Announcement

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Modern Engineering Trends in Astronomy (META-2024) conference, scheduled to take place from December 3rd to 6th, 2024, at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. META-2024 is being jointly organized by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Raman Research Institute, Indian Institute of Astrophysics,…

Dear Educators,

We are delighted to inform you that the OAE Center India, hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, in association with the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) of the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, is offering valuable resources for school-level astronomy education. Please share this message…

Workshop on "Two-Component Advective Flows (TCAF): Fitting Procedure and Results for Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes". This workshop will be organized in both online and offline modes, is part of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of ICSP and will be held on September 25th, 2024, at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP, Kolkata.

Please find the attached poster of…

Dear Colleague,

We are happy invite you to attend the "Radio Astronomy TEchniques Seminars - RATeS".

Currently we are witnessing spectacular radio images of the sky opening new scientific challenges, thanks to the precursor and pathfinder radio telescopes of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…

The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey team has released radio continuum images and a catalog of 971,980 radio sources detected over an area of 4344 deg^2 from 391 telescope pointings at 1 - 1.7 GHz.  This is the largest catalog of radio sources from any MeerKAT survey to date, and one of only a handful of radio catalogs with a million or more sources.  Using this million source catalog, MALS team…

Please find attached the SkyNews for September 2024.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Half-day workshop on "Machine Learning and Its Applications" . The workshop is a part of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of ICSP and will be held on September 7th, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP, Kolkata.

Please find the detailed program schedule and registration information in the attached document.

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. We are pleased to announce the Radio Astronomy Winter School 2024 (RAWS-2024), a joint program of IUCAA and NCRA-TIFR. We invite applications for RAWS-2024 from both faculty members and educators of higher education institutions, and second and third year undergraduate/integrated five-year postgraduate students in either science or engineering. A…

We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the 3rd National Seminar on "Discovery and Detection of Gravitational Waves" on September 14th, 2024, at our campus in Jaipur. This seminar aims to bring together leading experts, educators, and students from across the country to explore the latest advancements in gravitational wave science.

In addition to engaging…

Dear All,

The A&A vision document (MSV-2035), we have been preparing for a couple of years, is now published in the webpage of the office of the principal scientific adviser to the government of India. Please click here.

We thank the members…

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. On behalf of the Astronomy Centre for Educators (ACE) of IUCAA we are pleased to announce an Astronomy-themed Experiments Competition.

The objective of this competition is to design astronomy- themed experiments for undergraduate and postgraduate laboratories in institutions of higher education, including engineering institutions. Ongoing…

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you that a popular book on astronomy written by myself (which is my second book on popular astronomy) has been published recently and is currently available at Amazon for purchase.

Title: Mars: a celestial show's topper
Summary: The theme of this book is a bit unique. It is not a book giving details…

Dear Colleague,

We are happy invite you to attend the "Radio Astronomy TEchniques Seminars - RATeS".

Currently we are witnessing spectacular radio images of the sky opening new scientific challenges, thanks to the precursor and pathfinder radio telescopes of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…

Manipal Center for Natural Sciences (MCNS) is organising a National-Level School on “Fundamentals of Space Radiation for scientists, engineers and space entrepreneurs”, sponsored by the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India

Venue: Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education…

Sun, Space Weather and Solar-Stellar Connections — An international conference commemorating 125 years of KSO

Conference Dates: January  20 – 24, 2025

Second Announcement

We invite abstracts and registration for the the international conference “Sun, Space…

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, the Government of India has recently approved the country's participation in the construction of the SKA telescopes, paving the way for India to become a full member of the SKA Observatory (SKAO) (https://www.skao.int/en).  This exciting development provides a unique opportunity for interested…

Dear All,

We are soliciting applications for participation in a Gravitational-Wave Instrumentation Workshop (GWIW) to be conducted at IUCAA, Pune from November 10-29, 2024. The workshop is geared towards giving students a hands on introduction to LIGO-related instrumentation, with the goal: "To spread the GW Instrumentation Community Nationwide in view of the upcoming…

An international symposium is organized during Nov 20-22, 2024. Please look at the symposium website (link: https://sites.google.com/view/issac-2024/home). The deadline for abstract submission is Aug 10, 2024 (It will be extended. Please keep an eye on the symposium website).  To submit the abstract, please visit the…

Please find attached the SkyNews for August 2024.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Dear BRICS+ colleagues

The BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop will be held on 9 - 13 September in Kazan Federal University in Kazan City, Russia, the meeting will also be available in Hybrid format.

This year the science theme of the meeting will be The BRICS Intelligent Telescope and Data Network. The aim is to advance the BRICS Astronomy flagship project.…

Dear Colleagues,

This year's URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science is going to be held in Bhimtal (https://www.aries.res.in/ursi.rcrs2024/). Besides the wonderful location near Nainital, this is an excellent chance for young professionals, early-career scientists, faculty members, and PG/PhD students working in…

International conference on "Meteor, Meteoroids and Meteorites: Messenger from Space" during 20-22 Nov 2024 at Physical Research Laboratory, India.
 

Please find more information from the link: https://metmess2024.ipsa-asso.in/

Thanking you
Kuljeet Kaur Marhas
Convenor, MetMeSS 2024

Please find attached the SkyNews for July 2024.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
 

We're glad to inform that the following astronomers from India have been elected to IAU Committees for the next term 2024-2027.

Division Committees

• Prof. Annapurni Subramaniam - Division G (Stars & Stellar Physics) - Steering Committee Member
• Prof. Durgesh Tripathi - Division E (Sun and Heliosphere) - Steering Committee Member
• Prof.…

The NASA 5th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium is presented in collaboration with NASA's Living With a Star Program, the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS), and the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES). This ongoing series of events bring together great minds across the interdisciplinary field of heliophysics. It continues the…

Dear Colleague,

We are happy invite you to attend the "Radio Astronomy TEchniques Seminars - RATeS".

Currently we are witnessing spectacular radio images of the sky opening new scientific challenges, thanks to the precursor and pathfinder radio telescopes of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the international conference on Neutron star Equation of State and Gravitational Waves (NEOSGrav2024), which will take place from 1st to 4th of October 2024 in Goa, India.
The scientific programme shall consist of invited review talks and some short oral presentations.

Website:  …

Please find attached the SkyNews for June 2024.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

IUCAA sponsored Workshop and Conference on Blazars and Restless AGN (COBRA): A High-Energy View at Presidency University, Kolkata during July 22-26, 2024.

The Abstract submission deadline: June 10, 2024.

Please find more information from the website: https://cobra2024.weebly.com/

The link for…

Dear Members,

Registration is now open for the Ninth edition of the Indo-French Astronomical School (IFAS9), hosted in Lyon on October 4-11, 2024.

Please visit https://ifas9.sciencesconf.org/ for more information.

IFAS9 is the ninth edition of a series of schools co-organized by the University of Lyon (CRAL,…