30th Annual Report 2017-18

247 IUCAA RESOURCE CENTRES Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Coordinator: Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, and Joint Coordinator: Narayan Banerjee Areas of Research Workshop During the period 2017-18, the main focus of the research work was on Galaxy and star formation rate, Explosion triggered star formation, Thermal instability driven star formation, Distance determination of nearby as well as far off stars, Star formation in the presence of turbulence, Measure of chaos in the presence of SMBH under different halos, and Episodic model of star formation with small scale dissipation. Some large scale simulation studies have also been carried out. Many research scholars and faculty members of different colleges and universities in and around Kolkata are very much involved in the use of mathematical and statistical software as well as development of computer programmes for the appropriate analysis of astronomical data. Theoretical researchwork related to theory of relativity and cosmology is also going on. The following project works have been carried out by the post-graduate students: Supervised by: Asis K. Chattopadhyay, Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Title: Study on formation and evolution galaxy NGC 5128 through globular Student: Prasenjit Banerjee. Supervised by: Tanuka Chattopadhyay, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Title: Measuring the diameter of the craters of the Moon using 14 inch Schmidt telescope Students: Poulomi Bhattacharya. Title: Reproducing H-R diagram using Sky Map Pro-XII Student: Debolina Medda. Title: Stellar structure solving Lane Emden equation for n=1.2 and 1.1 Student: Ayan Paul. Title: Reproducing BPT diagram using SDSS dr-13 archive Student: Firdaus Alam. Title: Classification of light curves of variable stars in SMC Student: Aritra Roy (IISER, Kolkata). Workshop on Machine Learning for post-graduate students and young researchers, March 15 -17, 2018, at the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.