Khagol No.133

| 09 | KHAG L | No. 133 - JULY 2024 The IUCAA Centre for Astronomy Research and Development (ICARD), Department of Physics, University of Kashmir, in association with IUCAA, organised a three- day workshop on High-Performance Computing from May 22-24, 2024, at the University of Kashmir. Sixty participants, including M.Sc. (Science) students, Ph.D. students and faculty, attended the workshop. Resource persons from IUCAA, namely, Aseem Paranjape, Dipanjan Mukherjee (online), Mayur Shende, Nishant Singh and Sanjit Mitra, kept the participants engaged with lectures that included information about the requisite knowledge and skill in handling an HPC. In addition to the lectures, the resource persons encouraged hands-on sessions and classroom interactions. While a longer workshop duration would have helped, the three-day workshop provided the participants with a basic knowledge of using HPC for specific tasks appreciated by the participants, along with constructive feedback. The workshop was coordinated by Manzoor A. Malik (University of Kashmir) and Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA, Pune). Summer School in Theoretical (Astro) Physics The Department of Physics and Electronics at St. Xavier's College (autonomous), Ahmedabad, in association with Kshama Ahmedabad Academy of Sciences, organised a six-day Summer School in Theoretical (Astro)Physics from June 03 - 08, 2024. The school's primary objective was to provide participants with a unique opportunity to expand their knowledge and engage with leading Astrophysics, Astronomy, and Cosmology experts. The workshop featured a mix of lectures and hands-on sessions delivered by six experts. Fifty participants attended the School. The topics covered were General Relativity and Cosmology by Sachin Pandey (University of Delhi), Machine Learning in Physics and Astronomy by Amit Reza (IWF, Graz, Austria), Plasma Physics for Astrophysics by Rajaraman Ganesh (IPR, Gandhinagar), Time-Dependent Problems in Quantum Mechanics** by Anand Sengupta (IIT Gandhinagar), Atomic/Molecular Simulation Methods by Raghavan Ranganathan (IIT Gandhinagar), and Gravitational Wave Open Science Center** by Gurudatt Gaur (St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad) In addition to these sessions, a public lecture titled "Deciphering the Universe through Gravitational Waves" was delivered by Bala Iyer (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru). A scientific visit to the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, was organised for the participants during the school. Furthermore, about twelve participants presented their research work in two dedicated sessions. The School also featured a cultural evening, which the participants enthusiastically attended. The participants received a certificate for completing the school. The School was coordinated by Gurudatt Gaur (St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad) and Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA, Pune)..