36th Annual Report (2023-24)

82 Radio Astronomy Winter School 2023 IUCAA and NCRA–TIFR jointly organised the 16th Radio Astronomy Winter School 2023 (RAWS2023) from 12th to 22nd December 2023. In its present format, RAWS invites student participants and college and university faculty members to mentor the student groups formed for the school's activities. This year, 24 student participants and seven faculty mentors participated in the programme. The organising team comprised of Rajeshwari Dutta, Ashish Mhaske, Avinash Deshpande, Jameer Manur, Prakash Arumugasamy and Dhruba J. Saikia from IUCAA and Subhashis Roy fromNCRA-TIFR. [For details see Khagol 131, January 2024] research-based project. The school was organised by Kanak Saha, IUCAA, Pune. [For details see Khagol 131, January 2024]. Data Science in Astronomy A meeting geared towards young researchers on Data Science in Astronomy was held from 12 to 14 December 2023 at IUCAA, Pune, to address the challenges of integrating traditional scientific domains with state-of-the-art computational techniques that revolutionise research paradigms. With its rich datasets, astronomy has already taken advantage of many machine-learning techniques and statistical methodologies, but much more can be accomplished. Ninety participants at various career stages attended the Indo-French Astronomy School (IFAS 8) 3D Spectroscopy The Indo-French Astronomy School (IFAS 8) 3D Spectroscopy was held from November 06 - 12, 2023 at IUCAA, Pune. The IFAS8 school gathered 20 student participants from different parts of India and abroad to expose them to high-level lectures on spectroscopy and dynamical modeling and proposed they carry on a week-long research project. The school was focused on "Spectroscopy and Spectrographs." It covered a wide range of topics in observational astronomy using 3D integral- field spectroscopy. One of the major highlights of the IFAS school is its intense meeting. The meeting was organised by Surhud More, IUCAA, and Ashish Mahabal, Caltech, USA. [For details see Khagol 131, January 2024]