30th Annual Report 2017-18

183 Samir Dhurde secured a grant to travel to Fukuoka, Japan to be part of the IAU's Communicating Astronomy with Public conference duringMarch 23 - 29, 2018. (For details, seeKhagol, No. 114,April 2018 ) PUBLIC LECTURES May 11, 2017: Ewine F. van Dishoek (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands), on Building stars, planets and the ingredients of life in space. November 8, 2017: Durgesh Tripathi (IUCAA), on The star in our "backyard". November 9, 2017: S u k a n t a B o s e ( I UCAA ) , o n Gravitational waves: What have we learned in the first two years of Advanced LIGO? November 10, 2017: Joydeep Bagchi (IUCAA), on A supercluster named "Saraswati". December 19, 2017: Frank Shu (University of California at Berkeley and San Diego, USA), on Two planets: Challenges of living and prospering on Earth andMars. January 17, 2018: Mark Birkinshaw (University of Bristol, UK), on Ancient light: The microwave background radiation and cosmology. February 17, 2018: Jen Gupta (University of Portsmouth, UK), onThe invisible Universe.