Khagol_114

No. 114 - April 2018 18 On March 27, 2018, the Department of Physical Sciences from SRTM University, Nanded, hosted a set of talks in collaboration with the LIEPO team. These were specifically meant for all post-graduate and PhD students. The topics for the talks were: Gravitational Waves: ANewFrontier inAstronomy byAnirbanAin (IUCAA) and LIGO-India, andOpportunities inAstronomy andAstrophysics by JavedRana (IUCAA).About 60 students fromthe department attended the talks. On the same day, Sanjeev Dhurandhar delivered an inspiring and motivating lecture titled "Nobel Prize in Physics 2017: Gravitational Waves as Einstein's Messenger" at the Government Engineering College (GEC), Awasari (Manchar), Pune. The lecturewas organised byNilesh Pokharkar (IUCAA, IGO) and theGEC, in collaborationwith LIEPO team. Samir Dhurde secured a grant to travel to Fukuoka, Japan, to be part of the IAU's Communicating Astronomy with Public conference during March 23 - 29, 2018. This international meeting had more than 400 participants from around 50 countries. He presented a poster on Transit ofMercury in India:Acrowd-sourced, large-scale observational outreach campaign, delivered a session talk on Let's Celebrate Zero Shadow Day!, and conducted a workshop on Organizing Frameworks for Communicating Science in Large, International Science Collaborations, as part of the TMT WEPOC Group. He was also the chairperson for the session on the theme: Best Practices inOutreach EngagingChildren and Students.All the presentationswerewell appreciated by the audience and IUCAA's role in international outreachwas also recognised. CAP - 2018 Conference Bhardwaj, Saurabh Bharswadkar, Prachi Bhatia, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Yashpal Bhulla, K.G. Biju, Priyanka Biradar, Mark Birkinshaw, Anshuman Borgohain, Arindam Bose, Robert Botet, Patrick Brady, Rijuparna Chakraborty, Sudip Chakraborty, Anirban Chanda, Ramesh Chandra, Suresh Chandra, Meera Chandran, Philip Charles, Soumyadeep Chatterjee, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Surajit Chattopadhyay, Visitors (January- March 2018) E. Aarthy, Bhagyada Abhyankar, Oluwashina Adegoke, Poonam Agrawal, Gazi Ameen Ahmed, Kedar Aitawdekar, Md. Sabir Ali, Praveen Allamsetti, Shreya Anand, G.C. Anupama, K. G. Anusree, Shikhar Asthana, Apoorva Abiramiy B.T., Kalyani Bagri, Arunima Banerjee, Ranajoy Banerji, Ravinder Kumar Baniyal, Samuzal Barua, Sudhanshu Barway, Tomaso Belloni, Aru Beri, Nutan Bharati, Anupam