Khagol # 124 - Oct 2020

| KHAG L | No. 124 - OCTOBER 2020 | 14 Revisiting Second Saturday Lecture / Demonstration with Live Interaction A series – Revisiting IUCAA Lectures with live Q&Awith the speaker is started. In this series, archived second Saturday lectures will be revisited every second and fourth Saturday of the month. The series is getting a good response with many people joining from different parts of the country, and participating with enthusiasm in live interaction with the List of Public Talks by IUCAAMembers May 16, 2020: Primordial BlackHole: BlackHoles from the Big Bang, by SwagatMishra. May 23, 2020: Introduction to Astrophotography, by Jameer Manur. June 6, 2020: Tuning to Mysteries of the Universe, by Pratik Dabhade. July 18, 2020: Do Your Own: Fun with Variables and Transients, byAshishMahabal. July 26, 2020: Unravelling the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Lensing, byAnupreetaMore. August 1, 2020: Accomplishing the Impossible: Detection of GravitationalWaves, by Shivaraj Kandhasamy. As part of IUCAA's efforts to support amateurs astronomy, a fortnightly series of lectures is being organised. The talks in this will be by representatives of well-known projects or organisations across the world where serious amateurs are significantly contributing to Science. The "Awesome Amateur Astronomy Talks" series will be followed up be activities selected amateurs who may want to take up astronomy research at their convenience level. The effort is being coordinated by Samir Dhurde. The first lecture on 27 September, 2020 was about PANOPTES (PanopticAstronomical NetworkedObservatories for a Public Transiting Exoplanets Survey) - a citizen science project that MViSa speakers. In this series, the following interactions were revisited: September 12, 2020: Talks on Artificial Intelligence in Astronomical Research, by Kaustubh Waghmare (in English), and Kaushal Sharma (Hindi). Kaushal Sharma (ARIES) interactedwith the audience answering their questions live. September 26, 2020: Taking the opportunity of International Observe the Moon Night, talk on Moon and Non-Rocket Science of it, by Samir Dhurde, followed by a live interaction. aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope, to be used to detect transiting exoplanets. Olivier Guyon, the Project Founder of PANOPTES Project and Preethi Krishnamoorthy (ex-IUCAA) gave short introductory talks and got a great response. Bothwork at the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and joined in live to an audience of around 250 people fromacross theworld. A recording of all talks by IUCAA Scipop will be available on our Youtube channel - * All the SciPOP events videos can be found in: https://www.youtube.com/IUCAASciPOP https://www.youtube.com/c/IUCAASciPOP/