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I am delighted that I.I.T. Kanpur has recently established the department of Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering. Given the rapid pace of development in this field and the fascination it holds for students, I personally feel that this is a welcome step. India is currently pushing for a very ambitious space program and has established several major astronomical observatories. It is also participating in several international astronomical mega-science projects. We aim to create a stimulating environment in the department so that students can participate and effectively contribute to such research and development programs.

Prof. Amitesh Omar
Head, Department of Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering
IIT Kanpur
Kanpur-208016
Email: head_spase@iitk.ac.in , aomar@iitk.ac.in

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MTech admissions - GATE cutoff 2025 ^New

Evidence of a Hardening in the Cosmic Ray Proton Spectrum at around 166 TeV Observed by the GRAPES-3 Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett., F. Varsi et al. (GRAPES-3 collaboration), 2024, 132, 051002
Probing atmospheric effects using GRAPES-3 plastic scintillator detectors, European Physical Journal C, M. Zuberi et al. (GRAPES-3 collaboration), 2024, 84, 255
A study of dipolar signal in distant Quasars with various observables, European Physical Journal C, R. Kothari, M. Panwar, G. Singh, P. Tiwari and P. Jain, 2024, 84, 75
Small-scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy Observed by the GRAPES-3 Experiment at TeV Energies, Astrophysical Journal, M. Chakraborty et. al. (GRAPES-3 collaboration), 2024, 961, 87
Indentation of geometrically exact adhesive beams. Suryanarayanan, K., T. Bhuvana, I. Sharma, and S. L. Das 2023. Int. J. Solids Struct. 279, 112348:1-19.
Equilibria of liquid drops on pre-stretched, nonlinear elastic membranes through a variational approach. Nair, V. and I. Sharma 2023. Phys. Fluids. 35, 047111:1-14.
Equilibrium shapes of liquid drops on pre-stretched, nonlinear elastic membranes. Nair, V., I. Sharma, and V. Shankar 2023. J. Fluid Mech.. 961, A28:1-27.
Indentation of geometrically exact beams. Suryanarayanan, K., I. Sharma, and S. L. Das 2022 Int. J. Struct. Solids 254, 111905.
Correlations between QPO frequencies and spectral parameters of GRS 1915+105 using AstroSat observations,
Ruchika Dhaka, Ranjeev Misra, J.S. Yadav, Pankaj Jain, MNRAS, 524 (2023) 2, 2721-2732
The comptonizing medium of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1535−571 through type-C quasi-periodic oscillations,
Rawat et al, MNRAS, 520 (2023) 1, 113-128
Probing cosmology beyond LCDM using SKA,
Shamik Ghosh, Pankaj Jain, Rahul Kothari, Mohit Panwar, Gurmeet Singh, Prabhakar Tiwari
J.Astrophys.Astron. 44 (2023) 1, 22
A toy model for low-energy nuclear fusion, Kaanapuli Ramkumar, Harishyam Kumar, Pankaj Jain
Pramana 97 (2023) 3, 109
Validating the improved angular resolution of the GRAPES-3 air shower array by observing the Moon shadow in cosmic rays,
D. Pattanaik et al (GRAPES-3 collaboration), Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 2, 022009
Dipole anisotropy in gravitational wave source distribution, Gopal Kashyap, Naveen K. Singh, Khun Sang Phukon, Sarah Caudill, Pankaj Jain,
JCAP 06 (2023) 042
Image plane detection of FRB121102 with the MeerKAT radio telescope
J C Andrianjafy, N Heeralall-Issur, A A Deshpande, et al MNRAS 518, 3462 (2023)
A minimal space interferometer configuration for imaging at low radio frequencies
Jaini, A., Deshpande, A. A., and Bitragunta, S. 2021, PASA, 38, e040.
A Comparison of Multi-Phase Magnetic Field Tracers in a High-Galactic Latitude Region of the Filamentary Interstellar Medium
Campbell, J. L., SE Clark, S. E., Gaensler, B. M., Marchal, A., Van Eck, C. L., Deshpande, A. A., George, S. J., Gibson, S. J., Ricci, R., Stil, J. M., Taylor, A. R. 2022, ApJ, 927, 49.
Time-resolved spectroscopy on the heartbeat state of GRS 1915+105 using AstroSat, D. Rawat, R. Misra, P. Jain and J.S. Yadav. Published in: Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 511 (2022) 2
Superhorizon Perturbations: A Possible Explanation of the Hubble–Lemaître Tension and the Large-scale Anisotropy of the Universe, P. Tiwari, R. Kothari and P. Jain, Astrophys. J. Lett. 924 (2022) 2, L36
Explaining excess dipole in NVSS data using superhorizon perturbation, K. K. Das, K. Sankharva, P. Jain, JCAP 07 (2021) 035
Testing evolution of LFQPOs with mass accretion rate in GRS 1915+105 with Insight-HXMT, H. Liu, L. Ji, C. Bambi, P. Jain, R. Misra et al., Astrophys. J. 909 (2021) 1, 63
General Treatment of Reflection of Spherical Electromagnetic Waves from a Spherical Surface and its Implications for the ANITA Anomalous Polarity Events, P. Dasgupta and P. Jain, Astroparticle Physics 128 (2021) 102530
Granular flow on a rotating and gravitating elliptical body 2021, K Gaurav, D Banik, I Sharma, P Dutt, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 916, A40:1-40, 2019.
Structural integrity of rubble asteroidal satellites, I Sharma, Icarus 319, 770-784
Rings of non-spherical, axisymmetric bodies, A Gupta, S Nadkarni-Ghosh, I Sharma, Icarus 299, 97-116, 2018.

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Hariom Pandey , Junior Assistant
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Uma Shankar , Jr. Technical Superintendent
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Mukesh Kumar, Jr. Technical Superintendent
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Kundan Kharwar, Jr. Technician
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Vikash Maan
Roll no: 22131269
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Thesis Supervisor: Kunal.P.Mooley

Research Area: X-ray Transients

Toushif Alam
Roll no: 22131268
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Thesis Supervisor: Kunal P. Mooley

Research Area: Astrophysics

Liza Verma
Roll no: 22131265
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Thesis Supervisor: Ishan Sharma

Research Area: Shallow water MHD

Riya Mullick
Roll no: 22131266
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Thesis Supervisor: Amitesh Omar

Research Area: Extragalactic Astronomy

Gauri Pachpande
Roll no: 22131263
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Thesis Supervisor: Ishan Sharma

Research Area: Granular Mechanics

Gautam Das
Roll no: 22131264
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Thesis Supervisor: Sharvari Nadkarni Ghosh

Research Area: Large scale structure Formation, Radio Recombination Line

Ankan Majumdar
Roll no: 231310602
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Thesis Supervisor: Deepak Dhingra

Research Area: Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy, Lunar Surface Composition

Aman
Roll no: 232310601
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Thesis Supervisor: Kunal P. Mooley

Research Area: Study of compact object mergers and transient events.

Ajisha C. Sajayan
Roll no: 231310601
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Thesis Supervisor: Kunal P. Mooley

Research Area: Optical Astrometry

Satyendra Kumar
Roll no: 232310602
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Thesis Supervisor: Deepak Dhingra

Research Area: Lunar Geology, Impact Cratering, Planetary Science

Samrat Ghosh
Roll no: 231310603
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Thesis Supervisor: Kunal P. Mooley

Research Area: Radio astronomy, VLBI Imaging, Pulsars, Space Instrumentation

Wasim Mondal
Roll no: 241310612
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Thesis Supervisor: Sharvari Nadkarni Ghosh

Research Area: Cosmology

Vilasanuo
Roll no: 241310611
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Thesis Supervisor: Amitesh Omar and Avinash Deshpande

