SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
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 |