BINA Scientific Program
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
| 21 March 2023 | |
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| Session -1 : Inauguration of the ILMT | |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Inauguration of the ILMT at Devasthal by Honorable Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences (Venue : Devasthal Campus, ARIES) |
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Session-2 : Public Lecture on Commemorating ARIES Foundation day |
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| Chair : Ram Sagar | |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Jean Surdej (University of Liege, Belgium):The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope : A Short History (Venue : Devasthal Campus, ARIES) |
| 20:00 | Welcome Reception |
| 22 March 2023 | ||||
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| Session 1 : Opening Ceremony of the 3rd BINA Workshop | ||||
| 09:30-09:35 | Opening Remarks by Director, ARIES | |||
| 09:35-09:38 | Address by Prof. J. Kumar, Pro-Chancellor, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University) | |||
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09:38 |
Address by Prof. Narpinder Singh, Vice Chancellor, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University) | |||
| 09:40-09:45 | Address by Dr. S. K. Varshney, Adviser & Head, International Cooperation, DST, Govt. of India | |||
| 09:45-09:50 | Introductory words by Mr. Didier Vanderhasselt (Belgian Ambassador) | |||
| 09:50-10:00 | Video message by Mr. Arnaud Vajda (President of the Direction Committee of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office) | |||
| 10:00-10:10 | Peter De Cat, ROB Belgium (Belgian PI of BINA, Co-Chair SOC) The Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy and Astrophysics: from Birth to Adulthood |
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| 10:10-10:20 | Dipankar Banerjee (ARIES, India) Indian and Belgian Solar Space Missions |
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| 10:20-10:30 | Santosh Joshi (ARIES, Indian PI of BINA, Co-Chair SOC) A glimpse of the Scientific Program and Vote of Thanks |
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| HIGH TEA BREAK, Group Photograph & Interaction with Media (10:30-11:30) | ||||
| Session 2 : DOT : Observing strategy and upcoming backend Instruments | ||||
| Chair : Katrien Kolenberg | ||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Nissim Kanekar (NCRA, TIFR India) : How do I get observing time on the DOT ? | |||
| 12:00-12:20 | Jayshreekar Pant (ARIES, India) : DOT HRS : A High Resolution Spectrograph for Devasthal Optical Telescope - Status and Update | |||
| 12:20-12:40 | Joe Philip Ninan (TIFR, India) : A new instrument for conducting world's largest spectroscopic survey of YSOs from DOT | |||
| 12:40-13:00 | Amitesh Omar (IIT, Kanpur, India) : Prospects for polarization observations capabilities using ADFOSC on 3.6-m DOT | |||
| LUNCH BREAK (13:00 - 14:30) | ||||
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Main Program Session Session 3 : New Observing Facilities and back-end Instruments |
Solar Session Session 1 : MHD waves and small-scale transients |
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Chair : Soumen Mondal |
Chair : Bhuwan Joshi |
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| 14:30-14:50 | Brajesh Kumar (ARIES, India) : Observing preparations and commissioning of the 4-m ILMT | 14:30-14:55 | David Berghmans(ROB Belgium) : Science opportunities by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter | |
| 14:50-15:20 | Abhijit Chakraborty (PRL, India) : PRL 2.5-m telescope: first light instruments and projected science cases | 14:55-15:20 | Girjesh Gupta (USO, PRL) : Tracing the source region of waves in coronal fan loops anchored in the sunspot umbra | |
| 15:20-15:40 | Jyotirmay Paul (ULiège, Belgium) : Enhancing the capability of future medium-size telescopes: First light of the SALTO demonstrator | 15:20-15:45 | Ramesh Chandra (Kumaun University, Nainital) : Characteristics of solar EUV wave events | |
| 15:40-16:00 | Karan Singh Dsilva (ULB Belgium) : High-resolution spectrograph at a 1-m class telescope - what can we gain? | |||
| TEA BREAK (16:00 - 16:30) | ||||
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Main Program Session Session 4 : Solar System Bodies and Exoplanetary Science |
Solar Session Session 1 continued... |
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Chair : Shashikiran Ganesh |
Chair : Bhuwan Joshi |
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| 16:30-16:50 | Aravind K. (PRL, Ahmedabad) : Optical spectroscopy of comets | 16:30-16:55 | Tom Van Doorsselaere (KU Leuven, Belgium) : Observations of short-period oscillations in Solar Orbiter/EUI | |
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16:50 |
Mathieu Vander Donckt (ULiège, Belgium) : Photometric and spectroscopic study of periodic carbon-chain depleted comets from Belgian and Indian observatories | 16:55-17:20 | Arpit Kumar Shrivastav (ARIES, India) : Study of the Impact of Coronal Rain on Kink Oscillations of Coronal Loops | |
