The five-day meet is being jointly organised by IIT Roorkee and Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital. It must be noted that the 2021 meeting was held virtually owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
IIT Roorkee to host Astronomical Society of India 2022 from March 25, check details
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee will conduct the 40th Astronomical Society of India 2022 from March 25 to 29. The meeting will be held in a hybrid manner and will mark 50 years of the constitution of the Astronomical Society of India.
The five-day meet is being jointly organised by IIT Roorkee and Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital. It must be noted that the 2021 meeting was held virtually owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The meeting will open with four parallel workshops broadly based on themes of planetary space weather, radio astronomy data analysis, long-term study of solar activity, and black holes. Prof K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India will give the inaugural address on March 26 and the presidential address will be made by senior scientist GC Anupama.
ASI 2022: Details
ASI 2022 will host 708 registered participants, its largest-ever. Participants from top national research institutions and universities such as IITs, IISERs, Banaras Hindu University, Physical Research Laboratory, Raman Research Institute, and Indian Institute of Science will present posters and give presentations. In addition to the scheduled talks during scientific sessions, special talks by the Working Group for Gender Equity and by personnel associated with planetaria are the highlights of the meeting.
On the occasion of ASI’s golden jubilee, the associated scientific community plans to come up with a 45-part lecture series on astronomy covering everything from basics to the latest developments. It will be made available in video format for public viewing and for undergraduate and postgraduates students, in particular.
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