Khagol _112 _October 2017

Third Indo-French Astronomical School on Spectroscopy and Polarimetry Third Indo-French Astronomical School on Spectroscopy and Polarimetry was organized jointly by Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL, CNRS UMR5574, UCBL) and IUCAA, during July 31 - August 8, 2017 at IUCAA. The lectures were given by Ranjan Gupta, A.N. Ramaprakash, Neeraj Gupta (all from IUCAA), G. C. Anupama (IIA, Bengaluru), Harinder Pal Singh (University of Delhi), and Philippe Prugniel (Lyon Observatory, France). The topics covered were on various aspects of Spectroscopy, Polarimetry, Novae and Supernovae, Polarimetry Modelling, Radio Polarization of Galaxies, Spectral Libraries, and Analysis of Spectra. All afternoon sessions were devoted to projects, where the following five projects were given to five groups of students (total number of students were 26, spread from all over the country including, one fromStrasbourg, France): 1. Stellar Spectral Classification andParametrization usingANNs, 2. PolarizationVectorMaps ofAstronomical Objects, 3. Using Rotation Measure Technique to Constrain Magnetic Field inDistant Galaxies, 4. Novae Polarimetry, and 5. Interpolator for Stellar Spectra. On the last day, the five groups gave presentations on their respective projects. The IUCAA Post-doctoral Fellows: Isha Pahwa, Sonali Sachdeva, and Kaushal Sharma were mentoring some of the project groups. The joint coordinators of this school were Ranjan Gupta and Philippe Prugniel. | KHAG L | No. 112 - OCTOBER 2017 | 06