A Workshop on Current Trends in Near Infrared Astronomy in India Scientific Programme Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:30 – 9:45 Registration 9:45 – 10:00 Introduction, Welcome, Inauguration 10:00 – 10:30 Near Infrared Astronomy in India B. G. Anandarao 10:30 – 11:00 HIGH TEA Session 1 : Star Formation and Interstellar Medium (Chairperson: S. K. Ghosh) 11:00 – 11:25 Triggered Star Formation Anil Pandey Understanding the Role of Filaments in Star and 11:25 – 11:50 Manash Samal Cluster Formation An Infrared Insight into Dense Cores in Massive 11:50 – 12:15 Sarita Vig Star Formation Astrochemistry in the Optical – Near Infrared 12:15 – 12:40 Bhaswati Mookerjea Wavelengths 12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break and Poster Session Session 2 : Star Formation and Interstellar Medium (Chairperson: Anandmayee Tej) Near Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of 14:00 – 14:25 Manoj Puravankara Protostars and Protoplanetary Disks FU Ori Type Outburst Sources in Young Low 14:25 – 14:45 Joe Philip Ninan Mass Stars Optical Spectroscopy of X-ray Sources in the 14:45 – 15:05 Kaushar Vaidya Carina Nebula 15:05 – 15:25 Star Formation in NGC 3293 Priya Hasan Deciphering stellar clusters and their associated 15:25 – 15:45 Kshitiz Mallick properties through deep NIR data 15:45 – 16:15 Tea / Coffee Break Session 3: Interstellar and Circumstellar Dust, Lunar Occultation Technique (Chairperson: Bhaswati Mookerjea) Circumstellar Dust Models for NIR Spectra of 16:15 – 16:40 Ranjan Gupta IRAS Objects Star Formation in Dark Clouds and the Role of 16:40 – 17:05 Asoke K. Sen NIR Polarimetry Spatial Asymmetry Detected in UZ Arietis using 17:05 – 17:25 Tapas Baug Lunar Occultation 19:00 Workshop Banquet (Aalankrita Resort) Wednesday, November 26, 2014 Session 4 : Late Type Stars, Extra-Solar Planets, Brown Dwarfs (Chairperson: Ranjan Gupta) On the Distance Scale using NIR 9:45 – 10:10 H. P. Singh Period – Luminosity Relations for Cepheids Photometric Variability in Ultra-cool Dwarfs: 10:10 – 10:30 Soumen Mondal Understanding of Evolving Weather Patterns 10:30 – 10:50 Low Mass Eclipsing Binaries Priyanka Chaturvedi Optical and Near Infrared Spectro-polarimetry 10:50 – 11:15 Sujan Sengupta of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets 11:15 – 11:45 Tea / Coffee Break Session 5 : AGN, QSOs (Chairperson: G. C. Anupama) On the Nature of Weak Emission Line Radio- 11:45 – 12:05 Hum Chand Quiet Quasars Physical processes in AGN: A multi-wavelength 12:05 – 12:30 C. S. Stalin perspective 12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Break and Poster Session Session 6 : Novae and Supernovae (Chairperson: U. S. Kamath) 13:45 – 14:05 Near Infrared Studies of Novae R. K. Das Observing the Shock Wave during 2014 14:05 – 14:25 Vishal Joshi Outburst of Recurrent Nova v745 Sco 14:25 – 14:50 Near Infrared Properties of Supernovae D. K. Sahu 14:50 - 15:10 Optical and NIR Observations of SN 2014J Shubham Srivastav 15:10 – 15:30 Tea / Coffee Break Session 7 : Existing Instrumentation (Chairperson: A. N. Ramaprakash) TIFR Near Infrared Spectrometer and Imager 15:30 – 15:55 D. K. Ojha (TIRSPEC) PRL Near Infrared Camera / Spectrometer – 15:55 – 16:20 N. M. Ashok Performance and First Results Hanle Echelle Spectrograph (HESP) and 16:20 – 16:45 T. Sivarani possible synergy with TIRSPEC Near Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation in 16:45 – 17:10 N. Kobayashi Japan 17:10 – 18:00 Visits to Labs and Balloon Production Facility 18:00 – 19:30 Practical Session for Students (NIR Spectroscopic Data Reduction) 19:30 Dinner Thursday, November 27, 2014 Session 8 : Future Instrumentation (Chairperson: B. G. Anandarao) 9:15 – 9:30 Mid-IR Imager for HCT U. S. Kamath TANSPEC – TIFR-ARIES Near Infrared 9:30 – 9:50 Saurabh Spectrograph Planned Near-IR Instruments for the Thirty 9:50 - 10:15 A. N. Ramaprakash Metre Telescope 10:15 – 10:40 A Brief Overview of TMT Science Cases G. C. Anupama Wavelength Calibration for Optical and NIR 10:40 – 11:00 R. K. Banyal Astronomy 11:00 – 11:15 Tea / Coffee Break Session 9 : Future Instrumentation (Chairperson: A. K. Pandey) Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Survey (IRSIS) 11:15 – 11:40 S. K. Ghosh experiment 11:40 – 12:05 3.6m aperture Devasthal Optical Telescope M. Gopinathan 12:05 – 12:30 The PRL 2.5m Telescope Abhijit Chakraborty 12:30 – 12:45 Workshop Summary 12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 16:30 Practical Session for Students (NIR Spectroscopic Data Reduction) 16:30 Tea / Coffee Break 19:30 Dinner Poster Presentations Poster Title Author No. Near Infrared study of Barred Dark matter dominated 1 Honey M. galaxies using TIRSPEC observations Characterising protostellar evolution with infrared 2 Debdutta Paul spectroscopy 3 Magnetic field geometry in LDN 328 Archana Soam Fourier decomposition of Cepheid light curves at optical, 4 Anupam Bhardwaj near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths Preliminary optical design of Wi-Fi Pol (Wide Field 5 Neha Sharma Polarimeter) for 1.3m Telescope High-mass star formation towards the Infrared Bubble 6 Swagat Ranjan Das S10 Infrared and Radio Investigation of the Cometary HII 7 Veena V. S. Region IRAS 17256-3631 CLOUDY modelling of Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi, 8 Anindita Mondal 2006 outburst Deep near-infrared survey of the stellar content and star 9 Ram Kesh Yadav formation in Sh2-311 region Classification of brown dwarfs using near infrared 10 Govind Nandakumar photometry & spectroscopy Radio & Infrared study of star forming region 11 Varsha Ramachandran 20286+4105 Study of morphology and stellar content of the Galactic 12 Kshitiz Mallick HII region IRAS 16148-5011 The young cluster NGC 2282 : a multi-wavelength 13 Somnath Dutta perspective 14 Star Formation Activity in the IRAS 22308+5812 region Tapas Baug 15 J, H, and K band study of Contact binaries Kandulapati Sriram Identification of UV stellar point sources using NIR colour Ananta Charan 16 cut method Pradhan Design and Development of IR Camera for Robo-AO, P- 17 Jyotirmay Paul 60 Telescope, Caltech 18 Structural analysis of near infrared galaxy NGC 3115 Dhanya Joseph Phase dependent spectro-photometric studies of a new 19 Mira variable MASTER Optical Transient Supriyo Ghosh J212444.87+321738.3 Multi-wavelength Radiometer Observation of Aerosol 20 Properties and its Radiative Impact over Hyderabad, P. R. Sinha India .