| The following participants were awarded during the ASI 2020 meeting: | |
| Team GMRT | ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award for 2019 |
| Dr. Abhishek Kumar Srivastava | ASI Lakshminarayana and Nagalakshmi Modali Award for 2019 |
| Dr. Saurabh Singh | Justice Oak Best Thesis Presentation for 2019 |
| Dr. Avyarthana Ghosh (IUCAA Pune) and Dr. Sudip Mandal (Max Planck Institue for Solar System Research, Germany) | K. D. Abhyankar Best Thesis Presentation for 2020 |
| Ms. Shilpi Bhunia (IISER Pune) | Best Poster Award for Sun and the Solar System |
| Mr. Akash Garg (Jamia Millia Islamia) | Best Poster Award for Stars, ISM and Galaxy |
| Ms. Prerana Biswas (IISc Bangalore) | Best Poster Award for Extragalactic Astronomy |
| Mr. Sajal Gupta (IISER Kolkata) | Best Poster Award for General Relativity and Cosmology |
| Mr. Prasanna Deshmukh (IIA, Bangalore) | Best Poster Award for Instrumentation and Techniques |
| Mr. Devojyoti Kansabanik (NCRA, Pune) | Best Poster Award from Indian Academy of Sciences for the discipline Stars, ISM and the Galaxy |
| Mr. Satabdwa Majumdar(IIA, Bangalore) | Best Poster Award from Indian Academy of Sciences for the discipline Sun and the Solar System |
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) was hosted by Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Tirupati, Transit Campus during 13 - 17 February, 2020.
The meeting was open to all ASI members, as well as Researchers and Students in Astronomy & Astrophysics or related areas, affiliated to Research Institutions/Universities/Colleges.
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