Name: META-2022
Start: 2022-09-14T08:15:00+05:30
End: 2022-09-16T18:30:00+05:30
Location: IIA Bangalore

META-2022

from Wednesday, September 14, 2022 (8:15 AM) to Friday, September 16, 2022 (6:30 PM)

Monday, September 12, 2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

8:15 AM Registration and Breakfast
Registration and Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Lounge
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks - Annapurni Subramaniam (IIA)

9:10 AM Key Note Address - Yashwant Gupta (NCRA-TIFR, Pune)
9:50 AM
9:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:50 AM Touching Infinity, the JWST Mirror Makers - Glen Cole (TIO)

10:30 AM Visible Emission Line Coronagraph on-board Aditya L1 : Engineering Challenges - Raghavendra Prasad B (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
11:10 AM Poster Presentation, Models Display & Coffee/Tea Break
Poster Presentation, Models Display & Coffee/Tea Break
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: ICNAPP Lounge
11:30 AM Instrumentation Projects at IIA
Instrumentation Projects at IIA
11:30 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 AM Mechanical Design Aspects of INSIST Project - Nagabhushana S (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

11:50 AM NLST Project - Ravindra B (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:10 PM SCALES Project - Ravinder K. Banyal (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:30 PM Primary Mirror Control Systems (M1CS) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project - Prasanna Deshmukh (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:50 PM Conceptual design of M2/M3 Coating Plant for TMT - Maheswar Gopinathan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
1:10 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:10 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Antenna and RF, Digital Signal Processing & CCD Controllers
Antenna and RF, Digital Signal Processing & CCD Controllers
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Navigation Systems for Aero space Applications - Shiv Prasad (DRDL)

2:30 PM Overview of GMRT Antenna Feed Upgrade : Current and Future Works - HANUMANTH RAO BANDARI (TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH)

2:45 PM FPGA Accelerated Cross Correlation of Digital Images: Application to Solar Adaptive Optics - Soham Das

3:00 PM Recent Updates from the Expanded GMRT Aperture Array Beamformer Development - Bela Dixit (Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), NCRA-TIFR)

3:15 PM Characterization of a deep-depletion 4K x 4K CCD Detector System designed for ADFOSC - Dimple Dimple (ARIES, Nainital)
3:30 PM Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break
Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: ICNAPP Lounge
4:00 PM Optical Engineering
Optical Engineering
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:00 PM Optics Fabrication - Rama krishna (Optics & Allied Engg. Pvt. Ltd.)

4:30 PM Aluminizing the Primary Mirrors of Telescopes in ARIES - Krishna Reddy (ARIES)

4:45 PM The conceptual design of high-resolution optical spectrograph for TMT - Amirul Hasan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore)

5:00 PM Optomechanical design and analysis of SING spectrograph - Binukumar Gopalakrishnan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

5:15 PM Optical design of thermal infrared imager for the SCALES on Keck - Amirul Hasan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore)

5:30 PM Assessing the Performance of a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) based Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) for the Indian Spectroscopic and Imaging Space Telescope (INSIST) - ANWESHA HOODATI (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS)

5:45 PM Full Stokes Polarimeter for Characterization of Retarders - Phanindra DVS (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
6:00 PM Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Thursday, September 15, 2022

8:15 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Engineer’s Day & It’s significance - Mahesh Panangattukara (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560034)

9:05 AM Industry 5.0-personal Musings - Jagadish G (Centre for Excellence in Hypersonics; Aerospace Engineering Dept, IISc)

9:45 AM Challenges in Electro Optical Systems Development for Space Missions - Nagendra Rao (Ex Centre Director, LEOS)

10:25 AM Astrophotography - Dorje Angchuk (IIA)
10:45 AM Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break
Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Mechanical Systems and Emerging Manufacturing Technology
Mechanical Systems and Emerging Manufacturing Technology
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Porous Nano Materials for Advanced Applications - Gurumoorthi Hebbar (Christ University)

