Presentation Guidelines
- You have 25 minutes for your talk + 5 minutes for questions
- You will lose marks if you cannot finish in the allotted time or if your talk is shorter than 20 minutes
- If using the desktop PC in the Lecture Hall, please load your talk before the start of the session
- If using your own laptop, please check that it works with the LCD projector before the start of the talk
- Available for setup help: 13:45-14:00 on Thursday and 09:15-09:30 on Friday
Day 1 Thursday, Feb 26, 2015
| Time | Student | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-14:30 | Biny | Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds |
| 14:30-15:00 | Nayana | Double-blind test program for astrometric planet detection with Gaia |
| 15:00-15:30 | Debajyoti | Weak Lensing Measurements: A Revisited Method and Application to Hubble Space Telescope Images |
| 15:30-16:00 | Avishek | A Modified Magnitude System that Produces Well-Behaved Magnitudes, Colors, and Errors Even for Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Measurements |
| Tea Break: 16:00 - 16:15 | ||
| 16:15-16:45 | Sushma | The Characterization, Subtraction, and Addition of Astronomical Images |
| 16:45-17:15 | Ruchika | Preparing Red-Green-Blue Images from CCD Data |
| 17:15-17:45 | Sushmita | Estimating Photometric Redshifts Using Support Vector Machines |
| 17:45-18:15 | Omkar | SExtractor: Software for source extraction |
| 18:15-18:45 | Aishawnnya | Precision Determination of Atmospheric Extinction at Optical and Near-infrared Wavelengths |
Day 2 Friday, Feb 27, 2015
| Time | Student | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30-10:00 | Preetish | The Orthogonal Transfer CCD |
| 10:00-10:30 | Atul | High-efficiency Autonomous Laser Adaptive Optics |
| 10:30-11:00 | Suman | A Novel Technique to Improve Photometry in Confused Images Using Graphs and Bayesian Priors |
| 11:00-11:30 | Swagat | Parallax beyond a Kiloparsec from Spatially Scanning the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope |
| Tea Break: 11:30 - 11:45 | ||
| 11:45-12:15 | Niladri | Detailed Decomposition of Galaxy Images. II. Beyond Axisymmetric Models |
| 12:15-12:45 | Kaustubh | A New Method for Band-limited Imaging with Undersampled Detectors |
| 12:45-13:15 | Dinesh | The Three-Dimensional Power Spectrum of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |