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 - 29/08/2024Speaker – 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.
Date - 10/08/2023 Speaker – Pankaj Jain (IIT Kanpur) Talk Title - Theoretical explanation for cold nuclear fusion.
Date - 14/08/2023 Speaker – Deepak Singh (IIT Bombay) Talk Title - Snow/Ice Albedo and its Impact on Planetary Energy Budget.
Date - 24/08/2023 Speaker – Kannabiran Seshasayanan (IIT Kharagpur) Talk Title - Magnetic field generation by a turbulent flow: scaling laws.
Date - 31/08/2023 Speaker – Aloke Kumar (IISc Bangalore) Talk Title - Going with Gaganyaan – Space Bricks and Biological Payloads.
Date - 14/09/2023 Speaker – Jayanth Murthy (Ex IIA, Bengaluru) Talk Title - New advances in the diffuse ultraviolet background
Date - 05/10/2023 Speaker – Shyama Narendranath (ISRO) Talk Title - Mapping Lunar Surface Chemistry with CLASS on Chandrayaan-2.
Date - 10/10/2023 Speaker – Nayantara Gupta (Raman Research Institute) Talk Title - Cosmic Accelerators.
Date - 12/10/2023 Speaker – Prasanta Bera (Open University of Israel) Talk Title - Magnetic Instabilities and Dynamics in Degenerate Stars.
Date - 17/10/2023 Speaker – Yamini Jangir (California Institute of Technology) Talk Title - The Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Drives the Quest for Life on Other Planets.
Date - 19/10/2023 Speaker – Ritesh Kumar Mishra (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Talk Title - The Sun, meteorites, and the quest..
Date - 02/11/2023 Speaker – Liton Majumdar (NISER Bhubaneswar) Talk Title - Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the New Frontier.
Date -06/11/2023 Speaker – Anshu Kumari (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)) Talk Title - How can radio techniques give insights into solar eruptions?
Date- 09/11/2023 Speaker – Tej Anandmayee (IIST Thiruvananthapuram) Talk Title - Probing Planetary Atmospheres.
