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Astronomy Seminars 2012
Astronomy Seminars 2011
- Cosmology from small scales to the horizon:
relativistic effects in structure formation
Prof. Marco Bruni
University of Portsmouth, UK
November 29, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection:
A cosmological perspective
Surhud More
University of Chicago, USA
November 29, 2011, Tuesday at 1100 a.m.
- Investigating the group-scale lenses with
the SL2S-Arcs sample
Dr. Anupreeta More
University of Chicago, USA
November 28, 2011, Monday at 1600 hrs
- Structure and properties of high mass star
forming regions on various scales
Prof. Igor Zinchenko
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
November 15, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Observational understanding of accretion flow
in Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Mayukh Pahari
DAA-TIFR
October 19, 2011, Tuesday at 1430 hrs
- Vertical Structure of Disk Galaxies & their
Dark Matter Halos forming regions
Arunima Banerjee
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
October 18, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- X-ray and gamma-ray emission from jets in black-hole
binaries
Prof. A.A. Zdziarski
N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland
October 15, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Evolution of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium through
observations of QSO metal line absorption systems
Prof. Alec Boksenberg,
University of Cambridge, UK
October 11, 2011, Tuesday at 1530 hrs
- Infrared study of Galactic massive star
forming regions
Dr. Lokesh Dewangan
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
October 4, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Aspects of triggered star-formation
Sumedh Anathpindika
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
September 27, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Probing the Bullet Cluster with the
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Dr. Siddharth Savyasachi Malu
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
September 20, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Eclectic Science from Multiwavelength
Studies of Globular Clusters
Dr. Arunav Kundu
Eureka Scientific, USA
September 13, 2011, Tuesday at 1745 hrs
- NuSTAR: Unveiling the Hard X-ray Universe
Mr. Varun Bhalerao
Calteh, USA
September 6, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Understanding galaxies in clusters using
modified Stroemgren photometry
Dr. Yuvraj Harsha Sreedhar
University of Vienna, Austria
30 August, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Gas and Dust in the Magellanic Clouds
Dr. A. C. Pradhan
Indian Institute of Astronphysics, Bangalore
2 August, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- The AGN/X-Ray Binary Connection
Dr. Ritaban Chatterjee
Yale University, USA
29 July, 2011, Friday at 1130 hrs
- Cosmological Evolution of Supermassive
Black Holes
Suchetana Chatterjee
Yale University, USA
28 July, 2011, Thursday at 1600 hrs
- Bok Globules: simple sites of low mass star
formation in our Galaxy
Dr. Maheswar Gopinathan
ARIES, Nainital
19 July, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Dynamical evolution of a low mass classical bulge in barred galaxies
Dr. Kanak Saha
Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial physics, Garching, Germany
1 July, 2011, Friday at 1430 hrs
- Isolated horizons: formalism and applications
Ayan Chatterjee
IMSc, Chennai
10 June, 2011, Friday at 1130 a.m.
- Blazars at GeV/TeV energies
Sunder Sahayanathan
Astrophysical Sciences Division, BARC-Mumbai
7 June, 2011, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Gravitational collapse of perfect fluids: A review
of Outstanding Problems and Recent Results
Dr. Daniele Malafarina
DAA-TIFR
24 May, 2011 Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Star formation activity in the vicinity of
Galactic H II regions
Manash Ranjan Samal
ARIES, Nainital
10 May, 2011 Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- The Globular Cluster-Low Mass X-Ray Binary
Connection and its Implications
Arunav Kundu
Eureka Scientific Inc, USA
28 April, 2011, Thursday at 16.00 hrs
- Strong Lensing, Compact Objects and
Dark Energy
Satyabrata Sahu
DAA-TIFR
26 April, 2011, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Extension of Trace dynamics to background
space-time
Kinjalk Lochan
DAA-TIFR
25 April, 2011, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- The universal pressure profile of galaxy
clusters and cluster physics
Anya Chaudhuri
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai gaunt.
19 April, 2011, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Massless scalar fields in Gravitation theory
Swastik Bhattacharya
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
18 April, 2011, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- Naked singularities as particle accelerators
Mandar Patil
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
12 April, 2011, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Study of X-ray timing of a neutron star low
mass X-ray binary
Arunava Mukherjee
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
29 March, 2011, Tuesday at 11.00 hrs
- Gravitational Lensing by Compact Objects in the Galactic Center:
Can we exclude or detect a boson star?
