pp 1-1 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Preface

T Padmanabhan

pp 3-18 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Hydrodynamic stability and stellar oscillations

H M Antia

pp 19-28 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Disks around young stellar objects

H C Bhatt

pp 29-37 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Beyond the Chandrasekhar limit: Structure and formation of compact stars

Dipankar Bhattacharya

pp 39-52 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Extracting science from surveys of our Galaxy

James Binney

pp 53-66 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability of black holes with radiative transfer

Roger Blandford Jonathan C Mckinney Nadia Zakamska

pp 67-76 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Chandrasekhar–Kendall functions in astrophysical dynamos

Axel Brandenburg

pp 77-96 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

The origin of the solar magnetic cycle

Arnab Rai Choudhuri

pp 97-105 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Chandrasekhar’s book An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure

Peter P Eggleton

pp 107-118 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Chance and Chandra

Jeremy Goodman Zachary Slepian

pp 119-133 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Gravitational waves from binary black holes

Bala R Iyer

pp 135-146 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Stellar dynamics and black holes

David Merritt

pp 147-156 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Statistical mechanics of gravitating systems ... and some curious history of Chandra’s rare misses!

T Padmanabhan

pp 157-168 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Multiple scattering polarization – Application of Chandrasekhar’s formalisms to the atmosphere of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets

Sujan Sengupta Mark S Marley

pp 169-184 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Symmetry in stochasticity: Random walk models of large-scale structure

Ravi K Sheth

pp 185-198 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

Magnetohydrodynamics turbulence: An astronomical perspective

S Sridhar

pp 199-212 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

The origin of the strongest magnetic fields in dwarfs

Christopher A Tout

pp 213-226 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

The legacy of S Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)

Kameshwar C Wali

pp 227-232 July 2011 Proceedings of the Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference (CHANDRA 2010)

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