30th Annual Report 2017-18

122 LIGO-India: Beyond discovery into gravitational-wave astronomy , Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai, November 14, 2017 (Colloquium). Status of Cosmic Microwave Background: Importance, achievements and promise , Assessing the Prospects for Frontier CMBSpace Experiments from India, ISRO, Bengaluru, January 8 - 9, 2018 (Opening talk). Testing cosmic statistical isotropy , Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR Mumbai, January 16, 2018 (Colloquium). Fourier analysis in cosmology, The Intertwining Strands in Physics and Mathematics: FourierAnalysis, IISER, Pune, January 23, 2018. Status of CMB and the promise of an Indian collaborative space mission , CGPA-IFTHEP Astro-Particle Physics Meet, IISER, Pune, February 25, 2018. CMB-Bharat: Case for an India led CMB space mission , LEOS, Bengaluru, March 5, 2018 (Colloquium). LIGO-India: Beyond discovery of GW , KIPAC, Stanford University, March 20, 2018 (Tea talk). Status of LIGO-India , LVC Meeting, Sonoma State University, March 21, 2018. V. Sreenath Primordial non-Gaussianity in loop quantum cosmology, International Workshop on Post-Planck Cosmology: Enigma, Challenges andVisions, IUCAA, October 9 – 12, 2017. Raghunathan Srianand Galaxy Mg II absorber connections, Meeting on Plasma Universe and its Structure Formation, IUCAA, August 30, 2017 (Invited). Awhite paper on high resolution spectrograph for TMT , TMTForum, Mysuru, November 7 - 9, 2017. [OII] nebular emission fromMg ii absorbers, InternationalWorkshop on QSOAbsorption Lines, IUCAA, December 12 -14, 2017 (Invited). Gas flows in low-z AGNs , InternationalWorkshop onAstroSat View ofAGNCentral Engines, IUCAA, December 18 - 21, 2017 (Invited). Optical astronomy, Indo-Chilean Astronomical Dialogue - I, IUCAA, January 10 -11, 2018. AGN Jets in the TMT era , Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, IISER, Pune, December 27, 2018 (Invited).