35th Annual Report (2022-2023) - ENGLISH

179 seven students from nine schools from the region participated in the programme. The sessions were handled by experts in various fields and included experimental demonstrations, group activities and games based on Physics. Dr Joe Jacob (Retd. Professor and ICARD coordinator) inaugurated the camp. Fr. Benson N Antony, Bursar of Newman college, presided over the function. 7. National Science Day celebration- February27,28.March1,2023 National science day celebrations were held at the college under the auspices of ICARD on February 27, 6. Physics Camp for School Students- February24-25,2023 A Two-day Physics camp, 'Spectra' was conducted for High School and Higher Secondary school students during 24-25 February 2023. Sixty fig 3: (a) Dr. Ajith Thomas demonstrating physics experiments (b) Student participants explaining the poster which they made 28th and 1 st of March. Seminars, Quizzes and Essay competitions on science topicswere conducted for the college students and a Science poster competition was held for the school students. Prizes were distributed to the winners in a meeting presided over by Dr. Saju Abraham Vice- Principal and attended by Dr. Joe Jacob, co-ordinator of ICARD. Coordinator: N. K. Chakradhari School of Studies in Physics and Astrophysics Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur - 492010 (Thesis work) in collaboration with G.C. Anupama and D.K. Sahu (IIA, Bengaluru). Study of early-type/lenticular galaxies were carried out by Mahendra Kumar Verma (Thesis submitted), Amit Kumar Tamrakar (Thesis submitted), Laxmikant Chaware, S.K. Pandey and in collaboration with S. Barwey (IIA Bengaluru). Ms. Bharti Arorawas awarded PhD on Massive O-type and WR stars under J. C. Pandey (ARIES, Nainital) and N.K. Chakradhari (co-supervisor). Ankur Ghosh has submitted his thesis on Study of GRBs, under Amitesh Omar, Kuntal Misra (ARIES, Nainital) and N.K. Chakradhari (co-supervisor). 3. Workshop IUCAA supported a four-day international workshop on Science and Technology in Astronomy Research (STAR 2022) was organized from 15 to 18 October 2022. Ranjeev Misra and N.K. Chakradhari worked as convener. There were 21 lectures of scientists and researchers. The participants got detailed information about the Universe, the development of astronomy, Giant Telescopes, Space Observatories, Supernova Explosion, the motion of STAR2022 1. Areas of research 2. Research work Supernovae, X-ray Binaries, GRBs and Galaxies Spectral and timing analysis of X-ray Binaries is being carried out by N.K. Chakradhari, Pravat Dangal (Thesis work) in collaboration with Ranjeev Mishra (IUCAA, Pune). UV-optical photometric and spectroscopic study of supernovae is being carried out by N.K. Chakradhari, Shritika Tiwari (Thesis work) and Kripa Ram Sahu