36th Annual Report (2023-24)

35 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Shasvath Kapadia ● ● Surhud More ● J. V. Narlikar ● ● Durgesh Tripathi ● ● The following collaborative work with colleagues at ICTS-TIFR was selected as the Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters (PRL). Souvik Jana, Shasvath J. Kapadia, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Parameswaran Ajith, Cosmography using strongly lensed gravitational waves frombinary black holes , arXiv:2211.12212, PRL, 130, 261401, (2023). Best paper award for 2023 by the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear two-point correlation functions with HSC survey first-year data. Takashi Hamana, et al. Publ Astron Soc Jpn (2020) 72 (1): 16, doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psz138. Rashtriya Gunakar Muley Award (2021) from the Madhya Pradesh Government, Culture Department, September 14, 2023. Fellowship of the Gwalior Academy of Mathematical Sciences, Gwalior, December 11, 2023. Vishal Upendran was the recipient of the K.D Abhyankar Best Thesis Presentation Award for his thesis Heating and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere. Janmejoy Sarkar, Senior Research Fellow (SRF) of the Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Assam, was felicitated with the Distinguished Student Achiever Award 2023 for his contribution in developing the SUIT module of India's space mission ADITYA-L1. Awarded the SERB Startup Grant, and the SERB MATRICS grant.