36th Annual Report (2023-24)

THE GOVERNING BOARD (As of March 31, 2024) CHAIRMAN MEMBERS MEMBER SECRETARY SPECIAL INVITEE K. Kasturirangan Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru J. Gowrishankar Director, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali Yashwant Gupta Centre Director, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune Manish R. Joshi Secretary, University Grants Commission, New Delhi K. N. Satyanarayana Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati Nagesh Thakur Department of Physics, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla R. Srianand Director, IUCAA, Pune Jitendra Kumar Tripathi Joint Secretary, University Grants Commission, New Delhi 2 The following members have served on the Governing Board for part of the year SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE Shashi K. Dhiman Vice-Chancellor, Himachal Pradesh Technical University Suresh Gosavi Vice-Chancellor, S.P. Pune University Karbhari Kale Vice-Chancellor, S.P. Pune University A. N. Ramaprakash IUCAA, Pune Ravindra Kumar Sinha Vice-Chancellor, Gautam Buddha University, Noida Phil Charles University of Southampton, UK Priyamvada Natarajan Department of Astronomy and Physics Yale University, USA Luc Simard Director General, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Victoria, Canada T.R. Seshadri Delhi University Ravi Sheth Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pennsylvania PA, USA P. Sreekumar Director, Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences (MCNS), Manipal Alan Weinstein Head, LIGO Laboratory Astrophysical Data Science Group Caltech, USA R. Srianand Director, IUCAA Naseer Iqbal Bhat University of Kashmir, Srinagar Udhav Bhosle Vice-Chancellor, SRTMU, Nanded Suresh Gosavi Vice-Chancellor, S. P. Pune University Ranjeev Misra, Dean, Visitor Academic Programmes A.N. Ramaprakash, Dean, Core Academic Programmes Shantanu Rastogi D.D.U. Gorakhpur University Rajbir Singh, Vice Chancellor, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak R. Srianand Director, IUCAA USERS' COMMITTEE