29th Annual Report (2016-17)

87 Dipankar Bhattacharya AstroSat , Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru,April 1, 2016. Lure of Astronomy , Introductory Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics, IUCAA, May 16, 2016. The AstroSat Mission , IndianAcademy of Sciences, Bengaluru, July 1, 2016 (invited). Observing withAstroSat , Department of Physics, University of Southampton, July 26, 2016. The AstroSat Mission: AMulti-WavelengthObservatory , 11th INTEGRALConference,Amsterdam, October 14, 2016 (invited). Coordinated Timing of the Crab Pulsar with AstroSat CZTI and Radio Observatories , International Conference on Wideband Spectral andTiming Studies of Cosmic X-ray Sources, TIFR, Mumbai, January 13, 2017 (invited). Multi-wavelength Timing Observations with AstroSat, Team Meeting on Understanding Multi-wavelength Rapid Variability:Accretion and Jet Ejection in Compact Objects, ISSI, Beijing, March 22, 2017 (invited). Sumanta Chakraborty Gravity and Thermodynamics: The Importance of being Null , Department of Astroparticle Physics, SISSA, Trieste, June 9, 2016. Information Retrieval fromBlack Holes , Department of Physics, INFN andUniversity of Trieste, June 14, 2016. When Mathematics Meets Physics , National Conference on General Relativity, CCEGR - 2016, Krishnagar Women's College, Krishnanagar, September 6 - 7, 2016. Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay DOTIFS: A Multi-deployable Fibre-fed IFU Spectrograph , Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Berlin, December 13, 2016. Deployment Scheme and Development of Integral Field Units for Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph , 35thMeeting ofAstronomical Society of India, Jaipur, March 9, 2017. Naresh K. Dadhich Relativity for Everyone, Max Planck Institute for Solar Science, Gottingen, Germany, May 2, 2016; and University of Oldenberg, Germany, June 27, 2016. Indian Contribution toGeneral Relativity: ACentennial Review, Frankfurt University, Germany, May 17, 2016. Do we Really Live in Four or in Higher Dimensions , University of Rome, Italy, May 30, 2016; University of Cologne, June 7, 2016; andUniversity of Barcelona, July 14, 2016. Understanding General Relativity after 100 Years: A Matter of Perspective, Symposium on New Trends in Fundamental and Applied Physics, Tashkent, November 10 -11, 2016; Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, December 8, 2016; University of Calcutta, Kolkata, February 14, 2017; Indian Association for Cultivation of Science,