Dear all,

LIGO-India is organising the second session of the "Gravitational Waves @ Home with LIGO-India" lecture series. This series of lectures covers a wide variety of topics related to gravitational wave astrophysics. The lectures are delivered by leading experts from various institutes, and are broadly aimed at college students. All lectures are online on youtube, and free for all to attend. Questions asked by the audience are relayed to speakers, who try to answer as many of them as possible.

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) invites proposals from the astronomical community of India and Belgium for observations with 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) for the observing cycle from October 2020 to January 2021 (DOT-2020-C2). The deadline for receiving these proposals is 23:59:59 IST (UTC+5.5 hrs), Sunday, August 09, 2020. India has 93% share in the telescope time of which 33% is guaranteed to ARIES, and the Belgian share is 7%.

July issue of the Sky News

Thanks so much
Arvind Paranjpye, Director
Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Centre,

IIA has organised LIVE STREAM of the ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE from Hanle,
Kodaikanal and Bengaluru along with IIA Public outreach webinars on 21st
June 2020 at 10.15 am onwards

LIVE STREAM of Eclipse and Webinar link: https://youtu.be/Plrmb12pB4Q

Hanle Link: https://youtu.be/jmnj-k_mt2Q

All links at one page: https://sites.google.com/view/iiaoutreach/ [2]

AGU Fall Meeting: Dec 7-11 Dec 2020

https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting

Down the icy road: The journey of ices from interstellar clouds to planetary systems

We are all expectantly waiting for the Summer Solstice Solar Eclipse on Sunday i.e. 21 June, 2020. It will be breathtakingly annular (almost 99% coverage) in a belt in North India and partial in various percentages in the rest of the country.

Everyone is welcome to get more details and resources regarding it at: http://astron-soc.in/outreach/activities/aseindia2020/

Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), India and Space Sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research Institute (STAR, Liège University), Belgium are organizing a three days online workshop (29, 30 June and 01 July, 2020, https://aries.res.in/~ilmt/), via the Zoom platform, in the context of the 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) which is located in Devasthal, ARIES, India. The ILMT has been fully constructed and is expected to get its first light in Fall 2020.

Anupam Bhardwaj of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing and Gabriela Calistro Rivera of the European Southern Observatory, Munich have been awarded the Gruber Foundation Fellowships for 2020. Anupam completed his PhD from University of Delhi in 2017 on the topic of "Light Curve Analysis of Variable Stars".

Internationally, IAU, SKA, Nature-Index have already highlighted our citizen science research efforts. Specially because of Covid-19, IAU created a list of online resources for public to stay engaged in learning astronomy from home. RAD@home has been listed there. I hope such a broadcast from ASI will be in the public interest.
https://www.skatelescope.org/outreachandeducation/outreach-resources/ci…