Greetings!

We are pleased to announce a One-day Online Meeting on the Bhaskaracharya Observatory for the Search of Exoplanets (BOSE) - “Towards the Discovery of Earth-Twins”  to be held on 9th December 2025  at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad.

The meeting aims to bring together observers, instrumentation experts, theorists, and scientific enthusiasts to discuss the exciting opportunities offered by the upcoming proposed BOSE space mission, India’s first discovery-legacy exoplanet mission.

The ASI Symposium 006: Communicating Astronomy in India 2026 (ASI SCAI-26) will be held during 22-24 January at IUCAA, Pune, and is being supported by the ASI, IUCAA, IIA, ARIES, and NCRA-TIFR.

We are happy to announce the call for registrations as well as for submission of abstracts for the Symposium, through the website at https://events.iiap.res.in/event/352/.

We are excited to announce the SKA-India Science Meeting 2026, titled "India and the SKA: Preparing for a Transformative Era in Astrophysics". The meeting will be held from 15-18 January 2026 at IISER Mohali.

As the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) enters its full construction phase, this meeting will provide a key platform for the Indian astronomy community to prepare for upcoming Science Verification data in 2027 and to plan participation in SKA Key Science Projects.

Highlights:

We are pleased to inform that we are holding a two day workshop called Women in Astrophysics: Voices, Equity, and Science (WAVES) - A Workshop on Gender Equity and Advances in Astrophysics,  at ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, on November 3–4, 2025. This two-day meeting will bring together women astronomers and astrophysicists in India to showcase current research across diverse areas, as well as discuss issues around gender equity.

GW-EM-Nu-2025: Multi-Messenger Science With Indian Facilities-Now and in the Next Decade

Please find attached the SkyNews for October 2025.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

IUCAA is organizing an advanced workshop on “THeoretical aspects Of Relativistic jets” (THOR), from January 5-9, 2026. The workshop’s primary goal is to provide Indian researchers with much-needed exposure to the AGN jet theory. Another crucial aspect of the event is to develop the skills of participants in numerical simulations of the relativistic jet emission through hands-on sessions.

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Dear Colleagues,

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are pleased to announce a joint workshop dedicated to heliophysics. This event will focus on scientific opportunities arising from the combined observations of Aditya-L1, Solar Orbiter, and Proba-3 missions.

The workshop will be organized as in-person during 19-23 January 2026, in Trivandrum, India.

The call for applications for the second gravitational-wave instrumentation workshop (GWIW-2025) at IUCAA is now open. The workshop will be held from November 30 - December 13, 2025 at IUCAA, Pune.

Important dates:
Registration deadline: September 30, 2025
Referee's recommendations Deadline: October 02, 2025

More details can be found from the meeting website at link.

Many thanks and best regards, 
Shasvath Kapadia

U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), one of the premier centres of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is organizing an international conference on “A Decade of AstroSat Observations: Science Outcomes and Future Prospects” from January 30 – February 1, 2026, in Bengaluru, India.