29th Annual Report (2016-17)

91 The Search for Micro-organisms in the Earth's Atmosphere , National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, September 29, 2016; and Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, February 10, 2017. The AmazingWorld of Astronomy , Pontificia Universidad Católica deValparaíso, Chile, October 4, 2016. A Search for Micro-life in the Earth's Atmosphere , XIX Congreso Internacional de Astronomia Amateur - CIAA SAVAL2016, Chile, October 5, 2016. Outstanding Problems in Cosmology , Instituto de Astrofisica, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile, October 11, 2016. Search for Micro-life in the Universe , IARCAstrobiology Conference, Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai, October 24, 2016. Searches for Life outside the Earth , Multi-disciplinary Centre forAdvance Research and Studies, JamiaMillia Islamia, NewDelhi, February 13, 2017. Analytical Thinking and Excitement of Doing Science , Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, March 24, 2017. T. Padmanabhan Action Principle inGeneral Relativity , IMSc, Chennai, June 1, 2016. The Atoms of Spacetime and the Cosmological Constant , Dice 2016 Conference, Castiglioncello, Italy, September 13, 2016. Cosmic Odyssey: Past, Present and Future , Bologna, Italy, September 20, 2016. The Atoms of Space andGravity , Bologna, Italy, September 21, 2016. Gravity and the Cosmos, ETHZurich, September 27, 2016; and (P.S. NarayananMemorial Lecture), IISc, Bengaluru, October 13, 2016. GR and QG: The Next Hundred Years , Fundamental Problems of Quantum Physics 2016, Discussion Meeting, ICTS, Bengaluru, December 9, 2016. Mayukh Pahari Spectro-Temporal Analysis of X-ray Binaries using LAXPC on-board AstroSat , 34th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, May 9 - 13, 2016. X-ray Properties of GalacticMicro-quasars usingAstroSat / LAXPC, International Conference onWide Band Spectral and Timing Studies of Cosmic X-ray, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR, Mumbai, January 10 - 12, 2017 (invited). Aseem Paranjape Recent Developments in Analytical Modelling of Cosmological Large Scale Structure, Centre for Theoretical Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur, July 20, 2016.