It is with immense pleasure to inform you that we are expanding the scientific activities of ASI by supporting the organisation of focussed meetings in the form of ASI Symposia.
The Astronomical Society of India is introducing the ASI Symposium Series. The series comprises upto three Symposia to be held annually and selected by the EC through a call for proposals from the ASI. The objectives of the ASI Symposia are to discuss advancements and current key questions in a well-defined… Read More
It is with pleasure that we make the announcement of the 43rd Annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of India ASI-2025, which is to be held at Rourkela, Odisha during 15-19 February 2025. The meeting will be hosted by the National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NITRkl), Odisha. The flyer of the meeting with a few important dates can be found from the link. Kindly share widely with students, and colleagues.
Best Poster Award
Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets, and Astrobiology
1. Parvathy M
Institution: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru
Title: Simulating the exo-ring spectra with solar system observations
Poster No: SSEA-41
2. Puja Majee
Institution: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Title: First detailed polarimetric study of a type-II solar radio burst with the Murchison Widefield… Read More
It is with great pleasure that we announce the recipients of the ASI awards for the year 2023. The awards will be given out during the upcoming ASI2024 meeting at IISc, Bangalore.
1. ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award - Joint recipients
a. Infrared Astronomy Group of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at TIFR, and
b. Global elemental mapping of lunar surface by payloads on Chandrayaan-2 team
2. Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award - Dr. Ajith Parameswaran, ICTS… Read More
We are thrilled to announce the Young Astronomers' Meet 2024 (YAM24), scheduled from March 6 - 9, 2024, hosted by The Department of Physics & Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, and supported by the Astronomical Society of India (ASI).
YAM is an exciting annual gathering for PhD students in astronomy and astrophysics, providing an excellent platform to showcase research and build collaborations. We extend a warm invitation for your… Read More
Dear Colleague,
The deadline to receive proposals for hosting ASI 2025 has been extended upto 15th Jan 2024.
The Astronomical Society of India (ASI) invites proposals for hosting the annual meeting of the ASI for the year 2025.
As you're aware, the 2024 meeting is planned as an in-person meeting which is scheduled between 31 Jan to 04 Feb 2024. In the past many years, the format of the meeting has stabilised to a day devoted to topical workshops… Read More
Nominations are invited for ASI awards for the year 2023. The last date to receive the nominations for these awards is 20 Nov 2023. The nominations will be received through online forms available on ASI website, the links to these forms are available on the respective award page given below. We request you to widely circulate the information about the awards. Nominators are requested to go through the guidelines given in the Awards page before filling out the… Read More
It is our pleasure to share with you that Abstract Submission for Oral, Poster and Theses presentations is now open for the 42nd Meeting of the ASI. The meeting hosted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) will be held at Bengaluru, from 31 Jan to 04 Feb 2024.
We invite you to be a part of this largest meeting of professional… Read More
The 42nd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) is scheduled to be held between 31 Jan to 04 Feb 2024, and will be hosted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) at Bangalore. More information is available at the meeting website. The meeting will be fully in-person.
As has been the case for the last several ASI… Read More
The following awards were presented during the concluding session of the ASI 2023 meeting on 5th March 2023.
Sonu Tabitha Paulson (IIST) - 6.7 GHz methanol masers and the early phases of massive star formation
Honorable Mention - K D Abhyankar Best Thesis Presentation Award
Yash Bhargava (IUCAA) - Spectro-timing studies of accretion disks in black hole binaries
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