National Events/Notifications

Dear All,

Prof. Bhaskar Datta was a renowned astrophysicist who passed away 25 years ago on 03 December 1999 at the…

Dear Colleague,

It is our pleasure to announce a series of five lectures by Prof. Rajaram Nityanada on polarisation of electromagnetic radiation, with special reference to radio astronomy. These lectures will be held online and are scheduled for the first two weeks of December 2024 (Mon, Wed and Thu at 5:30 PM IST (12:00 UT)). More details…

Please find attached the SkyNews for December 2024 and the supplement to December SkyNews. As you can see from this supplement, December offers a great chance for astronomy outreach.  All the planets would be visible in one night close to the end of December 2024. We can make the most of it.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

We are delighted to invite you to "Frontiers in Modern Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Science"—the Closing Ceremony of the Silver Jubilee Program, organized by the Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP). This event will take place on 7 December 2024 at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP, Kolkata.

The attached document outlines the event details, and participants can…

Open call for Workshop Proposals, 2025–2026

International Space Science Institute–Beijing
Initial deadline: 31 March 2025
http://www.issibj.ac.cn/program/workshops/

The International Space Science Institute–Beijing (ISSI-BJ) is calling for proposals to host high-…

Registration Form
https://forms.gle/AEdbCsrUpjBSXXZo8 

Deadline
December 15, 2024

The Astronomers in Residence program is an initiative by the ASI's Public Outreach and Education Committee (ASI-POEC, https://astron-soc.in/…

Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, is starting a 3-Year Pre-Ph.D. Diploma Course in Astrophysics and Space Science. This program is designed to provide students with a solid foundation in astrophysics and space science, preparing them for advanced research in these exciting fields.

For more detailed information about the course, please refer to the…

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Good evening. We are delighted to announce the next online NEP Orientation and Sensitization Programme organized by the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre at IUCAA. The program will run from November 15 to November 30, 2024, covering all eight themes outlined by the UGC. The poster announcing the programme is attached…

Announcement of the ICTS program titled 'Radio Cosmology and Continuum Observations in the SKA Era: A Synergic View (7-18 April 2025)' at ICTS, Bengaluru. 

This two-week long program aims to bring together national and international experts in radio cosmology and continuum science, fostering collaboration and training the next generation of researchers in these…

Please find attached the SkyNews for November 2024.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

We are pleased to share Orbit, the latest quarterly newsletter from the Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP), Kolkata. This merged edition, with ICSP Director Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti as the editor, spans September 2023 to August 2024 and features key research updates, the inauguration of ICSP’s Astronomy and Space Museum, and recent educational initiatives.

Please find more…

Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education is organising “Manipal Astrostatistics School - 2024” in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), IUCAA, BARC and SINP. This Astrostatistics school is expected to prepare PhD students, Postdoctoral fellows and young faculty researchers with a…

The registration and abstract submission is open for the ASI Symposium 001 titled "Astronomy from Moon in the era of Indian lunar missions" which will be held from 02 - 04 Dec 2024 at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru. Please find more inormation from the meeting link.

Registration Link: …

The registration and abstract submission is open for the ASI Symposium 002 titled "Particle acceleration in the Sun and Heliosphere" which will be held from 16-18 Dec 2024 at Arul Anandar College, Madurai. Please find more information from the meeting link and the attached poster.

Abstract Submission and support…

IUCAA workshop on AI/ ML applications in Astronomy & Astrophysics from 06 – 10 January, 2025. The workshop will be for young researchers and faculty with background in astronomy and astrophysics and interest in applicaon of AI/ ML techniques to astronomy.

Please find more information from the attached poster.

The sixth biennial conference on "Recent Trends in the study of Compact Objects: Theory and Observation (RETCO-VI)" will take place at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore) during 10 - 12 March 2025, organized by the Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering (DAASE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore. This biennial…

We are writing with a request for you to sign up for this program so that we can build a resource sheet of astronomers who are willing to volunteer for the Astronomers in Residence initiative of the Public Outreach and Education Committee of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI-POEC). The Program intends to bring an astronomer in touch with schools, colleges, universities who rarely get a…

Dear Members of the Professional and Amateur Astronomy Communities,

The International Astronomical Union’s Professional-Amateur Astronomer Working Group (Pro-Am Working Group) is working to connect professional and amateur astronomers, with the aim of promoting research collaborations, delivering workshops, and promoting and facilitating the integration of professional astronomers…

Please find attached the SkyNews for October 2024.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and their Applications from 13-14 Nov, 2024 at A.P.S. University Rewa (M. P.). Please find more information from the attached brochure.

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Modern Engineering Trends in Astronomy (META-2024) conference, scheduled to take place from December 3rd to 6th, 2024, at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. META-2024 is being jointly organized by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Raman Research Institute, Indian Institute of Astrophysics,…

Dear Educators,

We are delighted to inform you that the OAE Center India, hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, in association with the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) of the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, is offering valuable resources for school-level astronomy education. Please share this message…

Workshop on "Two-Component Advective Flows (TCAF): Fitting Procedure and Results for Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes". This workshop will be organized in both online and offline modes, is part of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of ICSP and will be held on September 25th, 2024, at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP, Kolkata.

Please find the attached poster of…

Dear Colleague,

We are happy invite you to attend the "Radio Astronomy TEchniques Seminars - RATeS".

Currently we are witnessing spectacular radio images of the sky opening new scientific challenges, thanks to the precursor and pathfinder radio telescopes of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…

The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey team has released radio continuum images and a catalog of 971,980 radio sources detected over an area of 4344 deg^2 from 391 telescope pointings at 1 - 1.7 GHz.  This is the largest catalog of radio sources from any MeerKAT survey to date, and one of only a handful of radio catalogs with a million or more sources.  Using this million source catalog…

Please find attached the SkyNews for September 2024.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Half-day workshop on "Machine Learning and Its Applications" . The workshop is a part of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of ICSP and will be held on September 7th, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP, Kolkata.

Please find the detailed program schedule and registration information in the attached document.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings. We are pleased to announce the Radio Astronomy Winter School 2024 (RAWS-2024), a joint program of IUCAA and NCRA-TIFR. We invite applications for RAWS-2024 from both faculty members and educators of higher education institutions, and second and third year undergraduate/integrated five-year postgraduate students in either science or engineering. A…

We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the 3rd National Seminar on "Discovery and Detection of Gravitational Waves" on September 14th, 2024, at our campus in Jaipur. This seminar aims to bring together leading experts, educators, and students from across the country to explore the latest advancements in gravitational wave science.

In addition to engaging…

Dear All,

The A&A vision document (MSV-2035), we have been preparing for a couple of years, is now published in the webpage of the office of the principal scientific adviser to the government of India. Please click here.

We thank the members…