Khagol_126_April_2021

| KHAG L | No. 126 - APRIL 2021 | 06 areas in Astrophysics, from Solar Physics to Cosmology. He has also played a key role in development of Solar Physics in India. After his retirement from TIFR he was deeply involved in teaching, first at the University of Mumbai, and later at the Centre of Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS) in the same campus. Despite his involvement in teaching, he was active in research and has published three papers in 2020. During his time at CEBS, he has trained and influenced a lot of students. He was teaching till November 2020. During the last several months I was in constant touchwith him and was looking forward to work with himmore closely at CEBS from this year. Now because of the unfortunate turn of events, I will sorelymiss him. I had the privilege to work closely with Shashikumar Chitre for over 45 years. He was always very helpful, and I have learnt a lot from him. He was always very calm and I don't recall any instance where he was angry at anyone. He ensured that everyone who went to him would be comfortable talking to him. He hasmade seminal contributions tomany Hormazad Maneck Antia Awards Kanak Saha, Shyam N. Tandon, and their team have been bestowed the 'New Discovery Award' for their work on the detection of Lyman continuumemission froma z = 1.42 galaxy usingAstroSat. and Samir Dhurde has been conferred the 'ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award' for Public Outreach and Education in Astronomy and Allied fields, and this award has been sharedwithVivekMonteiro. Both these awards have been announced by the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) for the year 2020, and were awarded in 2021 Februarymeeting. Ashif Reza, who has obtained his PhD degree in 2017 from the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai. He carried out his doctoral researchwork at Variable EnergyCyclotronCentre, Kolkata, in the field of design and implementation of low noise cryogenic detection circuit for penning ion trap. He worked as a Visiting Fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, during October 2017 – January 2021. His Post-Doctoral researchwork focused on design, noise modeling and implementation of low noise cryogenic readout circuit for bolometer detector. He joined IUCAA in January 2021 as a Research Associate, which is funded by the QuEST programme of DST.At IUCAA, he is working on to develop low-noise electronics as well as precision ion trap for the trapped ion optical atomic clock. Welcome to . . . Addition to Post-doctoral Fellows Suraj Dhiwar, Sankalpa Banerjee, and Soumyaranjan Jhankar, have joined IUCAA as Junior Research Fellows. Srishti Tiwari, who began her journey towards becoming an astrophysicist by first obtaining an undergraduate degree, BSc (Honors) in Physics, from the Miranda House College, University of Delhi, in 2013. She then joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, to pursue an MSc in Physics during 2013 - 2015. Followingwhich, she began her PhD in the Department ofAstronomy andAstrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, inAugust 2015. For her doctoral thesis, she developed analytical waveformmodels or templates for gravitational waves emanating from compact binaries inspiraling along eccentric orbits. She further used these templates for gravitational-wave data analysis. Her doctoral work is useful for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, of which she is a part since 2016 through the LIGO-India Scientific Collaboration. She is also a member of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) consortium. After successfully completing her PhD, she has joined IUCAA as a Post-Doctoral Fellowunder the LIGO-India project. Shewill be closelyworking herewith the LIGO-India group on gravitational wave Astronomy and Physics. She recalls having a great time learning and enjoying at IUCAA as a summer school student in 2014. She looks forward to the same rich experience now.