The 3rd International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT-2026) Workshop will be hosted by ARIES Nainital from 9 - 13 March 2026. This workshop is open to students in the final year of their M.Sc. (Physics/Astrophysics), the fifth year of their BS-MS (Physics), and Ph.D. (Physics/Astrophysics) students up to their third year.
Please find attached the IAU circular for Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM2026).
The ASI Symposium 006: Communicating Astronomy in India - 2026 (ASI SCAI-26) will be held during 22-24 January at IUCAA, Pune. The Sympsosium is supported by the generous financial support as well as in-kind contributions of the ASI, IUCAA, IIA, ARIES, and NCRA-TIFR.
With 150 attendees and more than 170 other registered participants attending online, the ASI SCAI-26 will feature 8 plenary talks, 52 regular talks in 2 parallel sessions, 50 posters and 14 demonstrations.
A micro-credential course (Hybrid mode) on "The Physics of Fluid Mechanics" will be conducted at Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education from January 20, 2026.
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to a “hands-on online workshop on TOPCAT” led by Mark Taylor (University of Bristol, UK) on January 15, 2026, 6.00 PM IST.
Please find attached the SkyNews for January 2026.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Please find attached the SkyNews for December 2025.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
As detailed in the first announcement, the Center of Excellence in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, and IUCAA, Pune, are organising a 3-day-long Southern Regional Astronomy Meeting (RAM-XI)- Research in Astronomy: Opportunities and Challenges from 5-7 February 2026. This meeting offers a valuable opportunity for regional researchers from the southern region of India to connect, exchange ideas, and showcase their work, thereby fostering a collaborative spirit within the community.
Professor Naresh Dadhich passed away, at the age of 81, on November 6, 2025 in Beijing while on an academic visit to China. His sudden demise is a tragic loss to the scientific community, and to the very large number of people from diverse fields and professions, in India and in many other countries, who were his friends, colleagues and collaborators. He worked mainly in general relativity and gravitation theory, and was one of the founders of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), where he was Director during 2003-2009.
This is a gentle reminder for those who have not yet registered for the One-day Online Meeting on the Bhaskaracharya Observatory for the Search of Exoplanets (BOSE) – “Towards the Discovery of Earth-Twins”, scheduled on 9 December 2025.
We are pleased to inform you that the registration deadline has been extended to 30 November 2025.
Registration & Meeting Details:
https://sites.google.com/view/bose-meeting-2025/home
