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