Khagol # 130 - Jan - Jul 2023 - Eng & Hindi

The Astronomy Centre for Educators of I UCA A , i n c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h t h e Maharashtra State Faculty Development Academy (MSFDA) of the Government of Maharashtra, held a series of workshops on the theme of science, astronomy and society in different towns of Maharashtra. The objective was to expose faculty members of colleges and universities to the exciting developments in astronomy, instil motivation and fascination towards science in general, emphasise astronomy and astrophysics, and underline their importance for societal development. The first workshop was held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences campus in Tuljapur from 02 - 04 December 2022. The Science, AstronomyandSociety Astronomy Centre for Educators Teaching Learning Centre and National Resource Centre resource persons were Dhruba J Saikia (IUCAA), who spoke on our multi-coloured Universe and breakthrough contributions by women i n as t ronomy ; Prakash Arumugasamy (IUCAA), who dwelt on the birth and death of stars; Jameer Manur (IUCAA) who introduced them to appreciate the night sky, and Sridhar Modugu (TISS Tuljapur) who gave them a glimpse of the history of science. In addition, there were bird-watching sessions in the morning and sky-watching sessions at night, which were popularwith the participants, the TISS Tuljapur community, and several who came from Solapur. Suhasini Desai and her team from MSFDA and the ACE IUCAA team coordinated the programme, with active support from Ramesh Jare, Deputy Director, TISS Tuljapur and Ganesh Chadre, TISS Tuljapur. The images are from the sky- watching sessions and a group of participants after a bird-watching session. IUCAA-NCRA RADIO Ast ronomy WinterSchool 2022 The lecture sessions started with a broad historical overview of radio astronomy and various radio observation techniques. The later lecture sessions covered radiative processes, the Sun, pulsars, fast radio bursts, interstellar medium, galaxies, black holes, and galaxy clusters, emphasising radio observations' role in revealing the systems' nature. In the afternoon and early IUCAA and NCRA–TIFR jointly conducted the 15th Radio Astronomy Winter School 2022 from 13 to 23 December 2022. Since 2019, the Teaching Learning Center of IUCAA has been organising the school and adopting a teaching-learningmodel. In this model, college and university faculty members were invited to mentor the student groups formed for the school's activities. Five faculty members were i nv i t ed t h i s yea r, and 27 s t uden t participants out of 665 applicants were selected. The school highlight was a day trip to the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, where the participants were given a guided tour of the observatory's design and functioning by Subhashis Roy and Avinash Deshpande. On the final day, the student groups presented one of their chosen experiments and competed in a game-style quiz on the topics taught in the school. The students and faculty's enthusiasmand active participation helpedmake this an enjoyable educational event. The organising committee comprised of Ashish Mhaske, Avinash Deshpande, Dhruba J Saikia, Jameer Manur, and Prakash Arumugasay from IUCAA and Subhashis Roy from NCRA-TIFR. After reviewing and editing, the school's lecture recordings are available through the NRC IUCAA YouTube channel. The Winter School was coordinated by Prakash Arumugasamy, Jameer Manur and| Subhashis Roy (NCRA, Pune). morning sessions, the participants worked in groups with their faculty mentors on experiments characterising detector noise, gain, and directionality. They also used a horn antenna to observe the 21-cmHydrogen emission to obtainGalaxy rotation curves. Science, AstronomyandSociety The Astronomy Centre for Educators of I UCA A , i n c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h t h e Maharashtra State Faculty Development Academy (MSFDA) of the Government of Maharashtra, held a series of workshops on the theme of science, astronomy and society in different towns of Maharashtra. The second workshop on this theme, in collaboration with the Maharashtra State Faculty Development Academy (MSFDA) of the Government of Maharashtra, was held at the Walchand College of Arts and Science, Solapur, on 10 and 11 January 2023. The resource persons were Jameer Manur (IUCAA), who introduced them to appreciate the night sky; Pushpa Khare [Utkal University (retired)], who spoke about | 11 | KHAG L | No. 130 - JANUARY, APRIL & JULY 2023