School of Astrophysics, Presidency University

Twitter handle of the School of Astrophysics, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata - 700073, India.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

Fantastic news! Congratulations to @arijits_astro and Susmita Das, PhD students from the School of Astrophysics, on acceptance of their Astrosat Observing proposals as PIs. Arijit's two proposals and Susmita's one proposal have been accepted!

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The Finance Office has informed that the for claim generation under the 4211 scheme, corresponding to the Recurring assignment (S042600904791), is not visible in the TSA-Hybrid (ANRF)-PFMS portal for the financial year 2026–27.

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Please Encourage Prospective Applicants

[PresidencyUniversity @presiuniv]

Special Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date and Time: 19th December, 2023, 2.00PM @ Astrophysics Classroom
Speaker: Dr. Aritra Ghosh, University of Washington, USA
Title: Investigating Galaxy Morphology in Large Surveys Using Novel Machine Learning Frameworks.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

We are offering this certificate course on Research Tools in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the SoA.
https://t.co/SJbqd7aTTp

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

Across India, there’s a new kind of tourism that’s seeing a boom- astrotourism. Amateur astronomers, citizens building telescopes, hobbyists, and private companies are organizing dark sky tourism with nightly sky watching and fun daytime experiences. https://t.co/aycmKXAuV3

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

Susmita will observe two blazars for ~5 days to study the jet physics in those blazars using the broadband spectra and light curves obtained from AstroSat.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

Fantastic news! Congratulations to @arijits_astro and Susmita Das, PhD students from the School of Astrophysics, on acceptance of their Astrosat Observing proposals as PIs. Arijit's two proposals and Susmita's one proposal have been accepted!

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

Arijit will be observing two Seyfert galaxies over ~15 days to study the accretion disk and corona relation in these galaxies using light curves and broadband spectra obtained from AstroSat.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

Tomorrow Prof. M Sivakumar, from HCU, will deliver a talk on Physics Higher Education and its problems and prospects, at the SoA. It will be followed by a panel discussion on the " The changing face of higher education in India". All are welcome to attend!

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

Tomorrow our alumnus prof. Ashoke Sen, from ICTS, will deliver the 4th Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri memorial lecture in the physics department. All are welcome to attend!

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Prof. Amitava Datta from UWA will deliver this week's colloquium at the SoA. Prof. Datta will be speaking on the application of deep learning in astrophysics. All are welcome to attend.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

We are proud to celebrate our senior grad students Ankita Bera, Avinanda Chakraborty and Susmita Das who form half of the grad students at the SoA. They conduct amazing research on different topics of Astrophysics and Cosmology and serve as inspirations to all of us.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

“On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we highlight a simple equation: More women and girls in science equals better science” ~ Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General.

Let us all strive towards better science.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

Prof. Parthsarathi Majumdar from IACS will deliver this week's colloquium at the School of Astrophysics. All are welcome to attend.

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Prof. Manik Banik from SNBNCBS will deliver this week's colloquium of the School of Astrophysics. Prof. Banik will be speaking on Bell's theorem.

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Tomorrow Prof. Indranil Chattopadhyay from ARIES will deliver a talk at the weekly colloquium of the SoA. All are welcome to attend.

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The second public lecture of the PAVINARI lecture series, organised by the Gender in Physics Working Group of the Indian Physics Association, will be delivered at Presidency University by SoA faculty member Dr. Suchetana Chatterjee.

[School of Astrophysics, Presidency University @astro_presi]

As part of the NSSS 2022 celebrations, School of Astrophysics Presidency University welcomes you all to a public lecture by Prof. Somak Raychaudhury, IUCAA, on 9th of December. The lecture will be held at 03:30 pm in the Derozio Hall, PU.