36th Annual Report (2023-24)

190 interaction program was conducted to provide training for the current and upcoming batches on April 12, 2024. Prof. Indumathi D. (IMSC Chennai), Dr Charles Jose (CUSAT), Dr Krishnamohan Parattu (IIT Mandi), and Dr Rathul Nath Raveendran (IISc Bangalore) were the resource persons. A three-day science camp for school students was conducted from 22 to 24 May 2023 at the Carmel CMI Public School, Vazhakulam, in the joint auspices of the ICARD, Newman College unit and the Block Panchayat, Muvattupuzha, to impart science awareness and education for the selected students of standard 8 -10 studying in seven Gram Panchayats under the Block Panchayat. Sixty participants from various schools were selected in a novel manner involving their teachers and the respective grama panchayat people's representatives. In the sessions that followed during the three days, fifteen eminent resource persons dealt with various subjects in science with an emphasis on astronomy. A skywatch programme was organised on 23 May 2023 OutreachActivities as a part of the Science camp. Dr Joe Jacob (Coordinator, ICARD, Newman College) and Mr s Jo s s y Jo l l y (Membe r , B l o c k Panchayath, Muvattupuzha ) coordinated the programme. The following programs were also conducted: 1. MoonDay celebrations, 20July 2023. 2. MoonQuiz, 19September 2023. 3. Observation of Sunspots, 25 January 2024. 4. Skywatch program, 27 January 2024. 5. Na t i ona l Sc i ence Day - semi na r Competition, 14March 2024. ResearchArea Research ActivitiesoftheDataCentre Relativistic Astrophysics, Cosmology, Compact Objects, DATA analysis of X-ray Sources, Non-linear Dynamics A group of four students, one post-doctoral fellow and three other SRFs are engaged in analysing the X-ray Pulsar DATA archived on the NASA website. The group is constantly vigilant of the new results in X-ray pulsars, and several papers have been published reporting their findings. Anisotropic Universe with Barrow HolographicDarkEnergy Seminars/ColloquiaorganisedbyICARD Research cholars are engaged in the analysis of X-ray Data of NASA to investigate different X-ray emitting Pulsars. Presently, four research scholars are involved in doing research using the facilities of the ICARD DATA Centre. It is proposed to use ASTROSAT data from IUCAA soon. ICARD NBU and Malda College Joint Program The National Conference on Relativistic Coordinator: Professor B. C. Paul ICARD - Department of Physics, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal (Activities from 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024) Astrophysics and Cosmology (NCRAC) at Malda College, Malda, was organised on 29 February and 01 March 2024. Dr B. C. Paul, Dr Shyam Das and Dr Ranjeev Sharma were the Joint Coordinators of the program. The conference was attended by invited speakers from India and abroad. Surhud S. More, IUCAA, Pune delivered an invited talk online in the session on "Subaru Hyper Suprime CamSurvey Report: Cosmological c o n s t r a i n t s f r om w e a k l e n s i n g observations" focusing on the detection of darkmatter using various techniques.