Invited Talks

List of confirmed invited speakers is given below

(Invited Talks will be of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion)

Inaugural Session

09:00-09:30

Keynote address :

Prof. Anil Bhardwaj

Director,

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

(09:30-10:15)

Day 1 (10:45-13:00)

Session 1 : Basic Plasma

D-01 / S-01

Talk No.	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
S1-I-01	Shantanu Karkari	IPR, Gandhinagar	Experiments to investigate plasma sheaths
S1-I-02	Kushal Shah	IISER, Bophal	RF heating and Fermi accelerators

Day 2 (09:00-11:15)

Session 2 : Nuclear Fusion

D-02 / S-02

Talk No.	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
S2-I-01	S. R. Mohanty	CPP-IPR, Guwahati	Compact Fusion Neutron Sources Based on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Concept
S2-I-02	Joydeep Ghosh	IPR, Gandhinagar	Recent Results from Aditya Upgrade Tokamak

Day 2 (11:30-13:45)

Session 3 : Plasma Processing, Industrial Plasma & Pulsed Power

D-02 / S-03

Talk No.	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
S3-I-01	Priyabrata Banerjee	CMERI, Durgapur	Plasma: An ultimate Solution in Waste Management
S3-I-02	Kowsik Bodi	IIT, Mumbai	Numerical Simulation of electrically conducting fluids
S3-I-03	V. L. Mathe	Pune University	Atmospheric pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma for Effective Degradation of Organic Water Pollutants

Day 3 (09:00-11:15)

Session 4: Space & Atmospheric Plasma

D-03 / S-04

Talk No.	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
S4-I-01	Tarun Kumar Pant	VSSC, Tvm	Plasma Processes In Near Earth Space : An Emerging Perspective
S4-I-02	Durgesh Tripathi	IUCAA, Pune	Heating and Maintaining the Solar Coronal Plasma to Million Degrees

Day 3 (11:30-13:45)

Session 5 : Laser Plasma + Computer Modeling

D-03 / S-05

Talk No.	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
S5-I-01	A. P. Mishra	V B U, Shantiniketan	Nonlinear Interaction Of Waves In Plasmas: A Simulation Approach
S5-I-02	Shreekant Barnwal	RRCAT, Indore	Capillary Discharge Soft X-ray Laser

Day 3 (17:45-19:15)

Session 6 : Exotic Plasma + Pulsed Power

D-03 / S-06

Talk No.	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
S6-I-01	Surendra Prasad	BHU, Varanasi	Numerical Modeling of Surface Modes at the interface of air and semi-infinite One Dimensional Plasma Photonic Crystals
S6-I-02	Rohit Shukla	BARC, Vizag	Applied Compact Pulsed Power & Diagnostics Development Activities at BARC Visakhapatnam, Atchyutapuram Main Campus

Day 4 (12:00-13:30)

Session 7 : Plasma Diagnostics

Talk No.	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
S7-I-01	Divya Oberoi	NCRA-TIFR, Pune	Solar plasma diagnostics using low radio frequency observations
S7-I-02	Rajesh Srivastava	IIT-Roorkie	Spectroscopic diagnostic of argon and krypton plasma using a C-R model with fully relativistic electron impact cross-sections