NSSS 2022 Program Schedule

MONDAY, 31 JANUARY

Opening Ceremony
Moderator: Dibyendu Nandi, Chairperson, Local Organizing Committee, IISER Kolkata

10.30 – 10.35: Welcome address by Sourav Pal, Director, IISER Kolkata

10.35 – 10.40: Introduction to NSSS 2022 by AS Kiran Kumar, Chairman, National Organizing Committee

10.40 – 10.45: Welcome remarks by R. Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO

10.45 – 11.00: Inaugural address and formal opening of Symposium, S. Somanath, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space

11.00 – 11.20: Interaction with Chairman, ISRO (Moderator, Tirtha Pratim Das, Director, SPO, ISRO HQ)

11.20 – 11.21: Playing of the National Anthem of India

End of Opening Ceremony

PL: Popular Science Lecture
Session Chair: Shri Shantanu Bhatawdekar, Director, EDPO, ISRO

11.30 – 12.30: Climate Change: An Indian Perspective (Madhavan Rajeevan, Distinguished Scientist and Ex-Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India)

Symposium Logistics, Online Accessibility and Introduction to Management Team

12.30 – 13.00: LOC Team

Lunch Break

13.00 – 14.00: Break

Parallel Plenary Sessions

14.00 – 18.30

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Invited

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Oral

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Flash

Session chair: M. Venkat Ratnam (NARL)
Session co-chair(s): Mukunda M Gogoi (SPL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:40	Aerosol Radiative Forcing over India from space and ground based observations	Suresh Babu, ISRO
2	14:40-15:00	Studies on Brown Carbon Aerosols in India: Current Status and Way Forward	Neeraj Rastogi, PRL
3	15:00-15:10	Climatological aspects of size-resolved column aerosol optical properties over Gadanki, India	Bomidi Lakshmi Madhavan, NARL
4	15:10-15:20	Studies on Black Carbon aerosols in relation to Boundary Layer Height and Rainfall over sub urban Ch	M. Ashok Williams, Atmospheric Science Research Laboratory, SRM IST
5	15:20-15:30	Effect of aerosols and meteorology on precipitation enhancement over Kerala during August 2018	Jasmine Mary Kuriakose, Assumption College
6	15:30-15:40	Carbonaceous Aerosol Variability & their Association with Meteorological Parameters in Delhi, India	Saurabh Sonwani, University of Delhi
7	15:40-15:50	Estimation of ACRI over a tropical atmosphere using a synergy of in-situ measurements	Renju Nandan, NARL
8	15:50-16:00	Space based meteorology, oceanography, geosphere-biosphere interaction	D Mriganka, IIT KGP
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: M. Venkat Ratnam (NARL)
Session co-chair(s): T V Lakshmi Kumar (SRM-IST)
9	16:30-16:50	BACIS: New observational techniques to understand aerosol effects on Clouds	Varaha Ravi Kiran, NARL
10	16:50-17:00	Role of aerosol microphysical properties on CCN activity over a tropical coastal location	Ajith TC, SPL
11	17:00-17:10	Sensitivity of cloud condensation nuclei concentration to aerosol loading in column model	Kavita Patnaik, NARL
12	17:10-17:20	Integrated Monsoon Rainfall Observation Programme : Defining Monsoon Rainfall Measuring Satellite (MRMS)	T V Lakshmi Kumar, SRM IS&T
13	17:20-17:30	Variability in atmospheric DMS over the Bay of Bengal during the post-monsoon season	Mansi Gupta, PRL
14	17:30-17:40	Long-term trends in the Aerosol Optical Depth obtained using Multi-satellite measurements	Gopika Gupta, NARL
15	17:40-17:50	Retrieval of near-surface PM2.5 over India using satellite lidar observations	Lakshmi N B, NCESS
16	17:50-18:00	Variability and comparison of aerosol and PWV from the measurement of satellite over Darjeeling	Shyam Mehta, Bose Institute
17	18:00-18:10	What drives the prevalence of atmospheric water-soluble organic aerosols over the tropical hill station in the Western Ghats?	D. K. Deshmukh, SPL
18	18:10-18:20	Probing the genesis of extreme BC episodes over a polluted metropolis near land-sea boundary	Gargi Rakshit, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics
19	18:20-18:30	Variation of trace gases in Kannur Town, a coastal South Indian city	Nishanth T, Sree Krishna College Guruvayur

Session chair: Tarun Pant and Nirvikar Dashora
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:45	Atmospheric Sciences With the ST Radar Facility	Ashik Paul University of Calcutta
2	14:45-15:00	Study of daytime E-region ionospheric zonal drifts and high-low latitude coupling.	Tarun Kumar Pant VSSC, ISRO
3	15:00-15:15	New data analysis tool on digisonde observations for scientific investigations	Janardana Reddy G, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
4	15:15-15:30	Equatorial ionospheric study using GMRT	Sarvesh Mangla, IIT Indore
5	15:30-15:45	Observations of Summer Night-Time FAI Using University of Calcutta ST Radar	Tanmay Das, Calcutta University
6	15:45-16:00	Thermospheric neutral winds and temperature: First results from an Indian equatorial station	Md. Mosarraf Hossain, Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Tarun Pant and Nirvikar Dashora
7	16:30-16:45	Assesment on the day-to-day variability of the equatorial plasma bubble	Suman Kumar Das, PRL
8	16:45-17:00	A study of Fascinating Equatorial Plasma Bubble Event Imaged through All-Sky Imager Over Indian Sect	Onkar Gurav, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune
9	17:00-17:15	Daytime thermospheric wave dynamics and day-to-day variability in the occurrence of ESF	Subir Mandal, PRL
10	17:15-17:30	Intermediate Descending Layers [IL] over the equatorial location of Thiruvananthapuram	Mridula N, SPL, VSSC
11	17:30-17:45	Tidal influence on the generation of post-midnight F region irregularities	Meenakshi S, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
12	17:45-18:00	Automatic detection of Sporadic E event in the CADI ionograms for the study of its effect on F layer	T. Venkateswara Rao, KL University, Vijayawada
13	18:00-18:15	Ionospheric vertical plasma drift model developed for the Indian and Indonesian sectors	Pavan Chaitanya, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
14	18:15-18:30	Performance evolution of IRI Plas and SAMI2 models during solar minimum around 100°E	Angkita Hazarika, Dibrugarh University

