National Events/Notifications

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…

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…

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
 …

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 context…

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://…

 The IAU's NameExoWorlds 2022 contest has been going on this year, allowing people to work together to name a new set of Exoworlds available from the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Anyone, including students and teachers, astronomy enthusiasts, amateur astronomers and exoplanetary scientists, may…

Role of small Telescopes in Exciting Areas of Observational Astronomy

Please find more information from the link below-

http://csp.res.in

or

…

My second book, describing several original research results, is published by Springer Nature this week. It is titled "New Relativity in the Gravitational Universe: The theory of Cosmic Relativity and its experimental evidence" (Springer/Fundamental Theories of Physics). The contents call for a total revision of the physical basis of relativity and dynamics, supported amply and rigorously by…

Event: 
താരാപഥത്തിലെ വിജയവീഥികൾ: ജ്യോതിശാസ്ത്ര മേഖലയിലെ ഉപരി-പഠനസാധ്യതകളും തൊഴിൽ അവസരങ്ങളും
ഭാരതീയ ജ്യോതിശാസ്ത്ര ഗവേഷണ നിലയത്തിലെ ഗവേഷകരുമായി ഒരു ചർച്ച
A panel discussion and Q&A in Malayalam on "Education and career paths in astronomy in India", by Indian Institute of Astrophysics
This is the 9th in the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) Talk…

We would like to announce the Galflows2023 meeting to be organized at IUCAA from 2-5 February. The (in-person) workshop will bring together researchers in India working on the topics of galactic outflows and inflows, and how they impact galaxy evolution in general. We encourage you to register for the workshop and submit an abstract if your research interests overlap with the topic. You may…

We are happy to announce the second AL1SC workshop that will be conducted at  Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Udupi, Karnataka from 28th November 2022 to 30th November 2022. This is a thematic workshop focusing on the studies of solar flares in the solar atmosphere. This workshop is primarily for students who are pursuing Ph.D./Integrated Ph.D. or those who have passed M.Sc (…

The Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, along with the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, and the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) have developed the EYS (short for Empowering Young Scientists) Questionnaire. The questionnaire aims to get a comprehensive view of ideas from young researchers (≤ 45 years of age) to…

Department of Physics,  Amity Institute  of Applied Sciences (AIAS), Amity University,NOIDA is organizing a one day (17 Nov 2022) workshop entitled `Workshop on Recent Progress in Astrophysics'.  

DATE, TIME, VENUE 

Date: 17/11/2022 (Thu) 

Time: from 1000 hr to 1700 hr 

Venue: Online (Link will be provided to the…

Greetings from the Department of Mathematics, Central University of Rajasthan!
               
I am happy to invite you to the International Workshop on Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (IWCMDA-2023) to be conducted by the Department of Mathematics, Central University of Rajasthan during 6-8 January 2023. Free registration via link…

We are making the announcement for the Kodaikanal Winter School to be held at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics during 23-28 Jan 2023. The workshop aims to introduce potential Master's students to solar astronomy, heliospheric physics, and space weather research. The workshop will have lectures from experts in the discipline and hands-on data analysis…

IFAS7 school is scheduled to be held at IUCAA during 21 - 27 November 2022.

Application deadline is 15 Oct. 2022

Please find more information from the link : https://ifas7.sciencesconf.org/

The SkyNews for October 2022, please find more information from the attached file.

Arvind Paranjpye

The 15th Radio Astronomy Winter School (RAWS2022), a joint initiative of IUCAA and NCRA-TIFR, will be held in the offline mode from 13th to 23rd December 2022 at Pune. The last date for applications is 9th October. RAWS2022 will consist of lectures, experiments and demonstrations. Teams comprising of faculty mentors and students will work on activities together and interact closely with the…

Indo-French CEFIPRA Astronomy Meeting (IFCAM)-III
SKA/MSE and Multi-wavelength Synergies Workshop

January 9-13 2023, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru

Meeting Objective: New-generation multiwavelength (radio/IR/optical/gamma-rays) facilities that will be available in the next decade are expected to advance our understanding of a wide variety of celestial objects (…

The 8th BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop (BAWG 2022) will be held during October 18 – 20, 2022. This meeting is hosted by the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

The first BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop started in 2015, when the Astronomy Working Group was established. It…