Please find the below link to the advertisement for the “Sunanda and Santimay Basu Chair in Astrophysics” for a five-year term, renewable upon mutual agreement.
https://apply.interfolio.com/89656
Regards
Dr. Anirban Chakraborty
Director, Research & Development
Ashoka University
The planets Venus and Mars are moving closer to each other as seen in the western sky just after sunset. Their closest approach is on 13th July. The moon also gets close to them on 12th July. These are all naked eye events and we invite everyone to see it for themselves.
Indian Institute of Astrophysics has made a poster on this event, aimed at the general public, in partnership with ASI-POEC. This has also been translated in English, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu and Gujarati and Malayalam! I have attached them all here.
WGGE is pleased to announce the 10th Anna Mani lecture on July 22, 2021, by Vidita Vaidya on "THE SOCIAL BRAIN - INSIGHTS FROM NEUROSCIENCE OF RELEVANCE TO HUMAN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS". A poster for the talk is attached. Please find the Youtube live link below.
Thanks and regards.
Preeti Kharb
On behalf of the Working Group for Gender Equity (WGGE)
Topic: Anna Mani Lecture
Time: 22 July, 2021 at 4 pm on ZOOM and YouTube.
Youtube link
https://youtu.be/DOJSvC_saJE
The abstract submission deadline is extended till 10 July for the "Public Engagement in Astronomy in the Pandemic Era" workshop, which will be held during 2-3 August. Revised poster is attached.
Website: https://www.iiap.res.in/astropandemic/
Last date for abstract submission: 10 July
Last date for registration: 25 July
Please find attached SkyNews July 2021. It contains
Sun, Planets and Transitions
List of Events in July 2021
March of the Moon
Conjunctions
Venus, Mars and Regulus
- Arvind
We at Pune Knowledge Cluster are planning to develop scientific research projects where enthusiastic citizens (from all walks of life) can participate and help us analyze big data from various scientific streams. Currently, we offer a couple of Astronomical data-based projects. The participants will be given orientation and training sessions by the experts. Kindly find the document attached summarizing our Citizen Science projects. The link for the registration is present at the end of the document. We request you to forward this mail to the interested people.
Thanks and Regards,
Applications are invited for postdoc positions, including the prestigious Aryabhatta postdoctoral fellowship (A-PDF), at ARIES, Nainital. The details can be found at the following link:
https://aries.res.in/opportunities/opportunities-postdoc
The deadline to apply is June 30, 2021. Please feel free to contact the ARIES PDF selection committee at pdf@aries.res.in for any queries.
Best regards
ARIES PDF selection committee
Date: 2-3 August 2021
Website: https://www.iiap.res.in/astropandemic
Last date for abstract submission: 1 July
Last date for registration: 25 July
Organised by: IIA, with HBCSE-TIFR and ASI-POEC
Applications are invited a full time teaching faculty on contractual basis with a PhD in the Astronomy/ Astrophysics/ Cosmology area. Please find attached a copy of the advertisement.
WGGE is pleased to announce the next Anna Mani lecture on June 24, 2021, by Jayasree Subramanian titled "They were Axiomatic, We are Empirical: The Indian Approach to the Gender Question in Mathematics". A poster for the talk is attached. Please find the Zoom link and Youtube live link below.