Research Area: Pulsars

Sujoy Nayak
Roll no: 241310609
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Thesis Supervisor: Amitesh Omar

Research Area: Optical Instrumentation, Polarimetry

Abhirami S Raghu
Roll no: 241310601
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Thesis Supervisor: Prashant Pathak

Research Area: Adaptive Optics

Pranav hariharan
Roll no: 241310606
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Thesis Supervisor: Sharvari Nadkarni Ghosh

Research Area: Detection of high redshifted hydrogen emission

Shahebaj Hasan Shaikh
Roll no: 241310608
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Thesis Supervisor: Amitesh Omar

Research Area: Galaxy Astrophysics

Abhishek Kulkarni
Roll no: 241310602
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Thesis Supervisor: Kunal P. Mooley

Research Area: X-ray Astronomy and Space Instrumentation.

The following laboratories are currently under development and most of these will be functional by the end of July, 2024

Date - 16/12/2025 @ 12:00 PM
Speaker - Mr. Avinash Ck
Talk Title - Spatially-resolved TRGB JWST Color-Magnitude Diagram as a Tool to Measure Fossil Stellar Metallicity Gradients in Disk Galaxies: NGC 628
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 05/12/2025 @ 12:00 PM
Speaker - Dr. Ajay Kumar (TIFR-NCRA)
Talk Title - Probing Fast Radio Bursts Using Deep Learning and GMRT
Venue- SPASE Seminar Room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Building (ESB-2)
Date - 02/12/2025 @ 12:00 PM
Speaker - Mr. Akhil Jaini
Talk Title - Locating the Universe's Fastest Flashes: Advances in FRB Detection and Astrometry using ASKAP
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 27/11/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Saugata Barat (MIT Kavli Institute of Astronomy)
Talk Title - Time-Lapse of Exoplanets: Watching Sub-Neptunes Evolve with JWST
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 20/11/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Paramita Dasgupta (CCAPP, Ohio State University)
Talk Title - Exploring the High Energy Universe through Radio Observations
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 13/11/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Mayuri S. Rao (RRI Bangalore)
Talk Title - Global cosmological signal detection experiments at radio frequencies
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 10/11/2025 @ 5:00 PM
Speaker - Prof. Renu Malhotra (University of Arizona, U.S.A)
Talk Title - Migratory planets and chaos in the young Solar system
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 06/11/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - T. S. Kumar (ARIES Nainital)
Talk Title - Engineering Aspects of Ground-Based Optical Telescopes at ARIES.
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 30/10/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Krishnaprasad Chirakkil (PRL Ahmedabad)
Talk Title - Ultraviolet Observations of the Martian Upper Atmosphere
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 23/10/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Dr. Amar Agarwal (IIT Kanpur)
Talk Title - Deformation within seconds: studies from terrestrial impact structures
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 09/10/2025 @ 10:30 AM
Speaker - Franz Kirsten (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Talk Title - Hunting flashes in the sky -- what are FRBs?
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 25/09/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (RRI, Bangalore)
Talk Title - Why does spilled coffee form a ring-shaped stain?
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 23/09/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Hiroaki Katsuragi (Osaka University, Japan)
Talk Title - Relaxation of a vibrated granular pile with and without a large obstacle
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 19/09/2025 @ 12 Noon
Speaker - Prof. Poonam Mehta (School of Physical Sciences, JNU, Delhi)
Talk Title - The GZK effect - multimessenger insights from neutrinos, gamma rays, and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 18/09/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Mahavir Sharma (IIT Bhilai)
Talk Title - Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes at the Dawn of the Universe
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 15/09/2025 @ 5:15 PM
Speaker - Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar (Indiana University)