| 17:10-17:30 | Anandmayee Tej (IIST, India) : Stellar Occultation with DOT - Probing Planetary Atmospheres | 17:20-17:45 | Ambika Saxena (ARIES, India) : Exploring spectral line asymmetries due to the propagating MHD waves in the solar atmosphere | |
| 17:30-17:50 | Suman Saha (IIA, India) : Detection and characterization of habitable exo-moons in the JWST era | |||
| TEA BREAK (17:50-18:00) | TEA BREAK (17:45-18:15) | |||
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Main Program Session Session 5 : Evening Talk |
Solar Session Session 1 continued... |
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| Chair : Brijesh Kumar | ||||
| 18:00-19:00 | Ram Sagar : Indo-Belgian cooperation in Astrophysics:from inception to future prospects  |
18:00 onwards | Rejoin the main program | |
| 20:00 | DINNER (own arrangement) | |||
| 23 March 2023 | ||||
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Main Program Session Session 1 : Multiple Stellar Systems |
Solar Session Session 1 continued... |
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Chair : Laurent Mahy |
Chair : Bhuwan Joshi |
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| 09:30-10:00 | Thibault Merle (ROB/ULB, Belgium) : Dancing with the stars: a review on stellar multiplicity |
09:30-09:55 | Rajab Ismayilli (KU Leuven, Belgium) : Nonlinear self-deformation of unidirectional surface Alfvén waves and properties of Uniturbulence | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Alaxender Panchal (ARIES, India) : Characterization of K2 eclipsing binary candidates | 09:55-10:20 | Upasna Baweja (ARIES, India) : Coronal Magnetic field estimation using Bayesian inference | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Gurpreet Singh (ARIES, India) : An X-ray Study of Coronally Connected Active Eclipsing Binary, XY Uma | 10:20-10:45 | Tanmoy Samanta (IIA, Bangalore) : Generation of solar spicules and subsequent atmospheric heating | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Namita Uppal (PRL, India) : Optical polarization study of Galactic Open Clusters | 10:45:11:10 | Sahel Dey (IIA, Bangalore) : Insights into the genesis and dynamics of the solar spicule forest: aided by laboratory experiments | |
| TEA BREAK (11:10-11:30) | ||||
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Main Program Session Session 2 : Spectroscopy of Galactic Sources |
Solar Session Session 2 : Physics of Flares and CMEs |
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Chair : Drisya Karinkuzhi |
Chair : David Berghmans |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Aruna Goswami (IIA, India) : On the potential of Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars for Galactic Archaeology |
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Bhuwan Joshi (USO, PRL) : Onset and evolution of solar flares: application of 2D and 3D models of magnetic reconnection | |
| 12:00-12:20 | Deepak (ARIES, India) : 3.9-m AAT's contribution in addressing the mystery of Li-rich giants' origin and valuable lessons for 3.6-m DOT |
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Madhurjya Changmai (KU Leuven, Belgium) : Exploring magnetic reconnection due to Rayleigh-Taylor Instability induced turbulence in Solar Prominences | |
| 12:20-12:40 | Pallavi Saraf (IIA, India) : Connecting Chemistry and kinematics of r-process enhanced stars to trace their origin | 12:20-12:45 | Anwesha Maharana (KU Leuven, Belgium) : Towards improving CME forecasting with MHD modelling and observations | |
| 12:40-13:00 | Gajendra Pandey (IIA, India) : Measuring helium abundances of cool stars |
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| LUNCH BREAK (13:00-14:30) | LUNCH BREAK (12:45-14:30) | |||
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Main Program Session Session 3 : Massive Stars |
Solar Session Session 2 continued... |
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Chair : Abhay Pratap Yadav |
Chair : David Berghmans |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Gregg Wade (Royal Military College of Canada) : Magnetism of Massive Stars, on and after the main sequence | 14:30-14:55 | Nitin vashishtha (ARIES, India) : Numerical simulation and forward modelling of a breakout CME | |
| 15:00-15:20 | Bharti Arora (ULiège, Belgium) : Multi-wavelength view of massive binaries | 14:55-15:20 | Jyoti Sheoran (ARIES, India) : Evolution of the Thermodynamic Properties of a Coronal Mass Ejection in the Inner Corona | |
| 15:20-15:40 | Anindya Saha (IIST, India) : Are isolated single Wolf-Rayet stars capable of accelerating particles to relativistic speed ? | 15:20-15:45 | Ritesh Patel (Southwest Research Institute) : Advance image processing algorithm for CMEs studies with Aditya-L1/VELC | |
| 15:40-16:00 | Gourav Banerjee (CHRIST (Deemed to be) University, India) : Spectroscopic studies of Galactic classical Be stars using Indian optical telescope facilities |
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| TEA BREAK (16:00-16:30) | TEA BREAK (15:45-16:30) | |||
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Main Program Session Session 4 : Multi-wavelength studies of star formation regions |
Solar Session Session 2 continued... |