Dr. Amitai Bin-Nun
University of Pennsylvania, USA
17 March, 2011, Tuesday at 10.30 hrs
- Quantum field theoretic effects with modified dispersion
relations
Dr. Shailesh Kulkarni
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
15 March, 2011, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Non-Gaussianity as a signature of thermal
initial condition of inflation
Ms. Suratna Das
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
22 February, 2011, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Dynamics of Intermediate Mass Black Holes
in Star Clusters and Galactic Nuclei
Prof.Holger Baumgardt
University of Queensland, Australia
14 February, 2011, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- India's participation in the Thirty Metre Telescope
(TMT) Project
Prof. A.N. Ramprakash
IUCAA, Pune
8 February, 2011, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
Prof. David Buckley
South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa
21 January, 2011, Friday at 11.30 hrs
- The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory)
Prof. S.R. Kulkarni
Director, California Institute of Technology, USA
5 January, 2011, Tuesday at 14.30 hrs
- Large scale structure and first-passage problems
Dr. Aseem Paranjape
ICTP, Trieste, Italy
4 January, 2011, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
Astronomy Seminars 2010
- Gamma Ray Bursts and Blazars
Dr. Resmi L
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
7 December, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The Primordial Lithium Problem: Can nuclear resonances
rescue the Standard Model?
Dr. Nachiketa Chakraborty
University of Illinois, USA
22 November, 2010, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- High Energy Sky:Progress in Gamma Ray Astronomy
Dr. P.R.Vishwanath
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
30 November, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- X-ray Timing of Compact Stars: Recent Progress and Future Opportunities
Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
16 November,2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Spitzer-IRAC study of massive star forming regions
Dr. Lokesh Dewangan
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
12 October, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Binary-pulsar tests of theories of gravity
Dr. Ramesh Bhat
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, USA
30 August, 2010, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- AGN Feedback: Does it work?
Prof. Smita Mathur
Dept. of Astronomy, Ohio State Univ, USA
12 August, 2010, Thursday at 12.00 hrs
- Scientific Imaging Sensors
Dr. James Beletic
Director, Astronomy & Civil Space, Teledyne Imaging Sensors, USA
29 July, 2010, Thursday at 14.30 hrs
- Black hole vs. Naked singularity formation
in gravitational collapse with pressure
Dr. Daniele Malafarina
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
20 July, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The Palomar Transient Factory
Ms. Mansi M. Kasliwal
California Institute of Technology, USA
29 June, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The GRAMS AGB Models -- Calculating the Mass-
Loss Return to the LMC from SED Fits to Spitzer SAGE Data
Dr. Sundar Srinivasan
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
15 June, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Macroscopic Gravity and Cosmology
Prof. Roustam Zalaletdinov
Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan
8 June, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Negative pressure Isothermal Spheres in General Relativity
Satyabrata Sahu
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
27 April, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- More out of cluster surveys
Satej Khedekar
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
20 April, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Dynamics of self-similar massless scalar fields in general relativity.
Mandar Patil
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
13 April, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsars:
12 years of discoveries
Dr. Diego Altamirano
University of Amsterdam
12 April, 2010, Monday at 11.30 hrs
- Dynamical massless scalar fields in collapse
and cosmology
Swastik Bhattacharya
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
5 April, 2010, Monday at 16.15 hrs
- SZ Scaling Relations and High-z Point Sources
in the Context of SZ Surveys
Anya Chaudhuri
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
30 March, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Understanding the luminosity function of
High mass X-ray binaries
Harshal Bhadkamkar
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
23 March, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Study of X-ray timing and continuum spectra
of a neutron star low mass X-ray binary
Arunava Mukherjee
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
9 March, 2010, Tuesday at 14.30 hrs
- The Theory of Comptonisation
Prof. Malcolm Longair
University of Cambridge, U.K.
6 March, 2010, Saturday at 14.30 hrs
- The physics
of compact sources of all types-radio to ultrahigh energy gamma rays
Prof. Malcolm Longair
University of Cambridge, U.K.
5 March, 2010, Friday at 14.30 hrs
- Particle acceleration in different cosmic
environments
Prof. Malcolm Longair
University of Cambridge, U.K.
