All recorded sessions can be viewed at
Day 1 session 1: https://youtu.be/rWM1azFKjzA
Day 1 Session 2 : https://youtu.be/H8JS7HEr_RM
Day 2 Session 1 : https://youtu.be/A70L7UicA64
Day 2 Session 2: https://youtu.be/ZJkyx0r1OJ8
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Date |
Day #1 Session #1 4th October 2021 |
09:30 to 13:00 IST (04:00 to 07:30 UTC) |
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Time (IST) |
Topic |
Speaker/s (Chair : Poonam Chandra) |
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09:30 |
Inauguration |
Ratan Tata and S. Ramakrishnan |
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09:40 |
Welcome & Overview talk |
Yashwant Gupta |
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10:00 |
Conceiving and building the GMRT |
S. Ananthakrishnan |
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10:30 |
Design, construction and maintenance of GMRT antennas |
A. Ashtikar |
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11:00 |
Break (15 mins) |
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11:15 |
Early GMRT electronics I |
T.L. Venkatasubramani |
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11:45 |
Early GMRT electronics II |
M.R. Sankararaman |
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12:15 |
Remembering Govind Swarup |
G. Srinivasan |
| 12:45 | End of Day #1 Session #1 | |
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Day #1 Session #2 4th October 2021 |
16:00 to 19:30 IST (10:30 to 14:00 UTC) | |
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Time (IST) |
Topic |
Speaker/s (Chair : Preeti Kharb) |
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16:00 |
Twenty years of science with the GMRT : an overview |
Jayaram Chengalur |
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16:30 |
Two decades of transients with the GMRT |
Poonam Chandra |
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17:00 |
Pulsar science with the GMRT over the years |
Bhaswati Bhattacharyya |
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17:30 |
Break (15 mins) |
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17:45 |
Upgraded GMRT : Front-end electronics & signal transport systems |
S. Suresh Kumar |
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18:15 |
Upgraded GMRT : Back-end electronics |
Ajith Kumar B. |
| 18:45 |
Release #1 : Release of GMRT continuum images from archival observations |
Yogesh Wadadekar |
| 19:15 | End of Day #1 Session #2 | |
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Date |
Day #2 Session #1 5th October 2021 |
09:30 to 13:00 IST (04:00 to 07:30 UTC) |
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Time (IST) |
Topic |
Speaker/s (Chair : Bhal Chandra Joshi) |
| 09:30 |
GMRT time allocation and usage over the years |
Dipankar Bhattacharya |
| 10:00 |
Tracing atomic hydrogen in distant galaxies with the GMRT |
Aditya Chowdhury |
| 10:30 | Upgrading the GMRT servo system | Shailendra Bagde |
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11:00 |
Break (10 minutes) |
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| 11:10 |
Upgraded GMRT : monitor & control system hardware |
Raj Uprade |
| 11:25 |
Next generation monitor & control software for the GMRT |
Jitendra Kodilkar |
| 11:40 |
GMRT control room : improved user experience |
Santaji Katore |
| 11:55 |
Identifying and mitigating RFI from the GMRT neighbourhood |
Pravin Raybole |
| 12:10 |
Upgraded GMRT : Real-time RFI mitigation in the back-end system |
Kaushal Buch |
| 12:25 |
Outreach activities at the GMRT |
Yogesh Wadadekar |
| 12:40 |
Release #2 : Release of imaging pipeline for uGMRT |
Ruta Kale |
| End of Day #2 Session #1 | ||
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Day #2 Session #2 5th October 2021 |
16:00 to 19:30 IST (10:30 to 14:00 UTC) | |
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Time (IST) |
Topic |
Speaker/s (Chair : Yogesh Wadadekar) |
| 16:00 |
The impact of GMRT on our knowledge of diffuse emission and radio galaxies in clusters |
Tiziana Venturi |
| 16:30 |
Continuum Surveys and Deep Fields with the GMRT |
Ishwara Chandra C. H. |
| 17:00 |
Release #3 : PINTA : pipeline for pulsar observations and INPTA data release 1a |
Bhal Chandra Joshi |
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17:30 |
Break (10 mins) |
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| 17:40 |
Panel discussion #1 : Theme : "Impact of GMRT over 2 decades" |
Panelists : Marc Verheijen, Tiziana Venturi, Huib Intema, L. Resmi, Maura McLaughlin Moderator : Rajaram Nityananda |
| 18:25 |
Panel discussion #2 : Theme : "GMRT : future prospects" |
Panelists : Jacqueline van Gorkom, Reinout van Weeren, Jason Hessels, Preeti Kharb, Russ Taylor Moderator : Dipankar Bhattacharya |
| 19:10 |
Closing Comments |
Jayaram Chengalur |
| End of Day #2 Session #2 |
