17th November 2014

Inaugural session - 09:30-10:00 hrs

P. Sreekumar         - Welcome address
S. S. Hasan             - Remarks
S. K. Solanki            - Remarks
K. E. Rangarajan     -Vote of thanks

Session 1     - Chair : S. Ananthakrishnan
10:00-10:25 S. S. Hasan NLST
10:25-10:50 D. Soltau GREGOR - current status and near future plans
10:50-11:15 A. Lagg First chromospheric (He I 1083 nm) and Photospheric
(Fe I 1.5 mm) observations with GREGOR/GRIS
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
Session 2     - Chair : K. N. Nagendra
11:45-12:10 S. K. Mathew MAST telescope: Status update
12:10-12:35 A. Feller A novel fast polarimeter for high-precision
spectro-polarimetry
12:35-13:00 B. Ravindra Probing the solar chromosphere with narrow band imager
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch Break
Session 3     - Chair : Sami Solanki
14:15-14:40 K. Sankarasubramanian High sensitive spectro-polarimetry
for solar magnetic field diagnostics
14:40-15:05 T. Riethmueller Sunrise Mission Highlights
15:05-15:30 H. Peter Science with Solar Orbiter
15:30 - 16:15 hrs Group Photograph - Coffee Break
Session 4     - Chair : K. B. Ramesh
16:15-16:40 Durgesh Tripathi /
A. N. Ramprakash
Solar and Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
16:40-17:05 B. Raghavendra Prasad Visible Emission Solar Coronagraph on India's Aditya-L1
Mission
17:05-17:30 C. Kathiravan Radio observation facility at Gauribidanur

18th November

Session 5     - Chair : Dirk Soltau
09:30-09:50 D. Banerjee Kodaikanal Observatory data archive
09:50-10:15 M. van Noort Spatially coupled inversions, And related novel instrumentation concepts
10:15-10:40 S. P. Rajaguru Magnetoconvection, MHD waves and Local Heliosiesmology
-- summary of collaborative research between IIA and German scientists and future plans
10:40-11:00 G. R. Gupta Exploring the role of waves in the triggering of solar flares and jets
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Session 6     - Chair : A. Satya Narayanan
11:30-11:55 K. Nagaraju Sources of noise in the solar spectropolarimetric data
11:55-12:20 R. K. Banayal Developing adaptive optics for IIA facilities
12:20-12:40 K. B. Ramesh An initiation of a facility for solar observations in NIR at Hanle
12:40-13:00 K. E. Rangarajan Full disk H-alpha telescope at Kodaikanal
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 7
14:00-16:00 Moderated by
K. E. Rangarajan
Discussions on bilateral collaboration in Solar Physicsl