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Chair : Tapas Baug |
Chair : David Berghmans |
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| 16:30-17:00 | Devendra K. Ojha (TIFR, India) : Understanding the outbursts in young low mass stars | 16:30-16:55 | Tinatin Baratashvili (KU Leuven, Belgium) : Icarus: a new highly optimized heliospheric model for forecasting purposes | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Arpan Ghosh (ARIES, India) : Spectro-Photometric Monitoring of Eruptive Young Stellar Objects | 16:55-17:20 | Susanta Kumar Bisoi (NIT Rourkela) : Origin of Extremely Non-radial Solar wind | |
| 17:20-17:40 | Jyotirmoy Dey (IIST, India) : A study of ultracompact H II regions with extended emission - their importance, origin, and evolution | 18:00 onwards | Rejoin the main program | |
| 17:40-18:00 | Lokesh Kumar Dewangan (PRL, India) : Multiwavelength Study of the Star Formation in the Sh 2-305 HII Region | |||
| TEA BREAK (18:00-18:15) | ||||
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Main Program Session Session 5 : Social Events |
Solar Session Session 2 continued... |
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| 18:15-19:30 |
Cultural Program by Sanskar Sanskritik Evam Paryavaran Sanrakshan Samiti, Almora (Venue : Graphic Era Hill University Campus Bhimtal) |
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| 20:00-22:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER (Venue : Graphic Era Hill University Campus Bhimtal) |
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| 24 March 2023 | ||||
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Main Program Session Session 1 : Compact Objects |
Solar Session Session 3 : Long Term Studies |
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Chair : Jeewan C.Pandey |
Chair : Tom Van Doorsselaere |
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| 09:30-09:50 | Suman Bhattacharyya (CHRIST (Deemed to be University) India) : Unraveling the recent X-Ray flare from MAXI J0709–159 using Indian optical telescope facilities | 09:30-09:55 | Manfred Cuntz (University of Texas, Arlington) : Evolution of Solar-Type Activity: An Observational and Theoretical Perspective | |
| 09:50-10:10 | Nikita Rawat (ARIES, India) : Confirmation of Two Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables as Polars - 1RXS J174320.1-042953 and RX J1039.7-0507 |
09:55-10:20 | Dibya Kirti Mishra (ARIES, India) : Variation in the Chromospheric Differential Rotation over the Century | |
| 10:10-10:30 | Sachindra Naik (PRL, India) : Optical and X-ray studies of Be/X-ray binary 1A 0535+262 during its 2020 giant X-ray outburst | 10:20-10:45 | Srinjana Routh (ARIES, India) : Study of Variation in the Rotational Profile of the Sun Beyond Photosphere | |
| TEA BREAK (10:30-10:45) | TEA BREAK (10:45-11:30) | |||
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Main Program Session Session 2 : Transients |
Solar Session Session 3 continued... |
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| Chair : Kuntal Misra | ||||
| 10:45-11:05 | Dimple Panchal (ARIES, India) : Multi-wavelength analysis of short GRB 201221D and its comparison with other high & low redshift short GRBs |
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| 11:05-11:25 | Rahul Gupta (ARIES, India) : Recent observations of peculiar Gamma-ray bursts using 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) |
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| TEA BREAK (11:25-11:40) | LUNCH BREAK (12:45-14:30) | |||
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Main Program Session Session 3 : Extragalactic astrophysics |
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| Chair : C. S. Stalin | ||||
| 11:40-12:00 | Krishan Chand (ARIES, India) : Intra-night variability of UV emission from powerful blazars | |||
| 12:00-12:20 | Priyanka Jalan (Polish Academy of Science, Poland) : Discovery of lensed quasars using multiply imaged quasar candidates | |||
| 12:20-12:40 | Vivek Kumar Jha (ARIES, India) : New accretion disk size measurements for reverberation mapped AGN | |||
| LUNCH BREAK (12:40-14:00) | ||||
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Main Program Session Session 4 : Summary of the 3rd BINA Workshop |
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| Chair : Talat Akhunov | ||||
| 14:00-14:20 | Eugene Semenko (NARIT, Thailand) - Main Program Sessions
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| 14:20-14:40 | Manfred A. Cuntz (UTA, USA) – Solar Sessions | |||
| TEA BREAK (14:40-15:00) | ||||
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Session 5 : Open Discussion |
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| Moderators: Michaël De Becker & Nilakshi Veerabathina | ||||
| 15:00-15:25 | Planning of strengthening the ongoing Indo-Belgian collaboration in Science, Instrumentation and Public Outreach & Education in Astronomy | |||
| 15:25-15:30 | Concluding Remarks by Director, ARIES | |||
| End of Conference | ||||
| 25 March 2023 | |||
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| Excursion | Day visit to Corbett National Park, Ramnagar (Nainital) / Lake Tour | ||