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134 33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21 Revisiting Second Saturday Lecture / Demonstration with Live Interaction interacted with the audience answering their questions live. September 26, 2020: Taking the opportunity of International Observe the Moon Night, talk on Moon and Non-Rocket Science of it, by Samir Dhurde, followed by a live interaction. (For details, seeKhagol, No. 124, Oct 2020) A series – Revisiting IUCAA Lectures with live Q&Awith the speaker is started. In this series, the following interactions were revisited: September 12, 2020: Talks on Artificial Intelligence in Astronomical Research, by Kaustubh Waghmare (in English), and Kaushal Sharma (Hindi). Kaushal Sharma (ARIES) As part of IUCAA's efforts to support amateurs astronomy, a fortnightly series of lectures is being organised. The effort is being coordinated by Samir Dhurde. The first lecture on 27 September, 2020 was about PANOPTES (Panoptic Astronomical Networked Observatories for a Public Transiting Exoplanets Survey) - a citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope, to be used to detect transiting exoplanets. (For details, seeKhagol, No. 124, Oct 2020) MViSa List of Public Talks by IUCAAMembers May 16, 2020: Primordial Black Hole: Black Holes from the Big Bang, by Swagat Mishra. May 23, 2020: Introduction to Astrophotography, by JameerManur. June 6, 2020: Tuning to Mysteries of the Universe, by PratikDabhade. July 18, 2020: Do Your Own: Fun with Variables andTransients, byAshishMahabal. July 26, 2020: Unravelling the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Lensing, byAnupreeta More. August 1, 2020: Accomplishing the Impossible: Detection of Gravitational Waves, by Shivaraj Kandhasamy. These talks were organized by Antariksh Astro Club, VIT, Pune, and were part of a series of online astronomy talks by astrophysicists from various renowned institutes, including IUCAA. August 24, 2020: Inflation, Quantum Fluctuations and Primordial Black Holes, by Swagat Mishra, for theAstronomy Club, NISER, Bhubaneswar. August 30, 2020: Exploring Inflationary Cosmology, by Swagat Mishra, for Naxxatra Science, India. (For details, seeKhagol, No. 124, Oct 2020)