29th Annual Report (2016-17)

95 Geometry of Spacetime (4 lectures), IISER, Mohali, October 31 - November 3, 2016. Aseem Paranjape Cosmology with Large Scale Structure (3 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Analytical Techniques for Large Scale Structure (4 lectures), Workshop on Structure Formation in Standard Cosmology , BITS - Pilani, Hyderabad, December 19 -23, 2016. Peak Statistics and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (2 lectures), Workshop on Statistical Analysis in Cosmology, CUSAT, Kochi, January 12 -14, 2017. A.N. Ramaprakash Optical Astronomy (2 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Somak Raychaudhury Introduction toAstronomy (4 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Kanak Saha Galaxy Dynamics (4 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June, 2016. Periodic Orbits and Poincare Section for Dynamical System (2 lectures), Short Term Course on Dynamical Systems: Theory andApplications, ISM, Dhanbad, June 26 - 30, 2016. Galaxy Simulations (2 lectures), Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Models to Interpret Observations, 2nd Info-French School, Lyon, France, July 10 - 16, 2016. Varun Sahni DarkMatter/Dark Energy (2 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Shabbir Shaikh Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2 lectures), Workshop on Statistical Analysis in Cosmology, CUSAT, Kochi, January 12 - 14, 2017. Tarun Souradeep Cosmology (4 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Measuring the Perturbed Universe (2 lectures), Workshop on Statistical Analysis in Cosmology, CUSAT, Kochi, January, 12 -14, 2017. R. Srianand Inter-GalacticMedium (3 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016.