Talk Title - Dynamical Stability and Long-Term Evolution of Planetary Systems
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715, ESB-2.
Date - 11/09/2025 @ 4:00 PM
Speaker - A N Ramprakash (IUCAA, Pune)
Talk Title - A quest through the Sun, the Stars and the Universe
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 04/09/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Biswajit Paul (RRI)
Talk Title - Neutron Stars X-ray Binaries
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 03/09/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Avishek Kumar Basu (University of Manchester - Jodrell Bank, U.K.)
Talk Title - Probing Neutron Stars' Interior and Magnetosphere Through Pulsar Timing and Emission Variability
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2
Date - 28/08/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Gopal Hazra (Dept. of Physics IITK)
Talk Title - Know thy star, know thy planet: role of host star in shaping exoplanet atmosphere
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 26/08/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Prasanta Kumar Nayak Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago
Talk Title - Probing Stellar and Galaxy Evolution with Multi-wavelength Observations of Star Clusters
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 14/08/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Sai Ravela (Kotak School of Sustainability, IITK and Earth and Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT)
Talk Title - Signals, Noise, and Doubt: Rethinking Exoplanet Detection and Characterization Using Physics and Data Science
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 12/08/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Gaurava Kumar Jaisawal Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Talk Title - Delving into the Extremes of the High-Energy Universe
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 07/08/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy (Trottier Space Institute at McGill University)
Talk Title - Atmospheric Escape: From Disks to Habitability
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 05/08/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Dipen Sahu Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Talk Title - Physical and Chemical Pathways of Star and Planet Formation: Tracing Our Cosmic Origins with (Sub)Millimeter Astronomy
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 24/07/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Ananya Sahoo (LoCSST at the University of Massachusetts)
Talk Title - Faint Lights, Distant Worlds: Imaging Earths in Other Solar Systems
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 21/07/2025 @ 5:15 p.m.
Speaker - Anil Chavan Birbal Sahani Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow
Talk Title - Mars through a geomorphologist's eye: geomorphic processes and their terrestrial analogues from the Indian subcontinent
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 16/07/2025 @ 5.00 p.m.
Speaker - Ramlal Unnikrishnan PhD Student from Chalmers University
Talk Title - From photospheric imaging to circumstellar astrochemistry: An ALMA view of evolved stars
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 07/07/2025 @ 5.15 p.m.
Speaker - Hari Haran Balakrishnan (CRL,TIFR, Ooty)
Talk Title - Potential role of GRAPES-3 in atmospheric science, space weather forecasting, and societal impacts
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 26/06/2025 @ 5 p.m.
Speaker - Prabhakar Tiwari (Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), China)
Talk Title - Exploring the Cosmos: Insights from Radio Surveys on Large-Scale Structure
Venue- SPASE seminar hall, ESB2, 715
Date - 15/05/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Kabir Chakravarti (Central European Institute for Cosmology, Prague)
Talk Title - Investigating the connection between Dark Matter and GW merger events
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 23/04/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Shouvik Roy Choudhury (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA))
Talk Title - Cosmology in an extended parameter space: new constraints on dark energy and neutrino masses with DESI BAO
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 (ESB-2)
Date - 22/04/2025 @ 11 AM
Speaker - Vasudev Mittal (University of Sydney)
Talk Title - Confronting the Cosmological Principle: Shaking the foundations of the Cosmos
