National Events/Notifications

We are hosting the 32nd meeting of IAGRG at IISER Kolkata in December, 2022.
Please find more information from the attached poster.

Regards,
Narayan Banerjee

The 41st meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) is scheduled to be held between 01 and 05 March, 2023, and will be organised by IIT-Indore at their campus. We are planning for an in-person meeting this time.

As has been the case for the last several ASI meetings, it is proposed to hold a few one-day workshops the day before the start of the main ASI meeting on 01 March, 2023…

The NSM GPU Hackathon, a multi-day event designed to help teams of developers accelerate their own codes on GPUs using a programming model, or machine learning framework of their choice, will be held in September 2022. Astronomy & Astrophysics is one of the major themes of this year's event.

The details can be found at …

Please find attached the August 2022 issue of SkyNews.

From:
Arvind Paranjpye

Greetings,

Young Astronomers' Meet (YAM) is an annual gathering of PhD students working on astronomy and astrophysics. YAM is an excellent platform for PhD students at various institutes and universities across the country to network and form new collaborations. We are delighted to announce that the 2022 edition of YAM will be held in hybrid mode at ARIES, Nainital during 9-13 November…

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Delhi-NCR campus, Modinagar in collaboration with IIRS-ISRO is conducting an Outreach Programme on "Remote Sensing and Digital Image Analysis".
Hereby, kindly find the registration link and brochure for the same in the attachment of this mail

Interested Candidates can register through
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URSI-RCRS2022 conference will be held at IIT, Indore during Dec. 1 - 4, 2022. The Flyer as well as the Call for Paper flyer are attached.

Best regards,
Ananth (S.Ananthakrishnan)
General Chair, URSI-RCRS2022

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is one of the premier universities in the country (ranked 7th as per NIRF 2022 Universities rankings). Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences (MCNS) is a Centre of Excellence under MAHE, dedicated to pursuing research in basic sciences.

For the academic year 2022-2023, MCNS offers an integrated PhD program for students with Bachelor’s degrees (BSc…

The Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (JAA) started in 1980 with the objective to be the face of Indian Astronomy and Astrophysics to the world (Brochure: https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/General/joaa/joaa_brochure.pdf ). Presently, it is jointly published by the Indian Academy of Sciences,…

This is the first announcement of the 3rd BINA Workshop "Scientific potential of the Indo-Belgian telescopes" hosted by ARIES, Nainital (India) on 22-24 March 2023 (see attached PDF for more information). The aim of the workshop is to highlight all the advantages of the Indo-Belgian collaboration and to give the participants the opportunity to promote their research on all kinds of scientific…

We would like to inform you that ARIES would be organising a 3-day workshop on " Role of meter class telescopes in Modern Day Astronomy" at Nainital during 17-19 October 2022 as a part of the Golden Jubilee Celebration for the 104-cm Sampurnanand Optical Telescope. For more details, please refer the link -
https://www.aries.res.in…

Please find attached the SkyNews supplement on Comet PANSTARRS that is likely to become observable using an amateur telescope.

The map and ephemerides are for 8:00 p.m. IST

Please find attached the July issue of SkyNews.

The "Machine Learning in Solar Physics and Space Weather" workshop is being conducted in hybrid mode at the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI), IISER Kolkata from 28 June - 02 July, 2022. The workshop brings together experts in the field of Machine Learning and Space Weather Predictions from various institutions in India, Sweden and other countries and is sponsored by the…

Machine Learning in Solar Physics and Space Weather

The "Machine Learning in Solar Physics and Space Weather" Workshop will be held at the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI), IISER Kolkata during 28 June - 02 July 2022. The workshop is sponsored by the SPARC program of the Ministry of Education and will be conducted in a hybrid mode. The focus of this workshop is to…

Please find attached herewith SkyNews for June 2022.

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Mr Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

On behalf of the organising committee, I am pleased to announce the first ADITYA-L1 Science Support Cell (AL1SSC) workshop that will be held at the ARIES, Nainital from 27th June to 6th July 2022. This workshop is primarily for students who are pursuing M.Sc/Integrated PhD (1st and 2nd year)/Integrated M.Sc (4th or 5th year)/B.Tech/M.Tech or who have passed M.Sc (Physics)/B.Tech/M.Tech/…

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency has been mapping the entire sky for the last eight years. It has delivered two data releases (DR1 and DR2) and one early data release (EDR3) so far. The EDR3 release includes full astrometric solutions for 585 million sources and photometry for 1.806 billion sources with a limiting G magnitude of 21. The complete third data release (DR3) is…

In continuation of the year-long celebration of Indian space sciences, envisaged in the context of the National Space Science Symposium (NSSS 2022), CESSI, IISER Kolkata in collaboration with the Science Program Office of ISRO is pleased to announce a new public lecture series. The NSSS lecture series is meant to inform the public about important developments in space sciences in the country,…

The Astronomical Society of India is pleased to announce the release of the inaugural lecture of the much anticipated lecture series titled "Astronomy and Astrophysics: An Introductory Survey". Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, this series of talks by renowned astrophysicist and teacher, Prof G. Srinivasan, starts from first principles of Physics, and builds up the subject…

The deadline for receiving the nominations for ASI 2021 awards has been extended upto 31st December 2021.

ASI is pleased to invite nominations for the following awards for the year 2021. The last date for the receipt of nominations is the 31st of December, 2021.

You will notice some changes in norms for these awards. These are based on the recommendations of a committee set up by…

Please find attached an announcement for the webinar on 29th October 2021 at 4.00 PM. All are welcome to join the webinar using the link https://www.indiascienceandtechnology.gov.in/webinar or scan using the attached pdf.

Title - Growth of Solar Physics in India from Ground and Space-based Platforms
Speaker…

The 12th Anna Mani lecture will be delivered by Chayanika Shah, on "Unpacking gender to understand the gendered culture of science: A queer feminist take”.

A poster for the talk is attached.

Please find the Youtube live link below.

Thanks and regards.
Preeti Kharb
On behalf of the Working Group for Gender Equity (WGGE)

Topic: 12th Anna Mani Lecture
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Please find attached SkyNews September 2021.

- Arvind Paranjpye

The editorial team of the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (JAA) of the Indian Academy of Sciences is publishing a special issue

to mark the milestone of AstroSat completing 5 years in orbit. Please find more details from the attached file.

Dear all

The workshop ‘Public Engagement in Astronomy in the Pandemic Era’, organised by IIA with HBCSE and ASI-POEC, will take place from 2-4 August (next week). The program schedule is attached. We have a large number of very interesting talks from planetaria, science centres, amateur astronomy clubs and research institutions.

Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting through…

The planets Venus and Mars are moving closer to each other as seen in the western sky just after sunset. Their closest approach is on 13th July. The moon also gets close to them on 12th July. These are all naked eye events and we invite everyone to see it for themselves.

Indian Institute of Astrophysics has made a poster on this event, aimed at the general public, in partnership with…

WGGE is pleased to announce the 10th Anna Mani lecture on July 22, 2021, by Vidita Vaidya on "THE SOCIAL BRAIN - INSIGHTS FROM NEUROSCIENCE OF RELEVANCE TO HUMAN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS". A poster for the talk is attached. Please find the Youtube live link below.

Thanks and regards.
Preeti Kharb
On behalf of the Working Group for Gender Equity (WGGE)

Topic: Anna Mani Lecture…