PROGRAMME

India-China Workshop on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
December 3-5, 2014

Programme
03 December 2014
09:30 Inaugural Session
10:00-10:20 Tea
Session 1: Optical Astronomy: Facilities and Science
Chair :
S. Ananthakrishnan
10:20-10:50 Development of LAMOST project and research highlights Yongheng Zhao
10:50-11:10 Optical Observatories of IIA T. P. Prabhu
11:10-11:40 The Yunnan Astronomical Observatory and the collaborations with India Jinming Bai
11:40-12:00 Devasthal Optical Telescope M. Gopinath
12:00-12:30 Introduction to Chinese Astronomy and NAOC Suijian Xue
12:30-13:00 Astronomy in India A. K. Kembhavi
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Session 2: Activities towards Thirty Meter Telescope
Chair :
A. K. Kembhavi
14:00-14:30 India-TMT B.Eswar Reddy
14:30-15:00 China TMT and China-India cooperation on TMT Suijian Xue
15:00-15:30 TMT-India Instrumentation interests A.N. Ramaprakash
15:30-16:00 Tea
Chair :Suijian Xue
16:00-16:30 TMT-India science interests K. George
16:30-17:00 The first generation instruments MOBIE of TMT and the spectral instruments of China Zhongwen Hu
17:00-19:00 Breakout session: TMT groups
04 December 2014
Session 3: Radio Astronomy and Solar Astronomy
Chair :A. R. Choudhuri
09:30-10:00 The FAST project and China-India cooperation Di Li
10:00-10:30 The CSRH project and China-India cooperation on Solar Physics Yihua Yan
10:30-10:50 Solar Radio Astronomy in India C. Kathiravan
10:50-11:20 Tea
Chair :Yihua Yan
11:20-11:50 The New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) Zhong Liu
11:50-12:10 National Large Solar Telescope K.E. Rangarajan
12:10-12:30 Solar astronomy from space D. Banerjee
12:30-13:00 Theoretical studies of Sun D. Nandi
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Session 4: Computational Astronomy
Chair :B. P. Das
14:00-14:30 Numerical computing cosmology and GPU facilities Liang Gao
14:30-15:00 Simulations of feedback in galaxies: AGN to superbubbles P. Sharma
15:00-15:30 Gravitational-wave observations and multi-messenger astronomy A. Parameswaran
15:30-16:00 Tea
Session 5: Astronomical Site Surveys
Chair :Yongheng Zhao
16:00-16:30 Site survey in west regions of China Yongqiang Yao
16:30-17:00 Site survey and characterization for the proposed 2 m solar telescope S.P. Bagare
17:00-17:30 Characterization of sites for Indian Large Optical Telescope Project P. S. Parihar
05 December 2014
09:30-13:00 Breakout sessions of different groups
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Concluding Session
15:30 Tea