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
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