Session chair: Dipankar Banerjee (ARIES)
Session co-chair(s): Smitha V Thampi (SPL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:45	Observing Solar Activity from Ground and Space	Nandita Srivastava, PRL
2	14:45 - 15:05	Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in High Lundquist Number Systems	Arghyadeep Paul, IIT Indore
3	15:05 - 15:25	Propagation characteristics of a Coronal Mass Ejection throughout inner solar system from multipoint	Shirsh Lata Soni, VSSC ISRO
4	15:25 - 15:45	Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the impact of a coronal mass ejection on the global magnetosphere	Souvik Roy, CESSI, IISER Kolkata
5	15:45 - 16:05	Multiple particle injections in the Earth’s Magnetosphere by an isolated IP Shock	Ankush Bhaskar, VSSC ISRO
Break (16:05 - 16:30)
Session chair: Satheesh Thampi (SPL)
Session co-chair(s): Divya Oberoi (NCRA)
6	16:30 - 16:50	A study on the coupling between IMF Bz and Dst under 22nd and 23rd solar cycles	Amrutha S, University of Kerala
7	16:50 - 17:10	Corotating Interaction Regions during Solar Cycle 24: A Study on Characteristics and Geo-effectiveness	Jibin V Sunny, IIT Indore
8	17:10 - 17:30	Recent Results on Martian Space Weather Events	Smitha V Thampi, VSSC ISRO
9	17:30 - 17:50	A magnetohydrodynamic trip to the Martian environment	Arnab Basak, CESSI, IISER Kolkata
10	17:50 - 18:10	The correlation analysis of SF parameter with SEP parameter based on the impulsive time of SF and originated from the western hemisphere	Biji M. S, University of Kerala
11	18:10 - 18:13	Observations of Summer Night-Time FAI Using University of Calcutta ST Radar	Tanmay Das, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta
12	18:13 - 18:16	Study of periodicities of Sunspot Number and seasonal Kerala rainfall using Wavelet Analysis	Elizabeth Thomas, Mar Thoma College, Kerala
13	18:16 - 18:19	Morphology of Quietest and Most Disturbed days during 24 Solar Cycle	Chogyel Wangchuk, Goyal Shimla University
14	18:19 - 18:22	A Comprehensive Study on the Impact of Solar Flare X-ray Flux on Geomagnetic Field Disturbance	Gopika S Vijayan, University of Kerala
15	18:22 - 18:25	Particle Bursts In Geotail Observed By CLASS On Chandrayaan-2	Kiran Sreekumar, Amrita University

Session chair: Mousumi Das (IIA)
Session co-chair(s): Santosh Vadawale (PRL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:40	Future Vision for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India	G. C. Anupama, IIA
2	14:40 - 15:00	Science with proposed UV space mission: INSIST	Maheswar Gopinathan, IIA
3	15:00 - 15:20	Daksha: Indian eyes on transient skies	Varun Bhalerao, IIT Bombay
4	15:20 - 15:40	UVIT study of T-Tauri Stars	Prasanta Kumar Nayak, TIFR
5	15:40 - 16:00	Minerals in the ISM are Made in an Instant	Arijit Roy, PRL
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: P. Manoj (TIFR)
Session co-chair(s): V. Radhakrishna (URSC)
6	16:30 - 16:50	A UVIT look at Star Formation in Merging and Interacting Galaxies	Mousumi Das, IIA
7	16:50 - 17:10	Discovery of a large, diffuse star-forming galaxy using UVIT and MUSE	Jyoti Yadav, IIA
8	17:10 - 17:30	Non-isothermal vertical density distribution of stars in the Milky Way	Suchira Sarkar, IISc
9	17:30 - 17:50	Star-dust geometry as main determinant of dust attenuation in galaxies	Sonali Sachdeva, RRI
10	17:50 - 18:10	Clues of Dark Matter Distribution in Galaxies from Bar Buckling	Ankit Kumar, IIA
11	18:10 -18:13	Spectral Characterization of M-Dwarf Stars with ASTROSAT-UVIT	Prasanta Kumar Nayak, TIFR
12	18:13 - 18:16	Photometric Variability in Young Brown Dwarfs to Probe their Atmospheric Properties	Rajib Kumbhakar, SNBNCBS
13	18:16 - 18:19	Short-Timescale Variability of the Blazar Mrk 421 from AstroSat and Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength	Susmita Das, Presidency University Kolkata
14	18:19 - 18:22	Hot horizontal branch stars in NGC 2298: Clues about their origin from AstroSat/UVIT study	Gajendra Pandey, IIA
15	18:22 - 18:25	Gaia 20eae: A newly discovered episodically accreting young star	Arpan Ghosh, ARIES
16	18:25 - 18:28	Photoionization Modeling of the Dusty Nova V1280 Scorpii	Ruchi Pandey, SNBNCBS

Session chair: Tirtha Pratim Das (ISRO HQ)
Session co-chair(s): M Durga Rao (NARL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 -14:45	Science Experiments with PSLV Stage-4 (PS4) Orbital Platform	K Rajeev, SPL ISRO
2	14:50 -14:52	NiCoZn Ferrite: burn rate enhancer for AP/HTPB based propellant and its catalytic study	Pragnesh N Dave, Sardar Patel University
3	14:52-14:54	Simulation studies of NMPCC for a nonlinear model of Hexsoon Edu 450 Quadrotor	Sonu N, Manipal Institute of Technology
4	14:54-14:56	Martian Rover for Extraterrestrial Research	Antariksh Ray, SRMIST Kattankulathur
5	14:56-14:58	Fortifying the development of Mars colonization and space biology research in India	Ilankuzhali Elavarasan, Space Development Nexus
6	15:00-15:20	Space Science Research with Sounding Rockets	Binoy Joseph, VSSC
7	15:20-15:40	ISRO’s Sounding Rockets: Overview of Instrumentation System for Space Science Experiments	Virender Katewa, VSSC
8	15:40-16:00	Scientific payload electronics for electron and ion density measurements onboard ISRO’s sounding rockets	Sreelatha P, SPL-VSSC
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: N. Raghu Meetei (ISRO HQ)
Session co-chair(s): V. K. Rana (RRI)
9	16:30-16:50	Discussion Break
10	16:50-17:10	Design and development of tropospheric zero pressure balloons and flight control instrumentation	Suneel Kumar Buduru, TIFR
11	17:10-17:30	Control instrumentation for high altitude balloon experiments	Kapardhi Bangaru, TIFR
12	17:30-17:50	1U CubeSat and GM counter testing using High Altitude Balloon platform	Binukumar Gopalakrishnan Nair, IIA
13	17:50-18:10	TIFR balloon-borne experiment for far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopic mapping of star-forming region	Pradeep Sandimani, TIFR
14	18:10-18:30	SETI India: Using uGMRT to search for advanced extraterrestrial life	Avinash Kumar, Amity University Mumbai

TUESDAY, 01 FEBRUARY

IS1: Highlights from ISRO Space Science Missions
Session Chair: S. Seetha, RRI

10.00 – 10.45: Science Accomplishments from the Astrosat Mission (Dipankar Bhattacharya, IUCAA)

10.45 – 11.30: Science from the Chandrayaan-2 and Mars Orbiter Missions (Anil Bhardwaj, PRL)

IS3: Remote Sensing and Meteorology from Space
Session Chair: Tarun Pant, SPL-VSSC and D. Jagadheesha, ISRO HQ

11.30 – 12.15: Equatorial Ionospheric Research Relevant to Navigation and Communication Applications - Current Status and Way Forward (Amit Patra, NARL)

12.15 – 13.00: Hydrated Moon: New Findings through Remote Sensing (Prakash Chauhan, IIRS, Dehradun)

