1. About the award
A set of five awards has been instituted for the poster presentations during the Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India. Each award consists of Rs. 5,000/- as cash prize and a certificate, and this will be presented to the authors of the poster judged to be the best in respective disciplines.
2. Selection Process
The posters displayed during ASI meetings will be judged by a panel of judges constituted by the ASI in consultation with the scientific organising committee ensuring technical and gender representation. The panel of judges will communicate the result of its deliberations to the ASI council during the meeting.
3.Announcement of the Award
The best poster awards will be announced on the last day of the ASI meeting where the winners will receive the awards.
The following are the list of awardees -
| Sl No. | Name | Discipline | Title of the Poster | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A set of 5 awards were awarded for the poster presentations during the 42nd Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, hosted jointly by IISc, ISRO and JNP from 31st January to 4th February 2024 | ||||
| 1 | Parvathy M (IIA, Bengaluru) | Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets, and Astrobiology | Simulating the exo-ring spectra with solar system observations | 2024 |
| 1 | Puja Majee (NCRA) | Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets, and Astrobiology | First detailed polarimetric study of a type-II solar radio burst with the Murchison Widefield Array | 2024 |
| 2 | Namita Uppal (PRL) | Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way | Revealing the Spiral Arms of our Galaxy towards the anti-centre direction: Insights from interstellar polarisation | 2024 |
| 3 | Anu Kundu (Centre for Space Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa) | High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy | The multipolar magnetic field of NICER Millisecond Pulsar J0030+0451 | 2024 |
| 4 | Priyank Parashari (IISc Bengaluru) | Galaxies and Cosmology | Probing primordial power spectrum with JWST observations of high redshift galaxies | 2024 |
| 4 | Nikita (IIT Indore) | Galaxies and Cosmology | Simulating Ribs and Tethers in AGN jets | 2024 |
| 5 | Mudit Kumar Srivastava (PRL) | Facilities, Technologies and Data science | Development of ProtoPol – a medium resolution echelle spectro-polarimeter for PRL Telescopes | 2024 |
| Best Poster Certificate from the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy for the year 2024 | ||||
| 1 | Divita Saraogi (IIT Bombay) | High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy | Localisation of Gamma Ray Bursts using AstroSat Mass Model | 2024 |
| 2 | Md Rashid (IISc Bengaluru) | Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Astrochemistry in Milky Way | A low radio frequency study of Orion: Indications of nonthermal emission | 2024 |
| A set of 5 awards were awarded for the poster presentations during the 41st Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, hosted by IIT Indore from 1-5 March 2023 | ||||
| 1 | Naman Joshi (IISER Bhopal) | Sun and the Solar System | Characterization of Systematics and Stellar Activity in the M Dwarfs’ White Light Curves | 2023 |
| 1 | Puja Majee (NCRA) | Sun and the Solar System | First detailed polarimetric study of a type II solar radio burst with the Murchison Widefield Array | 2023 |
| 2 | Priyankush Ghosh (NISER) | Stars, ISM, and the Galaxy | Atmospheric characterization of super-Earth exoplanets in the era of JWST | 2023 |
| 3 | Sukanya Mallik (IUCAA) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Detectability of metals in the low-z IGM | 2023 |
| 4 | Sayantan Ghosh (IIT Bombay) | General Relativity and Cosmology | Characterisation of Tomte Glitches in the Bayesian Framework | 2023 |
| 5 | Arjun Ghosh (University of Calcutta) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Passive Mode Operation of CU-ST Radar for Sun Tracking | 2023 |
| 5 | Nimmi Narayanan (Sree Sankara College, Kalady) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Determination of UV Diffuse Background Radiation and verification of GALEX Deep and Medium Airglow Model | 2023 |
| Best Poster Certificate from the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy for the year 2023 | ||||
| 1 | Siddhartha Bhattacharya (NCRA) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Repeating FRBs with the uGMRT | 2023 |
