Astronomical Society of India Conference Series

In order to make recent results presented in conferences available to a wide community, the Astronomical Society of India has started a Conference Series. Conferences held either within or outside the country can be published as part of the ASI Conference Series. The Conference Series volumes will be available via the web page of BASI as well as ADS. All papers in the Conference Series will be refereed, and all aspects of its publication will be overseen by the Editorial Board of BASI. We welcome proposals from organisers of astronomical meetings or editors of the proceedings. Enquiries and proposals may be sent to either basi@ncra.tifr.res.in or basi@iiap.res.in.

Orders for the ASI Conference Series are to be placed with A. Satya Narayanan, Treasurer, Astronomical Society of India, Sarjapur Road, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India (satya@iiap.res.in), and payment made as per details given below.

Account name: Bulletin Astron. Soc. of India

Account number: 05210100002375

Name and address of bank: Bank of Baroda, K.G. Road Branch, Johnnagar, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India

For remittances within India, IFSC code: BARB0STJOHN

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Published ASICS Volumes


ASICS Volume 4

Recent Advances in Star Formation: Observations and Theory
 Editors:  Annapurni Subramanian and Sumedh Anathpindika

The meeting was held at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India, from 28th June to 1st July, 2011.

Contents         Contents via ADS

ISBN 978-81-922926-0-1

Price:    Rs. 600 within India, including postage and packing
              50 US dollars or its equivalent outside India, including postage and packing


ASICS Volume 3

Proceedings of the 29th meeting of the Astronomical Society of India
 Editors:  Pushpa Khare and C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

The meeting was held at School of Studies in Physics and Astrophysics, Pt. Ravishanakar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, from 23rd to 25th February, 2011

Contents         Contents via ADS

ISBN 978-81-922926-1-8

Price:    Rs. 600 within India, including postage and packing
              50 US dollars or its equivalent outside India, including postage and packing


ASICS Volume 2

Proceedings of the first Asia-Pacific solar physics meeting
 Editors:  Arnab Rai Choudhuri and Dipankar Banerjee

The main aim of this meeting, which was held at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India, from 21st to 24th March, 2011, was to foster cooperation and collaboration in solar physics within the Asia-Pacific region. This volume consists of papers by many eminent solar physicists covering a wide range of solar physics research, and will be invaluable for those working in the field.

Contents         Contents via ADS

ISBN 978-81-922926-0-1

Price:    Rs. 600 within India, including postage and packing
              50 US dollars or its equivalent outside India, including postage and packing


ASICS Volume 1

Interstellar matter and star formation: a multi-wavelength perspective

 Editor:  D.K. Ojha

This international conference on interstellar matter and star formation was organised as part of the Homi Bhabha Birth Centenary Celebrations from 5th to 7th October 2009, at the TIFR National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, India. It is one of the important and fundamental areas of research in astrophysics, which has seen significant changes in the last several years due to new developments in detector technology, especially at infrared and sub-mm wavelengths. This volume, consisting of about 250 pages, contains review articles in a wide range of themes by leading workers in the field, as well as contributed and poster papers presented in the conference. The volume would be invaluable for graduate students and research workers interested in interstellar matter and star formation.

Contents         Contents via ADS

ISBN: 978-81-8465-441-7

Price:    Rs. 600 within India, including postage and packing
              50 US dollars or its equivalent outside India, including postage and packing


Forthcoming ASICS Volumes

ASICS volumes which will be available shortly

ASICS Volume 3: Proceedings of the 29th meeting of the Astronomical Society of India
 Editors:  Pushpa Khare and C.H. Ishwara-Chandra

The proceedings of the 29th meeting of the Astronomial Society of India, held at Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India from 23rd to 25th February, 2011, are published in this volume. It includes a wide range of contributions from solar physics to cosmology, in the form of reviews as well as oral and poster papers.

ISBN 978-81-922926-1-8


ASICS volumes under preparation

Gamma-ray bursts, evolution of massive stars and star formation at high redshifts
 Editors:  S.B. Pandey, V.V. Sokolov and Yu A. Schekinov

This volume contains the proceedings of a bi-lateral Indo-Russian meeting on this theme held at ARIES, Nainital, India from 2nd to 4th March, 2011. It contains up to date reviews and contributed papers on the field by authors from both the countries.

Robotic workshop 2011
 Editors:  S. Guziy, S.B. Pandey and A.J. Castro-Tirado

This workshop is being jointly supported by the Spanish Research Agency (CSIC) and by the University of Malaga (UMA) in Spain, and is taking place in Torremolinos, Spain from the 5th to 10th June 2011. The main focus of the workshop is on new and existing astronomical facilities whose goal is to observe a wide variety of astrophysical targets with no (or very little) human intervention. This workshop, the second in a series, hopes to become an international forum for researchers to summarise the most recent developments and ideas in the field, with a special emphasis given to the technical and observational results and public outreach (including Citizen Science) and educational applications achieved within the last five years as well as plan future strategies.

Recent advances in observational and theoretical studies of star formation
 Editors:  Annapurni Subramaniam, Sumedh Anathpindika, Padmakar Parihar and Mousumi Das

This meeting which discusses recent advances in observational and theoretical studies of star formation, was held from 28th June to 1st July 2011 at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, and was organized as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of the Vainu Bappu Telescope at VBO, Kavalur, built indigenously by IIA in 1986.

Stellar spectral libraries
 Editors:  Philippe Prugniel and Harinder P. Singh

Libraries of stellar spectra play an important role in different fields of astrophysics. These libraries may consist of either observed or theoretical spectra, and they vary in their spectral coverage/domain and resolution. This volume contains the proceedings of an international workshop held at the University of Delhi from the 5th to the 9th of December 2011, where recent efforts in this domain and their applications to different astrophysical situations were presented by many leading workers in the field.


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