Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award
The Astronomical Society of India has instituted an award as Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award, with the objectives to promote knowledge of Astronomy and Astrophysics and honor the contributions made by young scientists, normally not beyond 45 years of age, any citizen of India engaged, in the field of astronomy and…
Broadband Spectral and Timing Studies with Astrosat, Chandra and XMM-Newton
A COSPAR capacity building workshop
March 9-20, 2019
IISER Mohali
The primary aim of the workshop is to train scientists in the middle and south East Asian region in using AstroSat's multiwavelength spectral and timing capabilities and teach them how to use these capabilities in conjunction with data…
Letters of Intent for Symposia in 2020 are due September 15. Further information may be found at https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann17038be sure to follow the links on this page to obtain valuable information about the procedure.
IAU Ph.D Prize nominations are due December 15. These will recognize…
We are pleased to announce that the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for new students at astrodatascience.org!
The LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program (DSFP) is a supplement to graduate education in astronomy, intended to teach astronomy students essential skills for dealing with big data. You don't need to know anything about data science to apply,…
International conference in radio science, called the APRASC2019 (see above) is being hosted by INCURSI-INSA and the Indian Radio Science Society in New Delhi during March 9-15, 2019.
The APRASC2019 will have ten commissions including one on radio astronomy and the details of `Call for Papers and paper submission' has been put up on the website www.…
The Metrewavelength Sky - II
Celebrating the 90th year of Govind Swarup and the 1st year of the upgraded GMRT
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India
http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/mwsky2
Dates: March 18 - 22, 2019
The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) has recently undergone a major upgrade (…
We are pleased to announce that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) International Observatory is sponsoring the annual TMT Early-Career Initiative workshop, open to astronomy and engineering graduate students, postdocs, and early-career professionals from the TMT partnership. This workshop is being offered through the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators and will be held in Pasadena,…
"Exploring the Universe: Near Earth space science to extragalactic astronomy"
in November 14-17, 2018, at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,Kolkata (INDIA).
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Convenors, We are glad to you let you know that the preparation for the conference is in full swing. We can provide you further details:
(A) Please visit the website for…
The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), TIFR is organizing a summer school on gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy from 13 to 24 August, 2018 in Bangalore, India. This school is part of the annual ICTS summer schools on GW astronomy.
Recent GW observations have firmly established the field of GW astronomy. Physicists and astrophysicists are now coming up with novel ways…
If you have studied or worked in the natural sciences, mathematics, computing or the history and philosophy of science & technology, you are invited to participate in a survey that is part of the Gender Gap project supported by the International Council for Science (ICSU).
You will find the survey at:
http://…
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
You may be aware that a Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) has been established at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) under the PMMMNMTT scheme, with Sanjit Mitra as its Co-ordinator. As you are aware IUCAA was established to promote the growth of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Indian Universities with Jayant Narlikar as its…