| 2 | Chitradeep Saha (CESSI) | Sun and the Solar System | Buoyancy driven active region formation in a kinematic three-dimensional solar dynamo model | 2023 |
| Honourable Mentions for the Best Poster Award for the year 2023 | ||||
| 1 | Namrata Rani (NISER) | Stars ISM and Galaxy | Revealing the Role of Computational Chemistry in the Era of ALMA to Characterize Interstellar Medium | 2023 |
| 2 | Salmoli Ghosh (NCRA) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Understanding the FR divide by uGMRT polarization study of a HYMOR/RI/BALQSO PG1004+130 | 2023 |
| A set of 5 awards were awarded for the poster presentations during the 40th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, hosted jointly by IIT Roorkee and ARIES Nainital from 25-29 March 2022 | ||||
| 1 | Devojyoti Kansabanik (NCRA-TIFR, Pune) | Sun and the Solar System | A Statistical Study of Plasmoids associated with post-CME Current Sheet | 2022 |
| 1 | Sahel Day (IIA, Bangalore) | Sun and the Solar System | A Statistical Study of Plasmoids associated with post-CME Current Sheet | 2022 |
| 2 | Arun Roy (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore) | Stars, ISM, and the Galaxy | Discovery of fullerenes in the circumstellar medium of Herbig Ae/Be stars | 2022 |
| 2 | Bharti Arora (ARIES Nainital) | Stars, ISM, and the Galaxy | Episodic dust formation in the colliding wind binary WR 125 | 2022 |
| 3 | Sioree Ansar (IIA, Bangalore) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Bar Formation and Destruction in the FIRE2 Simulations | 2022 |
| 4 | Barun Maity (NCRA-TIFR, Pune) | General Relativity and Cosmology | Efficient Modelling of Cosmic Reionization using SCRIPT | 2022 |
| 4 | Koustav Chandra (IIT, Bombay) | General Relativity and Cosmology | Are the sources of GW190521 and ZTF19abanrhr the same? | 2022 |
| 5 | Kshitij Bane (IIA, Bangalore) | Instrumentation and Techniques | A new facility for pulsar observations at low radio frequencies | 2022 |
| Best Poster Award from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2022 | ||||
| 1 | Harsh Kumar from IIT Bombay | Instrumentation and techniques | The poster on GROWTH India Telescope: A Robotic Eye for Time Domain Astronomy | 2022 |
| 2 | Akriti Sinha from IIT, Indore | Extragalactic Astronomy | Studying star-formation with low-frequency uGMRT observations | 2022 |
| 1 | Ritesh Patel (ARIES, Nainital) | Sun and Solar System | A Statistical Study of Plasmoids associated with post-CME Current Sheet | 2021 |
| 2 | Anshuman Acharya (IISER Mohali) | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | How Robust are the Inferred Density and Metallicity of the Circumgalactic Medium? | 2021 |
| 3 | Sushant Dutta (PRL, Ahmedabad) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Population of Remnant Radio Galaxies in Deep Radio Surveys | 2021 |
| 4 | Soummyadip Basak (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore) | General Relativity and Cosmology | Constraining The Fraction of Compact Dark Matter Using Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves | 2021 |
| 5 | Sonam Jorphail (IAO-IIA Hanle) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Development of a complete telescope controller using an inexpensive PSoC based microcontroller | 2021 |
| 5 | Tsewang Stanzin (IAO-IIA Hanle) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Development of the telescope control system and observatory control software for the robotic operation | 2021 |
| 1 | Sarvesh Mangla from IIT Indore | Instrumentation and techniques | Study of equatorial ionosphere with Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for 2021 |
| 2 | Prithish Halder from PRL, Ahmedabad | Sun and the Solar System | A comet dust model based on the findings from the Rosetta mission | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for 2021 |
| 1 | Ms. Shilpi Bhunia (IISER Pune) | Sun and Solar System | A survey of the solar data from the Murchison Widefield Array | 2020 |
| 2 | Mr. Akash Garg (Jamia Millia Islamia) | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | Modelling the energy dependent temporal behavior in Black hole X-ray binaries | 2020 |
| 3 | Ms. Prerana Biswas (IISc Bangalore) | Extragalactic Astronomy | Kinematics of nearby spiral galaxies with different inclination angles using 21cm HI interferometric data | 2020 |
| 4 | Mr. Sajal Gupta (IISER Kolkata) | General Relativity and Cosmology | Bounds on graviton mass from galaxy clusters | 2020 |
