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Posted On: Friday, July 7, 2023 - 10:27

The BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop will be held on 16 - 19 October 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa. 

This year the science theme of the meeting will be “Survey Science and Big Data”.

This notice is a Call for Abstracts from those wanting to present a contributed talk at the workshop in the following tracks:

  •     Data-intensive research projects and programs…
Posted On: Friday, June 30, 2023 - 10:12

Amity University is offering M.Sc. Physics with one of the specializations as Astrophysics. Please find more information from the attached file.

Prof. Suresh Chandra
Amity University

Posted On: Friday, June 30, 2023 - 10:08

Please find attached the SkyNews for July 2023.

-Mr Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Posted On: Friday, June 30, 2023 - 10:02

We have collected here 450 best problems from Astronomy Olympiads conducted in Moscow since 1947, along with comprehensive solutions and explanations. Practical astronomy, astrodynamics, astrophysics, planetology, and astronautics are the general subjects of the problems. These problems are of very different difficulty levels, from simple questions for young amateur astronomers to real…

Posted On: Friday, June 30, 2023 - 09:59

Dear colleagues,

We're pleased to inform you that we have published a book that provides a concise introduction to gravitational waves physics, which includes problems on GW aimed at graduate and PhD students. The book covers latest developments in the detection of GW. The reader will also learn how gravitational waves provide a testing tool for various theories of gravity, i.e. general…

Posted On: Friday, June 23, 2023 - 09:58

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. We are pleased to announce a Workshop on Astronomy-Themed Experiments to be held at the Teaching Learning Centre of the Astronomy Centre for Educators (ACE) at IUCAA from the 8th to the 12th of August 2023. The Workshop is intended for faculty members interested in exploring, creating, and sharing experiments based on concepts in astronomy for…

Posted On: Friday, June 23, 2023 - 09:53

Dear colleagues,

I'm very pleased to inform you that I have compiled some beginner-friendly data based exercises in astronomy into a small book which is now available for purchase on major ecommerce platforms as ebook and paperback worldwide (links below). These are aimed at undergraduate students/college teachers. Enthusiastic high school students may benefit from it as well.

If…

Posted On: Friday, May 26, 2023 - 09:54

SkyNews for June 2023. Please find more information from the attached file.

Thanks,
Arvind Paranjpye

Posted On: Friday, May 19, 2023 - 09:24

More details and application link is available in the attached file.

Posted On: Friday, May 5, 2023 - 09:13

Title: Strange New Worlds: The Exploration of ExoPlanets
We invite you to apply for the upcoming Strange New Worlds: The Exploration of ExoPlanets workshop.
Workshop Website: https://www.iiserpune.ac.in/events/3515/exoplanet-conference-at-iiser-pune 
Workshop Dates: The…

Posted On: Friday, April 28, 2023 - 11:21

IIA is organising a three day workshop on Black holes: Theory and Observations to be held from 15-17 June at the Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur, Tamil Nadu. The workshop aims to introduce the fundamentals of black hole physics and few hands-on sessions with data to M.Sc. students and early year Ph.D. students.

The registration for the workshop is now open with a deadline of 10th May…

Posted On: Friday, April 28, 2023 - 09:56

Please find more information in the attached file.

-Arvind Paranjpye

Posted On: Friday, April 21, 2023 - 10:02

Dear All,

This is a reminder about OAE's open call of opportunity for organising Teacher Training Programme for school teachers. You can find the details here: https://astro4edu.org/news/AW608XG/

Please remember the deadline is 1st May 2023. All proposals will be reviewed by international referees and successful…

Posted On: Friday, April 14, 2023 - 10:06

Applications are invited for the Bangalore summer school on GW astronomy, which will be held from 24 July to 4 August 2023 at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore. This two-week summer school, jointly organized by ICTS-TIFR and…

Posted On: Friday, April 7, 2023 - 10:19

We are happy to invite the nominations for Prof. Peraiah Foundation Lecture 2023 from the Heads of Institutions, Directors of Observatories, Heads of Departments or individual senior scientists. The nominations, including all the supporting documents (as a single pdf file), may please be sent by email to peraiahfoundationaward@iiap.res.in…

Posted On: Friday, April 7, 2023 - 10:11

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project results from a collaboration between Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), India, the Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics (University of Liège, Belgium), the Universities of British Columbia, Laval, Montreal, Toronto, Victoria and York University. It is a zenith sky survey telescope run and managed by…

Posted On: Friday, March 24, 2023 - 10:18

SkyNews April 2023

Please find attached the SkyNews April 2023.

