Refresher Course on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2024

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. We are pleased to announce the Refresher Course on Astronomy and Astrophysics to be held at site in IUCAA from the 13th of May to the 14th of June 2024. The course is open to faculty members of all higher educational institutions in the country.

Those interested are requested to apply via the online form
http://bit.ly/rcaa2024

Last date of registration is 15th March 2024.

Those selected to participate will be intimated shortly after the registration deadline.

JRF postion in Max Planck partner Group project at NISER Bhubaneswar(deadline extended upto 6th March)

For this position, the nature of work is mainly satellite data/image (hyperspectral image) processing and calibration, and then analysis of the surface composition/mineralogy and also trying to model the physico-chemical and geologic conditions of the asteroid ceres.

QUALIFICATION: MSc Physics/Geology/Geophysics with NET/GATE/JEST
DESIRABLE: Python programming; Knowledge in Spectroscopy/Physical-chemistry/Mineralogy/Geochemistry
FELLOWSHIP: ₹31,000/- pm plus HRA (as per rules)
Deadline: (extended upto) 6th March, 2024

Faculty positions at Dept. of Physics, IIT Guwahati

The Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, is going to recruit people at the Assistant Professor level. The advertisement for the faculty position for the physics department is open now. Link: https://iitg.ac.in/iitg_page_details?page=60

Please encourage potential candidates to apply. The last date of application is on or before 28.03.2024, 5 PM (IST).

Regards,
Santabrata Das      
 

Prof. Bimla Buti (September 19, 1933 – February 24, 2024) (L0121)

Prof. Bimla Buti was a highly acclaimed Plasma Physicist of international repute. She did her Ph.D. with Nobel Laureate Prof. S Chandrasekhar in 1962 from the University of Chicago. She worked at Delhi University, GSFC (NASA) and IIT Delhi (1962-70). She was invited by the then Director of PRL, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, to join as faculty at PRL. She spent twenty-three years of her professional life as Associate Professor, Professor, Senior Professor and Dean of Faculty there. Prof.

Postdoctoral position in the physics of the early universe

We announce the opening of a postdoctoral position in theoretical cosmology in a IFCPAR/CEFIPRA project. The selected candidate will work with Dr. Dhiraj Hazra at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India and Prof. Jérôme Martin at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) and Dr. Vincent Vennin at Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale (LPENS), Paris, France. The candidate will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the other PIs and Co-PIs of the project.