29th Annual Report (2016-17)

92 Assembling the Universe, IUCAA, October 6, 2016; and Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France, March 30, 2017. Niladri Paul Visualization of N-body Simulations and Constraining Halo Mass Function from it, Workshop on Statistical Analysis in Cosmology, CUSAT, Kochi, January 12, 2017. Calculation of Correlation Function of Halos, Workshop on Statistical Analysis in Cosmology, CUSAT, Kochi, January 13, 2017. SomakRaychaudhury Gravitational waves: ripples in the fabric of spacetime. Professor Tapas Majumdar Memorial Lecture, Presidency UniversityAlumniAssociation (Delhi Chapter), Habitat Centre, NewDelhi, April 16, 2016. Big Data Astronomy in India, Pre-ASIWorkshop on Big Data in Astronomy, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, May 9, 2016. SALT Science at IUCAA (2015-16), SALT Science Symposium, American Museum of Natural History, New York, June 1, 2016. Gravitational waves: ripples in the fabric of spacetime. Pune International Centre PIC-ADDA, Pune, July 16, 2016. How to find black holes. DST-INSPIRE camp at IISERPune, July 21, 2016. New Algorithms for Astronomical Discovery, Keynote address atUGC-sponsored National Level conference on Innovative trends inmathematics and its applications at Sri Sikshayatan College, Kolkat,. August 3, 2016. Our Place in Space, Second Saturday talk for school students, IUCAA, Pune, August 13, 2016. Observing stellar mass and Supermassive black holes , two talks at the Introductory Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology ,AliahUniversity, Kolkata, September 27-28, 2016 th A black hole hunter's essential toolkit Weekly Physics Colloquium (celebrating 100 of the series) at Presidency University, Kolkata, September 28, 2016 Gravitational Waves: Ripples in the fabric of Spacetime Evening talk at Persistent Systems Limited, Pune, December 11, 2016. Gravitational Waves: LIGO-India Invited talk, Advanced school on gravitational waves, Presidency University, Kolkata, December 12-15, 2016. Radio galaxies in groups and clusters: effect of local environment , invited talk in Wide Band Spectral and Timing Studies of Cosmic X-ray Sources, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, January 10-13, 2017. Innovations in Science and Technology in India, Global Educational Summit, Chairman's introduction at Presidency UniversityKolkata Bicentenary Event, January 17, 2017. Science and Enterprise, invited talk and discussion at the Kolkata Literary Meet, Victoria Memorial grounds, Kolkata, January 27, 2017.