30th Annual Report 2017-18

113 Nikhil Mukund Akhil Punia (Vellore Institute of Technology) Novel strategies for transient detection usingArduino based hardware . Khabbab Zakaria (Jadavpur University) Acoustic noise cancellation in table topMichelson interferometer. Urvish Markhad (MIT College of Engineering, Pune) Adaptive noise cancellation using FPGA . Aseem Paranjape Sindhu Sravya (IIT-Madras, Chennai) Spherical collapse model, Vacation Students' Programme, IUCAA. Niladri Paul S. Abhinav (BITS, Pilani) Estimation of cosmological parameters from supernovae-Ia data using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique (jointly supervisedwith AseemParanjape ). Somak Raychaudhury Rwitika Chatterjee (IIST, Thiruvananthapuram), and Lekshmi Thulasidharan (Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur) Probing the dark matter halo of theMilkyWay, Vacation Students' Programme, IUCAA. Kanak Saha Suvadip Mandal, (IISER, Kolkata) Vertical density distribution of NGC 4565 and NGC 7814 observed through Spitzer. SudipDas (IIT, Kanpur) Morphology of galaxies: Modeling the structures, Vacation Students' Programme, IUCAA. Mahathi Chavali (Manipal Institute of Technology, Mangalore), Photometry of faint galaxies in SDSS Stripe 82 data, Vacation Students' Programme, IUCAA. Abhinav Kumar (BITS, Pilani) Deriving potential using N-body snapshots . Tarun Souradeep Karthik Prabhu (IISER, Pune) Reconstruction of primordial power spectrum from CMB . Raghunathan Srianand Sunil Simha (IIT - Madras, Chennai) Origin of Mg II absorbers. Jayadev Pradeep (IIST, Thiruvananthapuram) Statistical estimation of the metallicity of intergalactic medium at low redshifts by spectral stacking of quasar absorption spectra , Vacation Students' Programme, IUCAA. Gitika Shukla (IUCAA) Diffuse Lyman-α emission around quasars . Soumak Maitra (IUCAA) Spatial correlations in the Lyman-Α Forest . Niladri Paul (IUCAA) Halo models for Mg II absorbers .