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CONFERENCE

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CHANDRAYANA

3-7, January 2011

Chennai, India

This conference is our efforts to celebrate the contributions of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, outstanding Astrophysicist who had his early education in Chennai. He was also associated with the inauguration of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. This conference will be in the form of research talks on issues and questions of Astrophysics and cosmology, classical and quantum aspects of blackholes etc., as well as public lectures to provide inspiration and encouragement to students to take up Astrophysics and gravity for further studies. This meeting will be held at IMSc and Department of Physics, IIT Madras between 3rd and 7th Jan 2011. It is supported and organised by IMSc, Chennai and the Department of Physics, IIT Madras

Organising Committee

  • T R Govindarajan, convenor (IMSc)
  • G Baskaran (IMSc)
  • Ghanashyam Date (IMSc)
  • S Kalyana Rama (IMSc)
  • G Rajasekaran (IMSc, CMI)
  • V Balakrishnan (IIT Madras)
  • Prasanta K Tripathy (IIT Madras)
  • Rajesh Narayanan (IIT Madras)

    • Invited Speakers

  • P C Agrawal (TIFR, Mumbai)
  • Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State University, USA)
  • V Balakrishnan* (IIT, Madras)
  • Naresh Dadhich (IUCAA, Pune)
  • Sourya Das (Lethbridge, Canada)
  • Giuseppina Fabbiano (Harvard-Smithsonian, USA)
  • Golam M Hossain (IISER, Kolkata)
  • Romesh K Kaul (IMSc, Chennai)
  • Ajit Kembhavi (IUCAA, Pune)
  • S R Kulkarni (Caltech, USA)
  • V Madhavan (RRI, Bengaluru)
  • P Majumdar (SINP, Kolkata)
  • Ramesh Narayan (Harvard-Smithsonian, USA)
  • J V Narlikar (IUCAA, Pune)
  • Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale, USA)
  • Rajaram Nityananda (TIFR, Mumbai)
  • T Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune)
  • Joseph Samuel (RRI, Bengaluru)
  • S Shankaranarayanan (IISER, Thiruvananthapuram)
  • Suneeta Varadarajan (IISER, Pune)

    • * = to confirm, MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW!!

    Participation is by invitation only. Those who want to participate in the conference are encouraged to REGISTER

    REGISTER HERE .

    There are no Registration Fees. After registration is accepted the organisers will send INVITATION letters with necessary details. Registrations will close by 1st December 2010.

    For further informations contact: T R Govindarajan, IMSc

    trg@imsc.res.in

    The poster for the conference can be seen here.

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    A Guide to Chennai is HERE.

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