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Tentative Programme |
| Friday, 15 May 2026 | |||||
| ASI Workshops | |||||
| 09:30 – 17:00 |
Workshop 1 - Compact Objects in the AstroSat era: Theory, Observation, and Modelling (Venue: CCH-1) |
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Workshop 2 - Radio Astronomy from Space (Venue: CCH-2) |
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Workshop 3 - Rubin LSST: Exploring the Transient Sky (Venue: CCH-3) |
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| 17:30 – 18:30 |
Public Lecture [Chairperson: Divya Oberoi] Annapurni Subramaniam - A decade of AstroSat - India's first Space Observatory (Venue: BHA) |
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| Saturday, 16 May 2026 | |||||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration | ||||
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Inaugural Session (Venue: BHA) |
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| 09:15 - 09:25 | Welcome (LOC Chair, ASI Secretary) | ||||
| 09:25 - 09:45 | Welcome Address (TBA) | ||||
| 09:45 - 09:50 | Scientific Program (SOC-Chair) | ||||
| 09:50 - 10:20 | Presidential Address (ASI, President) | ||||
| 10:20 - 10:55 | ASI Award Ceremony | ||||
| 10:55 - 11:00 | Vote of Thanks (LOC) | ||||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Poster viewing (SIMA, HEPFA, EOH)* with Tea/Coffee | ||||
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Distinguished Awardee Presentations [Chairperson: Devendra Ojha] (Venue: BHA) |
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| 11:30 - 11:55 |
ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award Lecture Anupama G. C. (GROWTH India Team) - The GROWTH-India Telescope: Small Telescope, Big Dreams |
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| 11:55 - 12:20 |
Laxminarayana and Nagalaxmi Modali Award Lecture Girish Kulkarni - How First Light Shaped the Cosmos |
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| 12:20 - 12:45 |
Justice Oak Award for Outstanding Thesis in Astronomy Lecture Prateek Mayank - Modeling the Evolution and Impact of Space Weather Drivers |
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| 12:45 – 13:00 | Group Photo | ||||
| 13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch Break | ||||
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Plenary Session-I [Chairperson: Yashwant Gupta] (Venue: BHA) |
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| 14:15 - 14:45 | Suratna Das - Cosmic Inflation: The standard picture and a promising variant | ||||
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Chandreyee Maitra - Uncovering compact objects in the large astronomical surveys era | ||||
| 15:15 - 16:50 | Poster Viewing (SIMA, HEPFA, EOH) with Tea/Coffee | ||||
| Parallel Sessions-I | |||||
| 16:50 – 18:25 |
SSEA-I (Venue: CCH-1) |
SIMA-I (Venue: CCH-3) |
GAC-I (Venue: CCH-2) |
HEPFA-I (Venue: BHA) |
EOH-I (Venue: CCH-4) |
| Sunday, 17 May 2026 | |||||
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Plenary Session-II [Chairperson: G. C. Anupama] (Venue: BHA) |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | Mithun Neelakandan - Experimental X-ray Astronomy in India Beyond AstroSat | ||||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Bhaswati Mookerjea - Millimeter/Sub-Millimeter Astronomy : The Indian Perspective | ||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jayanta Roy - Exploring the Transient Universe with SPOTLIGHT | ||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Anwesh Mazumdar - IOAA 2025: A celebration of astronomy at the high school level | ||||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Poster Viewing (SIMA, HEPFA, EOH) and Tea/Coffee | ||||
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Thesis Presentations (TP) Parallel Sessions Round-I [Coordinators - Manash Samal, Drisya Karinkuzhi, Ramadevi M. C.] |
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| 11:30 – 13:00 |
TP-I - Stars and Supernovae (Venue: CCH-1) |
TP-II - Compact objects and Transients (Venue: CCH-2) |
TP-III - Galaxies (Venue: CCH-3) |
TP-IV - Space / Solar (+ Instrumentation) (Venue: CCH-4) |
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| 13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch Break | ||||
| Parallel Sessions-II | |||||
| 14:15 - 15:50 |
SSEA-II (Venue: CCH-1) |
SIMA-II (Venue: CCH-3) |
GAC-II (Venue: CCH-2) |
HEPFA-II (Venue: BHA) |
FTDS-I (Venue: CCH-4) |
| 15:50 – 16:50 | Poster Viewing (SIMA, HEPFA, EOH) with Tea/Coffee | ||||
| 17:00 – 18:00 |
POEC Session (Venue: BHA) |
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| 19:00 - 20:00 |
Cultural Program (Venue: BHA) |
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| 20:00 onwards | Banquet | ||||
| Monday, 18 May 2026 | |||||
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Plenary Session-III [Chairperson: Indranil Chattopadhyay] (Venue: BHA) |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | Anupreeta More - Gravitational lensing in the LSST era | ||||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Anand Narayanan - Probing the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with Quasar Absorption Line Spectroscopy | ||||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Suvendu Rakshit - Weighing the Monsters: Supermassive Black Holes in AGN | ||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Mayuri Rao - Global cosmological signal detection experiments at radio frequencies | ||||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Poster Viewing (GAC, SSEA, FTDS)* and Tea/Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
WGGE Session (Venue: BHA) |
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| 13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch Break | ||||
| Parallel Sessions-III | |||||
| 14:15 – 15:50 |
SSEA-III (Venue: CCH-1) |
SIMA-III (Venue: CCH-3) |
GAC-III (Venue: CCH-2) |
HEPFA-III (Venue: BHA) |
FTDS-II (Venue: CCH-4) |
| 15:50 - 16:50 | Poster Viewing (GAC, SSEA, FTDS) with Tea/Coffee | ||||
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Thesis Presentation Final Round (Venue: BHA) |
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| Tuesday, 19 May 2026 | |||||
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Plenary Session-IV [Chairperson: Divakara Mayya] (Venue: BHA) |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Projjwal Banerjee - Rapidly Rotating Early Massive Stars as a Source of High Carbon and Heavy Elements in the Early Galaxy | ||||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Arkaprabha Sarangi - Supernovae and the Origin of Cosmic Dust | ||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Anshu Kumari - Solar Radiophysics: From Instrumentation to Observations | ||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Shashikiran Ganesh - Comets in the Solar System | ||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Poster Viewing (GAC, SSEA, FTDS) with Tea/Coffee | ||||
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch Break | ||||
| Parallel Sessions-IV | |||||
| 13:45 – 15:05 |
SSEA-IV (Venue: CCH-1) |
SIMA-IV (Venue: CCH-3) |
GAC-IV (Venue: CCH-2) |
HEPFA-IV (Venue: BHA) |
FTDS-III (Venue: CCH-4) |
| 15:05 - 15:30 |
Concluding Ceremony (Awards) (Venue: BHA) |
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| 15:30 onwards | Tea/Coffee and Byes | ||||
| List of Posters |
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SSEA - Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets, and Astrobiology SIMA - Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way GAC - Galaxies and Cosmology HEPFA - High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy FTDS - Facilities, Technologies and Data science EOH - Education, Outreach and Heritage |
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BHA - Bhupen Hazarika Auditorium : Public Lecture, Inaugural session, All Plenary Sessions, HEPFA Sessions, POEC and WGGE session, Thesis Final Round CCH-1 - Conference Center Hall 1 : SSEA Sessions CCH-2 - Conference Center Hall 2 : GAC Sessions CCH-3 - Conference Center Hall 3 : SIMA Sessions CCH-4 - Conference Center Hall 4 - EOH / FTDS Sessions |