Call for ASI 2021 Workshop Proposals
Call for ASI 2021 Workshop Proposals
The 39th meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) is scheduled to be held online in mid-February 2021 tentatively.
Postdoc and RA in Planetary Science at NISER on 22nd Sept 2020
Applications are invited for Postdoc and RA positions in Planetary Science at NISER's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Online interview is scheduled on 22nd September, at 3 pm, via Skype. Interested and eligible candidates may send the application and relevant documents till 21st Sept 2020. Ph.D. in Planetary Science, Planetary Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Physics or Chemistry with planetary science background are eligible. Those who defended their PhD thesis successfully are also eligible (along with the provisional certificate).
The positions are as follows:
Nominations are Invited for the ASI awards 2020
The deadline for receiving the nominations for all the awards has been extended upto 22nd Oct 2020.
Nominations are invited for the "Justice Oak best thesis award" for the year 2020
20 years of Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) - Two-day virtual meeting
Meeting Date: 29th and 30th Sept 2020
Deadline for the registration : 20th September 2020
Website link : https://www.iiap.res.in/HCT20/
Indo French CEFIPRA Astronomy meeting
Date: 15 - 20th March 2021
Venue: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Website Link: https://skamse2020.sciencesconf.org/
Anna Mani lecture by Abha Sur: Extraordinary/Ordinary: R. Rajalakshmi’s Life in Science
The YouTube link for the livestream is:
https://youtu.be/k3GLGs8_fME
Title: Extraordinary/Ordinary: R. Rajalakshmi’s Life in Science
A book on Gravitational Waves
A book on Gravitational Waves - Title: A New Window to the Universe - Authors: Ajit Kembhavi, Pushpa Khare
The book is qualitative and meant for the general reader, but there are some chapters (Detectors, Detections, Future Developments) which should provide useful summaries of the current status to physicists and astronomers.
The book is available on https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-5709-5
SkyNews September 2020
Please find attached SkyNews September 2020
Online Physics Summit: Presision 2020 and Undergraduate Symposium
The Physics Department of Presidency University is going to organize an online Physics Summit- Presision '20 (website: https://presision20.weebly.com). As a part of this event, we will have Undergraduate Symposium, Public Talk, and Panel Discussion. Amidst the lockdown, we are taking things completely online. It will take place on 11, 12, 13 September 2020.