Parallel Sessions on 17th May 2026 (Sunday)
| 17th May 2026, Sunday | ||
| [Time: 14:15 - 15:50] | ||
| Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets and Astrobiology-II (SSEA-II) | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time Slot |
| Liton Majumdar | The New Frontier in Astrophysics: Unifying the Origins, Atmospheres, and Interiors of Exoplanets (Invited) | 14:15 - 14:35 |
| Bidya B. Karak | Bipolar magnetic regions and their tilts: Implications for the solar dynamo and cycle variability | 14:35 - 14:50 |
| Trisha Bhowmik | The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA). Substructures as a function of SED Class and disc mass in 100 systems | 14:50 - 15:05 |
| Debesh Bhattacharjee | On the role of compressibilty using multi-spacecraft in situ observations of ICME-ICME merging on March 3, 2024 event | 15:05 - 15:20 |
| Sneha Pandit | Statistical Signatures of Solar Activity in Near-Sun Switchbacks | 15:20 - 15:35 |
| Abhijit Charaborty | Bhaskaracharya Observatory for the Search of Exoplanets (BOSE): Towards the discovery of Earth’s twin | 15:35 - 15:50 |
| 17th May 2026, Sunday | ||
| [Time: 14:15 - 15:50] | ||
| Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way-II (SIMA-II) | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time Slot |
| Kuldeep Verma | Inferring Stellar Structure and Properties from Starquake Observations (Invited) | 14:15 - 14:35 |
| Antariksha Mitra | Galactic Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way: An Isotopic Perspective | 14:35 - 14:50 |
| Barnali Das | First monitoring campaign of a Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitter | 14:50 - 15:05 |
| Prasanta Nayak | A UV-Optical Census of Unresolved White Dwarf–Main Sequence Binaries in the Solar Neighborhood | 15:05 - 15:20 |
| Khoshboo K. Rao | Unraveling Formation Mechanisms of Stragglers in Open Clusters | 15:20 - 15:35 |
| Sachindra Naik | Photospheric Radius Expansion and Burst-Driven X-ray Reflection in NS LMXB 4U 1702–429 | 15:35 - 15:50 |
| 17th May 2026, Sunday | ||
| [Time: 14:15 - 15:50] | ||
| Galaxies and Cosmology-II (GAC-II) | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time Slot |
| Chayan Mondal | AstroSat UV Deep Field: From Interstellar Dust to Lyman Continuum Leaking Galaxies at redshift ∼ 0.4–3.0 (Invited) | 14:15 - 14:35 |
| Sushma Kurapati | How Galaxies Build Mass and Angular Momentum: A Resolved View from Ultra-Deep MeerKAT H I Observations | 14:35 - 14:50 |
| Eshita Banerjee | The gaseous environments surrounding high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitters | 14:50 - 15:05 |
| Abhijeet Anand | The Cosmic Evolution of Carbon Absorbers: First Insights from DESI Quasars | 15:05 - 15:20 |
| Priyanjali Patel | Optical Variability in Quasars: A Wavelength-Dependent Study Using ZTF | 15:20 - 15:35 |
| Bannanje Ananthamoorthy | Detection of a UV Star-Forming Knot in the Giant Radio Galaxy NGC 315 | 15:35 - 15:50 |
| 17th May 2026, Sunday | ||
| [Time: 14:15 - 15:50] | ||
| High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy-II (HEPFA-II) | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time Slot |
| Labani Mallick | Constraining Disk-to-Corona Power Transfer Fraction, Soft X-ray Excess Origin, and Black Hole Spin Population of Type-1 AGN (Invited) | 14:15 - 14:35 |
| Nilaksha Barman | Equations of state of hot and dense matter and implication on Binary Neutron Star post-merger Gravitational Wave signal | 14:35 - 14:50 |
| Shubhagata Bhawmik | Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers in the Third Observing Run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA | 14:50 - 15:05 |
| Susmita Agarwal | Extending the VHE Horizon: Systematic Hunting for high-synchrotron peaked Blazars and Prospects for the Cherenkov Observatory | 15:05 - 15:20 |
| Kiran Wani | Blazar observations with XSPECT onboard XPoSat | 15:20 - 15:35 |
| Shaswata Chowdhury | CME Signature and Mode Change in InPTA Millisecond Pulsars | 15:35 - 15:50 |
| 17th May 2026, Sunday | ||
| [Time: 14:15 - 15:50] | ||
| Facilities, Technologies and Data science-I (FTDS-I) | ||
| Speaker | Title | Time Slot |
| Yogesh Wadadekar | Ensemble Machine Learning Photometric Redshifts for the Rubin/LSST Era: Performace and Readiness for Precision Cosmology (Invited) | 14:15 - 14:35 |
| Anirban Kopty | Optimal cross-correlation technique to search for strongly lensed gravitational waves | 14:35 - 14:50 |
| Bharat Chandra | PRATSUH 0: A Space-Based RFI Survey Mission for Low-Frequency Cosmology | 14:50 - 15:05 |
| Deepthi Ayyagari | Regional Specification and Mitigation of Quiet and Disturbed Low-Latitude Ionospheric Effects for LEO-Based PNT Augmentation ove | 15:05 - 15:20 |
| Vipin K. Yadav | The Realization of a Deployable Boom for the MAG Payload aboard Indian Aditya-L1 Solar Mission | 15:20 - 15:35 |
| Kevikumar Lad | Illumination stability in radial velocity measurements : Insights from PARAS-2 | 15:35 - 15:50 |

