December 7, 2010 (Tuesday)
 
09:30 -10:30 Registration + Inauguration
10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break
Session (A) Chair : C. V. Vishveshwara
11:00 - 12:00 Robert Wald Black Holes and Thermodynamics
12:00 - 13:00 Bala Iyer Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Session (B) Chair : G. Srinivasan
14:30 - 15:30 Ravi Sheth Symmetry in stochasticity: Random walk models of large scale structure)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 K. Wali The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar
 
 
December 8, 2010 (Wednesday)
 
Session (A) Chair : K. Subramanian
09:30 -10:30 T. Padmanabhan Statistical Mechanics of Gravitating Systems
10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 James Binney Extracting science from stellar catalogues
12:00 - 13:00 Jeremy Goodman Physics, Chance and Chandra
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Session (B) Chair : Chanda Jog
14:30 - 15:30 David Merritt Relativistic Stellar Dynamics
  Evening Programme
18:00 - 19:15 Public lecture at IISc Roger Blandford
 
December 9, 2010 (Thursday)
 
Session (A) Chair : D. Narasimha
09:30 -10:30 Chris Tout The Origin of the Strongest Magnetic Fields in Dwarfs
10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break
Session (B) Chair : K. N. Nagendra
11:00 - 12:00 Sujan Sengupta Multiple Scattering Polarization -- Application of Chandrasekhar Formalisms to the Atmosphere of Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets
12:00 - 13:00 Peter Eggleton How I benefitted from: An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Session (C) Chair : S. M. Chitre
14:30 - 15:30 H.M. Antia Hydrodynamic stability and stellar oscillations
  Evening Programme
17:00 Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture By James Binney What makes spiral galaxies tick?
 
December 10, 2010 (Friday)
 
Session (A) Chair : P. C. Agrawal
09:30 -10:30 H.C. Bhatt Disks around Young Stellar Objects
10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break
Session (B) Chair : Vinod Krishan
11:00 - 12:00 Axel Brandenburg Chandrasekhar-Kendall functions in astrophysical magnetism
12:00 - 13:00 S. Sridhar MHD Turbulence
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
Session (C) Chair : C. Uberoi
14:30 - 15:30 Roger Blandford Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability of Black Holes
15:30 -16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Dipankar Bhattacharya Chandrasekhar Limit and Beyond: Formation and Structure of Compact Stars
  Evening Programme
19:00 Conference Dinner
 
December 11, 2010 (Saturday)
 
Session (A) Chair : J. S. Bagla
09:30 -10:30 Ethan Vishniac The Physics of Large Scale Magnetic Fields
10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break
 
11:00 - 12:00 Arnab Rai Choudhuri The Origin of the Solar Magnetic Cycle