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Introductory Workshop on Optical and Infrared Astronomy

(October 26-29, 2010)

Sponsored by IUCAA & Department of Physics, DDU Gorakhpur University

Summary

The Department of Physics, DDU Gorakhpur University organized an Introductory Workshop on Optical and Infrared Astronomy during October 26 – 29, 2010. The workshop was sponsored by IUCAA. It was attended by about 33 M.Sc. students including a few research scholars. Most of them came from different Universities in UP and a few were from other states. The topics covered at the workshop included Large Telescopes, Radiative Processes, Star Formation and Evolution, Circumstellar matter and Infrared Astronomy, Spectroscopy, Interstellar Medium and Extra-galactic Astronomy. There was a demo session on image processing and analysis. The inaugural lecture of the workshop was delivered by Prof. A. K. Kembhavi. Other IUCAA resource persons included Prof. Ranjan Gupta and Prof. R. Srianand. Prof. B. G. Anandarao, PRL, Ahmedabad, Prof. H.P. Singh, Delhi University, Dr. Hum Chand, ARIES, Nainital, Prof. D. C. Srivastava and Prof. Shantanu Rastogi of DDU Gorakhpur University also delivered conceptual lectures during the workshop. The documentary ‘Cosmic Collisions’ was also shown to the participants. The workshop was coordinated by Prof. Shantanu Rastogi and Prof. D. C. Srivastava was the Convenor.

e-mail: shantanu@iucaa.ernet.in