राष्ट्रीय रेडियो खगोलभौतिकी केंद्र

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO ASTROPHYSICS

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune

ncra, NCRA-TIFR pune
Seminars & Colloquia


Seminars and Colloquia - 2026
# Date Time Seminar/Colloquium Speaker Title
1 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
2 05/06/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Suryarao Bethapudi (NCRA-TIFR) Polarimetric studies of Fast Radio Burst 20180916B with uGMRT
4 29/05/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Sushma Kurapati (NCRA-TIFR) Gas Dynamics and Angular Momentum with the Ultra-deep MHONGOOSE Survey
5 25/05/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Arindam Chatterjee (Shiv Nadar University) Shedding Light on Dark Matter through Cosmological Observations
6 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
7 11/05/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Melissa Graham (Rubin Observatory / University of Washington, USA) Capturing the Cosmos with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
8 08/05/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Barnali Das (NCRA-TIFR) Instability in stable magnetospheres: on the radio variability of magnetic massive stars
9 24/03/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Bernard Fanaroff (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa) TBD
10 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
11 06/03/2026 04:00 PM Seminar Atanu Koley (University of Concepcion, Chile) Probing Magnetic Fields and Turbulence in Massive Protoclusters Using ALMA
12 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
13 10/02/2026 04:00 PM Seminar Trisha Bhowmik (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile) Studying protoplanetary disk structures and their evolution with ALMA observations
14 06/02/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Ravi Sheth (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) The Linear Point standard ruler in the DESI survey
15 30/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford, The UK) A challenge to the cosmological standard model
16 23/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia University, USA) Rolling the Dice: Monte Carlo Simulations of Pulsars and FRBs
17 06/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Apurba Bera (ASTRON, The Netherlands) Polarization of fast radio bursts
18 05/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Siddharth Chaini (University of Delaware, USA) Transient hunting in the era of large-sky surveys
19 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
20 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
21 19/12/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Sayali Avachat (Springer, Nature, USA) Book Publishing Program at Springer and Publishing Opportunities
22 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
23 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
24 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
25 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
26 24/11/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Martijn Oei (CalTech, USA) Cancelled.
27 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
28 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
29 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
30 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
31 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
32 27/10/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Prajwal Padmanabh (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany) Pulsar searching with the MeerKAT telescope
33 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
34 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
35 01/09/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Agniva Roychowdhury (NCRA-TIFR) Unraveling the Nature of Extragalactic Jets with Radio Interferometry
36 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
37 16/06/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium A. J. Nayana (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Journeying through cosmic Life and Death
38 03/06/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium D A Green (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) Historical supernovae in our Galaxy, and their remnants
39 30/05/2025 11:00 AM Colloquium Payaswini Saikia (New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE) Disc-Jet Coupling and Mass-Scaling of Black Holes
40 16/05/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Arif Babul (University of Victoria, Canada) (Super)computing the Universe