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…
The announcements listed here are shared by the ASI members
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% share in the…
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 Teaching (ARPIT).…
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…
A 3-day workshop on Application of data science in Astrophysics and Gravitational Wave Research is going to be held at IIIT Allahabad between November 1-3, 2019. The program and registration details of the workshop can be found from the following link:
The 5th Asia Pacific Solar Physics Meeting (APSPM) shall take place in Pune, India from February, 3 – 8, 2020. It is being jointly organised by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune.
For details: http://www.iucaa.in/~apspm/
The…
Nominations are invited for the "Justice Oak best thesis" award for the year 2019
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, by a student working for a Ph.D. in India. The nominations for this award may be made by…
The pre-registration and abstract submission for the 9th ICGC to be organised at IISER Mohali is now open. The pre-registration can be done through the link
http://14.139.227.202/web/icgc2019/index.html
International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC)
IISER Mohali
December 10-13, 2019
The 9th…
Pressing for Progress 2019: A National Conference towards Gender Equity in Physics by the Indian Physics Association, hosted by the University of Hyderabad during 19-21 September 2019.
The IPA Conference will be a first-of-its kind national meeting in which both physics-related and sociology of physics-related topics will be deliberated. It is intended to serve as a forum wherein…
I am writing as Chair of Commission 19 of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
We support an annual prize in astrophysics - the Call is attached - and we look forward to your nominations
very best wishes
Gerry Gilmore
Chair, IUPAP C19 - Astrophysics
As you are aware, an Astronomy Centre for Educators (ACE) has been established at IUCAA, with the two main constituent units at present being the Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) for further developing astronomy teaching in the country with an emphasis on the higher-education sector; and the National Resource Centre (NRC) for developing the Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT)…
The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) invites applications for the Radio Astronomy School 2019 to be held from August 19 to 30, 2019, 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 context of…
A new book by me (co-authored with Vasanthi Padmanabhan) titled "Dawn of Science - Glimpses from History for the Curious Mind" has just been published by Springer.
The website links for this book are given at the end of this mail. Some details regarding the book can be found in the attached pdf file of the front matter.
This book is intended for the GENERAL PUBLIC and is written…
The 2018 GROWTH Winter School in Time Domain Astronomy was held at IIT Bombay. We are delighted to announce that the educational resources from the 2018 GROWTH astronomy school are now online at http://growth.caltech.edu/astronomy-school.html and available for download by students and educators around the world. Our astronomy school…
International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC)
IISER Mohali
December 10-13, 2019
The 9th International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC) will be hosted by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IISERM), during December 10 - 13, 2019. ICGC meetings are held once in four years and are organised by the Indian Association for…