Venue- SPASE seminar hall, ESB2, 715
Date - 17/04/2025 @ 5.15 p.m.
Speaker - T. R. Seshadri (Delhi Univ)
Talk Title - Surprises from the Sky: Accidental Discoveries in Astronomy
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 (ESB-2)
Date - 09/04/2025 @ 5.00 p.m.
Speaker - Prof. Jean Surdej (Professor, Liège University Belgium; VAJRA Adjunct Faculty ARIES Nainital, India)
Talk Title - Observing the wonders of nature - from Camera Obscura to the International Liquid Mirror Telescope 4m (ILMT)
Venue- Lecture Hall L10
Date - 08/04/2025 @ 12 noon
Speaker - Shikhar Mittal ( University of Cambridge)
Talk Title - New Approaches in Modelling and Interpretation of the Cosmic Dawn 21-cm Signal
Venue- SPASE seminar hall, ESB2, 715
Date - 07/04/2025 @ 5.00 p.m.
Speaker - Prof. Jean Surdej (Professor, Liège University Belgium; VAJRA Adjunct Faculty ARIES Nainital, India)
Talk Title - The optical gravitational lens experiment and discovery of multiply imaged quasars with Gaia and the ILMT
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 03/04/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Priyanka Chaturvedi (TIFR Mumbai)
Talk Title - From Jupiters to Earths - Exoplanets and beyond
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 28/03/2025 @ 3.00 p.m.
Speaker - Prof. Ajit Kembhavi (Distinguished Visiting Professor, SPASE, IITK & co-founder Pune Knowledge Cluster)
Talk Title - The James Webb Telescope and Observations of the Early Universe
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 27/03/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Avinash Deshpande (SPASE)
Talk Title - Fascinating Life-stories of Cosmic Light-houses
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2).
Date - 25/03/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Chhavi Jain (Ph. D. Yale University )
Talk Title - Investigating Viscous Flow in the Earth’s Interior and its Role in Shaping the Planet’s Surface and Interior Dynamics
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2).
Date - 24/03/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Prof. Ajit Kembhavi (Distinguished Visiting Professor, SPASE, IITK & co-founder Pune Knowledge Cluster)
Talk Title - From PCA to Autoencoders: a Journey Through AI Space
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2.
Date - 20/03/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Shantanu Desai (IIT Hyderabad)
Talk Title - Fundamental Physics from Cosmology and galaxy clusters
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 17/03/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Sravani Vaddi (Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico USA)
Talk Title - Multi-wavelength, multi-scale studies of Active Galactic Nuclei
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2
Date - 06/03/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - Binod Sreenivasan (IISc. Bengaluru)
Talk Title - New insights into the axial dipole field and polarity transitions in planets
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 04/03/2025 @ 515 p.m.
Speaker - J.N.H.S. Aditya(Univ. of Sydney)
Talk Title - Cold Gas in AGN Surroundings
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 ESB-2
Date - 13/02/2025 @ 515 p.m. (Chai and stuff with stuffings @ 5)
Speaker - Mukul Bhattacharya (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
Talk Title - Fast radio bursts: source properties, emission mechanism and cosmological applications
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 06/02/2025 @ 11 a.m. (Chai and stuff with stuffings @ 5)
Speaker - Sumitesh Sarkar (Associate Director, Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad)
Talk Title - Challenges in Deep Space Communication Network
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 06/02/2025 @ 515 p.m. (Chai and stuff with stuffings @ 5)
Speaker - Arun Misra (McGill U)
Talk Title - Space debris
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 30/01/2025 @ 515 p.m. (Chai and stuff with stuffings @ 5)
Speaker - Tejpreet Kaur (SPASE, IITK)
Talk Title - Galactic Chemical Evolution and Origin of Our Solar System
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)
Date - 23/01/2025 @ 515 p.m. (Chai and stuff with stuffings @ 5)
Speaker - Pankaj Jain (SPASE, IITK)
Talk Title - Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Square Km Array (SKA)
Venue- SPASE seminar room, 715 New Aerospace Engineering Bldg. (ESB-2)

