29th Annual Report (2016-17)

94 Challenges inUnderstanding CosmicMagnetism , Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, June 2016 (invited). Durgesh Tripathi Updates on the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope , VELC Meeting, Bengaluru, September 8 - 19, 2016. The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on Board Aditya-L1 , IIT, Kanpur, October 17, 2016; and 35th Annual M eeting of theAstronomical Society of India, Jaipur, March 6 -10, 2017. Coupling and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere , IISER, Mohali, Meeting of the Max-Planck Partner Groups in India, IISER, Mohali, March 3 - 5, 2017. Varun Bhalerao X-rayAstronomy/Transients (4 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Dipankar Bhattacharya Stellar Structure (4 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Sukanta Bose and Sanjit Mitra General Relativity/Gravitational Waves (6 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Gulab C. Dewangan X-ray Astronomy and Active Galactic Nuclei (2 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Neeraj Gupta ISMand RadioAstronomy (4 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Ranjan Gupta Spectroscopy and Instrumentation (2 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. Basics of Astronomy (4 lectures), IMD-CTI, Pune as a part of Advance Meteorological Training Course (AMTC – Batch 177) for Naval officers and IMD recruits, December 27 - 28, 2016. Ranjeev Misra Radiative Processes (2 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016. T. Padamanabhan Geometry of Space and Spacetime (4 lectures), VSP/Summer School, IUCAA, May - June 2016; and (5 lectures), IISER, Thiruvananthapuram, June 6 - 9, 2016. (g) LECTURE COURSES