Khagol 119

| KHAG L | No. 119 - JULY 2019 | 09 Applications are invited from highly motivated students for a research scholarship to pursue a Ph. D. degree at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy andAstrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (an Autonomous Institution of the UniversityGrants Commission). Prospective applicants should complete their B.Sc./M.Sc./Integrated M.Sc. degree (in Physics, Electronics, Astronomy or Applied Mathematics) or B.E./B.Tech./ M.E./M.Tech. degree (in any branch) by July 2020, with 55% marks or more. More details regarding eligibility for selection for different programmes at IUCAA, including information for walk-in candidates, are available at http://inat.iucaa.in/ . Candidates should apply online at thiswebsite The last date for the online submission of applicationis September 12, 2019. The last date for the online submission of the assessment forms is September 19, 2019. The selection for the Ph.D. Programme will be through a written test on Thursday, December 5, 2019, and two interviews on December 5, 6 and/or 7, 2019 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday), all to be held at IUCAA, Pune. IUCAA - National Admission Test (INAT- 2019) Public Outreach Activities Global AstronomyMonth On the occasion of the Global Astronomy Month (GAM), April 2019, IUCAA SciPOP team organised themed public sky-gazing events on April 11 and 18, 2019. The theme of GAM - 2019 was 'Spirit of Apollo', celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission. Around 300 enthusiastic adults and students attended the evening events, which were coordinated by Sonal Thorve. A brief video composed by Ishan Shinde of Global Star Party at IUCAA can be found in: https://youtu.be/N9ISedebrCU. Neem Seminars 28.05.2019: K. Indulekha on Binaries of the Orion nebula cluster. 04.06.2019: Suresh Chandra on Molecules in interstellar medium. 04.06.2019: Devraj Pawar on Observations of X - ray binary systems. 11.06.2019: Sunil Kumar Tripathy on Bouncing models in extended gravity theory. 11.06.2019: Nishikanta Khandai on The population of galaxies that contribute to theHi mass. function. 18.06.2019: Sanjay K. Sahay on Multi-server authentication. 18.06.2019: Sonal Patel on Performance of the G-APD (SiPM) based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Gamma- Ray Telescope.