| 5 | Mr. Prasanna Deshmukh (IIA, Bangalore) | Instrumentation and Techniques | Prototyping of Soft Actuators for Thirty Meter Telescope in India | 2020 |
| 1 | Mr. Devojyoti Kansabanik (NCRA, Pune) | Stars, ISM and Galaxy (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 3000/- and Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | Investigation of eclipse mechanism for Black Widow Pulsar J1544+4937 | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2020 |
| 2 | Mr. Satabdwa Majumdar(IIA, Bangalore) | Sun and the Solar System (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 3000/- Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | Connecting 3D Kinematics of slow and fast CMEs to their source regions: A preparatory study for the ADITYA L1 mission | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2020 |
| 1 | Mr. Prabir Kumar Mitra | Sun and Solar System | Evolution of solar magnetic fields and large-scale reconnection events in extremely complex solar active region NOAA 12673 | 2019 |
| 2 | Mr. Avrajit Bandyopadhyay | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | New discoveries of globular cluster escapees and other results from GOMPA(Galactic survey Of Metal Poor stArs) survey | 2019 |
| 3 | Ms. Pranjupriya Goswami | Extragalactic Astronomy | Synchrotron spectral curvature of blazars as probe to understand electron diffusion | 2019 |
| 4 | Prof. K E Rangarajan | Instrumentation and Techniques | College level Solar Physics Experiments | 2019 |
| 1 | Ms. Barnali Das | Stars, ISM and Galaxy (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 2000/- and Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | HD 142990: The third main-sequence magnetic star with coherent emission | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2019 |
| 2 | Ms. Sanna Gulati | Extragalactic Astronomy (Award carries a cash prize of Rs. 2000/- Springer eBooks worth 200 Euros) | Short-term optical variability in misaligned active galaxies | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2019 |
| 1 | Mr. Surajit Mondal | Sun and Solar System | Ionospheric Studies Using By-products of a Low-radio Frequency Solar Imaging Pipeline | 2018 |
| 2 | Ms. A. J. Nayana | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | uGMRT observations of a TeV SNR G353.6-0.7 | 2018 |
| 3 | Mr. Pratik Dabhade | Extragalactic Astronomy | Giant Radio Galaxies from LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey | 2018 |
| 4 | Mr. Shishir Sankhyayan | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Large Scale Structures in SDSS | 2018 |
| 5 | Ms. Vinutha C | Instrumentation and Techniques | SWAN (Sky Watch Array Network) Demonstrator: Development & Status | 2018 |
| 1 | Ms. Snehalata Sahu | Stars, ISM and Galaxy (Award carries Springer eBook worth 200 Euros) | UVIT Study of Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster NGC 5466 | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2018 |
| 2 | Mr. Chayan Mondal | Extragalactic Astronomy (Award carries Springer eBook worth 200 Euros) | UVIT imaging of WLM: How clumpy are the young and hot star distribution in this metal poor galaxy? | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2018 |
| 1 | Mr. Vaibhav Pant | Sun and Solar System | Automated Detection of CMEs in Heliosphere: Comparison between manual and automated catalogs | 2017 |
| 2 | Mr. Supriyo Ghosh | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | The Near-Infrared Spectral Calibration of Late-type Giant Stars from medium resolution HK-band Spectra | 2017 |
| 3 | Mr. Amit Kumar Mandal | Extragalactic Astronomy | Determination of the size of the dust torus in H0507+164 through Optical-IR monitoring | 2017 |
| 4 | Mr. Pratik Tarafdar | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Influence of disc geometry on shocked accretion | 2017 |
| 5 | Mr. Ashish Mhaske | Instrumentation and Techniques | Horn antenna and Software Defined Radio for detecting 21 cm hydrogen line | 2017 |
| 1 | Ms. Nishtha Sachdeva | Sun and the Solar System (The award consists of Springer eBook worth 220 Euros and cash prize of Rs. 2500/-) | CME Propagation Dynamics: Relative importance of Lorentz forces and solar wind drag | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2017 |
| 2 | Ms. Vinita Navalkar | Instrumentation and Techniques (The award consists of Springer eBook worth 200 Euros and cash prize of Rs. 2500/-) | Development of sputtering system for fabrication of thin film multilayer optics of hard X-RAY TELESCOPE | from the Indian Academy of Sciences for the year 2017 |
