The First Indo-French meeting on
"Infra Red Spectroscopic Imaging Survey (IRSIS)"
December 04-05, 2007, TIFR, Mumbai



From left to right: B Lecomte (LERMA), D Ojha (TIFR), T Chandrasekhar (PRL),
B Mookerjea (TIFR), N M Ashok (PRL), A N Ramaprakash (IUCAA),
T Le Bertre (LERMA), E Dartois (IAS), S K Gosh (TIFR)
(photo: J-M Krieg, LERMA)

Scientific Programme
Day-1, 04-Dec-2007 (Tuesday) -
Session-I 11:00 AM (A-269)
  • S K Ghosh : Overview of IRSIS & status
  • T Le Bertre : Context and motivation for a French participation to IRSIS
  • J-M Krieg : French contribution to IRSIS
  • S S Poojary : Evaluation of a few options for the Telescope optics
  • B Lecomte : Preliminary fiber bundle design

    • Session-II 14:30 IST (A-269)
  • A N Ramaprakash : Fiber-fed spectrometer developments at IUCAA
  • N M Ashok: Proposed spectrometer (1)
  • T Chandrasekhar : Proposed spectrometer (2)
  • B Mookerjea : PDRs in the eyes of IRSIS
  • D Narasimha : Some problems with the Absorption lines in Lens Systems: Infrared lines can resolve them?
  • D K Ojha : Current activities of TIFR Infrared Group & plans for near future

    • Day-2, 05-Dec-2007 (Wednesday) -

    Session-III 11:30 AM (Lecture Hall AG-69)
    "Special Astronomy Seminar"
  • E Dartois : Exploring ISM dust with IRSIS
  • T Le Bertre : NIR spectro-photometry of AGB stars: from IRTS to IRSIS

    • Session-IV 14:30 IST (A-269)
  • S L D'Costa : Thermal control (modelling plans)
  • M B Naik : Active cooling plans
  • P Sandimani : Drive electronics for Hawaii-1RG; SIDECAR ASIC

    • General discussion, comments & future plans

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