Symposium on Cosmology and Astrophysics

January 29-30, 2002
Physics Department, Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi-110025

PROGRAM

Tuesday, 29th January, 2002
Venue: Conference Hall, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Time Event/Speaker Title of the Talk
 9.00 - 10.00 REGISTRATION
10.00 - 10.30 INAUGURATION
10.30 - 11.30 Keynote Address:
Naresh Dadhich
Relativistic world: A common sense perspective
11.30 - 12.00 - - - TEA - - -

Venue: Guest House Conference Room, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Time Event/Speaker Title of the Talk
12.00 - 1.00 Vinod Johri Mathematical theory of integrated tracking.
 1.00 - 2.00 - - - LUNCH - - -
 2.00 - 3.00 Atish Dabholkar Strings, tachyons and the black hole entropy.
 3.00 - 3.30 N. Panchapakesan Cosmological inflation
 3.30 - 4.00 - - - TEA - - -
 4.00 - 4.30 Ashok Goel Symmetry structure and phase transition in cosmology and astro-physics
 4.30 - 5.00 Anand Sengupta Improved hierarchical search algorithm for detecting gravitational waves from compact binary systems
 5.00 - 5.30 S. G. Ghosh Gravitational collapse

Wednesday, 30th January, 2002
Venue: Guest House Conference Room, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Time Event/Speaker Title of the Talk
 9.00 - 10.00 Gautam Mandal String theory, D-branes and black holes: A review
10.00 - 11.00 Romesh Kaul Entropy of black holes
11.00 - 11.30 - - - TEA - - -
11.30 - 12.00 Sudhendu Raichaudhry Phenomenological implications of weak scale quantum gravity theories.
12.00 - 12.30 Deepak Jain Gravitational lensing constraint on the cosmic equation of state
12.30 - 1.00 Margarita Safonova Microlensing signatures of wormholes and negative matter
in the Universe
1.00 - 2.00 - - - LUNCH - - -
 2.00 - 2.30 M. Sami Quintessence and inflation on the brane
 2.30 - 3.00 Partha Joarder Selected topics in solar magnetohydrodynamic waves
 3.00 - 3.30 G.P. Malik A nonlinear model having solutions akin to Abrikosov mixed states
 3.30 - 4.00 - - - TEA - - -
 4.00 - 4.30 Rajesh Nayak Gravitational wave observations by LISA
 4.30 - 5.30 T.R. Sesahadri Fractality in galaxy distributions in cosmology
 5.30 - - - Vote of thanks and TEA - - -