Lunch Break

13.00 – 14.00: Break

Parallel Plenary Sessions

14.00 – 18.30

Click on plenary session of interest for detailed schedule

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Invited

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Oral

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Flash

Session chair: Sunil Kumar S V (VSSC)
Session co-chair(s): B. L. Madhavan (NARL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:40	Exploring the Oceans from Ground and Space	Sunil Kumar Singh, (CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography)
2	14:40-15:00	Photochemical evolution of air in tropical urban environments of India: A model-based study (Lead talk)	Narendra Ojha, (PRL)
3	15:00-15:10	Demonstrating the capability of machine learning to simulate atmospheric trace gases	Imran A. Girach, (SPL)
4	15:10-15:20	Spatio-temporal variation and gas-particle partitioning of PAHs and Nitro-PAHs in the atmosphere of	Puneet Kumar Verma, (Dayalbagh Educational Institute)
5	15:20-15:30	Total column ozone from Indian geostationary satellite INSAT-3DR: Improved infrared retrieval and	Prajjwal Rawat, (ARIES)
6	15:30-15:40	Bayesian inverse modeling of CH4 fluxes over the peninsular India	Anjumol Raju, (SPL)
7	15:40-15:50	Emissions of biogenic VOC from Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (AABR)Forest in Central India	Tanzil Gaffar Malik, (Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division, PRL)
8	15:50-16:00	C02 variability over a coastal urban station	Sandhya K Nair, (SPL)
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Sunil Kumar S V (VSSC)
Session co-chair(s): Ghouse Basha (NARL)
9	16:30-16:50	Local emission and long-range transport impacts on the CO, CO2, and CH4 concentrations	Chaithanya D. Jain, NARL
10	16:50-17:00	Is the ABL altitude or strong thermal inversions that control the vertical extent of aerosols?	P. Prasad, NARL
11	17:00-17:10	Do the large-eddy simulations yield deeper atmospheric boundary layers in comparison to the RANS?	Roshny S., (SPL)
12	17:10-17:20	Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on Surface, ABL, and Instability parameters over India	Ghouse Basha, NARL
13	17:20-17:30	Anomalous radiative warming by clouds over a sub-region within the Indian summer monsoon region	V. Sathiyamoorthy, ISRO
14	17:30-17:40	An approach for tropospheric humidity retrieval from radio occultation refractivity profiles	D. Jagadheesha, ISRO
15	17:40-17:50	Retrieval of atmospheric profiles from microwave radiometer using AI	Renju R, ISRO
16	17:50-18:00	Impact of Satellite Based Geographical Data on Simulation of Rainfall over North Eastern Region of I	Rekha Bharali Gogoi, North Eastern Space Applications Centre
17	18:00-18:10	Spatio-temporal signature of anomalous positive and negative IOD events using remote sensing data	Amit Kumar Jena, IIRS
18	18:10-18:20	Comparative Analysis of Binary Classifiers for Rainfall Prediction in Mumbai region	Kaustav Chakravarty, (IMD, Pune)
19	18:20-18:30	Rapidly intensified, Long duration North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones: validation and dynamics	Arpita Munsi, NARL

Session chair: Tarun Pant and Nirvikar Dashora
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:15	The supersubstorms of solar cycle 24: The sources, energy coupling and impacts on the SW-M-I system	Sritam Hajra, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
2	14:15-14:30	On the seasonal response of the equatorial and low latitude ionosphere to major geomagnetic storms	Sripathi S , Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai
3	14:30-14:45	Distinct Ionospheric response to three different geomagnetic storms during 2016 using GPS-TEC	Duvvu Lissa, Andhra University
4	14:45-15:00	Spatio-temporal confinement of ionospheric responses over during St. Patrick’s Day storm of March 20	Sk Samin Kader, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
5	15:00-15:15	Aspects related to variability in radiative cooling by NO, and TEC&O/N2 during Halloween Storm	Alok Kumar Ranjan, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
6	15:15-15:30	Atmospheric and Ionospheric response to Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) Episodes	Jinee Gogoi, Dibrugarh University
7	15:30-15:45	Lower atmosphere-ionosphere coupling: Observations of HUDHUD cyclone using AIRS and GPS network	V.K.D. Srinivasu, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
8	15:45-16:00	Association between earthquake and equatorial wave	Manohar Lal, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Tarun Pant and Nirvikar Dashora
9	16:30-16:45	Impact of stratospheric ozone and mesospheric tides on enhanced occurrence of 150-km echoes in 2019	Reetambhara Dutta, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
10	16:45-17:00	OI 630 nm nightglow variability during post-sunset time over low-latitude thermosphere	Sovan Saha, PRL
11	17:00-17:15	3-D characterization of daytime gravity waves obtained using optical and radio measurements	Sunil Kumar, PRL
12	17:15-17:30	Terdiurnal and gravity wave influences on OH(3-1) brightness and its rotational temperatures measured by PRL Airglow InfraRed Spectrograph (PAIRS)	Ravindra Pratap Singh, PRL
13	17:30-17:45	Discrimination of Doppler Shift In Atmospheric Gravity Wave Signatures Due To Horizontal Background Wind Using Dictionary Learning	Varanasi Satya Sreekanth, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
14	17:45-18:00	Detection of Lightning Induced Gravity Wave from NavIC Signal and Ground Data	Soumen Datta, IIT Indore
15	18:00-18:15	Planetary wave dynamical variability at low latitude middle atmosphere during September 2019 SSW	Gourav Mitra, PRL
16	18:15-18:30	Response of Brewer-Dobson Circulation to SSWs over the Northern and Southern Hemisphere	Veenus Venugopal, SPL ISRO

Session chair: K. Sankarasubramanian (URSC)
Session co-chair(s): Bhuwan Joshi (PRL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:45	Radio studies of the dynamic solar corona	Divya Oberoi, TIFR
2	14:45 - 15:05	Signatures of ubiquitous magnetic reconnection in the lower solar atmosphere	Jayant Joshi, IIA
3	15:05 - 15:25	Soft X-ray Spectral Diagnostics of Multi-thermal Plasma in Solar Flares with Chandrayaan-2 XSM	Mithun N. P. S., PRL
4	15:25 - 15:45	Coronal Magnetic fields and Sensitivity Requirements for Spectropolarimetry Channel of VELC/Aditya-L1	K. Sasikumar Raja, IIA
5	15:45 - 16:05	Propagation of acoustic-gravity waves in magnetized regions in the lower solar atmosphere	Hirdesh Kumar, PRL
Break (16:05 - 16:30)
Session chair: Shyama Narendranath (URSC)
Session co-chair(s): M Shanmugham (PRL)
6	16:30 - 16:50	Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) Forward Modeling	Soumya Roy, IUCAA
7	16:50 - 17:10	Coupling of CME kinematics from inner to outer corona, and influence of their source regions	Satabdwa Majumdar, (IIA)
8	17:10 - 17:30	Recent developments in space weather research with high fidelity low-frequency spectro-polarimetric	Devojyoti Kansabanik, NCRA
9	17:30 - 17:50	Constraining the source of an anomalous impact melt deposit on the lunar far side: New insights	Deepak Dhingra, IIT Kanpur
10	17:50 - 18:10	A machine learning framework for global Mg-Spinel detection based on Chandrayaan-1 data	Suchit Purohit, Gujarat University
11	18:10 - 18:13	Simulation of solar coronal mass ejections due to twisted flux rope emergence	Samriddhi Sankar Maity, IISc
12	18:13 - 18:16	Study of lunar crater floor deformation induced by the magma intrusion	P. Achintya, IIST
13	18:16 - 18:19	Moon Imaging using Advanced Indian MST Radar	Ashish, NARL
14	18:19 - 18:22	Mg-Spinel exposures in the South-Pole Aitken (SPA) basin region on the Moon	Garima Sodha, IIT Kanpur
15	18:22 - 18:25	Petrogenesis of non-KREEP lunar basalts: an unidentified Fe-rich mantle source	Yash Srivastava, PRL