11:30 AM Upgradation in the Filter slide motion mechanism for 1.3m DFOT - Tarun Bangia (ARIES)

11:45 AM Preliminary Design of Imager Filter Wheel Mechanism (IFWM) for Keck Observatory SCALES Instrument - Hari Mohan Varshney

12:00 PM Structural Design and Finite Element Analysis of Wide Field Optical Spectrograph (WFOS) - AJIN PRAKASH (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:15 PM Mechanical Engineering & modern Observational Science - with emerging Manufacturing Technology - PRADIP CHAKRABORTY (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences(ARIES),Nainital,Uttarakhand)

12:30 PM Design & Development of Grating Exchanger (GRX) for TMT-Wide Field Optical Spectrograph - Hari Mohan Varshney

12:45 PM Balloon-borne Payload Module: Collection of Micrometeorite Dust at High Altitudes in Earth's Atmosphere - Diksha Arora
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Electrical Systems
Electrical Systems
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Best Grounding practices - Prabhakar C (High Voltage Division (HVD) Central Power Research Institute)

2:30 PM Astrometric and photometric standard candidates for the upcoming 4-m ILMT survey - Naveen Dukiya (ARIES Nainital)

2:45 PM 1.3m Telescope Current Status and Future Up-gradation Plans - Mukeshkumar Jaiswar (bachelor of engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication)

3:00 PM A portable, low-cost multispectral system for monitoring night sky brightness over the astronomical sites - Ashish Kumar (ARIES)

3:15 PM Upgradation of integral auto guider unit subsystem of the 3.6 m DOT - Kumar T.S. (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, INDIA)
3:30 PM Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break
Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Observatory Control System and Software, RFI & EMI/EMC Mitigation & High Performance Computing
Observatory Control System and Software, RFI & EMI/EMC Mitigation & High Performance Computing
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:00 PM The 50cm Robotic Telescope: Control System Upgrade and Automation - Tsewang Stanzin

4:15 PM RF over fiber based distributed RFI monitoring system - Sanjeet Rai (NCRA- TIFR)

4:30 PM Real-time Broadband RFI Filtering System for uGMRT: Overview of the Released System and Future Plans - Kaushal Buch (Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, NCRA-TIFR)

4:45 PM Multi-Element Correlator & Beam former using Open CL on FPGA Accelerator Card - Raghuttam Hombal (Savitribai Phule Pune University)

5:00 PM Electronics subsystem development of SING spectrograph payload - Bharath Chandra (Indian Institute of Astrophysics )
5:15 PM Vote of Thanks & Group Photo with Shri. S. Somanath, Chairman, ISRO
Vote of Thanks & Group Photo with Shri. S. Somanath, Chairman, ISRO
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium

5:30 PM Coffee/Tea & Certificate Distribution
Coffee/Tea & Certificate Distribution
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM Engineer’s Day Talk & Cultural Program
Engineer’s Day Talk & Cultural Program
6:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

6:00 PM Felicitation to Mr.Dorje Angchuk for Honorary Member of the IAU

6:05 PM Engineer’s Day Talk - Somanath S (ISRO)

6:45 PM “RAAG-HARMONY” by Ateetam and Musical Programme by IIA Family
8:15 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: ICNAPP Lounge
Friday, September 16, 2022

7:00 AM Trip to Gauribidanur (GBD) Radio Observatory (Starting Point: IIA, Koramangala)
Trip to Gauribidanur (GBD) Radio Observatory (Starting Point: IIA, Koramangala)
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: IIA Bangalore

9:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Visit to GBD Radio Telescope facilities
Visit to GBD Radio Telescope facilities
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Visit to RRI Facilities
Visit to RRI Facilities
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Tea Break
Tea Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Departure from GBD and arrival to IIA Bangalore, Conference closure
Departure from GBD and arrival to IIA Bangalore, Conference closure
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Gauribidanoor Observatory