META-2022

Sep 14, 2022, 8:15 AM → Sep 16, 2022, 6:30 PM Asia/Kolkata

IIA Bangalore

We are pleased to announce a conference titled "Modern Engineering Trends in Astronomy" (META-2022) jointly organized  by National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of TIFR, Raman Research Institute and Indian Institute of Astrophysics, which will be held on 14th, 15th and 16th September, 2022 at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.

The aim of the conference is to provide a common platform for Engineers and Scientists working in the field of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation to share their knowledge and discuss the recent Engineering trends in building instruments for research in Astronomy and Astrophysics in India.

Poster Size for META 2022-  A0 Size Poster is preferred for META 2022 as the Fixing Board Size at IIA is 56 Inches x 46 Inches (Landscape orientation).

Conference Topics

• Optical Engineering
•  Electrical Systems
•  Observatory Control System and Software
•  Mechanical Systems and Emerging Manufacturing Technology
•  Image Processing
•  Antenna and RF
•  Digital Signal Processing
•  RFI & EMI/EMC Mitigation
•  CCD Controllers
•  High Performance Computing

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Wednesday, September 14

8:15 AM → 9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Welcome and Plenary

9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Annapurni Subramaniam (IIA)

9:10 AM Key Note Address

Speaker: Prof. Yashwant Gupta (NCRA-TIFR, Pune)

9:50 AM → 11:10 AM Invited Talks

9:50 AM Touching Infinity, the JWST Mirror Makers

Speaker: Glen Cole (TIO)

10:30 AM Visible Emission Line Coronagraph on-board Aditya L1 : Engineering Challenges

Speaker: Prof. Raghavendra Prasad B (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

11:10 AM → 11:30 AM Poster Presentation, Models Display & Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 AM → 1:10 PM Session: Instrumentation Projects at IIA

Conveners: Mahesh Panangattukara (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560034), Tarun Bangia (ARIES)

11:30 AM Mechanical Design Aspects of INSIST Project

Speaker: Dr Nagabhushana S (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

11:50 AM NLST Project

Speaker: Dr Ravindra B (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:10 PM SCALES Project

Speaker: Dr Ravinder K. Banyal (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:30 PM Primary Mirror Control Systems (M1CS) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project

Speaker: Dr Prasanna Deshmukh (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:50 PM Conceptual design of M2/M3 Coating Plant for TMT

Speaker: Dr Maheswar Gopinathan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

1:10 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Session: Antenna and RF, Digital Signal Processing & CCD Controllers

Conveners: Kumar T.S. (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, INDIA), Prasanna Deshmukh (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

2:00 PM Navigation Systems for Aero space Applications

Speaker: Shiv Prasad (DRDL)

2:30 PM Overview of GMRT Antenna Feed Upgrade : Current and Future Works

Speaker: HANUMANTH RAO BANDARI (TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH)

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

Speaker: Soham Das

3:00 PM Recent Updates from the Expanded GMRT Aperture Array Beamformer Development

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Dimple Dimple (ARIES, Nainital)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Session: Optical Engineering

Conveners: Krishna Reddy (ARIES), Sriram S

4:00 PM Optics Fabrication

Speaker: Rama krishna (Optics & Allied Engg. Pvt. Ltd.)

4:30 PM Aluminizing the Primary Mirrors of Telescopes in ARIES

Speaker: Krishna Reddy (ARIES)

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4:45 PM The conceptual design of high-resolution optical spectrograph for TMT

Speaker: Amirul Hasan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore)

5:00 PM Optomechanical design and analysis of SING spectrograph

Speaker: Binukumar Gopalakrishnan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

5:15 PM Optical design of thermal infrared imager for the SCALES on Keck

Speaker: 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)

Speaker: ANWESHA HOODATI (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS)

5:45 PM Full Stokes Polarimeter for Characterization of Retarders

Speaker: Phanindra DVS (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Coffee/Tea Break

Thursday, September 15

8:15 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary Session & Invited Talks

9:00 AM Engineer’s Day & It’s significance

Speaker: Mahesh Panangattukara (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560034)

9:05 AM Industry 5.0-personal Musings

Speaker: Prof. Jagadish G (Centre for Excellence in Hypersonics; Aerospace Engineering Dept, IISc)

9:45 AM Challenges in Electro Optical Systems Development for Space Missions

Speaker: Dr Nagendra Rao (Ex Centre Director, LEOS)

10:25 AM Astrophotography

Speaker: Dorje Angchuk (IIA)

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM Session: Mechanical Systems and Emerging Manufacturing Technology

Conveners: Kathiravan S (IIA), Dr Nagabhushana S (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

11:00 AM Porous Nano Materials for Advanced Applications

Speaker: Prof. Gurumoorthi Hebbar (Christ University)

11:30 AM Upgradation in the Filter slide motion mechanism for 1.3m DFOT

Speaker: Tarun Bangia (ARIES)

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

Speaker: Hari Mohan Varshney

12:00 PM Structural Design and Finite Element Analysis of Wide Field Optical Spectrograph (WFOS)

Speaker: AJIN PRAKASH (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:15 PM Mechanical Engineering & modern Observational Science - with emerging Manufacturing Technology

Speaker: PRADIP CHAKRABORTY (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences(ARIES),Nainital,Uttarakhand)

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

Speaker: Hari Mohan Varshney

12:45 PM Balloon-borne Payload Module: Collection of Micrometeorite Dust at High Altitudes in Earth's Atmosphere

Speaker: Diksha Arora

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Session: Electrical Systems

Conveners: Dorje Angchuk (IIA), Dr Prabhu T (Raman Research Institute)

2:00 PM Best Grounding practices

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Naveen Dukiya (ARIES Nainital)

2:45 PM 1.3m Telescope Current Status and Future Up-gradation Plans

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Ashish Kumar (ARIES)

3:15 PM Upgradation of integral auto guider unit subsystem of the 3.6 m DOT

Speaker: Kumar T.S. (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, INDIA)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Poster Presentation & Coffee/Tea Break

4:00 PM → 5:15 PM Session: Observatory Control System and Software, RFI & EMI/EMC Mitigation & High Performance Computing

Conveners: Amit Kumar, Phanindra DVS (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

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

Speaker: Tsewang Stanzin

4:15 PM RF over fiber based distributed RFI monitoring system

Speaker: Sanjeet Rai (NCRA- TIFR)

4:30 PM Real-time Broadband RFI Filtering System for uGMRT: Overview of the Released System and Future Plans

Speaker: Kaushal Buch (Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, NCRA-TIFR)

4:45 PM Multi-Element Correlator & Beam former using Open CL on FPGA Accelerator Card

Speaker: Raghuttam Hombal (Savitribai Phule Pune University)

5:00 PM Electronics subsystem development of SING spectrograph payload

Speaker: Bharath Chandra (Indian Institute of Astrophysics )

5:15 PM → 5:30 PM Vote of Thanks & Group Photo with Shri. S. Somanath, Chairman, ISRO

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Coffee/Tea & Certificate Distribution

6:00 PM → 8:15 PM Session: Engineer’s Day Talk & Cultural Program

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

6:05 PM Engineer’s Day Talk

Speaker: Somanath S (ISRO)

6:45 PM “RAAG-HARMONY” by Ateetam and Musical Programme by IIA Family

8:15 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Friday, September 16

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

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Breakfast

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

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

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

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Tea Break

4:00 PM → 6:30 PM Departure from GBD and arrival to IIA Bangalore, Conference closure