Ingo Waldmann (UCL, London) : Characterising exoplanets with AI
Group Photograph and Tea : 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  • 11:45 AM- 12:15 AM - Gordon Yip (UCL, London) : L-retrievals: a new generation of inverse models to interpret exoplanet atmospheres
  • 12:15 AM - 01:00 PM - Jonathan Tennyson (UCL, London) : The ExoMol project: molecular line lists for the opacity of exoplanets and other hot atmospheres
Lunch Break : 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Session 5

Exoplanets - space-bound projects : Chair - P. Sreekumar

  • 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Billy Edwards (UCL, London) : Observations of exoplanet atmospheres with future space missions
  • 02:30 PM-03:00 PM - Marcell Tessenyi (UCL, London) : Twinkle - a mission to unravel the stories of planets in our galaxy
  • 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM - Anandmayee Tej (IIST, Thiruvanantapuram) : Exploring future avenues for exoplanet characterization
Tea Break : 03:30 PM- 04:00 PM

Session 6

Planet Hosting Stars and Planet Formation : Chair - Sujan Sengupta

  • 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM - Maheshwar Gopinathan (IIA, Bangalore) : Study of M-dwarf environment using future UV missions
  • 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM - S. P. Rajaguru (IIA, Bangalore) : Modeling stellar convection and magnetic faculae towards host-star characterisation in exoplanet studies.
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM Tea Break
  • Public Lecture : 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM - Jonathan Tennyson, FRS (UCL, London) : The Search for Extra-terrestrial Unintelligence

January 09, 2019

  • 10:00 AM-11:00 AM - Open discussion with UCL on future collaboration
Tea Break : 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Discussion Continues
  • 12:30 AM - 01:00 AM - Vote of Thanks by Convennor and LOC Chair.
Lunch Break : 01:00 PM