30th Annual Report 2017-18

121 Galaxy evolution on the outskirts of clusters, International Meeting on Galaxy Evolution and Dynamical Structures, IUCAA, January 22, 2018. The evolution of galaxies and their environment, Franco-IndianAstronomy School, IUCAA, February 14, 2018. Einstein's outrageous legacy: Cosmic illusions and gravitational waves, Pune Science Film Festival, National Film Archives, Pune, March 2, 2018 (Public talk). Astronomy in India: Technological Challenges, Extentia, Pune, March 30, 2018. Kanak Saha Could there be a low-mass classical bulge in theMilkyWa y, Korean Institute ofAdvanced Study, SouthKorea,April 6, 2017 (Invited). Long-lived spiral structure in galaxies , Korean Astronomical Society Meeting (Spring), April 14, 2017 (Invited). Galactic spiral structure revisited , IUCAA, August 3, 2017 (Colloquium). Pinched and peanut bulges in spiral galaxies, International Meeting on Galaxy Evolution and Dynamical Structure (GEDS - 2018), IUCAA, January 23, 2018. Varun Sahni Homi Jehangir Bhabha Award Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Indian National Science Academy, IISER, Pune, December 27, 2017. Tarun Souradeep Robust but enigmatic post-Planck cosmos , APC, Paris, France, July 3, 2017 (Colloquium), Penn State University, USA, June 16, 2017, and Seoul National University, SouthKoreaApril 11, 2017 (Colloquium). LIGO-India: Beyond discovery of GW , AAPPS-DPS - 2017, Chengdu, China, September 18 - 23, 2017, TEGRAW, IAP, Paris, June 27, 2017 (Colloquium), and KAS-2017, Changwon, SouthKorea,April 13, 2017 (Invited). Space-time murmurs and a nation roused , 29th Meeting of the IAGRG, The Era of Gravitational Waves, IIT, Guwahati, May 18, 2017 (Presidential address). Statistical isotropy of the cosmos fromPlanck , CRAL, Lyon, France, June 30, 2017. Questioning the cosmological principle , IISER, Pune,August 7, 2017. Testing cosmic statistical isotropy , CCA, NewYork, USA, November 9, 2017 (Group seminar).