Date - 08/02/2024
Speaker - PALLAVI BHATT (International Centre for Theoretical
Sciences (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
Talk Title - Quasi-two-dimensionalization of magnetically dominated decaying turbulence driven by magnetic reconnection.
Date - 15/02/2024
Speaker – S.Shankaranarayanan (Physics, IIT Bombay)
Talk Title - Multi-messenger Signatures in Strong Gravity Regimes.
Date - 16/02/2024
Speaker – Prof. Christian Wohler (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Talk Title - Remote sensing studies of planetary regolith surfaces: Topographic mapping, reflectance spectroscopy, photometry, polarimetry, thermal modelling, machine learning - and linking them all up.
Date - 29/02/2024
Speaker – Saurabh Singh (The Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru)
Talk Title - Seeing the Universe in 21-cm wavelength.
Date - 07/03/2024
Speaker – Prajval Shastri (Emeritus Scientist at RRI)
Talk Title - Beacons of the Cosmos: Understanding Munching Giant Black Holes in Context.
Date - 14/03/2024
Speaker – Karamveer Kaur (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
Talk Title - Global dynamics of galaxies.
Date - 04/04/2024
Speaker – Nishant Singh (IUCAA,Pune)
Talk Title - On magnetic fields and surface gravity mode of the Sun.
Date - 11/04/2024
Speaker – B.Eswar Reddy (IIA, Bangalore)
Talk Title - Evolution of the element lithium in the universe - a case for lithium production in low-mass stars.
Date - 18/04/2024
Speaker – Ramya M Anche (Steward Observatory, Arizona University)
Talk Title - Polarimetry and high-contrast imaging with the next-generation.
Date - 29/04/2024
Speaker – Durgesh K. Rai (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Talk Title - Towards Integrating Systems Engineering Framework in Space Missions: LISA Mission & Vision Forward.
Date - 02/05/2024
Speaker – Sandeep Kataria (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Talk Title - The role of dark matter halo angular momentum distribution on bar formation, evolution and dynamical friction.
Date - 05/07/2024
Speaker – Ajit M. Srivastava (IOP Bhubhaneswar)
Talk Title- Detecting gravitational waves with pulsars as resonant Weber detectors.
Date - 01/08/2024
Speaker – Kartick Sarkar (SPASE, IIT Kanpur)
Talk Title - Nature and origin of the Fermi/eROSITA bubbles.
Date- 08/08/2024
Speaker – Attreyee Ghosh (IISc. Bangalore)
Talk Title - How the Earth's surface is shaped by deeper processes.
Date - 22/08/2024
Speaker - Tamal Basak (Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata)
Talk Title - Multifarious aspects of D-region modelling during solar flares using sub-ionospheric VLF propagation.
Date - 29/08/2024 Speaker – Ajit Kumar Mehta (U. California at Santa Barbara)
Talk Title - Gravitational waves as a probe for fundamental physics and astronomy.
Date - 05/09/2024
Speaker – Jasjeet Singh Bagla (IISER Mohali)
Talk Title - Cosmology and Large Scale Structure.
Date - 12/09/2024
Speaker – Dibyendu Nandi (IISER Kolkata)
Talk Title - Space Weather - How the Sun influences Planetary Habitability and Human Technologies.
Date - 26/09/2024
Speaker – Nachiketa Rai (IIT Roorkee)
Talk Title - High Pressure Experimental studies of Lunar Interior.
Date - 27/09/2024
Speaker – Prasiddha Arunachalam (University of California at Santa
Cruz)
Talk Title - Supernovae Old and Young: From Remnants to transients.
Date - 30/09/2024
Speaker – Sandeep Acharya (Open University of Israel)
Talk Title - Cosmological probes of electromagnetic and neutrino energy injections.
Date - 03/10/2024
Speaker – Megha Bhatt (PRL, ISRO)
Talk Title - Polarization studies of the Moon, Spacecraft based Vis-NIR Spectroscopy, Payload Calibration.
Date - 04/10/2024
Speaker – Prasun Dhang (Univ. of Colorado)
Talk Title - Magnetic Field Generation and Energy Extraction in Accretion Flows around Black Holes.
Date - 17/10/2024
Speaker – Abhishekh Kumar Srivastava (IIT - BHU Varanasi)
Talk Title - Localized Heating of Plasmas at Diverse Scales due to Symbiosis of Waves and Reconnection.
Date - 21/10/2024
Speaker – Miles Thomas Bengtson (Aurora Engineering at NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center)
Talk Title - Synthetic Heliophysics Mission to Demonstrate Event-Driven Spacecraft Operational Autonomy.
Date - 22/10/2024
Speaker – Mugundhan Vijayaraghavan
Talk Title - Multi-frequency VLBI observations of solar and non-solar transients.
Date - 24/10/2024
Speaker – Avyarthana Ghosh (Tata Research Development and
Design Centre)
Talk Title - Astronomical Instrumentation.
Date - 28/10/2024
Speaker – Sudipta Hensh (MPI Potsdam)
Talk Title - Investigating High-Density Equations of State using Post-Merger Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Mergers.
Date - 07/11/2024
Speaker – Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar (Technion)
Talk Title - Resonant and Secular Evolution of Three Body Systems – With Applications to Planetary Systems and Gravitational Wave Sources.
Date - 14/11/2024
Speaker – Bhavesh Jaiswal (UR Rao Satellite Center)<
Talk Title - Spectro-polarimetry of Earth-like (Exo)planets: Science and Techniques.
Date - 25/11/2024
Speaker – Bhooshan Gadre
Talk Title - Unraveling the cosmic symphony of merging compact binaries.
Date - 26/11/2024
Speaker – Durgesh Rai (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Talk Title - Systems engineering and instrumentation for space missions.
Date - 29/11/2024
Speaker – Mohit Bhardwaj (Carnegie Mellon)
Talk Title - Decoding the Mysteries of Fast Radio Bursts: Diverse Origins and Future Prospects.

