Khagol _112 _October 2017

Third BRICS Workshop on Astronomy Infrastructure and Instrumentation The Third BRICS Workshop on Astronomy Infrastructure and Instrumentation was held at IUCAA, during September 21 - 23, 2017, and attended by astronomers fromvariousAstronomy Institutes and Universities in India, SouthAfrican (alongwithDST officials), Russia, and Brazil (who attended via Skype). There was no representation fromthe Chinese side. The academic programme was spread during the first two days, and on the third day, there was a meeting on the BRICS working group committee, which essentially summarized the two days deliberations, and formulated the resolution on the framework for Scientific Cooperation in BRICS Astronomy. The academic programme covered both optical and radio astronomy developments at various BRICS countries, and totally therewere 20 presentations on various aspects. Overview talks on general astronomy at Brazil, Russia, India, and SouthAfricawere given by Bruno Castilho, Dmitry Bisikalo and Valeriy Vlasjuk, Somak Raychaudhury, and Takalani Nemaugani, respectively. The workshop was funded by the International Division of the DST, Government of India, and coordinated by Ranjan Gupta from IUCAA, who was a BRICS Indian SOCmember, along with Harinder Pal Singh fromtheUniversity of Delhi. | KHAG L | No. 112 - OCTOBER 2017 | 07