4 March, 2010, Thursday at 14.30 hrs
- Feedback from Supernovae: Tous pour
un, un pour tous
Sayan Chakraborti
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
2 March, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- New Results from a Recently Refurbished
Hubble Space Telescope
Prof. John Stocke
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
2 March, 2010, Tuesday at 11.30 hrs
- Probing a Stochastic Gravitational Wave
Background using a Network of Laser Interferometric Detectors
Dr. Sanjit Mitra
California Institute of Technology, USA
23 February, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Analysis Challenges in Scanning CMB
Missions: Beam Asymmetry
Dr. Sanjit Mitra
California Institute of Technology, USA
22 February, 2010, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- Hawking radiation, anomalies, and
vacuum states
Dr. Shailesh Kulkarni
Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
16 February, 2010, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The mm-wave sky at high resolution: recent results from the South Pole Telescope
Prof Gilbert Holder
McGill University, USA
11 February, 2010, Thursday at 16.00 hrs
- The No-hair theorem of black holes and the binary black hole system OJ287
Prof. Mauri Valtonen
University of Turku, Finland
21 January, 2010, Thursday at 11.30 hrs
- A review of H.E.S.S. results
Prof. Michal Ostrowski
Jagiellonian University, Poland
19 January, 2010, Tuesday at 11.30 hrs
Astronomy Seminars 2009
- The Diffuse Intergalactic Oxygen Surveyor (DIOS) mission
Prof. Y. Tawara
EcoTopia Science Institute and Dept of Physics
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
8 December, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Probing the high redshift universe with hyperfine transitions
Prof. Jasjeet Singh Bagla
Harish-chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
1 December, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Simulating weak lensing of CMB maps
Dr. Soumen Basak
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
24 November, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Driving cosmic inflation on a bumpy road
Dr. Golam M. Hossain
Observatoire de Besancon, France
19 November, 2009, Thursday at 11.30 hrs
- Stellar populations in the central 200 pc of the Galaxy
Dr. Mathias Schultheis
Observatoire de Besancon, France
10 November, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Ultra high energy particles and cosmic ray electrons/positrons, from massive star explosions
Prof. Peter L. Biermann
MPIfR Bonn, Univ. Bonn, KIT Karlsruhe, UA Tuscaloosa, UA Huntsville
27 October, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Cosmological Inflation and Dark Energy
Dr. Tapan Naskar
The Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
26 October, 2009, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- Star formation in High Redshift Galaxies
Prof. Bruce Elmegreen
IBM Watson Research Center, NY, USA
20 October, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The peculiar X-ray binary Cyfnus X-3
Prof. A. A. Zdziarski
N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland
22 September, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Dr. Sudeep Das
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Princeton University, USA
15 September, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Recent Highlights from the MAGIC experiment
Dr. Pratik Majumdar
DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
1 September, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The Extended Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy and its Dwarf Satellites: Results from the SPLASH Survey
Prof. Puragra Guhathakurta
University of California Observatories / Lick Observatory, USA
11 August, 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Tale of a Counter Jet
Dr. Resmi Lekshmi
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
28 July, 2009, Tuesday at 14.30 hrs
- Exploring the evolution of elemental abundances with Quasar Absorption line spectroscopy of DLAs
Prof. Bryan Penprase
Pomona College, Caltech University, USA
9 July 2009, Thursday at 11.30 hrs
- Effect of Coriolis force on the shapes of rotating stars and stars in binary systems
Ankush Pathania
Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab
23 June 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Loop Quantum Gravity and Inflation
Rakesh Tibrewala
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR
28 April 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Deciphering the music of the Sun with Helioseismology
Piyali Chatterjee
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR
21 April 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Multi-layer analysis of Coronal Bright Points. Structure and Evolution
Dr. David Perez-Suarez
Armagh Observatory, UK
13 April 2009, Monday at 14.30 hrs
- Dynamics of massless scalar fields in General Relativity
Swastik Bhattacharya
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR
6 April 2009, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- Cluster structure modeling,
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich scaling relations and secondary CMB ansiotropies at small angular scales
Anya Chaudhuri
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR
31 March 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Punctuated inflation
and the low CMB multipoles
Prof. L. Sriramkumar
The Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
27 March 2009, Friday at 11.30 hrs
- Nature of 1E 161348-5055 in RCW 103:
A pre-LMXB in propeller phase ?
Harshal Bhadkamkar
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR
24 March 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Uncovering the Central Engines
of Massive Protostars
Dr. M. S. Nanda Kumar
Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
23 March 2009, Monday at 16.00 hrs
- Search for Other Worlds using Hubble
Space Telescope
Dr. Kailash C. Sahu
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA
9 March 2009, Monday at 14.30 hrs
- Spherically symmetric timelike shells in
General Relativity
Dr. Daniele Malafarina
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
17 February, 2009 Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Effect of three body stellar interactions on
binary radio pulsars in globular clusters
Dr. Manjari Bagchi
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
10 February 2009, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Multi-disciplinary Applications of X-ray
Spectroscopy: From Astrophysics to Biophysics
Professor Anil K. Pradhan
Ohio State University, U.S.A.