| 1 | Mr. Rakesh Chandra Narwa | Sun and Solar System | Statistical analysis of meteoroid fragmentation during the Geminid and Leonid Meteor showers | 2016 |
| 2 | Mr. Kishalay De | Stars, ISM and Galaxy | The puzzling orbital period evolution of the LMXB AX J1745.6-2901 | 2016 |
| 3 | Ms. Ruta Kale | Extragalactic Astronomy | Spectra of brightest cluster galaxies | 2016 |
| 4 | Ms. Priyanka Singh | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Suppression of galactic outflows by cosmological infall/circumgalactic medium | 2016 |
| 5 | Ms. Anshu Kumari | Instrumentation and Techniques | Crosspolarized Log-Periodic Dipole Antenna for Low Frequency Solar Observations | 2016 |
| 1 | Mr. Vaibhav Pant | Sun and Solar System | Transverse Oscillations in coronal rain | 2015 |
| 2 | Ms. Supriya Hebbur Dayananda | Sun and Solar System | 1-D modeling of the Center-to-limb variation of the Stokes profiles of the Ca I 4227 A line | 2015 |
| 3 | Mr. Arun Kumar Naidu | Stars and the Galaxy | Interesting nulling behaviour of PSR J1709-1640 | 2015 |
| 4 | Ms. Sheelu Abraham | Extragalactic Astronomy | Photometric Redshifts of Quasars from SDSS | 2015 |
| 5 | Mr.Kartick Chnandra Sarkar | Extragalactic Astronomy | Effect of hot halo gas on supernovae driven outflows | 2015 |
| 6 | Mr.Shishir Sankhyayan | Genaral Relativity and Cosmology | Extremely Large Scale Structures in Galaxies Redshift Surveys | 2015 |
| 7 | Mr. Prasanna Deshmukh | Instrumentation and Techniques | Dynamic loading assembly for performance testing of Segmented Mirror Telescope Actuators | 2015 |
| 8 | Mr. Tanmoy Cattopadhyay | Instrumentation and Techniques | Development of a Hard X-ray Focal Plane Compton Polarimeter | 2015 |
| 1 | Mr. S. Krishna Prasad | Sun and the Solar System | Spectroscopic studies of coronal loops | 2014 |
| 2 | Mr. Tapas Baug | Stars and the Galaxy | Is semi-regular variable UZ Ariteis asymmetric? | 2014 |
| 3 | Mr. Samyaday Choudhury | Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology | What is the metallicity map tell us about the evolution of the LMC ? | 2014 |
| 4 | Mr. Kuldeep Kumar Yadav | Instrumentation and Techniques | Disp analysis procedure for the TACTIC gamma ray telescope | 2014 |
| 1 | Mr. Satish Chandra | Sun and the Solar System | - | 2011 |
| 2 | Mr. Lokesh Kumar Dewangan | Stars and the Galaxy | - | 2011 |
| 3 | Mr. Kulkarni | Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology | - | 2011 |
| 4 | Jointly to Ms. Dhivya Sengodan and Ms. Uma Unnikrishnan | Instrumentation and Techniques | - | 2011 |
| 1 | Mr. Girjesh Gupta | Sun and the Solar System | On the statistical detection of propagating waves in polar coronal holes | 2009 |
| 2 | Mr. Kaushar Vaidya | Stars and the Galaxy | - | 2009 |
| 3 | Ms. Chandreyee Sengupta | Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology | H-I and radio continuum emission from the interacting galaxy system: Arp86 | 2009 |
| 4 | Mr. Mudit Srivastava | Instrumentation and Techniques | Design and development of optical fibre based integral field unit (IFU) for 2-D spectroscopy | 2009 |
| 1 | Mr. P. Sreejith | Sun and the Solar System | Seeing Induced Cross-talk in Filter-based Velocity Measurements | 2007 |
| 2 | Mr. Subhashis Roy | Stars and the Galaxy | New Results on Radio Emission from the Transient Bursting Source GCRTJ 1745-3009 | 2007 |
| 3 | Mr. Jitendra Kodilkar | Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology | Multi-frequency Radio Continuum Observations of Nearby Spiral Galaxies: NGC 2997, NGC 4565 | 2007 |
| 4 | Mr. A. K. Saxena | Instrumentation and Techniques | Proposed Adaptive Optics System for Vainu Bappu Telescope | 2007 |
| 4 | Mr. V. K. Dhar | Instrumentation and Techniques | Feasibility of using ANN-based Algorithms for Improving the Sensitivity of TACTIC Imaging Telescope | 2007 |
| 1 | Mr. Koshy George | Sun and the Solar System | H3+ in Jovian Aurorae | 2005 |
| 2 | Mr. Amrit Lal Ahuja | Stars and the Galaxy | A Novel Technique of Accurate Estimation of Pulsar DM | 2005 |
| 3 | Mr. Surajit Dasgupta | Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology | Evidence for Relativistic Ionized Outflows in the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies | 2005 |
| 4 | Mr. R. Sridhara | Instrumentation and Techniques | An Image Stabilization System for Solar Observations | 2005 |