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Astronomy Seminars 2008


  • Shadows of Galaxies: Tracing Galaxy Evolution with Quasar Absorption Lines

  • Dr. Varsha Kulkarni
    University of South Carolina, USA
    26 December 2008, Friday at 14.30 hrs

  • The Assembly of Galaxy Disks & Evolution of Galactic Structures in COSMOS - Reconstructing the Hubble Sequence

  • Dr. Kartik Sheth
    Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, USA
    23 December 2008, Tuesday at 16.00 hrs

  • Physical conditions in Photo dissociation Regions (PDRs): NGC2023 and S140

  • Dr. Gargi Shaw
    DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
    18 December 2008, Thursday at 11.30 hrs

  • Gamma Ray Burst Astronomy with the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope

  • Dr. Narayana P. Bhat
    University of Alabama, USA
    11 December 2008, Thursday at 11.30 hrs

  • Is the IMF of Stellar Clusters Universal ?

  • Dr. Sami Dib
    CEA/Saclay, France
    25 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.

  • Global Stellar Models of Turbulent Convection and Magnetism Across the H-R diagram

  • Dr. Allan Sacha Brun
    EA/Saclay, France
    21 November 2008, Friday, at 11.30 hrs.

  • On the Nature of coherent Pulsar Radio Emission

  • Dr. Dipanjan Mitra
    NCRA, Pune
    18 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.

  • Report on the 3rd Biennial Leopoldina Conference on "Dark Energy"

  • Shri Aseem Paranjape
    TIFR, Mumbai
    11 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.

  • A new approach to RFI mitigation of interferometric data

  • Dr. R Athreya
    NCRA, Pune
    04 November 2008, Tuesday, at 16.00 hrs.

  • Development of Gaseous photomultipliers based on Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and its application

  • Dr. B.K. Singh
    Physics Department, BHU
    27 October 2008, Monday, at 11.30 hrs.

  • Long-term variability of solar activity: how long will the the current grand maximum persist?

  • Prof. Nigel Weiss,
    University of Cambridge, UK
    30 September 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs.

  • Colliding Molecular Clouds And Low Mass Star Formation

  • Mr. Sumedh V. Anathpindika
    Cardiff University, UK
    23 September 2008, Tuesday at 1600 hrs

  • Multiwavelength studies of Galactic H II regions

  • Mr. Manash Ranjan Samal
    ARIES, Nainital
    26 Augusr 2008, Tuesday at 16-00 hrs

  • Probes of large-scale structure in the gas

  • Prof. Ravi Subrahmanyan
    Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
    19-Aug-2008, Tuesday at 16-00 hrs

  • Rise and decline of Indian Science

  • Prof. R Kochhar
    NIPER, Mohali
    04 August 2008, Monday, at 16-00 hrs

  • Prospects for detection of the lunar Cerenkov emission by the UHE Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos using the GMRT and the Ooty Radio Telescope

  • Prof. Govind Swarup,
    NCRA-TIFR, Pune
    30 July 2008, Wednesday, at 14-30 hrs

  • Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi collapse from the perspective of loop quantum gravity

  • Mr. Rakesh Tibrewala,
    DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
    10 June-2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs

  • Winds, Bubbles and Supernovae: Impact of a Massive Star on the Ambient Medium

  • Dr. Vikram Dwarkadas,
    University of Chicago, USA
    05 June 2008, Thursday, at 11-30 hrs

  • Averaging the Inhomogeneous Universe

  • Aseem Paranjape
    DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
    27 May 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs

  • Galactic Open Clusters: Star Formation and Morphology

  • Dr. Saurabh Sharma
    ARIES, Nainital
    15 April 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs

  • Probing quantum gravitational physics via inflation

  • Dr. Subramaniam Shankaranarayanan
    Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth, UK
    10 April 2008, Thursday, at 11-30 hrs

  • Finger-printing the Universe: Error in Error-bars

  • Dr. Dipak Munshi
    Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
    13 March 2008, Thursday, at 11-30 hrs

  • Binary radio pulsars in and out globular clusters

  • Dr. Manjari Bagchi
    DAA-TIFR, Mumbai
    11 March 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs

  • Black holes, white holes and tunnelling

  • Dr. Parthasarathi Mitra
    SINP, Kolkata
    06 March 2008, Thursday at 14-30 hrs

  • On flux transport dynamo models and solar cycle predictions from them

  • Dr. Piyali Chatterjee
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    26 February, 2008 Tuesday at 16.00 hrs

  • The Mystery of Brown Dwarf Origin

  • Dr. Subhanjoy Mohanty
    CfA, USA
    27 February, 2008 Wednesday at 11.30 hrs

  • Black Holes in the Universe and Microquasars

  • Prof. Felix Mirabel
    European Southern Observatory, Chile
    19 February 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs

  • Hard X-ray Imaging Observation with Multilayer Supermirror X-ray Telescope on Board a Balloon

  • Prof. K. Yamashita,
    Nagoya University
    12 February 2008, Tuesday, at 16-00 hrs

  • The Evolution of Black-Hole Binaries

  • Prof. Tomaso M Belloni
    INAF OABrera, Merate, Italy
    08 February 2008, Friday, at 11-30 hrs

  • Noncommutative gravity and black holes

  • Prof. Kumar S. Gupta
    SINP, Kolkata
    07 February 2008, Thursday, at 04-00 hrs