We are pleased to share Orbit, the latest quarterly newsletter from the Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP), Kolkata. This merged edition, with ICSP Director Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti as the editor, spans September 2023 to August 2024 and features key research updates, the inauguration of ICSP’s Astronomy and Space Museum, and recent educational initiatives.
Please find more…
Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education is organising “Manipal Astrostatistics School - 2024” in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), IUCAA, BARC and SINP. This Astrostatistics school is expected to prepare PhD students, Postdoctoral fellows and young faculty researchers with a…
The registration and abstract submission is open for the ASI Symposium 001 titled "Astronomy from Moon in the era of Indian lunar missions" which will be held from 02 - 04 Dec 2024 at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru. Please find more inormation from the meeting link.
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The registration and abstract submission is open for the ASI Symposium 002 titled "Particle acceleration in the Sun and Heliosphere" which will be held from 16-18 Dec 2024 at Arul Anandar College, Madurai. Please find more information from the meeting link and the attached poster.
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IUCAA workshop on AI/ ML applications in Astronomy & Astrophysics from 06 – 10 January, 2025. The workshop will be for young researchers and faculty with background in astronomy and astrophysics and interest in applicaon of AI/ ML techniques to astronomy.
Please find more information from the attached poster.
The sixth biennial conference on "Recent Trends in the study of Compact Objects: Theory and Observation (RETCO-VI)" will take place at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore) during 10 - 12 March 2025, organized by the Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering (DAASE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore. This biennial…
We are writing with a request for you to sign up for this program so that we can build a resource sheet of astronomers who are willing to volunteer for the Astronomers in Residence initiative of the Public Outreach and Education Committee of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI-POEC). The Program intends to bring an astronomer in touch with schools, colleges, universities who rarely get a…
Dear Members of the Professional and Amateur Astronomy Communities,
The International Astronomical Union’s Professional-Amateur Astronomer Working Group (Pro-Am Working Group) is working to connect professional and amateur astronomers, with the aim of promoting research collaborations, delivering workshops, and promoting and facilitating the integration of professional astronomers…
Please find attached the SkyNews for October 2024.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and their Applications from 13-14 Nov, 2024 at A.P.S. University Rewa (M. P.). Please find more information from the attached brochure.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming Modern Engineering Trends in Astronomy (META-2024) conference, scheduled to take place from December 3rd to 6th, 2024, at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. META-2024 is being jointly organized by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Raman Research Institute, Indian Institute of Astrophysics,…
Dear Educators,
We are delighted to inform you that the OAE Center India, hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, in association with the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) of the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, is offering valuable resources for school-level astronomy education. Please share this message…
Workshop on "Two-Component Advective Flows (TCAF): Fitting Procedure and Results for Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes". This workshop will be organized in both online and offline modes, is part of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of ICSP and will be held on September 25th, 2024, at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP, Kolkata.
Please find the attached poster of…
Dear Colleague,
We are happy invite you to attend the "Radio Astronomy TEchniques Seminars - RATeS".
Currently we are witnessing spectacular radio images of the sky opening new scientific challenges, thanks to the precursor and pathfinder radio telescopes of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…
The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey team has released radio continuum images and a catalog of 971,980 radio sources detected over an area of 4344 deg^2 from 391 telescope pointings at 1 - 1.7 GHz. This is the largest catalog of radio sources from any MeerKAT survey to date, and one of only a handful of radio catalogs with a million or more sources. Using this million source catalog, MALS team…
Please find attached the SkyNews for September 2024.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Half-day workshop on "Machine Learning and Its Applications" . The workshop is a part of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of ICSP and will be held on September 7th, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP, Kolkata.
Please find the detailed program schedule and registration information in the attached document.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Greetings. We are pleased to announce the Radio Astronomy Winter School 2024 (RAWS-2024), a joint program of IUCAA and NCRA-TIFR. We invite applications for RAWS-2024 from both faculty members and educators of higher education institutions, and second and third year undergraduate/integrated five-year postgraduate students in either science or engineering. A…
We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the 3rd National Seminar on "Discovery and Detection of Gravitational Waves" on September 14th, 2024, at our campus in Jaipur. This seminar aims to bring together leading experts, educators, and students from across the country to explore the latest advancements in gravitational wave science.
In addition to engaging…
Dear All,
The A&A vision document (MSV-2035), we have been preparing for a couple of years, is now published in the webpage of the office of the principal scientific adviser to the government of India. Please click here.
We thank the members…
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Greetings. On behalf of the Astronomy Centre for Educators (ACE) of IUCAA we are pleased to announce an Astronomy-themed Experiments Competition.
The objective of this competition is to design astronomy- themed experiments for undergraduate and postgraduate laboratories in institutions of higher education, including engineering institutions. Ongoing…
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that a popular book on astronomy written by myself (which is my second book on popular astronomy) has been published recently and is currently available at Amazon for purchase.
Title: Mars: a celestial show's topper
Summary: The theme of this book is a bit unique. It is not a book giving details…
Dear Colleague,
We are happy invite you to attend the "Radio Astronomy TEchniques Seminars - RATeS".
Currently we are witnessing spectacular radio images of the sky opening new scientific challenges, thanks to the precursor and pathfinder radio telescopes of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…
Manipal Center for Natural Sciences (MCNS) is organising a National-Level School on “Fundamentals of Space Radiation for scientists, engineers and space entrepreneurs”, sponsored by the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India
Venue: Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education…
Sun, Space Weather and Solar-Stellar Connections — An international conference commemorating 125 years of KSO
Conference Dates: January 20 – 24, 2025
Second Announcement
We invite abstracts and registration for the the international conference “Sun, Space…
Dear Colleagues,
As you know, the Government of India has recently approved the country's participation in the construction of the SKA telescopes, paving the way for India to become a full member of the SKA Observatory (SKAO) (https://www.skao.int/en). This exciting development provides a unique opportunity for interested…
Dear All,
We are soliciting applications for participation in a Gravitational-Wave Instrumentation Workshop (GWIW) to be conducted at IUCAA, Pune from November 10-29, 2024. The workshop is geared towards giving students a hands on introduction to LIGO-related instrumentation, with the goal: "To spread the GW Instrumentation Community Nationwide in view of the upcoming…
An international symposium is organized during Nov 20-22, 2024. Please look at the symposium website (link: https://sites.google.com/view/issac-2024/home). The deadline for abstract submission is Aug 10, 2024 (It will be extended. Please keep an eye on the symposium website). To submit the abstract, please visit the…
Please find attached the SkyNews for August 2024.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Dear BRICS+ colleagues
The BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop will be held on 9 - 13 September in Kazan Federal University in Kazan City, Russia, the meeting will also be available in Hybrid format.
This year the science theme of the meeting will be The BRICS Intelligent Telescope and Data Network. The aim is to advance the BRICS Astronomy flagship project.…
