30th Annual Report 2017-18

163 Science Day Science day is an important event in IUCAA. It is the time of the year when IUCAA is open to general public all day long and the staff here exhibits and explains the experiments and activities which are conducted in IUCAA. The Radio Physics Lab has been demonstrating and explaining various astronomy related experiments over the years. This year, in addition to the horn, 3m parabolic radio telescope, ASRT and Muon detector we presented the recently discovered Saraswati Supercluster LED model, which was made by RPL project students. This supercluster was discovered in this very own lab by a team of scientist and students lead by Joydeep Bagchi . A brief explanation on the history of Radio Astronomy, detailed working of a radio telescope represented in block diagram for an easy understanding for general public and different types of radio telescopes working on different types of bands around the world were also displayed. The volunteers representing RPL were fromVIT andD.Y. Patil College, Pune. Shishir Sankhyayan and Jameer Manur gave the public talks on Saraswati Supercluster and biggest telescopes in the world respectively. The talks were given in such a manner which would be understood by general public.