Session chair: Gulab Dewangan (IUCAA)
Session co-chair(s): Sarita Vig (IIST)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:40	The Emerging Field of Sub-mm Astronomy	Bhaswati Mookerjea, TIFR
2	14:40 - 15:00	Understanding of Pre-main Sequence Stars in Galactic Star-Forming Regions	Soumen Mondal, SNBNCBS
3	15:00 - 15:15	ALMA detection of the glycine precursor amino acetonitrile towards hot molecular core G10.47+0.03	Arijit Manna, Midnapore City College
4	15:15 - 15:30	A Gaia kinematic study of ages of debris disks and exoplanet host stars: Are Jupiter-hosting stars young?	Mayank Narang, TIFR
5	15:30 - 15:45	Are giant planet-hosting stars young? Evidence from galactic chemical evolution	Swastik Chowbay, IIA
6	15:45 - 16:00	Cosmic rays diffusion and gravitational collapse in radiative molecular clouds	Ram Prasad Prajapati, JNU
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Preeti Kharb (NCRA)
Session co-chair(s): Ritaban Chatterjee (Presidency Uni.)
7	16:30 - 16:45	Validating different modes of AGN feedback through X-ray observations	Rudrani Kar Chowdhury, The University of Hong Kong
8	16:45 - 17:00	RMS-Flux Relation and Disc-Jet Connection in Blazars in the Context of the Internal Shocks Model	Aritra Kundu, Presidency University Kolkata
9	17:00 - 17:15	Relative Contribution of X-ray Reprocessing and Disk Fluctuations in the Long-term Optical Variability of the Radio Galaxies 3C 120 and 3C 111	Nabanita Das, Presidency University Kolkata
10	17:15 - 17:30	Decoding the largest radio galaxies in the Universe	Pratik Dabhade, Observatoire de Paris, France
11	17:30 - 17:45	Study of External Compton Mechanism in the Context of Astrophysical Jets	Sriyasriti Acharya, IIT Indore
12	17:45 - 18:00	A 325 MHz Survey of the Lockman Hole Field using the GMRT	Aishrila Mazumder, IIT Indore
13	18:00 - 18:03	Discovery of 2716 hot emission-line stars from LAMOST DR5	Shridharan Baskaran, Christ University
14	18:03 - 18:06	Identification of a rare class of emission-line stars between PMS and MS phase	Suman Bhattacharyya, Christ University
15	18:06 - 18:09	Study of classical Be stars using optical spectroscopy	Gourav Banerjee, Chirst University
16	18:09 - 18:12	Characterizing the behaviour of SN 2013he: a luminous, short plateau supernova	Darshana Mehta, ARIES
17	18:12 - 18:15	Revealing lack of X-ray/UV correlation in narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 1044	Samuzal Barua, Gauhati University
18	18:15 - 18:18	A comparative study of the optical and IR variability of NLSy1 and BLSy1 galaxies	Aratrika Dey, IIA
19	18:18 - 18:21	Fullerenes and their derivatives in interstellar environments	Akant Vats, Banaras Hindu University
20	18:21 - 18:24	Broad-Line Region and Black-hole Mass of PKS 0736+017	Shivangi Pandey, ARIES

Session chair: N. Raghu Meetei (ISRO HQ)
Session co-chair(s): M Durga Rao (NARL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 -14:45	Scientific Instrumentation for Space Missions	Tirtha Pratim Das, ISRO
2	14:50-14:52	Design studies on MEMS Quadrupole Mass Filter for Miniature Mass Spectrometer	S. Ashwath, ISRO
3	14:52-14:54	Electronics Development of Neutral and Ion Mass Spectrometer	Piyush Sharma, PRL
4	14:54-14:56	Graphene based soft X-ray windows	Aiswarya P S, Christ University,
5	14:56-14:58	Modeling in-orbit radiation environment using Geant4 simulations for the XSPECT instrument	Kiran M Jayasurya, ISRO
6	15:00-15:20	Neutral Mass Spectrometer on Articulated Payload Platform for Space-borne Experiments	M B Dhanya, VSSC ISRO
7	15:20-15:40	Design and Development of an Instrument for Electric Field Measurement in Planetary Atmosphere	Sanjeev Kumar Mishra, PRL
8	15:40-16:00	Experimental Study of the Response of Space-borne Channel electron multiplier detectors to intermittent high He ion flux	Abhishek JK, SPL- VSSC
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: M Durga Rao (NARL)
Session co-chair(s): V. K. Rana (RRI)
9	16:30-16:50	Near Infrared astronomical projects at TIFR	MILIND B. NAIK, TIFR
10	16:50-17:10	Geometric Phase Polarimeter	ATHIRA B S, CESSI
11	17:10-17:30	Development of a SDD based Large Area X-ray Spectrometer with ASIC readout for future planetary missions	Nishant Singh, PRL
12	17:30-17:50	Indigenous 18m antenna at IDSN for planetary and deep space missions	Dharma Narayan Rath, ISRO
13	17:50-18:10	Planetary Rover prototype: Mars Amity Surface Characterization & Operations Trainer (MASCOT- 1)	Saksham Bhadani, Amity University Mumbai
14	18:10-18:30	Development of a Compton Imaging Camera for Space Astrophysics	Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar, IIT - Bombay

WEDNESDAY, 2 FEBRUARY

IS3: Remote Sensing and Meteorology from Space (Continued)
Session Chair: Tarun Pant, SPL-VSSC and D. Jagadheesha, ISRO HQ

10:00 – 10.45: Remote Sensing for Ecology, Conservation and Human Sustainability (Harini Nagendra, Azim Premji University)

IS4: Interdisciplinary Sciences
Session Chairs: Dipankar Banerjee, ARIES and Ajit Kembhavi, IUCAA

10.45 – 11.30: Modelling Climate Change (Krishna Achutarao, IIT Delhi)

11.30 – 12.15: Space Weather: Predicting our Space Environment (Dibyendu Nandi, IISER Kolkata)

12.15 – 13.00: Exploring New Worlds beyond the Solar System (T. Sivarani, IIA)