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Evening appearance of Venus in 2023

Venus is now shining brilliantly above the western horizon soon after sunset. Drawn below are the positions of Venus above the western horizon about 30 minutes after the local sunset.  These…

Posted On: Friday, March 17, 2023 - 10:30

Dear colleagues, 

As a centennial tribute to the renowned relativist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, ICTS is pleased to announce a special online lecture series on Advanced General Relativity by Sunil Mukhi. The goal of this lecture series…

Posted On: Friday, March 17, 2023 - 10:29

USO-PRL Solar Physics Workshop (USPW-2023) on "Multi-scale Phenomena 
on the Sun: Present Capabilities and Future Challenges” during April 3-5, 2023.

Please find more information from the link: 
https://www.uspw2023.in/

Posted On: Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10:33

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala is organising a two day workshop on "Machine learning and Astrophysics". Last one day left for registration. Online meeting link will be shared to registered participants only.

Schedule and registration link can be found in the attached file.

Best regards,
Dr. Mamta Gulati

Posted On: Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10:32

We are organising a Discussion Meeting on Lunar Gravitational-Wave (GW) Detection at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore, India from 17 to 20 April 2023. 

The main goal of this meeting is to discuss mission concepts for lunar GW detection, payload technologies, lunar geophysics, etc. as well as deci-Hz GW science. This meeting will also include…

Posted On: Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10:29

The SkyNews for the Month of March 2023 is available at

https://skytonight.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/astronomical-events-of-march-2023/

This page contains

Sun, Planets and Transitions, List of Events in March 2023 and March of the Moon

The…

Posted On: Friday, February 17, 2023 - 10:03

The call for TMT International Science Development Teams (ISDTs) membership applications is now open. The deadline is 1 March 2023. 
See here:  https://www.tmt.org/news/596

The details about the TMT ISDTs can be found here: https://www.tmt.org/page/isdt
 …

Posted On: Friday, February 3, 2023 - 12:30

On the occasion of the United Nations International Day for Women and Girls in Science, the Public Outreach and Education Committee in association with the Working Group on Gender Equity of the Astronomical Society of India is pleased to present the first lecture in our new series focussing on Women in Astronomy. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Seetha, a former Director of the Space…

Posted On: Friday, January 27, 2023 - 10:04

We are organizing a national seminar on "Advances in Astrophysics & Space Science Research" during 13-15 February 2023, extensively for PG and highly motivated UG students. This is a unique platform for students to present their research work and compete for the best presentation award with a cash prize. In addition, there is a possibility of publishing the best works in the 'Mapana…

Posted On: Friday, January 27, 2023 - 10:01

Dear Colleague,

The fifth biennial conference REcent Trends in the study of Compact Objects: Theory and Observation (RETCO-V), organised by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore  will take place at the Kodaikanal Observatory, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu during 03 - 05 April 2023.   The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over India to discuss theoretical…

Posted On: Friday, December 23, 2022 - 11:45

The 7th issue (December 2022) of DOOT Magazine - a Students' initiative of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, is now released and available on the IIA website (a PDF is also attached).

This issue features:

        * Quantum Technologies | The Wonderland of Alice
        * My Time at IIA…

Posted On: Friday, December 9, 2022 - 11:04

The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) invites applications for the Radio Astronomy School 2023 to be held from March 13 to 24, 2023, at NCRA-TIFR,
Pune.

The objective of the school is to provide the upcoming generation of astronomers exposure to the techniques and excitement of radio astronomy, especially in the…

Posted On: Friday, December 9, 2022 - 08:40

1. Title of the Talk: "400 years of observational Astronomy"
Speaker: Prof. Sandip Chakrabarti
Date of the event: 11/12/2022 (Sunday)
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: Conference Hall, Administrative Building, UGB, Malda.
Mode: in both online and offline mode

Registration Link : 
https://forms.gle/pg6DdZCwPbmZ3XVy6…

Posted On: Friday, December 9, 2022 - 08:29

We would like to announce the “Frontiers in Cosmology” conference from February 20 to February 24, 2023, to be held at Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, India. This conference is part of a series of celebrations to mark the 75th year of the founding of RRI by Nobel laureate Sir C.V. Raman. As part of the conference, we invite students and postdocs to submit abstracts…