09 February, 2009 Monday at 16.00 hrs
- Broad Band, High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy
Using Microcalorimeters: Spin-Offs from Astrophysics Research
Mr. Eric Silver
Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, USA
09 February, 2009 Monday at 11.30 hrs
- Constraining cosmology using clusters as
an ensemble of cosmic rulers
Mr. Satej Khedekar
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
13 January, 2009 Tuesday, 16.00 hrs
- The star formation history of the highest redshift quasars
Prof. G. J. Ferland
University of Kentucky, USA
06 January 2009 Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
Astronomy Seminars 2008
- Shadows of Galaxies: Tracing Galaxy Evolution with Quasar Absorption Lines
Dr. Varsha Kulkarni
University of South Carolina, USA
26 December 2008, Friday at 14.30 hrs
- The Assembly of Galaxy Disks & Evolution of Galactic
Structures in COSMOS - Reconstructing the Hubble Sequence
Dr. Kartik Sheth
Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, USA
23 December 2008, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- Physical conditions in Photo dissociation Regions (PDRs): NGC2023 and S140
Dr. Gargi Shaw
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
18 December 2008, Thursday at 11.30 hrs
- Gamma Ray Burst Astronomy with the Fermi
Gamma Ray Space Telescope
Dr. Narayana P. Bhat
University of Alabama, USA
11 December 2008, Thursday at 11.30 hrs
- Is the IMF of Stellar Clusters Universal ?
Dr. Sami Dib
CEA/Saclay, France
25 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.
- Global Stellar Models of Turbulent Convection and Magnetism Across the H-R diagram
Dr. Allan Sacha Brun
EA/Saclay, France
21 November 2008, Friday, at 11.30 hrs.
- On the Nature of coherent Pulsar Radio Emission
Dr. Dipanjan Mitra
NCRA, Pune
18 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.
- Report on the 3rd Biennial Leopoldina Conference on "Dark Energy"
Shri Aseem Paranjape
TIFR, Mumbai
11 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.
- A new approach to RFI mitigation of interferometric data
Dr. R Athreya
NCRA, Pune
04 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.
- Development of Gaseous photomultipliers based on Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and its application
Dr. B.K. Singh
Physics Department, BHU
27 October 2008, Monday, at 11.30 hrs.
- Long-term variability of solar activity: how long will the the current grand maximum persist?
Prof. Nigel Weiss,
University of Cambridge, UK
30 September 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs.
- Colliding Molecular Clouds And Low Mass Star Formation
Mr. Sumedh V. Anathpindika
Cardiff University, UK
23 September 2008, Tuesday at 1600 hrs
- Multiwavelength studies of Galactic H II regions
Mr. Manash Ranjan Samal
ARIES, Nainital
26 Augusr 2008, Tuesday at 16-00 hrs
- Probes of large-scale structure in the gas
Prof. Ravi Subrahmanyan
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
19-Aug-2008, Tuesday at 16-00 hrs
- Rise and decline of Indian Science
Prof. R Kochhar
NIPER, Mohali
04 August 2008, Monday, at 16-00 hrs
- Prospects for detection of the lunar Cerenkov emission by the UHE Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos using the GMRT and the Ooty Radio Telescope
Prof. Govind Swarup,
NCRA-TIFR, Pune
30 July 2008, Wednesday, at 14-30 hrs
- Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi collapse from the perspective of loop quantum gravity
Mr. Rakesh Tibrewala,
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
10 June-2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs
- Winds, Bubbles and Supernovae: Impact of a Massive Star on the Ambient Medium
Dr. Vikram Dwarkadas,
University of Chicago, USA
05 June 2008, Thursday, at 11-30 hrs
- Averaging the Inhomogeneous Universe
Aseem Paranjape
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
27 May 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs
- Galactic Open Clusters: Star Formation and Morphology
Dr. Saurabh Sharma
ARIES, Nainital
15 April 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs
- Probing quantum gravitational physics via inflation
Dr. Subramaniam Shankaranarayanan
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth, UK
10 April 2008, Thursday, at 11-30 hrs
- Finger-printing the Universe: Error in Error-bars
Dr. Dipak Munshi
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
13 March 2008, Thursday, at 11-30 hrs
- Binary radio pulsars in and out globular clusters
Dr. Manjari Bagchi
DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
11 March 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs
- Black holes, white holes and tunnelling
Dr. Parthasarathi Mitra
SINP, Kolkata
06 March 2008, Thursday at 14-30 hrs
- On flux transport dynamo models and solar cycle predictions from them
Dr. Piyali Chatterjee
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
26 February, 2008 Tuesday at 16.00 hrs
- The Mystery of Brown Dwarf Origin
Dr. Subhanjoy Mohanty
CfA, USA
27 February, 2008 Wednesday at 11.30 hrs
- Black Holes in the Universe and Microquasars
Prof. Felix Mirabel
European Southern Observatory, Chile
19 February 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs
- Hard X-ray Imaging Observation with Multilayer Supermirror X-ray Telescope on Board a Balloon
Prof. K. Yamashita,
Nagoya University
12 February 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs
- The Evolution of Black-Hole Binaries
Prof. Tomaso M Belloni
INAF OABrera, Merate, Italy
08 February 2008, Friday, at 11-30 hrs
- Noncommutative gravity and black holes
Prof. Kumar S. Gupta
SINP, Kolkata
07 February 2008, Thursday, at 04-00 hrs
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