Lunch Break

13.00 – 14.00: Break

Parallel Plenary Sessions

14.00 – 18.30

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Session chair: Kiran Kumar N V P ( VSSC ISRO)
Session co-chair(s): K. V. Subrahmanyam (SPL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:40	Assessment of mangroves from space (Invited)	Gnanappazham L, IIST
2	14:40-15:00	Indian summer Monsoon: A combat between deep convection and the upper tropospheric humidity inferred	K. N. Uma, SPL
3	15:00-15:10	Simulation of impact of surface infrared heating on growth of the cloud	Subhrajit Rath, NARL
4	15:10-15:20	Improving InSAR based DEMs using Successive Best Pixel Selection approach for DEM fusion	Priti Girohi, IIRS
5	15:20-15:30	Numerical Study on the Impact of Cyclonic Storm Ockhi on Sea-breeze Circulation over the Arabian Sea	Freddy P Paul, ISRO
6	15:30-15:40	Mumbai monsoon – unravelling the morphology of clouds and microphysics of precipitation	Kaustav Chakravarty, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
7	15:40-15:50	The role of bright band characteristics of stratiform rain on the altitudinal variation of raindrop	Lavanya S, SPL
8	15:50-16:00	Multicomponent multiphase model for stratification and compressibility of Earth’s Atmosphere	Debojit Sarkar, NARL
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Kiran Kumar N V P ( VSSC ISRO)
Session co-chair(s): Imran A. Girach (SPL)
9	16:30-16:50	Regional Distribution of Black Carbon Aerosols over India from Satellite (GOSAT-2 CAI-2) and Ground	Mukunda M Gogoi, SPL
10	16:50-17:00	Prediction of Atmospheric Water Vapour from Indian Navigation Data Using Deep Learning Techniques	Chandrani Chatterjee, IIT Indore
11	17:00-17:10	New insights into the asymmetries in the precipitation days during the Indian summer monsoon and the	Kandula V Subrahmanyam, SPL ISRO
12	17:10-17:20	Role of circulation dynamics on cloud distribution over the Indian summer monsoon region	Prijith S. S., SPL ISRO
13	17:20-17:30	Estimation and validation study of Soil Moisture using GPS-IR technique over a tropical region: Vari	G. N. Madhavi, NARL
14	17:30-17:40	From Humidity to Precipitation: Observed Relations among the Hydrological Cycle Components	Edwin V Davis, SPL ISRO
15	17:40-17:50	Impact of Tropical Clouds on Atmospheric Heating: Estimations from Spaceborne Radar Observations	Aswathy R S, University of Kerala
16	17:50-18:00	Association of deep convective cloud cores with sea surface temperature over the tropical oceans	Sisma Samuel, SPL ISRO
17	18:00-18:10	Use of 53MHz Radar of Calcutta University to quantify the Lower Atmospheric Wind Characteristics	Debyendu Jana, University of Calcutta
18	18:10-18:20	Comparison of prediction models for time series forecasting over a tropical region	Arijit De, DEMR, ONERA/CNES
19	18:20-18:30	Verification of mesoscale model prediction of Tropical Cyclones occurred over North Indian Ocean	Goriparthi Pavani, NARL

Session chair: Kishore Kumar K and Dr. D. Balasubramanyam
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:45	Space Weather Research from Space-based Platforms	D. Pallamraju, PRL
2	14:45-15:00	Equatorial upper mesospheric mean winds and tidal response to strong El Niño and La Niña	S. Sridharan, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
3	15:00-15:15	New insights into the Mesospheric Quasi-biennial Oscillation: Observations and Model Simulations	K. Kishore Kumar, SPL VSSC ISRO
4	15:15-15:30	Study of long-term variability in the mesospheric mean winds observed by MF radar over Kolhapur	Gouri Prashant Naniwadear, Shivaji University, Kolhapur
5	15:30-15:45	Intraseasonal oscillations in the equatorial middle atmosphere	Amitava Guharay, PRL
6	15:45-16:00	Long-term variability and tendencies in diurnal tide from WACCM6 simulations	K. Ramesh, SPL VSSC ISRO
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Kishore Kumar K and Dr. D. Balasubramanyam
7	16:30-16:45	On the anomalous weakening of migrating diurnal tides in the mesosphere lower thermosphere	Prijith S. S., SPL VSSC ISRO
8	16:45-17:00	Initial observations of atmospheric ozone with NARL DIAL system	K. RaghuNath, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
9	17:00-17:15	Performance characteristics of Single cell Raman gas mixture for DIAL Ozone lidar	M Roja Raman, CRSG, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
10	17:15-17:30	Hadley Cell Dynamics in IITM- Earth System Model: Evaluation using ERA-5 reanalysis	Sneha Susam Mathew, SPL VSSC ISRO
11	17:30-17:45	Influence of southern hemispheric upper troposphere PV intrusion events on the SWMR	M Sandhya, Providence Women's College, Calicut
12	17:45-18:00	An overview of the vertical distribution of the UTLS chemical composition over ASMA	Hemanth Kumar, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
13	18:00-18:15	Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone (ASMA) and its Variability	Sanjay Kumar Mehta, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur
14	18:15-18:30	Defining the upper boundary of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL) using the Static Stability	Akhil Raj S T, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki

Session chair: N V Rao (NARL)
Session co-chair(s): Megha Bhatt (PRL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:45	Exploring the lunar neutral and plasma environment	M B Dhanya, VSSC
2	14:45 - 15:05	Understanding the M3 layer in the Martian dayside ionosphere using MAVEN observations	Vrinda Mukundan, NCESS
3	15:05 - 15:25	What controls V1 layer: A study using Akatsuki and Venus Express measurements and One dimensional Photochemical model	Ambili K M, SPL ISRO
4	15:25 - 15:45	The Martian dust cycle: Understanding dust devils	Varun Sheel, PRL
5	15:45 - 16:05	MOM and MAVEN Observations of the Effects of the 2018 Global Dust Event on the Martian Thermosphere	N V Rao, NARL
Break (16:05 - 16:30)
Session chair: Varun Sheel (PRL)
Session co-chair(s): Dr Rajesh V J (IIST)
6	16:30 - 16:50	Mapping global lunar elemental abundance: A systematic study of CLASS and M3 data	Megha Bhatt, PRL
7	16:50 - 17:10	Boulder Fall Ejecta on Mars: Present day activity	S. Vijayan, PRL
8	17:10 - 17:30	Potential role of water and debris-flows in gully formation on Mars	Rishitosh Kumar Sinha, PRL
9	17:30 - 17:50	Geological characterization of a floor-fractured crater in North-Central Arabia Terra, Mars: Implications for possible igneous processes in the earlier epochs	Alka Rani, PRL
10	17:50 - 18:10	Unravelling the complexities in central peak morphology of lunar complex craters: A global study	Roshan A. Shukla, IIT Kanpur
11	18:10 - 18:13	Evidence for fluvial activities in an impact crater in Ma’adim Vallis region of Mars.	S Tuhi, Anna University
12	18:13 - 18:16	Latitudinal and Seasonal Asymmetries of the Helium bulge in the Martian Upper Atmosphere	Neha Gupta, IIST
13	18:16 - 18:19	SHARAD detection of extensive sedimentary deposition in unnamed crater near Mangala Fossa, Mars	Rajiv R. Bharti, PRL
14	18:19 - 18:22	Chemistry of water, nitrogenated and deuterated ions and escape rate of H2O on Mars	Siddhi Shah, PRL
15	18:22 - 18:25	Morphometric characterization of aeolian dominated landscape proximal to the landing site of Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater, Mars.	Nitika Sachdeva, Delhi Technological University

