Best Poster Award
A set of five awards has been instituted for the poster presentations during the Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India. Each award consists of Rs. 5,000/- as cash prize and a certificate, and this will be presented to the authors of the poster adjudged to be the best in respective disciplines.
| Sl No. | Name | Discipline | Title of the Poster | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A set of 5 awards were awarded for the poster presentations during the 39th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, virtual meeting from 18-23 February 2021 | ||||
| 1 | Ritesh Patel (ARIES, Nainital) | Sun and Solar System | A Statistical Study of Plasmoids associated with post-CME Current Sheet | 2021 |
| 2 | Anshuman Acharya (IISER Mohali) | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | How Robust are the Inferred Density and Metallicity of the Circumgalactic Medium? | 2021 |
| 3 | Sushant Dutta (PRL, Ahmedabad) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Population of Remnant Radio Galaxies in Deep Radio Surveys | 2021 |
| 4 | Soummyadip Basak (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore) | General Relativity and Cosmology | Constraining The Fraction of Compact Dark Matter Using Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves | 2021 |
| 5 | Sonam Jorphail (IAO-IIA Hanle) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Development of a complete telescope controller using an inexpensive PSoC based microcontroller | 2021 |
| 5 | Tsewang Stanzin (IAO-IIA Hanle) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Development of the telescope control system and observatory control software for the robotic operation | 2021 |
| Best Poster Award from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2021 | ||||
| 1 | Sarvesh Mangla from IIT Indore | Instrumentation and techniques | Study of equatorial ionosphere with Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) | 2021 |
| 2 | Prithish Halder from PRL, Ahmedabad | Sun and the Solar System | A comet dust model based on the findings from the Rosetta mission | 2021 |
| A set of 5 awards were awarded for the poster presentations during the 38th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, IISER Tirupati from 13-17 February 2020 | ||||
| 1 | Ms. Shilpi Bhunia (IISER Pune) | Sun and Solar System | A survey of the solar data from the Murchison Widefield Array | 2020 |
| 2 | Mr. Akash Garg (Jamia Millia Islamia) | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | Modelling the energy dependent temporal behavior in Black hole X-ray binaries | 2020 |
| 3 | Ms. Prerana Biswas (IISc Bangalore) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Kinematics of nearby spiral galaxies with different inclination angles using 21cm HI interferometric data | 2020 |
| 4 | Mr. Sajal Gupta (IISER Kolkata) | General Relativity and Cosmology | Bounds on graviton mass from galaxy clusters | 2020 |
| 5 | Mr. Prasanna Deshmukh (IIA, Bangalore) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Prototyping of Soft Actuators for Thirty Meter Telescope in India | 2020 |
| Best Poster Award from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2020 | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Devojyoti Kansabanik (NCRA, Pune) | Stars, ISM and Galaxy (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 3000/- and Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | Investigation of eclipse mechanism for Black Widow Pulsar J1544+4937 | 2020 |
| 2 | Mr. Satabdwa Majumdar(IIA, Bangalore) | Sun and the Solar System (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 3000/- Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | Connecting 3D Kinematics of slow and fast CMEs to their source regions: A preparatory study for the ADITYA L1 mission | 2020 |
| A set of 4 awards were awarded for the poster presentations during the 37th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru from 18-22 February 2019 | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Prabir Kumar Mitra | Sun and Solar System | Evolution of solar magnetic fields and large-scale reconnection events in extremely complex solar active region NOAA 12673 | 2019 |
| 2 | Mr. Avrajit Bandyopadhyay | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | New discoveries of globular cluster escapees and other results from GOMPA(Galactic survey Of Metal Poor stArs) survey | 2019 |
| 3 | Ms. Pranjupriya Goswami | Extragalactic Astronomy | Synchrotron spectral curvature of blazars as probe to understand electron diffusion | 2019 |
| 4 | Prof. K E Rangarajan | Instrumentation and Techniques | College level Solar Physics Experiments | 2019 |
| Best Poster Award from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2019 | ||||
| 1 | Ms. Barnali Das | Stars, ISM and Galaxy (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 2000/- and Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | HD 142990: The third main-sequence magnetic star with coherent emission | 2019 |
| 2 | Ms. Sanna Gulati | Extragalactic Astronomy (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 2000/- Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | Short-term optical variability in misaligned active galaxies | 2019 |
| A set of five awards has been instituted for the poster presentations during the 36th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, Osmania University, Hyderabad from 5 - 9 February 2018 | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Surajit Mondal | Sun and Solar System | Ionospheric Studies Using By-products of a Low-radio Frequency Solar Imaging Pipeline | 2018 |
