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| KHAG L | No. 117 - JANUARY 2019 | 06 l l Himadri Sekhar Das (Assam University), on Modelling photo-polarimetric characteristics of comets based on ground-based observations and recent spacemissions. Atri Deshamukhya (Assam University), on Inflationary cosmology:Acritical look. Apart from the invited lectures, there were 30 contributory lectures, and presentations by MSc students of the Department of Physics, Assam University. A cultural programme was organised by the students. The coordinators of the meeting were Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA) and Himadri Sekhar Das (AssamUniversity). Workshop on Recent Advances in Astrophysics and Cosmology The Workshop on Recent Advances in Astrophysics and Cosmology was held at the Department of Physics, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University (CPBU), during October 9 - 10, 2018, jointly organized by the IUCAAResource Centre, University of North Bengal (NBU) and the Department of Physics, CPBU, and was sponsored by IUCAA. It was the first of its kind held at CPBU, andmainlymeant for BSc andMSc students, research scholars and facultymembers of that region. It was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor of CPBU, Debkumar Mukhopadhyay. There were 91 participants. The speakers were: S. Mukherjee (IRC, Kolkata), B. C. Paul (NBU), Kanak Saha (IUCAA), Farook Rahaman (Jadavpur University), Mehedi Kalam (Aliah University), and Sk. Monowar Hossain (Aliah University). Aspecial session was devoted to contributory papers. Anumber of topics such as: Model of the Universe, Cosmological Observations, Neutron Star, Evolution of Galaxies, Wormhole, etc. have been discussed. B. C. Paul (NBU), Prabir KumarHaldar (CPBU), andKanak Saha (IUCAA) were the coordinators.