30th Annual Report 2017-18

114 Kandaswamy Subramanian Vaishak Prasad (IUCAA) Large scale magnetic fields and the turbulent dynamo . Rishabh Jain (BITS, Pilani) Study of winds in the interstellar medium . Gaayatri Chandrasekharan, ( IISER, Thiruvananthapuram), Indian Academy of Sciences project student, Smooth cosmology and structure formation . Sanaa Agarwal, (BITS, Pilani) Magnetic reconnection, Vacation Students' Programme, IUCAA. A.C. Radhika (IISER, Pune) Magnetohydrodynamics and its applications . Ananya Mohopatra, (NISER, Bhubaneswar) Magnetohydrodynamics . Jishnu Suresh Mahith Madhanakumar (Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi) Some aspects of general theory of relativity, Vacation Students' Programme, IUCAA. Durgesh Tripathi Nived V. N. (IISER, Pune ) Coronal holes and quiet Sun in transition region . Shilpi Buniya (IISER, Pune ) Sources of coronal mass ejections . (f) SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA AND LECTURES Sheelu Abraham Application of convolutional neural network for the detection of bar structure in optical images of galaxies , Astro- Informatics Conference, CapeTown, SouthAfrica, November 8, 2017. Detection of barred galaxies with convolutional neural network, galaxy evolution and dynamical structures , International Meeting onGalaxy Evolution andDynamical Structure (GEDS - 2018), IUCAA, January 22, 2018. Dipankar Bhattacharya Crab with AstroSat CZTI , IUCAAAcademic Retreat, Panchgani, April 6, 2017. Accretion columns on magnetic compact stars , Workshop on Cataclysmic Variables, South African Astronomical Observatory, CapeTown, SouthAfrica,April 11, 2017 (Invited). AstroSat: India's space observatory , Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, May 8, 2017. Multi-wavelength observations withAstroSat t, 29thMeeting of the IAGRG, IIT, Guwahati, May 18, 2017 (Invited). Polarization of gamma ray burst prompt emission , Recent Trends in Compact Star Research Workshop, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, June 6, 2017 (Invited).