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

The faculty fromUKZN, DUT andMUT, Durban, were in attendance, apart fromvarious universities in Delhi/NCR. The conference welcomed forty participants, including ten distinguished guests from South Africa. ISAWA 2023 served as a platform for exchanging innovative research in astrophysics and fostered valuable collaborations. The organiser thanked all the participants for their contributions and looked forward to future astrophysics endeavours. The workshop was supported by ICARD, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. A t h r ee -day wo r kshop on Py t hon Programming in Astronomy, Astrophysics & Cosmology was organised from 20 - 22 July 2023 at the Centre for Cosmology, Astrophysics and Space Science (CCASS), GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The wo r kshop was an I CARD p r og r am sponsored by IUCAA, Pune. The total number of participants was thirty-five, comprising five undergraduate and postgraduate participants, twenty-five PhD scholars and five post-doctoral fellows and faculty members. The workshop was intended for graduate and post-graduate students, research scholars and faculty members of the institute and other institutions with prior experience working in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology and with plans to analyse astronomical data. The number of participants for the workshop was limited to 35. For the outside participants' free Workshop on Python Programming in Astronomy, Astrophysics & Cosmology accommodation and travel allowance to attend thisworkshopwere arranged. Professor Sanjit Mitra, IUCAA, Pune, delivered the keynote talk in online mode. The workshop faculty comprised Professor S.N. Hasan and Dr. Priya Hasan (MANU University, Hyderabad). Dr A. Rana (St. Stephen's College, Delhi) and Mr D.K. Beniwal (Delhi University). Professor Phalguni Gupta, GLA University's vice- chancellor, was the inaugural function's chief guest. The wo r kshop cove red t he t op i cs Introduction to Python for astronomers, Installation and understanding packages, Core packages - NumPy, iPython, SciPy, Reading and Writing Files Fitting and Modelling 1-d and 2-d dat, VO and Online astronomy Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. Thisworkshop aimed to bring awide variety of people who use, develop or teach people about Python packages in the context of all forms of Astronomy. The workshop i nc l uded p resen t a t i ons , t u t o r i a l s , unconference sessions and sprints. In addition to building the community around astronomical uses of Python, the workshop aimed to improve collaboration and interoperability between Python packages and share knowledge on Python packages and techniques. The workshop was organised by Professor Saibal Ray and Dr Ashutosh Singh (Centre for Cosmology, Astrophysics and Space Science (CCASS), GLAUniversity, Mathura). It also provided training and educational materials for users and developers of Python packages. The resource persons were well-established faculty members in renowned institutes, all well-versed in teaching skills. The workshop was developed with unique approaches to convey information more efficiently and enable the visualisation and applications of these research tools in Astronomy, Astrophysics, &Cosmology. HimalayanMeetofAstronomers A 'Himalayan Meet of Astronomers' conference was held from 25 to 26 September 2023 at the Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora Pulwama (IUST), Kashmir (J&K). The conference brought together researchers, astronomers, and astrophysicists from various research institutes and universities in Northern India to delve into various aspects of astrophysics and discuss the present status of the subject in these institutes and universities. The conference was strategically organised into six sessions, each focusing on distinct cosmic entities and phenomena: Blazars, X-ray binaries, AI and ML in Astrophysics, and Galaxies. Approximately sixty participants from various institutes attended the conference. The first session was on Blazars I, chaired by Professor Ranjeev Misra. The talks presented in the session were by Dr Zahir Ahmad Shah (Central University of Kashmir, CUK) titled 'Understanding Broadband Emission from Blazars'. Vinit Dhiman from ARIES Nanital discussed the multi-band optical variability of the TeV B l a z a r PG 1553+113 , showcas i ng significant variability in flux and colour. | 21 | KHAG L | No. 130 - JANUARY, APRIL & JULY 2023