Khagol # 124 - Oct 2020

| KHAG L | No. 124 - OCTOBER 2020 | 15 LIGO – India Education and Public Outreach (LIEPO) Activities GW@Home with LIGO – India Online Live Video Lecture Series The LIEPO team was one of the earliest to conceptualise and implement “GW@Home with LIGO – India” - an online live video lecture series of 32 talks after the lockdown began. The first series started from April 1, 2020, and was hosted on the - LIGO India Education and Public Outreach YouTube Channel. The second series “GW@Home-2 with LIGO-India” ran during July 1– August 28, 2020. The talks covered various topics like GW Science, Multi-messenger Astronomy, LIGO Technology, and so on. The content and target audience ranged from some popular level lectures for the general public to some special, technical talks for students. The participants could interact with the speaker to clear their doubts and queries in the live Q&A sessions that followed each talk. This also marked the launch of LIEPO's YouTube Channel, which had gained more than 4,800 subscribers immediately after the talks ended. The recordings of the lecture series are These talks were organized by Antariksh Astro Club, VIT, Pune, and were part of a series of online astronomy talks by astrophysicists from various renowned institutes, including IUCAA. All these talks in this series can be found in: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HFGiTLzmuG9PsN GZk0B4A/videos August 24, 2020: Inflation, Quantum Fluctuations and Primordial Black Holes, by Swagat Mishra, for theAstronomy Club, NISER, Bhubaneswar. August 30, 2020: Exploring Inflationary Cosmology, by SwagatMishra, forNaxxatra Science, India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mezgj6_05TU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6spDjmQrvHI available on YouTube as playlists and have an average viewership of around 500 per lecture, with some getting close to 8,000 views. The speakers were organised by Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA) and the activity was coordinated by Vaibhav Savant (IUCAA) with support fromSamir Dhurde (IUCAA) for live streaming the talks.