Parallel Sessions on 18th May 2026 (Monday)

18th May 2026, Monday
[Time: 14:15 - 15:50]
Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets and Astrobiology-III (SSEA-III) 
Speaker Title Time Slot
Nitin Yadav MHD Wave Generation by Photospheric Vortex Flows and Their Chromospheric Signatures (Invited) 14:15 - 14:35
Manjunath Hegde A Declining Trend in Sunspot Group Tilt Angles Over Three and half solar cycles: 21-24 14:35 - 14:50
Surajit Mondal Enigmatic Centi-SFU and mSFU Nonthermal Radio Transients Detected in the Middle Corona 14:50 - 15:05
Megha Anand The First Disk-Resolved Mg II Index from SUIT 15:05 - 15:20
Soumya Roy White-Light Continuum Observations across the Balmer Jump for SOL2024-10-03T12:18 15:20 - 15:35
Rishikesh Sharma TOI-6038A b: A Dense sub-Saturn in the Transition Regime between the Neptunian Ridge and Savanna 15:35 - 15:50
18th May 2026, Monday
[Time: 14:15 - 15:50]
Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way-III (SIMA-III)
Speaker Title Time Slot
Govind Nandakumar Near-Infrared views of stellar populations in the Galactic center regions (Invited) 14:15 - 14:35
Ayan Biswas A Rapidly Evolving Stellar Magnetic Field in YZ Cet & Constraints on the Magnetosphere of Its Planet from Multi-wavelength Study 14:35 - 14:50
Binduja Panja Influence of Methyl Substitution on the Dissociation Dynamics of PAHs: Experimental Observation of Metastable Decay Routes 14:50 - 15:05
Neha Sharma Tracing a Decade of Change: Mid-Infrared Variability in 20,000 Young Stellar Objects 15:05 - 15:20
Mridusmita Buragohain Investigating variants of nitrogenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as carriers for interstellar Aromatic Infrared Bands 15:20 - 15:35
Divakara Mayya Resolved stellar population studies of nearby galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope 15:35 - 15:50
18th May 2026, Monday
[Time: 14:15 - 15:50]
Galaxies and Cosmology-III (GAC-III)
Speaker Title Time Slot
Balpreet Kaur The HI properties of star-forming galaxies at z~1 in the COSMOS field (Invited) 14:15 - 14:35
Adarsh Kuruvanthodi Balmer break galaxies at z > 3: insights from the James Webb Space Telescopes 14:35 - 14:50
Meera Nandakumar What Drives Turbulence in Galactic Discs? Evidence from MeerKAT HI Observations 14:50 - 15:05
Rajorshi S. Chandra 21-cm Power Spectra From HERA : Analysis And Systematics Challenges 15:05 - 15:20
Rudrani Kar Chowdhury TDEs on FIRE: Co-Evolution of Tidal Disruption Event Rates and Host Galaxies across Cosmic Time 15:20 - 15:35
Akshay Rana Are Type Ia Supernovae Truly Standard Candles? A Gaussian-Process Test of Luminosity Stability 15:35 - 15:50
18th May 2026, Monday
[Time: 14:15 - 15:50]
High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy-III (HEPFA-III)
Speaker Title Time Slot
Pankaj Kushwaha X-ray Polarization and Neutrinos: Insights into Blazar's Leptonic vs Hadronic and Single vs Multizone debate (Invited) 14:15 - 14:35
Samir Mandal Probing the Accretion Dynamics in Black Hole X-ray Binaries using UV-X-ray Spectral Studies 14:35 - 14:50
Abhishek Tamang Super-orbital period evolution of Her X-1 14:50 - 15:05
Camelia Jana Impact of winds on accretion shocks in magnetized accretion flows around rotating black holes 15:05 - 15:20
Tanima Mondal Multi Messenger Study of GRB 221009A with VHE Gamma-ray and Neutrino Afterglow from a Gaussian Structured Jet 15:20 - 15:35
Indranil Chattopadhyay On low to high frequency QPO in microquasars and its relation to the black hole spin 15:35 - 15:50
18th May 2026, Monday
[Time: 14:15 - 15:50]
Facilities, Technologies and Data science-II (FTDS-II)
Speaker Title Time Slot
Arun Surya Designing in the ELT Era: Insights from TMT Instrument Design for the next generation Indian Instruments (Invited) 14:15 - 14:35
Akshaya V.G. RFSoC-Based Digital Correlation Spectrometer for APSERa 14:35 - 14:50
Rajesh K. Nayak IndIGO-D: An Indian Initiative in gravitational wave observations in the Deci Hertz band 14:50 - 15:05
Sudip Bhattacharyya XSat: A proposed large area X-ray astronomy space mission 15:05 - 15:20
Sriram Sripadmanabhan DMD-based Multi-Object Spectrograph (D-MOS): AIV and First Light Results 15:20 - 15:35
Krishnakumar M. A. Reviving the Ooty Radio Telescope 15:35 - 15:50