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
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has been surveying the full sky since July 2014. The first data release (DR1) was in September 2016 and the second data release (DR2) was in April 2018. Gaia is revolutionizing our understanding of the formation history of the Milky Way and is having a significant impact on other areas of astronomy ranging from solar…
Call for ASI 2021 Workshop Proposals
The 39th meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) is scheduled to be held online in mid-February 2021 tentatively.
As has been the case for the last several ASI meetings, it is proposed to hold a few one-day workshops the day before the ASI meeting starts. The SOC invites proposals for conducting workshops, in…
The deadline for receiving the nominations for all the awards has been extended upto 22nd Oct 2020.
Nominations are invited for the "Justice Oak best thesis award" for the year 2020
The Astronomical Society of India gives the Justice V. G. Oak Award every year for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in Astronomy and related areas,…
Meeting Date: 29th and 30th Sept 2020
Deadline for the registration : 20th September 2020
Website link : https://www.iiap.res.in/HCT20/
The Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT), the flagship facility for the Indian ground-based astronomy, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Twenty years ago, on 26th September 2000, HCT captured…
Date: 15 - 20th March 2021
Venue: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Website Link: https://skamse2020.sciencesconf.org/
Announcement of the 4th Indo-french CEFIPRA Astronomy meeting (IFCAM) on 'Galactic and extragalactic universe in the era of new-generation radio (SKA and pathfinders)/IR/Optical (MSE) facilities'…
The YouTube link for the livestream is:
https://youtu.be/k3GLGs8_fME
Title: Extraordinary/Ordinary: R. Rajalakshmi’s Life in Science
Abstract: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from…
A book on Gravitational Waves - Title: A New Window to the Universe - Authors: Ajit Kembhavi, Pushpa Khare
The book is qualitative and meant for the general reader, but there are some chapters (Detectors, Detections, Future Developments) which should provide useful summaries of the current status to physicists and astronomers.
The book is available on…
The Physics Department of Presidency University is going to organize an online Physics Summit- Presision '20 (website: https://presision20.weebly.com). As a part of this event, we will have Undergraduate Symposium, Public Talk, and Panel Discussion. Amidst the lockdown, we are taking things completely online. It will take place on 11, 12, 13…
Dear all,
LIGO-India is organising the second session of the "Gravitational Waves @ Home with LIGO-India" lecture series. This series of lectures covers a wide variety of topics related to gravitational wave astrophysics. The lectures are delivered by leading experts from various institutes, and are broadly aimed at college students. All lectures are online on youtube, and free for all…
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) invites proposals from the astronomical community of India and Belgium for observations with 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) for the observing cycle from October 2020 to January 2021 (DOT-2020-C2). The deadline for receiving these proposals is 23:59:59 IST (UTC+5.5 hrs), Sunday, August 09, 2020. India has 93…
July issue of the Sky News
Thanks so much
Arvind Paranjpye, Director
Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Centre,
IIA has organised LIVE STREAM of the ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE from Hanle,
Kodaikanal and Bengaluru along with IIA Public outreach webinars on 21st
June 2020 at 10.15 am onwards
LIVE STREAM of Eclipse and Webinar link: https://youtu.be/Plrmb12pB4Q
Hanle Link: https://youtu.be/jmnj-k_mt2Q…
AGU Fall Meeting: Dec 7-11 Dec 2020
https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting
Down the icy road: The journey of ices from interstellar clouds to planetary systems
Session ID: 102214
Session Description:
Ices are ubiquitous in the Universe, from icy bodies in our Solar System to interstellar clouds and planet-forming disks.…
We are all expectantly waiting for the Summer Solstice Solar Eclipse on Sunday i.e. 21 June, 2020. It will be breathtakingly annular (almost 99% coverage) in a belt in North India and partial in various percentages in the rest of the country.
Everyone is welcome to get more details and resources regarding it at: http://…
Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), India and Space Sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research Institute (STAR, Liège University), Belgium are organizing a three days online workshop (29, 30 June and 01 July, 2020, https://aries.res.in/~ilmt/), via the Zoom platform, in the context of the 4m International Liquid…
Anupam Bhardwaj of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing and Gabriela Calistro Rivera of the European Southern Observatory, Munich have been awarded the Gruber Foundation Fellowships for 2020. Anupam completed his PhD from University of Delhi in 2017 on the topic of "Light Curve Analysis of Variable Stars". Each year, The Gruber Foundation, in collaboration with the…
Internationally, IAU, SKA, Nature-Index have already highlighted our citizen science research efforts. Specially because of Covid-19, IAU created a list of online resources for public to stay engaged in learning astronomy from home. RAD@home has been listed there. I hope such a broadcast from ASI will be in the public interest.
…
Call for Proposal (2020-2021 term)
Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) would like to call for new proposals using 14m radio telescope for 2020-2021 term (from October 2020 to May 2021).
https://radio.kasi.re.kr/trao/proposal/proposal_2020.php
Submission deadline is August 20th 2020 (to…
The Google form is meant to collect information about PhD thesis in astronomy and related areas. We will create a local database and also contribute to astrogen project (astrogen.aas.org).
Anyone who faces problems or has queries may contact me at jsbagla@gmail.com.
Link is…
150 yrs of the periodic table: “Chemical elements in the Universe: origin and evolution’’ to be held at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore during 16 - 19 December 2019.
The details are attached as PDF.
Thank you very much.
With best regards,
Gajendra Pandey
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Greetings. The SOC of the 38th meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) has asked me to organize a session titled "Teaching in Astronomy" on the 14th of February from 1600 hr to 1730 hr. The total duration is 1.5 hr. As you are aware the 38th meeting of ASI will be held at IISER Tirupati.
It would be good to hear different voices on how best…
Dear Colleague,
We are writing to you to draw your attention to the Vatican Summer School on Centres of Galaxies that we are organizing in June 2020 (http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/content/specolavaticana/en/summer-scho…)
The school is aimed at, but not limited to,…
Members of the Astronomical Society of India
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As you are aware, IUCAA has been recognized as the National Resource Centre (NRC) for Astronomy and Astrophysics by MHRD, and the primary task of the NRC now is to make on-line courses
on Astronomy and Astrophysics for teachers. This is part of the Annual Refresher Programme in…
Workshop on Scientific Project Financial Management for Women Nov 25, 2019
IISER Pune in association with DST is organising:
Workshop on Scientific Project Financial Management for Women Science Professionals
Dates: November 25-29, 2019.
Venue: IISER Pune
More information and application details:
…
The COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop is going to be held at Kodaikanal Solar Observatory during January 6-17, 2020.
The title of the workshop is "Coronal and Interplanetary Shocks : Analysis of Data from Space and Ground based instruments".
The workshop URL is " https://www.iiap.res.in/COSPAR_KSO2020 ".
The first…
