Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
(AAPCOS-2020)
Timetable
January 6, 2020
08:30 - 09:20 Registration
09:20 - 09:30 Inauguration: Welcome Address by Director, SINP
Session Chairperson: Debades Bandyopadhyay
09:30 - 10:00 Bikash Sinha Meghnad Saha: A spectacular journey
From Astronomy to Astrophysics
Ad astra per aspera et per ludum
(Keynote Address)
10:00 - 10:45 Rajaram Nityananda Thermal ionisation: creation and creator
10:45 - 11:15 High Tea
11:15 - 12:00 Somak Raychaudhury Meghnad Saha and Astrophysics in India
12:00 - 12:30 Anton Motornenko Hadronic phase in heavy ion collisions via Saha equation
12:30 - 13:00 Patrick Dasgupta On Meghnad's magnetic monopoles, Stringy dyons and
Gravitational waves
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session Chairperson: Pratik Majumdar
14:00 - 14:30 Yusuke Suda GRB observations
14:30 - 15:00 Atreyee Sinha H.E.S.S. observation of the Large Magellanic Cloud
15:00 - 15:30 Biswajit Banerjee A multi-wavelength study of Markarian 421
during the 2015-16 campaign
15:30 - 16:00 Kaustav Mitra Disk-Jet connection in blazars: a semi-analytic framework
16:00 - 16:15 Tea
Session Chairperson: Pratik Majumdar
16:15 - 16:45 Kishalay De Cosmic nucleosynthesis in supernovae and kilonovae
16:45 - 17:15 Supratik Pal Cosmology/Inflation
17:15 - 18:00 Günter Sigl Skype talk
January 7, 2020
Session Chairperson: Pijushpani Bhattacharjee
09:30 - 10:15 Subir Sarkar Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration
10:15 - 11:00 Subhendra Mohanty Ultra light dark matter and how to detect them with binary pulsars
11:00 - 11:15 Tea
11:15 - 12:00 Anjan Ananda Sen Cosmology with low-redshift observations: No signal for new physics
12:00 - 12:30 Archisman Ghosh Cosmology with Standard Sirens
12:30 - 13:00 Madhurima Pandey An analysis of heavy dark matter decaying into IceCube
PeV neutrinos
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session Chairperson: Amit Ghosh
14:00 - 14:45 Shantanu Desai Bounds on graviton mass using galaxy clusters
14:45 - 15:15 Sayantan Choudhury Cosmology meets Condensed Matter Physics
15:15 - 15:45 Indranil Chattopadhyay Plasma Flow around Compact Objects
15:45 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 18:00 Poster Session
January 8, 2020
Session Chairperson: Debades Bandyapadhyay
09:30 - 10:15 Luciano Rezzolla Binary neutron star: Einstein's richest laboratory
10:15 - 10:45 Rana Nandi Constraining the equation of state of neutron stars
using GW170817
10:45 - 11:15 Tea
11:15 - 12:00 Sukanta Bose Understanding gravity through a better understanding of
its densest objects
12:00 - 12:45 Pablo Saz Parkinson Probing the highest energy emission from gamma-ray pulsars
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Session Chairperson: Debades Bandyapadhyay
14:15 - 15:00 Rana Adhikari The Future of Gravitational Wave Detection
15:00 - 15:45 Sudip Bhattacharyya Transient black hole X-ray binaries
15:45 - 16:00 Tea
Session Chairperson: Debasish Majumdar
16:00 - 16:30 Jan Steinheimer The QCD equation of state at finite density from heavy ion
collisions to neutron star mergers
16:30 - 17:00 Sarmistha Banik Stability analysis and universality relations of a differentially
rotating, hot, hypermassive neutron star
17:00 - 17:30 Ritam Mallick Gravitational waves from phase transitions in neutron stars
Evening Talk
Session Chairperson: Debades Bandyapadhyay
17:30 - 18:30 Luciano Rezzolla The first image of a black hole (Evening talk)
19:00 - 21:30 Conference Dinner Hotel The Sonnet
January 9, 2020
Session Chairperson: Mala Das
09:30 - 10:15 Kanan Datta Probing the Cosmic dawn with the 21 cm-line
10:15 - 10:45 Abhirup Dutta Observations from uGMRT and implication in Sensitive
Cosmological Studies in the pre-SKA era
10:45 - 11:15 Marie-Cécile Piro Search for Dark Matter with NEWS-G Experiment (Skype talk)
11:15 - 11:30 Tea
11:30 - 12:15 E.J. Chun Neutrino Oscillations in Dark Matter
12:15 - 12:45 Vijay Iyer SuperCDMS SNOLAB
12:45 - 13:15 Sukannya Bhattacharya Primordial black holes and gravitational waves at a non-standard
pre-BBN epoch
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch
Session Chairperson: Naba Mondal
14:15 - 15:00 Srubabati Goswami A new sensitivity goal for neutrinoless double beta decay
experiments
15:00 - 15:30 Daniel Durnford The NEWS-G light Dark Matter Search Experiment:
Current status and experiment at SNOLAB
15:30 - 16:00 Narendra Sahu Unification with vector-like fermion dark matter and
possible signatures
16:00 - 16:15 Tea
Session Chairperson: Naba Mondal
16:15 - 16:45 Ayan Chatterjee Effective Quantum Theory of Black Hole Horizons
16:45 - 17:15 Arnab Paul Production of Dark Matter during Preheating
17:15 - 18:00 Tony Noble A Search for Dark Matter using PICO Bubble Chambers (Skype talk)
January 10, 2020
Session Chairperson: Satyajit Saha
09:30 - 10:00 Debanjan Bose Status of Hyper Kamiokande Experiment
10:00 - 10:30 Bhaskar Biswas The tidal deformability of an anisotropic compact star:
Implications of GW170817
10:30 - 11:00 Amit Dutta Banik A new probe to Leptogenesis
11:00 - 11:15 Tea
11:15 - 11:35 Tarak Nath Maity Exchange driven freeze out of dark matter
11:35 - 11:55 Arindam Das Possibility of neutral Z' portal Dark Matter in the U(1) extended
Standard Model
11:55 - 12:15 Sajad Ahmad Bhat Effect of Dark Matter on Neutron Star Cooling
12:15 - 12:35 Tripurari Srivastava MeV scale model of SIMP dark matter, neutrino mass and
leptogenesis
12:35 - 12:45 Valedictory Session
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
