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Day 1: Monday, March 01, 2021 , Meeting Inauguration: 8:10 - 8:40 am
8:45 - 10:00
Source-region Dynamics of High-energy Phenomena
8:45 - 9:15 Overview of selected solar fine-scale structures: chromospheric spicules and coronal jets,   Alphonse Sterling   (NASA/MSFC)
9:15 - 9:30 Signatures of 3D magnetic reconnection in circular ribbon flares,   Bhuwan Joshi  (USO/PRL)
9:30 - 10:00 Source region dynamics of white light flares,   Kyoko Watanabe   (NDA, JP)
10:30  - 12:00 High-Resolution Observations of Chromosphere
10:30 - 11:00 Chromospheric magnetic fields and dynamics,  Gianna Cauzzi   (NSO, USA)
11:00 - 11:15 Generation of solar spicules and subsequent atmospheric heating,  Tanmoy Samanta  (NASA/MSFC)
11:15 - 11:30 Torsional motion and short period oscillations in a quiescent prominence,   Jain Jacob  (NIT Calicut)
11:30 - 11:45 Instabilities in the chromosphere,  Abhishek Srivastava   (IIT-BHU)
11:45 - 12:00 Global p-modes in the solar chromosphere at high resolution,   Shahin Jafarzadeh  (Rosseland Center, Uni.of Oslo)
14:00 - 15:30 High-Resolution Observations of Photosphere
14:00 - 14:30 Photospheric magnetic fields: challenges ahead,  Luis Bellot Rubio   (IAA-CSIC, Spain)
14:30 - 14:45 Role of Surface magnetic field evolution in impulsive coronal heating,  Pradeep Chitta   (MPS,DE)
14:45 - 15:15 Waves in lower solar atmosphere,  David Jess   (Belfast, UK)
15:15 - 15:30 Observations on the spatial variations of the Sr i 4607 Å scattering polarization signals with ZIMPOL,  Sajal K Dhara   (IRSOL, CH)
18:30 - 19:30 Session in Memory of Prof. S.M. Chitre and his Scientific Contributions
Speakers: H.M. Antia, Ian Roxburgh, Douglas Gough and John Leibacher
20:00 - 22:00 Facilities/Instruments, Developments in Adaptive Optics and Spectropolarimetry
20:00 - 20:30 MAST/USO,  Shibu Mathew   (USO/PRL)
20:30 - 21:00 NLST Project,  B. Ravindra   (IIA)
21:00 - 21:30 The 1.5m GREGOR solar telescope,   Thomas Berkefeld   (Leibniz Institute, Freiburg, DE)
21:30 - 22:00 DKIST instrumentation and adaptive optics,   Friedrich Woeger (NSO, USA)
Day 2:  March 2,  Tuesday
9:00 - 11:00 Coronal Magnetism - I: Measurements, Techniques and Coronal Heating 
9:00 - 9:30 Coronal magnetic field measurements and models,  Sarah Gibson  (HAO, USA)
9:30 - 9:45 Forward modelling of magnetohydrodynamic waves in the solar atmosphere,  Vaibhav Pant  (ARIES, Nainital)
9:45 - 10:15 Coronal spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry ,  Haosheng Lin   (IfA,Hawaii)
10:15 - 10:30 First radio evidence for ubiquitous magnetic reconnections and impulsive heating in the quiet solar corona,  Divya Oberoi   (NCRA, Pune)
10:30 - 11:00 Prevalent transverse waves in the corona and their potential for mapping the coronal magnetic field,  Hui Tian  (PKU, China)
11:30 - 13:00 Coronal Magnetism - II: Field Extrapolations, Simulations and Observations 
11:30 - 12:00 Coronal magnetic field extrapolations,  Michael Wheatland   (Uni.Sydney, AUS)
12:00 - 12:15 Asymmetry in the Inward-Outward Polarity in the Interplanetary magnetic field,  Abbas Asgarov  (SAO, Azerbaijan)
12:15 - 12:30 On modelling and simulations of coronal magnetic structures: coronal transients,   Ramit Bhattacharyya.  (USO/PRL)
12:30 - 12:45 Sequential lid removal in a triple-decker chain of CME-producing solar eruptions,   Navin Joshi  (SRM Uni.,Delhi)
12:45 - 13:00 Mass loss rate from the Sun over solar cycles 23 and 24,   Wageesh Mishra  (IIA)
14:15 - 15:30 Aditya-L1 Mission:  Instruments and Science
14:15 - 14:40 Aditya-L1 Mission,  Nigar Shaji   (ISRO)
14:40 - 15:05 VELC,  B.R. Prasad   (IIA)
15:05 - 15:30 SUIT,  Durgesh Tripathi   (IUCAA)
16:00 - 17:15 Aditya-L1 Mission:  Instruments and Science
16:00 - 16:30 Coronal studies with X-ray payloads on-board Aditya-L1,  N.P.S. Mithun  (PRL, Ahmedabad)
16:30 - 16:45 ASPEX,  Dibyendu Chakrabarty  (PRL)
16:45 - 17:00 PAPA,  Satheesh Thampi   (VSSC, ISRO)
17:00 - 17:15 Fluxgate Magnetometer (MAG),  Vipin Yadav  (VSSC, ISRO)
Day 3:  March 3, Wednesday
8:15 - 9:45 Flares, CMEs, Space Weather Phenomena and Predictions
8:15 - 8:45 Flares, CMEs and space weather,  Nat Gopalswamy   (NASA/GSFC)
