29th Annual Report (2016-17)

90 Black Holes in the Universe, and Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Workshop on Projects in X-ray Astronomy, Providence College, Kozhikode, November 2016. AstroSat: Observation of Cygnus X-1 in the Hard State , Conference on Wideband Spectral and Timing Studies of Cosmic X-ray Sources, TIFR, Mumbai, January 2017 (invited). Sanjit Mitra Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background, Future of GWAstronomy Conference, ICTS, Bengaluru, April 6, 2016 (invited). GW @ IUCAA High Performance Computing , National Supercomputing Mission Brainstorming Meeting on ApplicationDevelopment,YASADA, Pune,April 29, 2016. Stochastic Gravitational Waves: Windows to the Unknowns, IUCAA, December 1, 2016. Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Indian Potential, 104th Indian Science Congress, Tirupati, January 6, 2017 (invited). Nikhil Mukund Gravitational WaveAstronomy, W.M.O.Arts and Science College, Muttil,Wayanad, February 15, 2017 (via Skype). Machine Learning in LIGO Commissioning and Characterization , LIGO Virgo Collaboration Meeting, Pasadena, California, March 13, 2017. Newtonian Noise Reduction in Advanced LIGO , LIGO - India: The Road Ahead (LITRA - III) Meeting, IUCAA, March 27, 2017. Jayant V. Narlikar The Interaction between Physics, Mathematics andAstronomy, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, May 6, 2016. Astronomy Tradition in India, The Finnish Society for Natural Philosophy, Finland, May 17, 2016. Quasi-steady State Cosmology, The Finnish Society for Natural Philosophy, Finland, May 18, 2016. What Should One Expect from a Cosmological Model?, International Workshop on Scientific Models and a Comprehensive Picture of Reality, Helsinki, Finland, May 20, 2016. Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy: A Triangular Interaction , DST INSPIRE Camp, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur,August 11, 2016; andMITAcademy of Engineering, Pune, February 20, 2017. Gravitational Waves, Institute of Science, Banaras HinduUniversity, Varanasi, September 2, 2016. Recent Developments inAstronomy andAstrophysics , Banaras HinduUniversity, Varanasi, September 3, 2016. Big Bang Cosmology: Some Reservations, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, September 27, 2016. The Physics of Gravitational Waves , National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, September 28, 2016.