Announcement

Please find attached the SkyNews for July 2023.

-Mr Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

We have collected here 450 best problems from Astronomy Olympiads conducted in Moscow since 1947, along with comprehensive solutions and explanations. Practical astronomy, astrodynamics, astrophysics, planetology, and astronautics are the general subjects of the problems. These problems are of very different difficulty levels, from simple questions for young amateur astronomers to real…

Dear colleagues,

We're pleased to inform you that we have published a book that provides a concise introduction to gravitational waves physics, which includes problems on GW aimed at graduate and PhD students. The book covers latest developments in the detection of GW. The reader will also learn how gravitational waves provide a testing tool for various theories of gravity, i.e. general…

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. We are pleased to announce a Workshop on Astronomy-Themed Experiments to be held at the Teaching Learning Centre of the Astronomy Centre for Educators (ACE) at IUCAA from the 8th to the 12th of August 2023. The Workshop is intended for faculty members interested in exploring, creating, and sharing experiments based on concepts in astronomy for…

Dear colleagues,

I'm very pleased to inform you that I have compiled some beginner-friendly data based exercises in astronomy into a small book which is now available for purchase on major ecommerce platforms as ebook and paperback worldwide (links below). These are aimed at undergraduate students/college teachers. Enthusiastic high school students may benefit from it as well.

If…

SkyNews for June 2023. Please find more information from the attached file.

Thanks,
Arvind Paranjpye

More details and application link is available in the attached file.

Title: Strange New Worlds: The Exploration of ExoPlanets
We invite you to apply for the upcoming Strange New Worlds: The Exploration of ExoPlanets workshop.
Workshop Website: https://www.iiserpune.ac.in/events/3515/exoplanet-conference-at-iiser-pune 
Workshop Dates: The…

IIA is organising a three day workshop on Black holes: Theory and Observations to be held from 15-17 June at the Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur, Tamil Nadu. The workshop aims to introduce the fundamentals of black hole physics and few hands-on sessions with data to M.Sc. students and early year Ph.D. students.

The registration for the workshop is now open with a deadline of 10th May…

Please find more information in the attached file.

-Arvind Paranjpye

Dear All,

This is a reminder about OAE's open call of opportunity for organising Teacher Training Programme for school teachers. You can find the details here: https://astro4edu.org/news/AW608XG/

Please remember the deadline is 1st May 2023. All proposals will be reviewed by international referees and successful…

Applications are invited for the Bangalore summer school on GW astronomy, which will be held from 24 July to 4 August 2023 at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore. This two-week summer school, jointly organized by ICTS-TIFR and…

We are happy to invite the nominations for Prof. Peraiah Foundation Lecture 2023 from the Heads of Institutions, Directors of Observatories, Heads of Departments or individual senior scientists. The nominations, including all the supporting documents (as a single pdf file), may please be sent by email to peraiahfoundationaward@iiap.res.in…

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project results from a collaboration between Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), India, the Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics (University of Liège, Belgium), the Universities of British Columbia, Laval, Montreal, Toronto, Victoria and York University. It is a zenith sky survey telescope run and managed by…

SkyNews April 2023

Please find attached the SkyNews April 2023.

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Evening appearance of Venus in 2023

Venus is now shining brilliantly above the western horizon soon after sunset. Drawn below are the positions of Venus above the western horizon about 30 minutes after the local sunset.  These…

Dear colleagues, 

As a centennial tribute to the renowned relativist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, ICTS is pleased to announce a special online lecture series on Advanced General Relativity by Sunil Mukhi. The goal of this lecture series…

USO-PRL Solar Physics Workshop (USPW-2023) on "Multi-scale Phenomena 
on the Sun: Present Capabilities and Future Challenges” during April 3-5, 2023.

Please find more information from the link: 
https://www.uspw2023.in/

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala is organising a two day workshop on "Machine learning and Astrophysics". Last one day left for registration. Online meeting link will be shared to registered participants only.

Schedule and registration link can be found in the attached file.

Best regards,
Dr. Mamta Gulati

We are organising a Discussion Meeting on Lunar Gravitational-Wave (GW) Detection at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore, India from 17 to 20 April 2023. 

The main goal of this meeting is to discuss mission concepts for lunar GW detection, payload technologies, lunar geophysics, etc. as well as deci-Hz GW science. This meeting will also include…

The SkyNews for the Month of March 2023 is available at

https://skytonight.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/astronomical-events-of-march-2023/

This page contains

Sun, Planets and Transitions, List of Events in March 2023 and March of the Moon

The…

The call for TMT International Science Development Teams (ISDTs) membership applications is now open. The deadline is 1 March 2023. 
See here:  https://www.tmt.org/news/596

The details about the TMT ISDTs can be found here: https://www.tmt.org/page/isdt
 …

On the occasion of the United Nations International Day for Women and Girls in Science, the Public Outreach and Education Committee in association with the Working Group on Gender Equity of the Astronomical Society of India is pleased to present the first lecture in our new series focussing on Women in Astronomy. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Seetha, a former Director of the Space…

We are organizing a national seminar on "Advances in Astrophysics & Space Science Research" during 13-15 February 2023, extensively for PG and highly motivated UG students. This is a unique platform for students to present their research work and compete for the best presentation award with a cash prize. In addition, there is a possibility of publishing the best works in the 'Mapana…

Dear Colleague,

The fifth biennial conference REcent Trends in the study of Compact Objects: Theory and Observation (RETCO-V), organised by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore  will take place at the Kodaikanal Observatory, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu during 03 - 05 April 2023.   The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over India to discuss theoretical…

The 7th issue (December 2022) of DOOT Magazine - a Students' initiative of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, is now released and available on the IIA website (a PDF is also attached).

This issue features:

        * Quantum Technologies | The Wonderland of Alice
        * My Time at IIA…

The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) invites applications for the Radio Astronomy School 2023 to be held from March 13 to 24, 2023, 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…

1. Title of the Talk: "400 years of observational Astronomy"
Speaker: Prof. Sandip Chakrabarti
Date of the event: 11/12/2022 (Sunday)
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: Conference Hall, Administrative Building, UGB, Malda.
Mode: in both online and offline mode

Registration Link : 
https://forms.gle/pg6DdZCwPbmZ3XVy6…

We would like to announce the “Frontiers in Cosmology” conference from February 20 to February 24, 2023, to be held at Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, India. This conference is part of a series of celebrations to mark the 75th year of the founding of RRI by Nobel laureate Sir C.V. Raman. As part of the conference, we invite students and postdocs to submit abstracts…

Dear colleagues,

We will make a call for new International Science Development Team (ISDT) membership soon, and associate with the call the TMT International Observatory and the TMT Science Advisory Committee will hold a webinar series starting from this December.

The first webinar is "Thirty Meter Telescope: project updates and call for the ISDT membership" with a 50 minute…

RAD@home, in collaboration with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) & NASO, is co-organizing astronomy outreach events or educational programs during the IAU Symposium 375 in Kathmandu Nepal, early next month. You may see the link for official declaration here https://…