Khagol Bulletin # 131

Visitors[October–December2023] Venu Gopal Achanta, Sajad Ahmad Ahanger, Somi Aktar, Spoorthi Ambore, Per Hakan Magnus Andreasson, Simran Arora, Mayukh Bandyopadhyay, Uddipan Banik, Bhaskarjyoti Barman, Quentin Basto, Prasad Basu, Aru Beri, Piyali Bhar, Atul Bhat, Suman Bhattacharyya, Sree Bhattacherjee, Nigel Bishop, Mohit Singh Bisht, Promila Biswas, Ritabrata Biswas, Samrat Biswas, Himanshu Bora, Hritwik Bora, Mary Bosco, Sukanta Bose, Nicolas Bouche, Koushik Chakraborty, Subenoy Chakraborty, Sumanta Chakraborty, Kabir Chakravarti, Komal Chand, Suresh Chandra, Madhura Chattopadhyay, Suchismito Chattopadhyay, Surajit Chattopadhyay, Ankita Chaudhary, Amal George Cheriyan, Anirban Chowdhary, Tanmoy Chowdhury, Amit Das, Samprity Das, Shyam Das, Sayak Datta, Renu Devi, Sumit Dey, Ruchika Dhaka, Shankar Dhar, Payaswinee Dhoke, Roshan Kumar Dora, Reetika Dudi, Broja Gopal Dutta, Olivier Flasseur, Gaurav Gadbail, Shashank Gairola, Anoop Gavankar, Tuhina Ghorui, Moli Ghosh, Sayan Ghosh, Shounak Ghosh, Sushant G. Dhritimaan Gogoi, Aruna Govada, Mehul Goyal, Sagar Singh Goyary, Ambey Gupta, Ranjan Gupta, Soumya Gupta, Andres Gurpide, Prabir Kumar Haldar, Otto Hannuksela, Srijita Hazra, Jyotishree Hota, Nazma Husain, Kazi Rajibul Islam, Joe Jacob, Ankita Jangid, Vivek Kumar Jha, Hira Joshi, Manish R. Joshi, Sunil Joshi, Akhila K., Md. Mehedi Kalam, Vishal Kale, Sammi Kamal, Kartav Kesri, G.S. Khadekar, Katrien Kolenberg, Dawood Kothawala, Ashutosh Kotwal, Jens-Kristian Krogager, Sayali Kulkarni, Aman Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Parthkumar Kumbhani, Ioannis Kypriotakis, H. Lalthantluanga, Ashish Mahabal, Sunil Maharaj, Soumak Maitra, Prajjwal Majumder, Soma Mandal, Prajakta Mane, Manoj Kumar Manuj, Helen Mason, Andrew Lawrence Miller, Asitang Mishra, Visitors Bibhuprasad Mishra, Swagat Mishra, Sajahan Molla, Soumen Mondal, Nikhil Mukund, Masum Murshid, Fathimath Shifa N.K., Hemwati Nandan, Supriya Narayan, Brian O'reilly, Sachin P.C., Shibesh Kumar Jas Pacif, Sreejith Padinhatteeri, Indrani Pal, Divya Pandey, Subhasis Panja, Manu Paranjape, K.D. Patil, B.C. Paul, Geetha Paul, Devraj Pawar, D.V.S. Phanindra, Ninan Sajeeth Philip, Ananta Charan Pradhan, Anirudh Pradhan, Arbind Pradhan, Jiji Pulikkotil, Naeem Ahmad Pundeer, Farook Rahaman, Aparna Raj, Harini Rammohan, Javed Rana, Chayan Ranjit, Sujata Kundu Ranjit, B.S. Ratanpal, Ashmita Roy, Atish Roy, Bikash Chandra Roy, Prabir Rudra, Amrutha S., Nagabhushana S., Rajesh S.R., Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo, Kailash Sahu, Eeshankur Saikia, Sahil Saini, Guru Janbhoshwar, Bidisha Samanta, Arijit Sar, Banibrata Sarkar, Seema Satin, Yash Saxena, Koushik Sen, Anand Sengupta, Rikpratik Sengupta, Ranjan Sharma, H.P. Singh, Pratyush Singh, Priyanshu Singh, Swapnil Singh, T.P. Singh, Tanish Singla, Abisa Sinha, Sekhar Sinha, Raja Solanki, Ashima Sood, Sanjeeda Sultana, Ami Tank, Javaid Ahmad Tantray, Anamika Tiwari, Charis Tsakonas, Shafqat Ul-Islam, Nilkanth Dattatray Vagshette, Murli Manohar Verma, Mukesh Kumar Vyas, Chandan Watts, Neha Yadav, Andrzej Antoni Zdziarski, Rashmi. 14th December: SVS High School, Khadi, 300 teachers, conducted by Rupesh Labde. 28th December: Chandranarayan Balwade English School, Jaysingpur, 88 students and eight teachers, conducted by Prasad Adekar. 22nd December: A telescope-making workshop was conducted by Tushar Pu r o h i t a n d Ma h a r u d r a Ma t e f o r TelescopeMakingWorkshop: TeacherTraining: 6th November: Agastya International Foundation, Baramati, 80 teachers, conducted by Rupesh Labde. Publ i c Ta l ks in Chandrasekhar Regular Friday Skywatching sessions saw an attendance of 150, while a special sky session organised for Foundation Day had about 200 people enjoying viewing the sky with telescopes. 2ndSaturday lectures: 11th December: “Detecting the Invisible through Gravitational Waves” by Dr. Pushpa Khare (English andMarathi). 14th October: “Formation of Black Holes” by Prof. Surhud More (Marathi) and Dr. MoupiyaMaji (English). participants from IITGandhinagar. Auditorium: 29 t h Decembe r : The 35 t h I UCAA Foundation Day Lecture titled “Innovate to Transform” was delivered by Padma Bhushan Prof. Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra Joshi, a well-known chemical engineer and nuclear scientist. 13th December: A Public lecture was organised by IUCAA Scipop on “ZARTH: How to catch a Supernova”. The speaker was Dr. AshishMahabal. January2024 Deepali Agarwal, Universite Catholique de louvain, Belgium; G. Ambika, IISER Trivandrum; Kewal Anand, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Simran Arora, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh; Swetha Bhagwat, University of Visitors [Expected] | 23 | KHAG L | No. 131 - JANUARY 2024