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Seminars and Colloquia - 2026

#	Date	Time	Seminar/Colloquium	Speaker	Title
1	11/08/2026	04:00 PM	Seminar	Dhanraj Risbud (University of Bielefeld, Germany)	Pulsars in globular clusters- contrasting diversity in unity.
2	04/08/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Pravir Kumar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)	Pruning the Search: A 10-Billion-Fold Shortcut to Finding Relativistic Binary Pulsars
4	12/06/2026	04:00 PM	Seminar	Deepali Agarwal (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, USA)	Mapping Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background using Pulsar Timing Arrays
5	05/06/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Suryarao Bethapudi (NCRA-TIFR)	Polarimetric studies of Fast Radio Burst 20180916B with uGMRT
7	29/05/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Sushma Kurapati (NCRA-TIFR)	Gas Dynamics and Angular Momentum with the Ultra-deep MHONGOOSE Survey
8	25/05/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Arindam Chatterjee (Shiv Nadar University)	Shedding Light on Dark Matter through Cosmological Observations
9	13/05/2026	11:00 AM	Seminar	Ronaldo Laishram (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan)	Galaxy Evolution Across Cosmic Time: From Cosmic Noon to the Epoch of Reionization
10	11/05/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Melissa Graham (Rubin Observatory / University of Washington, USA)	Capturing the Cosmos with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
11	08/05/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Barnali Das (NCRA-TIFR)	Instability in stable magnetospheres: on the radio variability of magnetic massive stars
12	08/04/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Pravir Kumar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)	Pruning the Search: A 10-Billion-Fold Shortcut to Finding Relativistic Binary Pulsars
13	24/03/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Bernard Fanaroff (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa)	TBD
14	23/03/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Bernard Fanaroff (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa)	Govind Swarup Memorial Lecture: Govind Swarup’s legacy and South Africa’s new telescopes
15	06/03/2026	04:00 PM	Seminar	Atanu Koley (University of Concepcion, Chile)	Probing Magnetic Fields and Turbulence in Massive Protoclusters Using ALMA
16	23/02/2026	04:00 PM	Seminar	Prachi Prajapati (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany)	Vz-GAL: Probing Cold Molecular Gas in Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at z=1-6
17	10/02/2026	04:00 PM	Seminar	Trisha Bhowmik (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)	Studying protoplanetary disk structures and their evolution with ALMA observations
18	06/02/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Ravi Sheth (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)	The Linear Point standard ruler in the DESI survey
19	30/01/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford, The UK)	A challenge to the cosmological standard model
20	23/01/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia University, USA)	Rolling the Dice: Monte Carlo Simulations of Pulsars and FRBs
21	06/01/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Apurba Bera (ASTRON, The Netherlands)	Polarization of fast radio bursts
22	05/01/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Siddharth Chaini (University of Delaware, USA)	Transient hunting in the era of large-sky surveys
23	02/01/2026	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Rudrani Kar Chowdhury (TIFR, Mumbai)	Exploring the Universe through Tidal Disruption Events

Seminars and Colloquia - 2025

#	Date	Time	Seminar/Colloquium	Speaker	Title
24	22/12/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Arunima Dutta (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany)	Exotic Pulsars and Cluster Dynamics: A Case Study of NGC 1851
25	19/12/2025	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Sayali Avachat (Springer, Nature, USA)	Book Publishing Program at Springer and Publishing Opportunities
26	12/12/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Vaishnav Rao (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)	Stars born in the wind: Widespread outflow-driven star formation in the stellar halo of M82
27	05/12/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Sushant Dutta (Inter-University Centre for Data-Intensive Astronomy, Cape Town, South Africa)	Spectral Ages of Remnant Radio Galaxies in the SKA Era
28	26/11/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Payel Nandi (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune)	Decoding Multiphase AGN Feedback: From Nuclear Winds to Galaxy-Scale Impact
29	25/11/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Aditi Kaushik (Macquarie University, Australia)	Tiny-Scale Atomic Structure in the ISM: Early Results from a New Parkes Observing Mode
30	24/11/2025	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Martijn Oei (CalTech, USA)	Cancelled.
31	21/11/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Shyam Sunder (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taiwan)	Frequency Dependent Dispersion measures in Pulsar B0329+54
32	14/11/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Shobha Kumari (Midnapore City College, Midnapore)	Exploring the Impact of AGN Activity and Surrounding Environment on the Diverse Morphologies of Radio Galaxies
33	12/11/2025	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Ann Njeri (Newcastle University, UK)	Probing Faint Radio Activity in Radio-Quiet Quasars: Insights from the Quasar Feedback Survey
34	03/11/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Pranav Limaye (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany)	From Pulsars to Fast Radio Bursts: Statistical Signatures of Coherent Radio Emission
35	31/10/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Hariharan Krishnan (SKA Observatory, Jodrell Bank, UK)	An Overview of the SKA-Low Telescope and Its Digital Signal Chain
36	27/10/2025	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Prajwal Padmanabh (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany)	Pulsar searching with the MeerKAT telescope
37	08/10/2025	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Shilpi Bhunia (Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)	Bursty acceleration and 3D trajectories of electrons in a solar flare
38	26/09/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	N. R. Kavin Kumar (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia, Australia)	Disentangling AGNs from Stellar contributions to the Cosmic Spectral Energy Distribution
39	01/09/2025	04:00 PM	Colloquium	Agniva Roychowdhury (NCRA-TIFR)	Unraveling the Nature of Extragalactic Jets with Radio Interferometry
40	14/07/2025	04:00 PM	Seminar	Himansh Rathore (University of Arizona, USA)	The LMC-SMC System: A New Laboratory for Galaxy Interactions, Galaxy Dynamics and Dark Matter