IUCAA - Khagol # 111 - July 2017

| KHAG L | | No. 111 - JULY 2017 10 20.04.2017 Bryan E. Penprase and Bidushi Bhattacharya on Island universe - Astrophysics and space tech in Singapore. 12.05.2017 Bruce Elmegreen on Galaxy thick disks. Colloquia 05.04.2017 Surhud More on Halo assembly bias and the splashback radius of galaxy clusters. 26.04.2017 Atish Kamble on Radio supernovae: STIRRING the relics of progenitors. 03.05.2017 Marcello Musso on Excursion sets, peaks and other creatures: Improved analytical models of LSS. Seminars 06.06.17 Ujjal Debnath on Reconstructions of f(T) gravity from holographic and new Agegraphic dark energymodels. 06.06.17 Ram Kishor on Lyapunov characteristic exponent. Neem Seminars Summer School Students Programme and Astronomy Camp The annual School Students’ Summer Programme andAstronomy Camp was held duringApril 24 to May 26, 2017. One hundred and twenty two students of classes VIII, IX and X were invited from different schools of Pune city to Muktangan Vidnyan Shodhika at IUCAA. These students were grouped in five different batches, each batch started onMonday and continued till Friday eachweek. The aimwas to instil the basics of astronomy and hands-on experiments to the students, so that they could opt for research in astronomy as their career. One of the key objectiveswas tomake students to think scientifically, instead of following the textbooks or other resources blindly. In the basic astronomy sessions, students learned interesting topics, like the scales of the Universe, the solar system, reading sky-maps, etc. Role-plays for the Earth-Moon system made students to understand the phases of the moon, and solar and lunar eclipses.