Khagol # 124 - Oct 2020

| KHAG L | No. 124 - OCTOBER 2020 | 10 Astronomy Centre for Educators Teaching Learning Centre and National ResourceCentre An online course titledAn Introduction toOptical andInfrared Interferometry, was organized by the Teaching Learning Centre of the Astronomy Centre for Educators, IUCAA, from the end of July 2020 till the end of September 2020 with Jean Surdej (Honorary Director, Extragalactic Astrophysics and Space Observatories Group, University of Liege, Belgium) as the instructor. Avinash Deshpande (IUCAA) also gave a set of four lectures on Fourier Transforms. These interactions were also via Zoom, while the Learning Management System Moodle was set up where all video presentations, quizzes, assignments, etc. were available. Over a hundred participants An Int roduc t i on t o Opt i ca l and Inf r a r ed Interferometry consisting largely of college and university faculty members from India, as well as a few from outside the country were registered for the course. This course was coordinated by PrakashArumugasamy (IUCAA). Neem Seminars (Online) 07.07.2020 DeepakVaid on Quantum error correction in loop quantumgravity. 14.07.2020 SmritiMahajan on The curious case of red spiral galaxies. 14.07.2020 Biplob Sarkar o n The consequences of magnetic flux advection in dynamics of shocked accretion flow around a rotating black hole. 21.07.2020 SunandanGangopadhyay on Information theoretic quantities fromgauge/gravity correspondence. 28.07.2020 Arunima Banerjee on Towards a dynamical model of an interacting galaxy pair usingmachine learning. 28.07.2020 DebasishBorah on Origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry and darkmatter with non-standard cosmology. 04.08.2020 GauravGoswami on Obstructions arising from small distances and their possible cosmological implications.