Asteroseismology, Photometry and Spectroscopy of Stars and Stellar SystemsAstrophysics Conference

Tuesday Oct 13, 2026, 9:55 AM → 4:25 PM Asia/Kolkata

Auditorium

The Group Committee 2 is organizing a one-day meeting on October 13, 2026 in IIA. The meeting will bring together researchers from IIA and ARIES working on asteroseismology, binary and chemically peculiar stars, stellar abundances and related areas. The program will also include a focused discussion session on ongoing and future Indo-Belgium collaborative projects.
 

1 Welcome Address

Session 1

2 Asteroseismology in the Era of High Resolution Spectroscopy

Speaker: Santosh Joshi (ARIES, Nainital)

3 Asteroseismic Measurements of Mixed-mode Coupling- Strengths for Lithium-rich stars

Speaker: Subrata Panda

4 Time-resolved Study of Eclipsing and Pulsating Variables in NGC 6819

Speaker: Surath Chandra Ghosh

11:00 AM Tea/Coffee

5 Asteroseismology Sheds Light on the Evolutionary Link Between Ba Giants and Dwarfs

Speaker: Lupamudra Sarma

6 Planetary Nebulae Abundances and AGB Yields

Speaker: Muthumariappan C

7 Investigating Non-uniform Mass-loss Rates Among Type-II Cepheids in OGLE and GAIA

Speaker: Anwesh Kumar Mishra (IIA, Bangalore)

8 A Photometric Census and Characterization of Variable Stars in Open Cluster

Speaker: Arvind Dattatrey

9 Short Cadence TESS Photometry and High Resolution Spectroscopy of TIC 303203928

Speaker: Sohan Roy

1:00 PM Lunch

Session 2

10 A Multiwavelength Perspective on Be/ X-ray Binaries

Speaker: Birendra Chhotaray

11 Abundances and Spectral Variability in the Hottest Ex- treme Helium Stars

Speaker: Sriram Krishna

12 Investigating the Nainital Cape Survey Stars with Time- resolved High-resolution Spectroscopy

Speaker: Athul Dileep

13 The Importance of Spectroscopy for Asteroseismology

Speaker: Peter De Cat

14 Discussion Session

15 Closing Remarks

3:50 PM Tea/Coffee