National Events/Notifications

The details on the memorial meeting for Dr. Nandivada Rathnasree which was held on Saturday (29th May 2021) evening (6pm) can be found from the

youtube link https://www.youtube.com/asiofficial/live

This year's ICTS summer school on gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy will be held from 05 to 16 July 2021. Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, the school will be held online. Applications for the school are now open. This year’s school will focus on the stochastic GW background from the early universe as well as produced by astrophysical sources.

Courses:

Stochastic GW…

This is an announcement for BRICS2021 meeting which will be held at IUCAA Pune Online during 19-20 May 2021.

In accordance with the BRICS Calendar of STI events for organizing during India’s BRICS Presidency in 2021 (https://brics2021.gov.in/), I am pleased to inform you that the 7th meeting of the BRICS Astronomy WG (BAWG2021) will take place in…

Please find attached SkyNews for May 2021. It contains

Sun, Planets and Transitions
List of Events in May 2021
March of the Moon
Lunar Eclipse
A note on the total (umbral) lunar eclipse on 26 May
(umbral eclipse is not visible from India)
Planetary Conjunction
Venus - Mercury on 29 May
Lunar Occultation of a Bright Star…

UM-DAE CEBS, Mumbai is organising a three day symposium next month (from 6-8th May, 2021) on the frontiers in astrophysics and fluid mechanics, in the memory of late Prof. Shashikumar M. Chitre. Eminent scientists from different parts of the world will deliver plenary and invited lectures. This includes plenary lectures by Prof. Kip Throne (Nobel laureate in Physics), and Lord Martin Rees (…

ISRO has advertised an announcement of opportunity soliciting proposals for the third batch of AstroSat data utilization funding.

The details of the AO is available at the following address.

https://www.isro.gov.in/update/20-apr-2021/announcement-of-…

Attached SkyNews supplement on occultation of Mars by the Moon.

It contains timings of disappearance and reappearance for some 145 locations across India.

We are pleased to attach the SkyNews April 2021 issue, along with our greetings and compliments. For the uninitiated, SkyNews is a free electronic newsletter for sky observers in India. It gives information about what can be observed in the night sky directly and through a small telescope. You are welcome to pass on this…

In August this year India will host the joint scientific assembly of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) in Hyderabad. The announcement is attached.

In particular, several sessions are devoted to solar system space weather, planetary magnetic fields and…

Greetings. As was done last year, an online refresher course on astronomy and astrophysics is being organized this year from the 10th of May till the 11th of June 2021. The last date for registration is the 12th of  April 2021. This year the course is being coordinated  by Professors Dipanjan Mukherjee, Nishant Singh and  Surhud More. The refresher course will be held…

Please find attached historical Notes: The Indian contribution to the physics of black holes: 2020 Nobel Prize by Prof. Naresh Dadhich.

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 23rd March 2021 for the upcoming workshop on 21-cm Cosmology and Reionization. It will be held ONLINE during April 19 - 23, 2021.

We will have a memorial lecture on “Prof. Govind Swarup's life and work” by Prof. Jayaram Chengalur (…

We invite you to join us for the inaugural Govind Swarup Memorial Lecture, an annual event which NCRA-TIFR is starting from this year, in honour of Prof. Govind Swarup.

Prof. Swarup, who passed away in September 2020, was the major force behind establishing radio astronomy research in India. He founded the Radio Astronomy group at TIFR which later became the National Centre for Radio…

Virtual Meeting June 7-10, 2021

In coordination with the NASA Living With a Star Program, the 2nd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium will be held virtually June 7-10, 2021. The goal of this meeting is to bring together diverse groups from data science, Earth and space sciences.

