Monday, February 11

09:30-09:50 Inauguration (P. Ghosh, P. C. Agrawal, S. S. Jha)

09:50-10:20 High Tea

10:20-11:20 P. C. Agrawal An overview of ASTROSAT

11:20-12:20 K. P. Singh Introduction to X-ray Astronomy

12:20-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:30 D. Bhattacharya Basics of compact stars

14:30-15:00 P. Ghosh Basics of accretion physics

15:00-16:00 B. Paul Timing studies of accretion powered pulsars

16:00-16:30 Tea break

16:30-17:30 M. Vivekanand Rotation powered pulsars and isolated neutron stars - I

Tuesday, February 12

10:00-11:00 A. Kembhavi Black Holes in X-ray Binaries

11:00-12:00 D. Bhattacharya Overview of single-star evolution and compact star formation

12:00-12:20 Anuj Nandi Inner disk evacuation of GRS1915+105: magnetised TCAF (MTCAF) model

12:20-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 M. Vivekanand Rotation powered pulsars and isolated neutron stars - II

15:00-16:00 P. C. Agrawal Optical properties of X-ray pulsars and CVs

16:00-16:30 Tea break

16:30-17:30 A. R. Rao Continuum spectra of accretion powered pulsars

17:30-17:50 Amrit Lal Ahuja Tracking of Pulsar Dispersion Measure by Using GMRT

Wednesday, February 13

10:00-11:00 P. Ghosh Accretion powered pulsars: overview

11:00-12:00 D. Bhattacharya Stellar evolution in Binaries and formation of X-ray binaries

12:00-13:40 Lunch break

13:40-14:40 B. Paul Line spectra of accretion powered pulsars

14:40-15:40 A. R. Rao Cyclotron spectra of accretion powered pulsars

15:40-16:00 Tea break

Afternoon off

Thursday, February 14

10:00-11:00 P. Ghosh Quasiperiodic oscillations in X-ray binaries

11:00-12:00 D. Bhattacharya Mass transfer mechanisms in X-ray binaries, orbital evolution and consequences

12:00-12:20 Vivek Agrawal Spectral and timing properties of LMXBs

12:20-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 B. Paul Anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters

15:00-16:00 P. Sreekumar Gamma ray pulsars

16:00-16:30 Tea break

16:30-17:30 R. K. Manchanda Hard X-ray spectra of X-ray pulsars

17:30-17:50 Chandrika Devi Quasi-Radial Oscillations of Rotating Strange Stars in Strong Magnetic Fields

19:00-22:00 Workshop Dinner

Friday, February 15

10:00-11:00 D. Bhattacharya Evolution of neutron star magnetic fields, consequences for X-ray binaries

11:00-11:30 P. Ghosh Connection between rotation and accretion power: J1808.4-3658

11:30-11:50 Sudip Bhattacharyya An estimate of the upper limits of mass and radius of the compact star in the millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658

11:50-12:10 Ashish Asgekar A search for radio pulsations from SAX J1808.8-3654

12:10-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 P. Sreekumar Pulsar studies with SSM

15:00-15:15 P. Ghosh, Concluding remarks

15:15-16:00 Tea

16:00-18:00 Data analysis session

Saturday, February 16

Sunday, February 17