8:45 - 9:00 Radio diagnostics of CMEs ,  C. Kathiravan  (IIA)
9:00 - 9:30 A review of solar flare prediction using a modern scientific workflow,  Monica Bobra   (Stanford, USA)
9:30 - 9:45 Association of type IV radio bursts with CMEs in solar cycle 24,   Anshu Kumari   (Uni. of Helsinki, FI)
10:15 - 12:00 Computational Solar Physics - I
10:15 - 10:30 Comparison of physical properties of the solar atmosphere and synthetic SDO/HMI line-of-sight observables from 3D Radiative MHD simulations,   V. Sadykov   (GSU, USA)
10:30 - 11:00 From flux emergence to sunspot structure – a modelling perspective,  M. Rempel   (HAO, NCAR, USA)
11:00 - 11:30 3D simulations of convection and why,  Regner Trampedach   (SSI, Boulder, USA)
11:30 - 11:45 Self-consistent formation of sunspot-like magnetic flux concentrations,  Nishant Singh   (IUCAA, Pune)
11:45 - 12:00 Slow magneto-acoustic wave propagation in 3D simulations of a unipolar solar plage,   Nitin Yadav   (KU Leuven, BE)
14:00  - 15:30 Computational Solar Physics - II
14:00 - 14:30 Beyond MHD simulations of atmospheric dynamics,   Elena Khomenko   (IAC, Spain)
14:30 - 14:45 MHD simulation of a repeatedly flaring delta sunspot,  Piyali Chatterjee  (IIA)
14:45 - 15:00 Large-amplitude prominence oscillations following the impact by a coronal jet,  Manuel Luna  (Uni. De les Illes Balears, ESP)
15:00 - 15:30 MHD simulations of small-scale magnetism and vortical flows,  O. Steiner   (Leibniz Institute, Freiburg, DE)
18:30 - 19:30 Evening Public Lecture - Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture
Programme      Poster[PDF]
  Dynamics of convection in the Sun  K. R. Sreenivasan  (NYU, USA)    Lecture notice[PDF]
20:30 - 22:00 Solar Interior: Convection, Large-scale Flows and Magnetism
20:30 - 21:00 Meridional flow in the deep convection zone,  L. Gizon   (MPS, DE)
21:00 - 21:20 Equatorially confined turbulence in the Sun,  Shravan Hanasoge  (TIFR , Mumbai)
21:20 - 21:40 Seismic mapping of the Sun's farside,   Kiran Jain  (NSO, USA)
21:40 - 21:55 Helioseismic observations of torsional oscillations and constraints on solar cycle theories,  A. Kosovichev   (NJIT, USA)
Day 4: March 04, Thursday
8:30 - 10:30 Dynamos, Cycles and Solar - Stellar Connections
8:30 - 9:00 Solar and stellar dynamos: consensus and divergences,  Paul Charbonneau   (Uni.Montreal, CA)
9:00 - 9:15 Global solar activity forecast using synoptic magnetograms,  Irina Kitiashvili   (NASA Ames, USA)
9:15 - 9:45 Solar cycle predictions,  D. Nandi  (IISER -Kolkata)
9:45 - 10:00 Nonlinearities for the saturation of magnetic field in the Sun,  Bidya Karak   (IT-BHU, Varanasi)
10:00 - 10:30 Closing the solar cycle: emerging active regions,  Hannah Schunker   (New Castle, AU)
11:00  - 12:30 Synoptic Solar Physics - I
11:00 - 11:30 Long-term synoptic data-sets and results,  Alexei Pevtsov   (NSO, USA)
11:30 - 11:50 Kodaikanal Synoptic Programmes - historic and modern,  J. Singh  (IIA)
11:50 - 12:05 Multiple reversals of the Sun's polar-fields and their physical causes,  Alexander Mordvinov   (ISTP SB RAS, Russia)
12:05 - 12:25 Newresults from Kodaikanal long-term datasets,   D. Banerjee  (ARIES, Nainital)
14:00 - 15:15 Synoptic Solar Physics - II
14:00 - 14:30 Long-term activity of the Sun,    Ilya Usoskin   (Uni.Oulu, FI)
14:30 - 14:45 Signature of quenching from observation of tilted bipolar magnetic regions on the Sun,   Bibhuti Jha   (ARIES, Nainital)
14:45 - 15:15 Physics of solar irradiance variations,  Sami Solanki   (MPS, DE)
16:00 - 17:30 Radiative Transfer, Models of Solar Atmosphere and Heating
16:00 - 16:30 Modelling of the solar chromosphere,  Mats Carlsson   (Oslo, NO)
16:30 - 16:45 Non-equilibrium equation-of-state for the solar atmosphere,   Anusha Bhasari   (MPS, DE)
16:45 - 17:00 Probing the vector magnetic fields from resonance line polarization,   M. Sampoorna  (IIA)
17:00 - 17:30 Coronal spectroscopy and modelling,  Peter Young   (NASA/GSFC, USA)
21:00 - 21:40 Conference Summary
21:00 - 21:20 Summary of first half of the meeting,   P. Venkatakrishnan   (USO/PRL, ISRO)
21:20 - 21:40 Summary of second half of the meeting,  Arnab Rai Choudhuri  (IISc, Bangalore)