Session chair: Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA)
Session co-chair(s): Anuj Nandi (URSC)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:40	Exploring the X-ray Universe	Biswajit Paul, RRI
2	14:40 - 15:00	Probing the accretion flow properties of NS LMXB 4U 1608-52 using AstroSat observations	Biplob Sarkar, Tezpur University
3	15:00 - 15:20	Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts from Low-mass X-ray Binary 4U 1636-536 observed with AstroSat and NuSTAR	Pinaki Roy, IISER Mohali
4	15:20 - 15:40	An in-depth X-ray look at two magnetars: CXOU J010043.1–721134 and SGR J1935+2154	Rwitika Chatterjee, URSC ISRO
5	15:40 - 16:00	Effect of nuclear symmetry energy on neutron star properties	Vivek Baruha Thapa, IIT Jodhpur
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Indraneel Chattopadhyay (ARIES)
Session co-chair(s): M. C. Ramadevi (URSC)
6	16:30 - 16:50	Accretion flows around strongly magnetised neutron stars	Shilpa Sarkar, ARIES
7	16:50 - 17:10	The life cycle of magnetars: a novel approach to estimate their ages	Tushar Mondal, ICTS
8	17:10 - 17:30	AstroSat and NuSTAR view of GRS 1758-258 and 1E 1740- 2942:Evidence of Relativistic Disc Reflection	Bhuvana G.R, Dayananda Sagar University
9	17:30 - 17:50	Broadband X-ray Spectral and Temporal Properties of NGC 55 ULX1	Jithesh. V, SARBTM Govt. College
10	17:50 - 18:10	Spectral Investigation of Rapid Variability in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) Galaxy NGC 4051	Neeraj Kumari, PRL
11	18:10 - 18:13	X-Ray Properties of TX Cnc, an Eclipsing Solar-Type Contact Binary of W Uma Type	Gurpreet Singh, ARIES
12	18:13 - 18:16	3D Simulation of Advective Thick Accretion Disk onto a non-rotating Black Hole	Sudip K Garain, GITAM
13	18:16 - 18:19	Discovery of dip in the RGS light curve of GX 13+1 with XMM-Newton	Rabindra Mahato, Science College Kokrajhar
14	18:19 - 18:22	Multi-mission probe into low luminosity phase of GRS 1915+105	Athulya Menon, Dayananda Sagar University
15	18:22 - 18:25	Broad-band studies of X-ray pulsar 1A 0535+262 during outburst in 2020 using the Chandra and NuSTAR	Manoj Mandal, Midnapore City College
16	18:25 - 18:28	Weak Correlation between the Accretion Disc and Jet Power in a Large Sample of Fermi Blazars	Garima Rajguru, Presidency University

Session chair: V. K. Rana (RRI)
Session co-chair(s): M Durga Rao (NARL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:45	Science in Space: Potential Science Experiments onboard Human Space Missions	N. Raghu Meetei, ISRO
2	14:50-14:52	Daksha: Design and performance of front end electronics	Shriharsh Tendulkar, TIFR
3	14:52-14:54	Artificial Intelligence (AI) in space exploration: an evolutionary opportunity	Prabhat Kumar, BHU
4	14:54-14:56	Comparison Of Solid And Hollow Cylindrical Antennas For Planetary Lightning Detection	Sonam Jitarwal, PRL
5	15:00-15:20	Spider Bio-mimetic Based Reconfigurable Planetary Rover	Kumar Harshit, ISRO
6	15:20-15:40	Discussion Break
7	15:40-16:00	Adaptive hyperspectral imaging using structured illumination in a SLM-based interferometer	Amar Deo Chandra, CESSI
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: M Durga Rao (NARL)
Session co-chair(s): V. K. Rana (RRI)
8	16:30-16:50	Development of miniaturized front-end electronics for a EUV photometer onboard future missions	Chandan Kumar, PRL
9	16:50-17:10	Crystal based focusing optics for high energy X-rays beyond 100 keV	Vineeth Valsan, Christ University
10	17:10-17:30	Object Detection in Space (ODiS)	Deepesh Deepak, IIST
11	17:30-17:50	Space based system for remote sensing solar induced Fluorescence from vegetation - A proposal	Bhavani Kumar Yellapragada, NARL
12	17:50-18:10	Characterization of Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) for future Venus orbiter mission	Deepak Kumar Painkra, PRL
13	18:10-18:30	Enabling virtual reality technologies for teaching and training in space science	Sreehari VM, SASTRA Deemed University

THURSDAY, 3 FEBRUARY

IS2: Vision for Future Space Science Missions
Session Chair: G.C. Anupama, IIA

10.00 – 10.45: Astronomy from Space (Annapurni Subramanian, IIA)

10.45 – 11.30: Heliophysics Exploration Program (Sankarasubramanian K., ISRO)

11.30 – 12.00: Panel Discussion on Future Vision (G. C. Anupama, IIA)

Poster Highlights

12.00 – 13.00 Poster Highlights, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5 Plenary Session Chairs

PS1	D. Jagadheesha (ISRO)
PS2	Kishor Kumar K (SPL)
PS3	Shyama Narendranath (URSC)
PS4	Mousumi Das (IIA)
PS5	N. Raghu Meetei (ISRO HQ)

