AR-2020-21

107 33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21 Title: Design and Development of Wide-Field Polarimeter (WALOP) for Skinakas Observatory for PASIPHAE Survey (Co-supervision). Student: John Kypriotakis (University of Crete, Greece) Title: Design and Development of Wide Field Optical Polarimeters (WALOP) for Dust Cloud Tomography. Student: Siddharth Maharana (IUCAA) Title: Probing Magnetic Fields using Stellar Polarization (Co-supervision). Student: Shrish (NISER, Bhubaneswar) Title: Development of UV Detectors for Solar Astronomy (Co-supervision). Student: Manoj Varma (IIA, Bengaluru) Varun Sahni Title: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Early Universe. Student: Swagat S. Mishra (IUCAA) Nishant K. Singh Title: Aspects of Turbulent Convection: Implications for Solar Differential Rotation and Small Scale Dynamos . Student: Kishore Gopalakrishnan (IUCAA) Title: Dynamo Action in Rotating and Shearing Flows (Co-supervision). Student: Naveen Jingade (IISc, Bengaluru) Title: Towards Constraining the Solar Dynamo with Observational Studies of the Sun's Magnetic Field (Co-supervision). Student: Ameya Prabhu (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) Tarun Souradeep Title: Physics beyond Statistical Isotropy at Late Universe. Student: Debabrata Adak (IUCAA) Raghunathan Srianand Title : Probing the Ultra-Fast Outflows in BAL Quasars using Multi-Epoch Spectroscopy. Student: P. Aromal (IUCAA) Title: Probing the Nature, Environment and Evolution of Ultra StrongMg II Absorption Systems. Student: Labanya K. Guha (IUCAA) Title: Probing the Physical State of the IntergalacticMediumandQuasar Environment (Co-supervision). Student: Priyanka Jalan (ARIES, Nainital)