Khagol_113_January 2018

| KHAG L | No. 113 - JANUARY 2018 | 07 North East Meet of Astronomers (NEMA - III) The meet of North East Astronomers, jointly organized by Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU), Guwahati, and IUCAA, was held at St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, during October 5 - 7, 2017. The aim of the meet was to bring young and highly motivated students, researchers, and teachers of colleges and university from North East region, working or intending to take up research in the field of Astronomy andAstrophysics, and related topics. There were 41 participants from Assam University, Cotton College State University, Tezpur University, Gauhati University, Manipur University, RajivGandhi University, Indian Institute of Technology (Guwahati), North Eastern Hill University, Hojai College, and Assam Don BoscoUniversity. After the inaugural session and welcome by Albert L. Dkhar, Principal, St. Anthony’s College, Monmoyuri Baruah, Head of the Department of Physics, ADBU, gave an overview of NEMA - III, and Ranjeev Misra, from IUCAA, explained the aim and objectives of the series of thesemeetings. There were 5 technical sessions, and at the end, a feedback session was conducted by Misra. He also guided the participants on how to prepare an effective presentation. The participants expressed their satisfaction about the meet, and a few post-graduate students mentioned that they were interested to pursue their career in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Baruah and Misrawere the conveners of themeeting. Seminar 0 4 . 1 0 . 1 7 Ni s h i k an t a Khanda i , on Co smo l og i c a l hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation; 15.11.17M. Sami, on Quintessential inflation; 22.11.17 Steven Janowiecki, on Gas-rich and star-poor: Star formation and gas in galaxies across different environments; 06.12.17 Swetha Bhagwat, on Can we probe the strong field gravitywithblack-hole ringdowns?; 19.12.17 Frank H. Shu, on Six decades of spiral density-wave theory; 20.12.17 Joseph Kuruvilla, on the Streaming model for redshift- space distortions; and 21.12.17 Andrew C. Fabian, on X-ray reflection and reverberation around luminous accreting blackholes. Colloquium 05.10.17 Shravan Hanasoge, on The impact of rotation on large- scale convection in the solar interior ; 02.11.17 Alex Vano-Vinuales, on Numerical relativity in the era of gravitational wave astronomy; 05.12.17 P. Venkatakrishnan, on Electric currents in emerging flux regions: Observations vs Simulations ; 14.12.17 Jonathan Linton, on Extracting additional value from fundamental science – understanding and exploiting dual use opportunities; and 15.12.17 Neal Katz, on Making galaxy formation great again.