Lunch Break

13.00 – 14.00: Break

Parallel Plenary Sessions

14.00 – 18.30

Click on plenary session of interest for detailed schedule

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Session chair: D. Jagadheesha (ISRO)
Session co-chair(s): Siji Kumar (SPL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:20	Long term variability in lightning occurrences over the Congo Basin Africa	Rohit Chakraborty, IISc
2	14:20-14:30	Spatio-temporal survey of mined land in North East India	D.Sai Sowjanya, NESAC
3	14:30-14:40	Google Earth Engine based approach for flood mapping of inland area using remote sensing data	Supriya Sharma, IIRS
4	14:40-14:50	Isolation, identification and characterization of thermophiles and halophiles from Ladakh.	Sahaj Bharindwal, Amity centre of excellence in astrobiology at Amity University
5	14:50-15:00	Planetary albedo decline interlinked with land cover modifications and near surface warming	S.V.S. Sai Krishna, NRSC
6	15:00-15:10	Understanding the vertical structure of clouds observed over a high altitude station of North East I	Arundhati Kundu, NESAC
7	15:10-15:20	Supervised Classification Approach for Differentiating Alpine Landcover Features of Sikkim Himalayas	Jumoni Boruah, NESAC
8	15:20-15:30	Effect of AOD to lightning Flash Rate and relation with NO2 over Kolkata, India	Arijit De, DEMR, ONERA/ CNES
Break (15:30 - 16:00)
Session chair: D. Jagadheesha (ISRO)
Session co-chair(s): S. S. Prijith (SPL)
9	16:00-16:03	Variation of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) over metropolitan areas of India	Vaibhav Trivedi, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad
10	16:03-16:06	Radiocarbon-based source characteristics of paddy-residue burning derived aerosols	M Devaprasad, PRL
11	16:06-16:09	Real-time measurements of NR- PM2.5 during Covid19 lockdown in Ahmedabad	Rohit Meena, PRL
12	16:09-16:12	Impact of Climate Change on Meteorological Parameters over Mountainous Region	Saurabh Verma, IIRS
13	16:12-16:15	Assessment of surface ozone at Dehradun: a valley site in Himalayan and its comparison with other ce	Mahendar Rajwar, ARIES
14	16:15-16:18	Observed climatology and trend in relative humidity, CAPE, and CIN over India	Imran Khan, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
15	16:18-16:21	An analysis of the Tropical Cyclones and Atlantic Hurricanes during 1979 to 2018 with the variation	Dhruba Banerjee, Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science and Technology
16	16:21-16:24	Sodar observations of wintertime sea breeze characteristics over Visakhapatnam	K. Jagadesh, Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Tadepalligudem, Andhra Pradesh
17	16:24-16:27	Integral turbulence statistics over Anantapur, a semi-arid location in peninsular India	Nagireddy Siva Kumar Reddy, SPL
18	16:27-16:30	Evaluation of similarity theory in wintertime surface layer over a coastal station Thumba	Nagireddy Siva Kumar Reddy, SPL
19	16:30-16:33	Thermodynamic structure of the Coastal Atmospheric Boundary Layer (CABL) during different sky condit	Sachin K Philip, SRMIST
20	16:33-16:36	GNSS-Reflectometry using NavIC-L5 signals for Earth Observation	Bushra Ansari, IIT Delhi
21	16:36-16:39	Application of GNSS water vapour for severe weather studies in Uttarakhand Himalaya	Tanmay Dhar, Uttaranchal University
22	16:39-16:42	Long-term investigations of AOD Observed from MERRA-2 reanalysis data Over Andhra Pradesh state in I	Pelati Althaf, KLEF
23	16:42-16:45	Analysis of Multi-Layer Atmospheric Clouds over Ahmedabad	Harithasree Sreedevan, PRL
24	16:45-16:48	Simulation of specific cyclone cases in the Bay of Bengal through Regional Ocean Modeling System (RO	Tarumay Ghoshal, DIT University
25	16:48-16:51	ANN modeling for the dependency of seasonal long range rainfall with climate parameters	Raj Kishore Tiwari, Govt. Madhav Sadashivrao Golvalkar college Rewa
26	16:51-16:54	Verification of mesoscale model prediction of Tropical Cyclones occurred over North Indian Ocean	Nizy Mathew, SPL
27	16:54-16:57	Role of tropical cyclone in the redistribution of aerosols over Indian subcontinent	Betsy K B, SRMIST
28	16:57-17:00	The inter-seasonal variation of rainfall microphysics as observed over the urban city of Pune	Aalisha Lanjewar, VIIT Pune
29	17:00-17:03	The characteristic features of rainfall microphysics as observed over the orographic region	Kaustav Chakravarty, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
30	17:03-17:06	Quantification of absorbing aerosol types over the IGP region from AERONET: Comparison with models	Kamran Ansari, PRL
31	17:06-17:09	Statistical Relationship Between Atmospheric Parameters And Their Impacts On Climate Change	Sandra Vasudevan, St. Joseph's college for women
32	17:09-17:12	Altitudinal variation of raindrop size distribution over northern Indian ocean observed during ICARB	Dr. NVP Kiran Kumar, ISRO
33	17:12-17:15	Distribution of Particulate matters over Delhi during 2017-2019: Linkages to micro meteorology	Chetna, University of Delhi
34	17:15-17:18	Case studies of different types of Precipitation over Arctic	Saurabh Das, IIT Indore
35	17:18-17:21	Study of spatio-temporal variations in aerosol-cloud properties over Western India and Arabian Sea	Ruchita Shah, Pandit, Deendayal Energy University, Raisan
36	17:21-17:24	Oxidative Potential and Risk Characterization of Heavy Metals in PM1 during Foggy and Non-Foggy at a	Isha Goyal, Dayalbagh Educational Institute
37	17:24-17:27	Atmospheric PM2.5 and NO2 concentration during lockdown & post-lockdown period in 5 Indian cities	Simran Bamola, Dayalbagh Educational Institute
38	17:27-17:30	Degradation of Air Quality of Delhi due to Crop Residue Burning in Haryana	Pallavi Saxena, DES, Hindu College, University of Delhi

Session chair: Kishore Kumar K and Dr. D. Balasubramanyam
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00-14:15	ARIES Wind Profiler: First Central Himalayan VHF ST Radar	Samaresh Bhattacharjee, ARIES
2	14:15-14:30	Atmospheric Investigations During COVID19 Pandemic	Som Kumar Sharma, PRL
3	14:30-14:45	Diagnosing the stratospheric water vapour to climate change	Siddarth Shankar Das, SPL VSSC ISRO
4	14:45-15:00	Effect of cirrus on the thermal structure of TTL inferred from MPL and Radiosonde observations	Saleem Ali, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur
5	15:00-15:15	In situ observations of super-saturation and its association with cirrus clouds over Indian region	Maria Emmanuel, SPL VSSC ISRO
6	15:15-15:30	Cirrus Fraction and Cirrus Reflectance with Respect to Precipitation Characteristics Over Indian Sub-Continent	Priya J S, TKM College of Arts & Science, Karicode, Peroor, Kollam
7	15:30-15:45	Characterising the layers of enhanced turbulence using VHF radar over central Himalayan site	Aditya Jaiswal, ARIES
8	15:45-16:00	A new approach to explore Hadley Cell Dynamics at regional scales using Radio Occultation Technique	Anjana, SPL VSSC ISRO
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Kishore Kumar K and Dr. D. Balasubramanyam
9	16:30-16:45	Balloon borne aerosol-cloud interaction studies (BACIS): New observational techniques to understand	Ravi Kiran V, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki
10	16:45-17:00	Long term changes in aerosol and its impact on cloud, temperature and rainfall over northeast monsoon region Chennai (12.82oN, 80.04oE)	Aravindhavel A, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur
11	17:00-17:15	Aerosol-cloud-precipitation relationship under maritime and anthropogenic polluted conditions	Shivali Verma, National Remote sensing Centre, Hyderabad
12	17:15-17:30	Unraveling the characteristics of Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Ahmedabad	Sourita Saha, PRL
13	17:30-17:45	Atmospheric boundary layer height detection using the wavelet covariance transform	TV Ramesh Reddy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
14	17:45-18:00	Variation of Surface Latent Heat Flux (SLHF) as observed during high magnitude earthquakes	Pooja Sharma, Manav Rachna University ,Faridabad
15	18:00-18:15	Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Land Surface Albedo (LSA) and associated climatic variables over metr	V Keerthi, NRSC, ISRO
16	18:15-18:30	Decadal changes in atmospheric methane emissions over the Eastern Himalayan region: source apportion	Arshini Saikia, Dibrugarh University

Session chair: Ambili K M (SPL)
Session co-chair(s): Bhala Shivaraman (PRL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:45	Exo-planetary atmospheres and their link to planetary formation	Liton Majumder, NISER
2	14:45 - 15:05	The effect of metallicity on the Atmospheric composition of Exoplanets atmospheres	Vikas Soni, PRL
3	15:05 - 15:25	VUV spectra of Thermally Processed CS2 - NH3 Ice mixtures – Implications to icy solar system objects	Pavithraa Sundararajan, PRL
4	15:25 - 15:45	Investigation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on a sample of comets	Arijit Roy, PRL
5	15:45 to 16:05	Amino acids in astrochemical impact induced shock conditions: Implications to the origins of life	Surendra V Singh, PRL
Break (16:05 - 16:30)
Session chair: Deepak Dhingra (IIT Kanpur)
Session co-chair(s): Vijayan S (PRL)
6	16:30 - 16:50	Neon in Terrestrial planets	Satvika Jaiswal, Banasthali
7	16:50 - 17:10	Gas-phase Modeling of the Cometary Coma of the Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov	Sana Ahmed, PRL
8	17:10 - 17:30	On fragmentation of long lasting overdense meteor trail echoes detected with Gadanki MST radar	K. Chenna Reddy, Osmania University
9	17:30 - 17:50	Diversity in Mineralogy of Mukundpura Meteorite	Dipak Kumar Panda, PRL
10	17:50 - 18:10	In-situ exploration of the lunar polar regions: A mission in study phase	S. Megala, ISRO
11	18:10 - 18:13	Studying the Properties of the Extra-solar Planet Atmospheres	Mousam Maity, Presidency University Kolkata
12	18:13 - 18:16	Seasonal variation in the composition of Martian upper atmosphere	Koyena Das, LATMOS, France
13	18:16 - 18:19	Chemical weathering and laterization of Sivagangai formation, India A potential Mars analogue	K Vigneshwaran, Government Arts College, Salem
14	18:19 - 18:22	Early thermal evolution of Earth's embryos due to 26Al and impact-generated steam atmosphere	Gurpreet Kaur Bhatia, Maharishi Markandeshwar
15	18:22 - 18:25	Impact-induced deformation features from the target rocks of Ramgarh Crater, Rajasthan, India	Aneesh Kumar, University of Kerala

