Venue: Bhaskara 3 lecture hall, IUCAA, Pune
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February 23, Monday
10:00-13:00 (including Tea break) - ASTROSAT
T. Padmanabhan - Welcome
D. Bhattacharya - Meeting scope & Overview of ASTROSAT
B. Paul - Broad band spectroscopy with LAXPC
A. R. Rao - CZT imager of ASTROSAT: spectral capabilities
Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-17:00 (including Tea break) - ASTROSAT / multiwavelength studies
S. N. Tandon - Photometry and Spectroscopy with UVIT
Subir Bhattacharyya - LS 5039 : A multiwavelength view
Discussion
18:30-19:30 - Public Lecture: "From Galileo to Black Holes"
by Tomaso Belloni (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium, IUCAA)
February 24, Tuesday
9:30-13:00 (including Tea break) - Neutron Stars
Mariano Mendez - Correlated spectral and timing properties of neutron stars
B. Paul - Broad band X-ray spectroscopy of neutron stars
Dipankar Bhattacharya - Modelling of Cyclotron Line spectra
Sudip Bhattacharyya - Neutron stars and thermonuclear X-ray bursts
Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-18:00 (including Tea break) - ASTROSAT / Neutron Stars / Black Hole Binaries
K. P. Singh - SXT and its spectral capabilities
Ranjeev Misra - Correlated UV and X-ray temporal study of X-ray Binaries with ASTROSAT
Vivek Agrawal - Wide Band Spectroscopy of LMXBs containing Neutron Stars
Beike Hiemstra - Accretion disk geometry in the low/hard state of the black hole candidate Swift J1753
Discussion
February 25, Wednesday
9:30-13:00 (including Tea break) - Black Hole Binaries & AGNs
T. Belloni - Broad-band spectral evolution of black-hole transients
A. R. Rao - Wide band X-ray continuum spectroscopy of black hole X-ray binaries
K. P. Singh - Broadband X-ray spectroscopy of AGNs with ASTROSAT
G. C. Dewangan - X-ray excess emission from AGNs
Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 - Discussion, summary & conclusion (coordinator: A.R. Rao)