SCIENCE from HCT
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Bangalore 560034

Programme


21 January 2006

Session I : Introduction


10:00 Welcome S. S. Hasan

Introduction B. V. Sreekantan

Opening remarks H. S. Mani

Indian Astronomical Observatory T. P. Prabhu


10:45 Tea/Coffee


Session II: Science from HCT


11:10 Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Burst sources D. Bhattacharya


11:30 Monitoring of low Redshift Supernovae G. C. Anupama


11:50 Late Type Stars: Metal poor & Carbon A. Goswami


12:10 Galactic Star Clusters A. Subramanian


12:30 Intra- night variability in Blazars Gopal-Krishna


12:45 Variability studies in Active Galactic Nuclei P. Shastri



13:00 LUNCH


Session III: Science from HCT

(10 min per presentation)

14:00

Asteriod Observations Asoke K. Sen

Dark Molecular Clouds Ranjan Gupta

Spectroscopy of ISOGAL sources K. S. Baliyan

Galactic star-forming regions A. Tej

T Tauri stars P. Parihar

Spectroscopy of Ap stars S.M. Sriraghavan

Novae and related objects U. S. Kamath

Faint young star clusters S. Sujatha

15:30 Tea/Coffee



Session III (Continued)


16:00 Emission line stars in clusters Blesson Mathew

Studies of brown dwarfs in optical Malay Maiti

Star formation in NGC 1084 S. Ramya

16:30 General Discussion on Science from HCT


17:40 Tea/Coffee




22 January 2006


Session IV: Future Initiatives at IAO


10:00 Spectropolarimeter on HCT S. Giridhar

10:15 IR imager on HCT D.K. Ojha

10:30 Initiatives in solar astronomy J. Singh

10:45 Gamma Ray Astronomy from Hanle R. Koul

11:00 Earth Sciences Vinod Gaur


11:15 Tea/Coffee


11:45 Discussion

13:00 LUNCH