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The purpose of this survey is to build and maintain a “living” list of amateur astronomy clubs and astronomy themed outreach organizations in India and assess accessibility to relevant resources such as telescopes and other outreach equipments. Outreach Sections or Astronomy Clubs of Universities, Institutes, or private astronomy outreach organizations are invited to complete this survey. The…

Memoir of Prof. Govind Swarup written by Prof. Ajit Kembhavi and Prof. Jayaram Chenglur for the Royal Society. Please find more information from the attached file.

Please find attached the SkyNews December 2023.

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Mr. Arvind Paranjpye
 

Dear ASI members,

The 5th Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education organized by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education is just around the corner, and we would be delighted to have you join us for this event.

This year’s Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education focuses on two themes. The first theme is the special topic, which is practical astronomy education outside…

The 'International Conference on Planets, Exoplanets and Habitability' will take place on the 5th to 9th February 2024 at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. This interdisciplinary,  international meeting is taking place relatively soon and you will be  very welcome to join to share and engage with exciting new research  findings across the meeting's themes.

The abstract…

We are pleased to share the first circular for our 1st biennial astronomy conference, "Exploring the Universe from Near to Far," scheduled for February 16-21, 2024 at ICSP, Kolkata.

This conference is a significant part of our Silver Jubilee celebration. ICSP holds a prominent position in India as a leading institution for space and astronomy research. ICSP has launched…

SRMIST, Delhi NCR campus feels happy to organize a 3 Days workshop on "Physics & its Diversion in today's Technology" in hybrid mode from 30th Nov - 2nd Dec 2023. The last date for registration is 25th Nov 2023.

The objective of the workshop is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge physics research and its practical applications in…

Dear Colleagues,

We shall celebrate the birth centenaries of two Eminent Calcuttans this year as a part of the Silver Jubilee year program of ICSP. A tentative schedule is attached.

One Day conference on the 9th December, 2023 to celebrate the birth centenaries of Prof. M.K. Dasgupta (Jennison
Dasgupta, Nature 1953) and Prof. Amal K. Raychoudhuri (Raychoudhuri Eqn.). The…

Please find attached the Skynews for November 2023.

-Arvind Paranjpye
 

Dear Colleagues,

We are announcing the Kodaikanal Winter School on Solar Astrophysics to be held at the Kodaikanal Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics from 3-10 January 2024. The workshop is for Master's students (who either completed in 2023 or will complete in 2024) to introduce them to solar astrophysics, heliospheric physics, and capabilities of the Aditya-L1 mission…

Dear Colleagues,

ARIES and NIT Delhi are jointly organizing a winter school on concepts in Solar physics from 19 – 23 December 2023. The venue of the school is located within the newly built beautiful campus of NIT Delhi. The aim is to teach some basic concepts of solar physics and introduce a few advanced topics, mainly to early-phase PhD students. Motivated final-year master’s…

A conference on "Star Formation Studies in India" from January 8-11, 2024 at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.bose.res.in/Conferences/SF2024/index.html

The Museum of Astronomy and Space Science,  located in the Integrated Campus building of the Indian Centre for Space Physics will be inaugurated by Indian Astronaut Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, Ashok Chakra (Retd) on 27th of October, 2023. There are over 1200 exhibits. We will have two days of packed events as attached. There will be talks by NASA Astronaut Dr. John Grunsfeld and Mr. Sharma…

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. We are pleased to announce a pedagogic workshop on Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology from 6th to 10th November 2023, to be organized by the Department of Physics under the aegis of IQAC, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, in collaboration with the Astronomy Centre for Educators, Inter- University Centre for Astronomy…

A conference on GW-EM-Nu-2023: Role of India in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and Cosmology will be held at TIFR, Mumbai from November 20-24th, 2023.
Please find more information from the link: https://indico.tifr.res.in/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=9081

Best regards,
…

Please find attached the SkyNews for October 2023, it contains
Sun, Planets and Transitions, List of Events in October 2023, March of the Moon, Eclipses this month, The annular eclipse of the Sun on 14 October 2023, This eclipse is noot visible from India, Partial lunar eclipse on 28 October 2023, This eclipse is visible from India, Lunar occultation on 23 October 2023, ε (Epsilon)…

We are a forum called CARINAS, Cosmology and Astronomy Researchers of Indian Nationality And Sisters. Our mandate is to empower early-career women researchers in India and first-generation Indian women researchers outside the country through networking, mentorship, knowledge sharing, and collaboration when required. We aim to address gender inequity in a bottom-up approach and create a safe,…

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. We are pleased to announce that we will organize the 16th Radio Astronomy Winter School (RAWS2023) in the offline mode from 12th to 22nd December 2023. As you are aware RAWS is a joint initiative of IUCAA and NCRA-TIFR, and will be hosted this year by these two institutions at Pune.

The participants will be introduced to radio astronomy…

We are happy to announce that the School of Mathematics, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, is going to organize an "International Conference on Advancements in Mathematics (ICAM 2023)" from September 28th to 30th, 2023. 

We cordially invite you to participate and present research findings in the ICAM 2023.

please find more details from the following link and…

A conference on Modern Engineering Trends in Astronomy (META-2023) is being jointly organized by Raman Research Institute, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physical Research Laboratory. META provides a common platform for students,…

INTEGRAL's final call for Guest Observing time, AO-21, is now open, deadline 29th September:

https://integral.esac.esa.int/newsletters_html/2023-09-04/

The ESA Director of Science (Prof. Carole Mundell) released the 21st Announcement of Opportunity (AO-21) for observing proposals with…

We are delighted to announce a conference "AKR centenary program" during October 5-7, 2023 at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. In this program, we will discuss the works of Professor Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri and remember him as the scientist, the teacher, and the visionary. We will have technical seminars followed by
an outreach program for the students.

More…

Please find attached the SkyNews for September 2023.

-Arvind Paranjpye

Dear Colleagues,

"The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey team has released radio continuum images and a catalog of 495,325 radio sources detected over an area of 2289 deg2 from 391 telescope pointings at 1 - 1.4 GHz.  The catalogs and images are publicly available at https://mals.iucaa.in.  This is the first of several radio continuum and…

Following are the recordings from the Computational Astrophysics Workshop organised by Dipanjan Mukherjee (IUCAA), Prateek Sharma (IISc), and Bhargav Vaidya (IIT Indore) at IISc Bangalore in July, 2023.,
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxtWIpdsZWoZpOIEK0YrM94y5dOL22Vf

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Dear All,

This is to inform you that the 8th Indo-French Astronomy School Spectroscopy 3D will be held during November 6-12, 2023, at IUCAA, Pune.
Please access the below-mentioned URL for details:

https://ifas8.sciencesconf.org/

Thanks and regards,

Nirupama Bawdekar
(on behalf of AOCP)

Please find attached the SkyNews for August 2023.

One good outreach opportunity that we have this month is - the Blue Moon and Super Moon on the last day of the month.

We have attached a brief note on Blue Moon and Super Moon. This will of course be following the Moon Landing - Chandrayaan 3.

-Arvind Paranjpye

The book 'Nobel prizes in astronomy' written by Pushpa Khare has recently been published by Springer. Written in an accessible style, this unique book aims at describing the Nobel prize winning works in astronomy to readers who only have a background of high school physics. It gives a glimpse of the work done by those prize-winning astronomers at the forefront of research and the state-of-the-…

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…

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