Khagol Bulletin # 136 (Apr 2025) - ENG

| 12 | KHAG L | No. 136 - APRIL 2025 Prof G Ambika is a theoretical physicist specialising in the area of Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex systems and time series analysis. She is currently Professor(Hon) in the school of Physics, at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram and a Visiting Associate of IUCAA, Pune. She is also an Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, London and The European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJST), and Vice President, Society for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (SoNCoS), India. Prof. G. Ambika has active participation and involvement in the women-centric schemes & programs under DST, as Chairperson, Subject Expert Committee (SEC), Physical & Mathematical Sciences, WISE PhD and WISE PDF and Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) under CURIE and WIDUSHI. She has a passion for painting and art and does oil paintings inspired by scientific themes. Events at IUCAA 2nd Daksha Workshop: Indian Eyes on Transients Skies The Second Daksha ScienceWorkshopwas held at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, on March 29-31, 2025, in a hybrid format. The workshop successfully brought together a wide audience, comprising about seventy participants attending in person and over a hundred joining virtually. The event received an enthusiastic response from the scientific community and served as a vibrant platform for the exchange of ideas and ongoing research related to the Daksha mission. Theworkshop featured a series of talks and discussions focusing on key scientific themes central to the Daksha mission. Topics included gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), e l ec t r omagne t i c coun t e r pa r t s o f gravitational wave (EMGW) sources, solar phenomena, terrestrial gamma-ray f l a s h e s , a n d mu l t i - w a v e l e n g t h observational strategies. The sessions encour aged co l l abor a t i on among researchers, students, and domain experts, fostering a deeper understanding of high-energy astrophysics and advancing the scientific goals of the Daksha initiative. The workshop was coordinated by Gulab Dewangan (IUCAA) and VarunBhalerao (IIT, Mumbai).