We wish to identify and promote novel opportunities for budding scientists, to take advantage of…

Nominations are invited for Prof. Peraiah Foundation Award 2021

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Kindly find attached the notification about invitation of nominations for Prof. Peraiah Foundation Award 2021.
Each nomination, including all the supporting…

Workshop on "Astrophysical jets and observational facilities: National perspective" registration deadline is extended upto 10th March 2021

In the light of subject cited above (hosting  Workshop on "Astrophysical jets and observational facilities: National perspective", 05-09 April 2021 ARIES Nainital), it is informed that the last date for the registration is now extended till 10th…

We are indeed fortunate to have a public lecture by Prof. G. Srinivasan as a part of the 39th annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of India. Being a public lecture, it is meant to be accessible to a general audience. This online lecture will be live cast on the ASI YouTube channel. We invite you to join us for this public lecture, and request you to share this information widely with…

Greetings from the Department of Physics, NIT Calicut.

We are organizing a DST/SERB sponsored High-End Workshop (online mode) on “Solar Activities and their influences in the Heliosphere and Planetary Atmospheres” during March 8-14, 2021.

The workshop aims to provide an overview of the current understanding and frontier problems in solar and planetary sciences by inviting eminent…

Greetings. The Teaching Learning Centre of the Astronomy Centre for Educators, IUCAA, along with the IUCAA Centre for Astronomy Research and Development, Tezpur University, is pleased to announce a course on introductory astronomy and astrophysics. This is essentially for college teachers with a focus on the north-east where astronomy and astrophysics has been introduced as an elective…

The Teaching Learning Centre of the Astronomy Centre for Educators is pleased to announce an online advanced  course on pulsar astrophysics, by Professor Dipankar Bhattacharya of IUCAA. This course is essentially for faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and research  scholars working in the field, and is for a duration of about two months. A copy of the poster is attached.

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We are pleased to attach the SkyNews January 2021 issue, along with our greetings and compliments.
For the uninitiated, SkyNews is a free electronic newsletter for sky observers in India. It gives information about what can be observed in the night sky directly and through a small telescope. You are welcome to pass on this newsletter to anyone else who might be interested in such…

An IIA-50 Conference - Advances in Observations and Modelling of Solar Magnetism and Variability
1 – 4 March, 2021
First Announcement

As part of a series of events celebrating the Golden Jubilee year of The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (https://www.iiap.res.in/IIA50/), a solar physics conference titled “Advances in Observation and…

Inviting you to join this people’s participation during the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

Jupiter and Saturn are now (16 Dec 2020)seen very close to each other.  The planets will be seen closest on 21 Dec 2020.   All you have to do is to look above the western sky about 40 min after the sunset.If the sky is clear then you should be able the planets well…

The School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, in association with the Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune will be conducting a Workshop on Ultraviolet Astronomy (Dec 5 - 7 2020). The last date for applying is 26th Nov 2020. The link for applying is given below and the poster is attached.

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings.

Given the current pandemic situation, the Ministry of Education along with AICTE, and NTA (for conducting the examinations), have decided to offer the ARPIT 2019 courses for ARPIT 2020. Accordingly the course on "Stars and Stellar systems" which IUCAA NRC had made last year with the help of many leading researchers in the field, is…

We are pleased to attach the SkyNews December 2020 issue, along with our greetings and compliments.
For the uninitiated, SkyNews is a free electronic newsletter for sky observers in India. It gives information about what can be observed in the night sky directly and through a small telescope. You are welcome to pass on this newsletter to anyone else who might be interested in such…

The Scientific Workshop will take place on January 12, 2021 , followed the next day by the India-SA Astronomy Working Group Meeting on January 13, 2021. Both events will be hosted via video conference (Zoom). Please find more details from the attached file.

- Dipankar Bhattacharya

The Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore is organizing a three day virtual meeting during 1 - 3 December 2020 to celebrate five years of observations with UVIT. Please find more details from the attached poster.

Meeting link: https://www.iiap.res.in/uvit_2020
Registration closes on 10th November 2020

-C. S. Stalin

Please find the attached SkyNews for November 2020

-Arvind Paranjpye

SkyNews for October 2020, please find the attached file for your reference.

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- Arvind Paranjpye