Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Greetings. On behalf of the Astronomy Centre for Educators (ACE) of IUCAA we are pleased to announce an Astronomy-themed Experiments Competition.
The objective of this competition is to design astronomy- themed experiments for undergraduate and postgraduate laboratories in institutions of higher education, including engineering institutions. Ongoing…
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that a popular book on astronomy written by myself (which is my second book on popular astronomy) has been published recently and is currently available at Amazon for purchase.
Title: Mars: a celestial show's topper
Summary: The theme of this book is a bit unique. It is not a book giving details…
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 Kilometer Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…
Manipal Center for Natural Sciences (MCNS) is organising a National-Level School on “Fundamentals of Space Radiation for scientists, engineers and space entrepreneurs”, sponsored by the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India
Venue: Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education…
Sun, Space Weather and Solar-Stellar Connections — An international conference commemorating 125 years of KSO
Conference Dates: January 20 – 24, 2025
Second Announcement
We invite abstracts and registration for the the international conference “Sun, Space…
Dear Colleagues,
As you know, the Government of India has recently approved the country's participation in the construction of the SKA telescopes, paving the way for India to become a full member of the SKA Observatory (SKAO) (https://www.skao.int/en). This exciting development provides a unique opportunity for interested…
Dear All,
We are soliciting applications for participation in a Gravitational-Wave Instrumentation Workshop (GWIW) to be conducted at IUCAA, Pune from November 10-29, 2024. The workshop is geared towards giving students a hands on introduction to LIGO-related instrumentation, with the goal: "To spread the GW Instrumentation Community Nationwide in view of the upcoming…
An international symposium is organized during Nov 20-22, 2024. Please look at the symposium website (link: https://sites.google.com/view/issac-2024/home). The deadline for abstract submission is Aug 10, 2024 (It will be extended. Please keep an eye on the symposium website). To submit the abstract, please visit…
Please find attached the SkyNews for August 2024.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Dear BRICS+ colleagues
The BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop will be held on 9 - 13 September in Kazan Federal University in Kazan City, Russia, the meeting will also be available in Hybrid format.
This year the science theme of the meeting will be The BRICS Intelligent Telescope and Data Network. The aim is to advance the BRICS Astronomy flagship project.…
Dear Colleagues,
This year's URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science is going to be held in Bhimtal (https://www.aries.res.in/ursi.rcrs2024/). Besides the wonderful location near Nainital, this is an excellent chance for young professionals, early-career scientists, faculty members, and PG/PhD students working in…
International conference on "Meteor, Meteoroids and Meteorites: Messenger from Space" during 20-22 Nov 2024 at Physical Research Laboratory, India.
Please find more information from the link: https://metmess2024.ipsa-asso.in/
Thanking you
Kuljeet Kaur Marhas
Convenor, MetMeSS 2024
Please find attached the SkyNews for July 2024.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
We're glad to inform that the following astronomers from India have been elected to IAU Committees for the next term 2024-2027.
Division Committees
The NASA 5th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium is presented in collaboration with NASA's Living With a Star Program, the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS), and the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES). This ongoing series of events bring together great minds across the interdisciplinary field of heliophysics. It continues the…
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 Kilometer Array (SKA) that have become operational in the past few years. The explosion of data volumes is…
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce the international conference on Neutron star Equation of State and Gravitational Waves (NEOSGrav2024), which will take place from 1st to 4th of October 2024 in Goa, India.
The scientific programme shall consist of invited review talks and some short oral presentations.
Website: …
Please find attached the SkyNews for June 2024.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
IUCAA sponsored Workshop and Conference on Blazars and Restless AGN (COBRA): A High-Energy View at Presidency University, Kolkata during July 22-26, 2024.
The Abstract submission deadline: June 10, 2024.
Please find more information from the website: https://cobra2024.weebly.com/
The link for…
Dear Members,
Registration is now open for the Ninth edition of the Indo-French Astronomical School (IFAS9), hosted in Lyon on October 4-11, 2024.
Please visit https://ifas9.sciencesconf.org/ for more information.
IFAS9 is the ninth edition of a series of schools co-organized by the University of Lyon (CRAL,…
Please find attached the SkyNews for May 2024.
-Arvind Paranjpye
The Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology (IIST) announces the 12th IIST Astronomy & Astrophysics School (IAAS2024), which will be held from July 1–10, 2024, at IIST. The school is open for students who are pursuing their M.Sc. (who are completing their first year), Integrated M.Sc. (completing their 4th year), and B. Tech Engineering Physics (completing their 3rd year).…
On 8th April 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible across vast tracts of populated regions in the Americas. Occurring near the peak of sunspot cycle 25, one expects to see a relatively more complex and spectacular coronal structure this time. The CESSI, IISER Kolkata Solar Eclipse Dashboard has a prediction of the (approximate) coronal structure expected to be seen during the eclipse,…
The first MALS data release (DR1v2) provided radio continuum images and a catalog of 495,325 (240,321) radio sources detected over an area of 2289 deg2 (1132 deg2) via 391 pointings at 1006 MHz (1381 MHz). The data release is described in Deka et al. 2024.
The updated data…
Please find attached the SkyNews for April 2024.
This Newsletter has, in addition to regular features, two articles - one about the total solar eclipse and two about watching Comet Pons-Brooks.
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Mr. Arvind Paranjpye, Director
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Dear Colleague,
We invite you to join us for the Govind Swarup Memorial Lecture - 2024, an annual event which NCRA-TIFR started in 2021, in honour of Prof. Govind Swarup.
Prof. Swarup, who passed away in September 2020, was the major force behind establishing radio astronomy research in India. He founded the Radio Astronomy group at TIFR which later became the National Centre for…
Sun, Space Weather and Solar-Stellar Connections — An international conference commemorating 125 years of KSO
Conference Dates: January 20 – 24, 2025
First Announcement
To commemorate 125 years of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO), the…
Dear colleagues
The highly anticipated second edition of BRICS Astronomy magazine is now available for all to explore and enjoy. Following the success of the inaugural edition, the latest release continues to showcase the collaborative efforts and groundbreaking research happening within the BRICS countries in the field of astronomy. Available for download in PDF format on…
Dear colleagues,
The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE-TIFR) is pleased to announce the 21st edition of the National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS) programme in Physics and Astronomy. NIUS is an extended nurture programme for undergraduate students. This year's programmes in Physics (18 to 29 June 2024) and Astronomy (2 to 12 July 2024) will be held at HBCSE,…
Dear colleagues,
TIFR (Main) and HBCSE-TIFR are organising the fifth edition of Vigyan Vidushi (Physics), an advanced programme in Physics for women students in first year M.Sc. / fourth year Int. M.Sc. This will be held from 27 May to 15 June 2024 at the HBCSE campus in Mumbai. The application deadline is 26 March 2024 (…