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A study of dipolar signal in distant Quasars with various observables, European Physical Journal C, R. Kothari, M. Panwar, G. Singh, P. Tiwari and P. Jain, 2024, 84, 75
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The comptonizing medium of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1535−571 through type-C quasi-periodic oscillations,
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Probing cosmology beyond LCDM using SKA,
Shamik Ghosh, Pankaj Jain, Rahul Kothari, Mohit Panwar, Gurmeet Singh, Prabhakar Tiwari
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A toy model for low-energy nuclear fusion, Kaanapuli Ramkumar, Harishyam Kumar, Pankaj Jain
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Validating the improved angular resolution of the GRAPES-3 air shower array by observing the Moon shadow in cosmic rays,
D. Pattanaik et al (GRAPES-3 collaboration), Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 2, 022009
Dipole anisotropy in gravitational wave source distribution, Gopal Kashyap, Naveen K. Singh, Khun Sang Phukon, Sarah Caudill, Pankaj Jain,
JCAP 06 (2023) 042
Image plane detection of FRB121102 with the MeerKAT radio telescope
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A minimal space interferometer configuration for imaging at low radio frequencies
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A Comparison of Multi-Phase Magnetic Field Tracers in a High-Galactic Latitude Region of the Filamentary Interstellar Medium
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Superhorizon Perturbations: A Possible Explanation of the Hubble–Lemaître Tension and the Large-scale Anisotropy of the Universe, P. Tiwari, R. Kothari and P. Jain, Astrophys. J. Lett. 924 (2022) 2, L36
Explaining excess dipole in NVSS data using superhorizon perturbation, K. K. Das, K. Sankharva, P. Jain, JCAP 07 (2021) 035
Testing evolution of LFQPOs with mass accretion rate in GRS 1915+105 with Insight-HXMT, H. Liu, L. Ji, C. Bambi, P. Jain, R. Misra et al., Astrophys. J. 909 (2021) 1, 63
General Treatment of Reflection of Spherical Electromagnetic Waves from a Spherical Surface and its Implications for the ANITA Anomalous Polarity Events, P. Dasgupta and P. Jain, Astroparticle Physics 128 (2021) 102530
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Structural integrity of rubble asteroidal satellites, I Sharma, Icarus 319, 770-784
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