Session chair: Poonam Chandra (NCRA)
Session co-chair(s): Vivek Agrawal (URSC)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:40	Hunting for Gravitational Waves from Ground and Space	Sanjit Mitra, IUCAA
2	14:40 - 15:00	Black hole mass dichotomy in barred and unbarred galaxies of IllustrisTNG-100 simulations.	Sandeep Kumar Kataria, SJTU Shanghai
3	15:00 - 15:15	Classification conundrum in Gamma Ray Bursts: Signatures of collapsars in high redshift short GRBs	Dimple, ARIES
4	15:15 - 15:30	Properties of high-redshift starburst galaxies and their local analogs contributing to reionization	Abhishek Paswan, IIA
5	15:30 - 15:45	Our peculiar motion from Hubble diagram of SNe Ia and implications for Cosmological Principle	Ashok Kumar Singal, PRL
6	15:45 - 16:00	Dynamical conditions and causal transport of spherical collapse in f(R,T) gravity	Sarbari Guha, Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata
Break (16:00 - 16:30)
Session chair: Harvinder Kaur Jassal (IISER Mohali)
Session co-chair(s): Kuntal Mishra (ARIES)
7	16:30 - 16:50	Probing the nature of Luminous blue variables	Yogesh Joshi, ARIES
8	16:50 - 17:10	TESS Observations of TX Col: Rapidly Varying Accretion Flow	Nikita Rawat, ARIES
9	17:10 - 17:30	Investigation of Rocket Effect in Bright-Rimmed Clouds using Gaia EDR3	Piyali Saha, IIA
10	17:30 - 17:50	Abundance analysis, production sites and ages of r-process enhanced stars using GTC	Pallavi Saraf, IIA
11	17:50 - 18:10	An extremely metal-poor star, contaminated with products of both i- and s-process nucleosynthesis	Partha Pratim Goswami, IIA
12	18:10 -18:13	Image Improvement and Restoration in Optical Time Series	Yash Gondhalekar, BITS Pilani, Goa
13	18:13 - 18:16	Efficient Modeling of Cosmic Reionization using SCRIPT	Barun Maity, NCRA-TIFR
14	18:16 - 18:19	Density perturbation and cosmological evolution in the presence of magnetic field in f(R) gravity	Samarjit Chakraborty, Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata
15	18:19 - 18:22	Search for merger ejecta emission in Short Gamma Ray Bursts from very late time radio observations	Ankur Ghosh, ARIES
16	18:22 - 18:25	uGMRT study of ELAIS-N1 field: the radio-IR relations up to z∼2	Akriti Sinha, IIT Indore
17	18:25 - 18:28	A Radio and X-ray view of merging cluster A1351	Swarna Chatterjee, IIT Indore

Session chair: N. Raghu Meetei (ISRO HQ)
Session co-chair(s): M Durga Rao (NARL)
Serial No.	Time (IST)	Title	Speaker (Affiliation)
1	14:00 - 14:45	In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) for Moon and Mars Missions	P. Ganesh, ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri
2	14:50-14:52	#RADatHomeIndia 9 years of Indian citizen science research in astronomy	Ananda Hota, RAD@home
3	14:52-14:54	Design and Development of Laboratory-Based Microgravity Experimental Setup	Jaya Krishna Meka, PRL
4	14:54-14:56	Development of Spectrograph in FUV region for a possible ISRO flight	Ghatul Shubham Jankiram, IIA
5	14:56-14:58	Space Exploration using Artificial Intelligence for Human Health	Akhilesh Kumar, BHU
6	15:00-15:20	Development of Position Sensitive Sub-MeV Detectors for Daksha Mission	Mithun N. P. S., PRL
7	15:20-15:40	Optical Design of the Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Survey (IRSIS) Satellite Payload	Satheesha S. Poojary, TIFR
8	15:40-16:00	The Direction of Arrival with Orthogonally Co-located Dipole Antenna for SEAMS	Harsha A. Tanti, IITI
Short Break (16:00 - 16:05)
Session chair: N. Raghu Meetei (ISRO HQ)
Session co-chair(s): V. K. Rana (RRI)
9	16:05 - 16:50	Humanoid Robots for Space Exploration	Sangeetha G R, VSSC ISRO
10	16:50-17:10	Design and Deployment of Medium Volume Aerostat to Provide Wi-Fi Communication at Remote Sites	Stalin Peter Godi, TIFR
11	17:10-17:30	Effect of microgravity on the growth of Stevia rebaudiana callus: Preflight development	Abigail Fernandes, Amity University Mumbai
12	17:30-17:50	Autonomous Life Growth Experiment–1 (ALGE-1): effect of microgravity on the growth of Stratospheric and non- stratospheric bacterial isolates	Shreya Fadanavis, Amity University Mumbai
13	17:50-18:10	Development of object visibility tool for the SING payload	Shanti Prabha, IIA
14	18:10-18:30	Commercialisation of Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration:Legal Vision with Reference to India	Dr. Malay Adhikari, Amity University, Kolkata

FRIDAY, 4 FEBRUARY

Public Outreach Events and Interaction with Science Communicators
Session Chair: Niruj Mohan Ramanujam, Co-Chair, Outreach Committee, IIA

10.00 – 10.15: Overview of symposium associated public engagement events (S. Seetha, Chairperson, Outreach Committee, RRI)

10.15 – 10.45: Prize distribution ceremony for Quiz, Poster and Outreach Video competitions (Guest of Honour: Competition Judges)

10.45 – 11.30: Showcase of winning science communication entries

11.30 – 12.00: Interaction with students, public and science communicators

Closing Ceremony
Moderator: V. Girish, Deputy Director, SPO, ISRO HQ

12.00 – 12.10: Symposium report, announcement of best presentation awardees, future events (Dibyendu Nandi, Chairperson, Local Organizing Committee, IISER Kolkata)

12.10 – 12.15: Closing remarks (AS Kiran Kumar, Chairman, National Organizing Committee, ISRO)

12.15 – 12.20: Open mike and remarks, if any, by attendees

12.20 – 12.30: Vote of Thanks (V. Girish, Deputy Director, SPO, ISRO HQ)

12.30 – 12.31: Playing of the National Anthem of India

End of closing ceremony