Conference Schedule (Download the PDF version)

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Venue:  A J C Seminar room, Main Building, Presidency University

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11th December (Monday)

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09.30-10.00: Inaugural Session

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Tea Break

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10.30-11.10: Global 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization

Ravi Subrahmanyan (IR) [Slides]

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11.10-11.35: Imprints of recombination history of the Universe on HI 21-cm signal during dark ages

Mayuri S. Rao (IT) [Slides]

 

11.35-11.55: Foreground Subtraction in redshifted 21cm Global Signal Experiments using Artificial Neural Networks

Madhurima Choudhury [Slides]

 

11.55-12.20: Simulations of the post-EoR HI signal

Nishikant Khandai (IT) [Slides]

 

12.20-12.45: Probing the post reionization epoch with Ooty Wide-Field Array: Challenges in detecting redshifted 21-cm signal

Visweshwar Ram Marthi (IT) [Slides]

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Lunch  Break

1.40-2.20: Towards accurate modelling HI 21-cm signal from cosmic dawn and reionization: Current status and challenges

Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (IR) [Slides]

 

2.20-2.40: Reionization constraints after Planck

Sourav Mitra (IT) [Slides]

 

2.40-3.00: Measuring the reionization 21cm fluctuations using clustering wedges

Dinesh Raut [Slides]

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Break due to a University event (3.00-4.20pm) 

 

A talk on "Mahalanobis & Fisher: Mathematical Statistics As A Global Enterprise" by 

Prof. STEPHEN STIGLER (see here for details) 

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Post Tea Session

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4.20-4.40: Analytically Modelling 21-cm Signal from Early Phase of Epoch of Reionization

Jankee Raste [Slides]

 

4.40-5.00: Enhanced 21cm Power Spectrum due to inhomogeneous CMB heating during Dark Ages

Sioree Ansar [Slides]

 

5.00-5.20: Impact of Non-Gaussianity for Parameter Estimation from the EoR 21cm Signal

Avinash K. Shaw [Slides]

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12th December (Tuesday)

 

9.30-9.55: Probing the epoch of reionization using Minkowski Tensors                      

Pravabati Chingangbam (IT) [Slides]

 

9.55-10.15: 3D Minkowski Tensors as a probe of Epoch of Reionization

Akanksha Kapahtia [Slides]

 

10.15-10.40: The epoch of reionization through HI 21-cm bispectrum

Suman Majumdar (IT) [Slides]

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Tea Break

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11.10-11.35: Probing epoch of reionization with SKA1-low: An Indian perspective

Abhirup Datta (IT) [Slides]

 

11.35-11.55: Searching for sources at the Cosmic Dawn using redshifted 21cm signal

Raghunath Ghara (IT) [Slides]

 

11.55-12.20: Extracting the HI power spectrum from the EoR using the MWA

Sourabh Paul (IT) [Slides]

 

12.20-12.40: On detecting EoR using drift scan data from MWA

Akash Kumar Patwa   [Slides]

 

Lunch Break

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2.15-2.55: Interferometric detection of cosmological 21-cm signal: Challenges and prospects

Somnath Bharadwaj (IR) [Slides]

 

2.55-3.20: The Tapered Gridded Estimator (TGE): A novel technique to estimate power spectrum from radio-interferometric data

Samir Choudhuri (IT) [Slides]

 

3.20-3.45: Characterizing Foregrounds in 21 cm Cosmology Observation with the uGMRT at 300-500 MHz

Arnab Chackraborty  [Slides]

 

Tea Break

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4.15-4.35: Probing the epoch of reionization with the galaxy luminosity function

Saumyadeep Samui (IT) [Slides]

 

4.35-4.55: Non-linear clustering of high-z dark matter halos and galaxies

Charles Jose (IT) [Slides]

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4.55-5.15 Conditional HI Mass Function and Clustering in the Local  Universe

Saili Dutta [Slides]

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13th December (Wednesday)

 

9.30-9.55: Prospect for detecting of the cosmological  HI signal with Ooty Wide-Field Array 

Sk. Saiyad Ali (IT) [Slides]

 

9.55-10.15: A study of the effectiveness of the TGE in suppressing the point source contamination in detecting the 21-cm EoR signal

Srijita Pal [Slides]

 

10.15-10.35: Spherical Harmonic Analysis of HI 21-cm Visibility and Visibility Correlation

Suman Chatterjee [Slides]

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Tea Break

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11.30-11.55: Future Constraints on Dark Energy using 21cm observations with SKA1-mid

Bikash Dinda [Slides]

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11.55-12.15: Prospects of probing quintessence with H I 21-cm intensity mapping survey

Azam Hussain [Slides]

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12.15-12.35: Modelling redshift-space distortion (RSD) in the post-reionization HI 21-cm power spectrum

Debanjan Sarkar [Slides​]

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12.35-12.55:  Predictions for detecting the cross correlation signal using OWFA

Anjan Sarkar [Slides]

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Lunch Break

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2.25 - 3.50:    Discussion session on Future plans with GMRT, OWFA, SARAS, SKA India EoR/Cosmology

 

3.50 - 4.00:    Vote of thanks

 

IR: Invited Review talk

IT: Invited focussed talk