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Workshop on Light Scattering Techniques and Applications to Astronomy and other areas

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Nov 19-21, 2013
at SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake,
Kolkata

Schedule:

All talks are 25min + 5 min for discussions

Tue 19 Nov 2013
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0845-0915 Registration
0915-0930 Inauguration
0930-1015 Overview of dust in interstellar environment, B G Anandarao, PRL, Ahmedabad
1015-1045 Dust in external galaxies, S K Pandey, Ravishankar Univ. Raipur
1045-1100 Tea
1100-1130 Light scattering properties of regoliths, A K Sen, Assam Univ., Silchar
1130-1200 Scattering and absorption by aerosols, S N Tripathi, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 
1200-1230 Modelling the dust scattered radiation in the galaxy, P Shalima, IIA, Bangalore
1230-1400 Lunch
1400-1430 Dusts: Their role in chemical evolution of the interstellar medium, K Acharyya, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
1430-1500 Nature and isotopic composition of the interstellar dust separated from meteorites, L Majumdar, ICSP, Kolkata
1500-1530 Chemical composition of the interstellar dust and deuterium enrichment of the ISM, A Das, ICSP, Kolkata
1530-1600 Tea
1600-1630 Dust in sub-stellar objects, S Mondal, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
1630-1700 Archival UV IR observations of dust in galaxies, R Gogoi, Tezpur Univ, Tezpur
Wed 20 Nov 2013
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0930-1000 Spectroscopy of Astrophysical PAHs, Amit Pathak, Tezpur Univ., Tezpur
1000-1030 Tools to study light scattering phenomena, R Gupta, IUCAA, Pune
1030-1100 Tea
1100-1130 Spin-orbit interaction of of light mediated by scattering from plasmonic nano-structures, N Ghosh, IISER, Kolkata
1130-1200 Role of unpolarized light scattering in biomedical tissue characterization, S K Sharma, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
1200-1230 Self-Similarity in light scattering from tissue : Capturing the fractal behaviour, P Panigrahi, IISER, Kolkata
1230-1400 Lunch
1400-1430 Scattering and polarization by cometary dust particles, U C Joshi, PRL, Ahmedabad
1430-1500 Interstellar and circumstellar grains, D B vaidya, ICCSIR, Ahmedabad
1500-1530 Dust related extinctionin some specific line of sights in our galaxy, N Katyal, JNU, New Delhi
1530-1600 Tea
1600-1630 Observation of dust in Novae, R Das, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
1630-1700 Nature of isotopic composition of the interstellar dust separated from meteorites, S Sahijpal, Punjab Univ. Chandigarh

Thur 21 Nov 2013
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0930-1000 Dynamical light scattering: A powerful tool for biophysical research, S K Pal, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
1030-1100 Dephasing and recombination dynamicsin semiconductors on the picosecond time scale, B. Bansal, IISER, Kolkata.
1030-1100 Tea
1100-1130 Scattering from linear and nonlinear structures, S Duttagupta, Hyderabad Univ. Hyderabad
1130-1200 A Pradhan, IIT Kanpur
1200-1230 Growth of grains in astronomical studies and their light scattering properties, S Chatterjee, IIAP,
1230-1400 Lunch
1400-1430 Experimental analysis of particle samples, G Ahmad, Tezpur univ. Tezpur
1430-1500 Analytic formulas for extinction of major dust components of interstellar dust, S K Sharma, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
1500-1530 Formation of H_2, D_2, and HD on interstellar dust, D Sahu, ICSP, Kolkata
1530-1600 Tea
1600-1630 Dust from type II SNe, F Sutaria, IIAP, Bangalore
1630-1700 Discussions and Concluding session