| 2 | Ms. A. J. Nayana | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | uGMRT observations of a TeV SNR G353.6-0.7 | 2018 |
| 3 | Mr. Pratik Dabhade | Extragalactic Astronomy | Giant Radio Galaxies from LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey | 2018 |
| 4 | Mr. Shishir Sankhyayan | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Large Scale Structures in SDSS | 2018 |
| 5 | Ms. Vinutha C | Instrumentation and Techniques | SWAN (Sky Watch Array Network) Demonstrator: Development & Status | 2018 |
| Best Poster Award from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2018 | ||||
| 1 | Ms. Snehalata Sahu | Stars, ISM and Galaxy (Award carries Springer eBook worth 200 Euros) | UVIT Study of Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster NGC 5466 | 2018 |
| 2 | Mr. Chayan Mondal | Extragalactic Astronomy (Award carries Springer eBook worth 200 Euros) | UVIT imaging of WLM: How clumpy are the young and hot star distribution in this metal poor galaxy? | 2018 |
| During the 35th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India at B. M. Birla Auditorium, Jaipur from 6 - 10 March 2017, best Poster Awards has been instituted in 5 categories. | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Vaibhav Pant | Sun and Solar System | Automated Detection of CMEs in Heliosphere: Comparison between manual and automated catalogs | 2017 |
| 2 | Mr. Supriyo Ghosh | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | The Near-Infrared Spectral Calibration of Late-type Giant Stars from medium resolution HK-band Spectra | 2017 |
| 3 | Mr. Amit Kumar Mandal | Extragalactic Astronomy | Determination of the size of the dust torus in H0507+164 through Optical-IR monitoring | 2017 |
| 4 | Mr. Pratik Tarafdar | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Influence of disc geometry on shocked accretion | 2017 |
| 5 | Mr. Ashish Mhaske | Instrumentation and Techniques | Horn antenna and Software Defined Radio for detecting 21 cm hydrogen line | 2017 |
| Best Poster Award from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2017 | ||||
| 1 | Ms. Nishtha Sachdeva | Sun and the Solar System (The award consists of Springer eBook worth 220 Euros and cash prize of Rs. 2500/-) | CME Propagation Dynamics: Relative importance of Lorentz forces and solar wind drag | 2017 |
| 2 | Ms. Vinita Navalkar | Instrumentation and Techniques (The award consists of Springer eBook worth 200 Euros and cash prize of Rs. 2500/-) | Development of sputtering system for fabrication of thin film multilayer optics of hard X-RAY TELESCOPE | 2017 |
| A set of five awards has been instituted for the poster presentations during General Body Meeting of 34th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, Kashmir University, Srinagar. | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Rakesh Chandra Narwa | Sun and Solar System | Statistical analysis of meteoroid fragmentation during the Geminid and Leonid Meteor showers | 2016 |
| 2 | Mr. Kishalay De | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | The puzzling orbital period evolution of the LMXB AX J1745.6-2901 | 2016 |
| 3 | Ms. Ruta Kale | Extragalactic Astronomy | Spectra of brightest cluster galaxies | 2016 |
| 4 | Ms. Priyanka Singh | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Suppression of galactic outflows by cosmological infall/circumgalactic medium | 2016 |
| 5 | Ms. Anshu Kumari | Instrumentation and Techniques | Crosspolarized Log-Periodic Dipole Antenna for Low Frequency Solar Observations | 2016 |
| A set of five awards has been instituted for the poster presentations during General Body Meeting of 33rd Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, NCRA Pune | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Vaibhav Pant | Sun and Solar System | Transverse Oscillations in coronal rain | 2015 |
| 2 | Ms. Supriya Hebbur Dayananda | Sun and Solar System | 1-D modeling of the Center-to-limb variation of the Stokes profiles of the Ca I 4227 A line | 2015 |
| 3 | Mr. Arun Kumar Naidu | Stars and the Galaxy | Interesting nulling behaviour of PSR J1709-1640 | 2015 |
| 4 | Ms. Sheelu Abraham | Extragalactic Astronomy | Photometric Redshifts of Quasars from SDSS | 2015 |
| 5 | Mr.Kartick Chnandra Sarkar | Extragalactic Astronomy | Effect of hot halo gas on supernovae driven outflows | 2015 |
| 6 | Mr.Shishir Sankhyayan | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Extremely Large Scale Structures in Galaxies Redshift Surveys | 2015 |
| 7 | Mr. Prasanna Deshmukh | Instrumentation and Techniques | Dynamic loading assembly for performance testing of Segmented Mirror Telescope Actuators | 2015 |
| 8 | Mr. Tanmoy Cattopadhyay | Instrumentation and Techniques | Development of a Hard X-ray Focal Plane Compton Polarimeter | 2015 |
| The Best Poster Award for the year 2014 during 32nd Annual Meeting of ASI at IISER, Mohali has been awarded to following | ||||
| 1 | Mr. S. Krishna Prasad | Sun and the Solar System | Spectroscopic studies of coronal loops | 2014 |
| 2 | Mr. Tapas Baug | Stars and the Galaxy | Is semi-regular variable UZ Ariteis asymmetric? | 2014 |
| 3 | Mr. Samyaday Choudhury | Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology | What is the metallicity map tell us about the evolution of the LMC ? | 2014 |
| 4 | Mr. Kuldeep Kumar Yadav | Instrumentation and Techniques | Disp analysis procedure for the TACTIC gamma ray telescope | 2014 |