30th Annual Report 2017-18

250 School of Studies in Physics and Astrophysics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur. Coordinators: S. K. Pandey, and R.C. Agrawal Supervision of Ph.D. Theses (Ongoing) Eminent Visitors and Lectures S.K. Pandey Title: Multiband Studies of Radio Loud Elliptical Galaxies from the B2 Sample Student: Sheetal Sahu. Multi-wavelength Isophotal Shape Analysis of Early Type Galaxies Stusent: Amit Tamrakar. S.K. Pandey and Sudhanshu Barwey (IIA, Bengaluru) Title: Central Region of Lenticular Galaxies Student: Mahendra Verma. S.K. Pandey, Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA) and J.S. Yadav (TIFR, Mumbai) Title: Study of Accretion Process and Jets in X-ray Binaries Student: Kalyani Bagri N.K. Chakradhari (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur) has been doing collaborating research work with G.C. Anupama (IIA, Bengaluru) and D.K. Sahu (IIA, Bengaluru) on Supernovae. He is also involved in the study of chemically peculiar (CP) stars, in collaborationwith Santosh Joshi (ARIES, Nainital) . Students of M . Sc. IV Semester (Pragati Sahu, Shrutika Tiwari, Jyoti Kaushal, Nitya Pandey, Pooja Sahu, Neeraj Kumar, ShubradeepMajumder andMayankDewangan) visitedARIES, Nainital , to carry out their project work. K.P. Singh (IISER, Mohali), on AstroSat and X-ray Astronomy. Alok Gupta (ARIES, Nainital), on AGN and Blazar. Jen Gupta (British Council, UK), on The Invisible Universe (Public lecture). P. Sreekumar (Director, IIA, Bengaluru), on Doing Experiments in Space. A.S. Kiran Kumar (Chairman, ISRO, Bengaluru), on India in Space. Ajit Kembhavi (IUCAA), on Exoplanet.