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Visitors (October- December 2019) T.S. Aakash, Kinsuk Acharyya, Nafisa Aftab, Aman Agrawal, Sushmita Agarwal, Neha Ahlawat, Gazi Ameen Ahmed, G. Ambika, Rahul Kumar Anand, Juan Angulo, Ayesha Anjum, G. K. Ankush, Anupama, Surbhi Arora, Abdul Aziz, Kalyani Bagri, Naman Bajaj, Agnibha Banerjee, Arunima Ba n e r j e e , Rame s hwa r Ba n k a r, Soummyadip Basak, Sumit Bawari, Kr i t i Bawe j a , Toma so Be l l on i , Shubham Bhagat, Vinay Bharambe, Anusha Bhasari, Bratati Bhat, Naseer Iqbal Bhat, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Yashpal Bhulla, G.R. Bhuvana, Ludovic Biennier, Aparna Bisht, Ratan Singh Bisht, Mahasweta Biswas, John Booth, Olag Pratim Bordoloi, Anshuman Borgohain, Aditi Borse, Nirban Bose, D a v i d B u c k l e y , M r i d u s m i t a Bu r agoha i n , J an Cami , Ga rge e Chakraborty, Koushik Chakraborty, Shubhadip Chakraborty, Swadesh Chand, Mahesh Kumar Chandra, Sanghita Chandra, Suresh Chandra, Philip Charles, Anusheela Chatterjee, J o y d e e p C h a t t e r j e e , Go u t am i The IUCAA SciPOP group has conducted one science toys workshop, one basic astronomy workshop, one sky-watch session, and seven campus visits with an approximate reach to about 500 people. Se cond Sa t urday Le c t ure / Demons t ra t i on Programmes November 16, 2019: Pratik Dabhade (IUCAA), on Radio Signals from Space: Unveiling the Mysteries of the Universe ; December 14, 2019: Samir Dhurde (IUCAA), and Geeta Mahashabde (Navnirmiti Learning Foundation, Pune), on Observing Solar Eclipse onDecember 26, 2019. PublicTalk October 22, 2019: Gary Melnick (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard - Smithsonian, USA), on InterstellarWater: Past, Present, and Future A l l t h e t a l k s a re a v a i l a b l e a t o u r Yo uTu b e Ch a n n e l - https://www.youtube.com/user/IUCAASciPOP/ Other Regular Events Jean-Claude Pecker passed away at the age of 97. For those associated with IUCAA in early days, he will be remembered as a good friend. His interests ranged from Solar Physics to Cosmology and he rightfully called himself a radical so far as his ideas on cosmology were concerned. He had good contacts at College de France, Institut d'Astrophysique and the observatories in Paris, where he spread the word around of the new arrival, IUCAA. He will be sorelymissed. - Jayant Narlikar Jean - Claude Pecker Obituary No. 121 - January 2020 22