Khagol # 125 - Jan 2020 - Eng & Hindi

| KHAG L | No. 125 - JANUARY 2021 | 04 Results of SWANtenna – 2020 Competition A course on Stars and Stellar Systems, consisting of 36 video presentations separated into 10 modules on varied aspects of stars and stellar evolution was made by NRC of IUCAA for ARPIT - 2019. The modules are on Stars and Stellar Evolution by Sarita Vig (IIST, Thiruvananthapuram), Stellar Variability by Sukanta Deb (Cotton University, Guwahati), Stars and Cosmology by Sivarani Thirupathi (IIA, Bengaluru), Star Clusters and Star Formation by Ram Sagar (IIA, Bengaluru), and Manoj Puravankara (TIFR, Mumbai), Compact Stars by Dipankar Bhattacharya (IUCAA), Astrophysics of Neutron Stars by Sushan Konar (IUCAA), Binary Stellar Systems by Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, Mumbai), The Sun by Dibyendu Nandi (IISER, Kolkata), Durgesh Tripathi (IUCAA), and Divya Oberoi (NCRA-TIFR), Helio- and Astero- Seismology by Shravan Hanasoge (TIFR, Mumbai), and Extrasolar Planetsby Anwesh Majumdar (HBCSE, TIFR, Mumbai). In 2020, this course has been offered again due to the pandemic situation. A total of 732 participants have registered for the course before the deadline of December 31, 2019, of which about half are faculty members in colleges and universities. The registered participants are from almost all parts of the country and a few from abroad. The figures show the resource persons and the state-wise distribution of the participants. The course has been coordinated byDhruba J.Saikia (IUCAA). Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching: ARPIT – 2020 Of the eighteen teams across the country, which had submitted their entries by the deadline of September 30, 2020 to design an antenna element for the Sky Watch Array Network as reported in the October 2020 issue of Khagol, five teams were invited to give presentations based on detailed assessment by a jury panel of eminent an t e nna e xpe r t s o f the country. The jury headed by Raghunath Shevgaonkar (Former