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 24/03/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Bernard Fanaroff (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa) TBD
2 23/03/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Bernard Fanaroff (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa) Govind Swarup Memorial Lecture
3 06/03/2026 04:00 PM Seminar Atanu Koley (University of Concepcion, Chile) Probing Magnetic Fields and Turbulence in Massive Protoclusters Using ALMA
4 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
5 10/02/2026 04:00 PM Seminar Trisha Bhowmik (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile) Studying protoplanetary disk structures and their evolution with ALMA observations
6 06/02/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Ravi Sheth (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) TBD
7 30/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford, The UK) A challenge to the cosmological standard model
8 23/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia University, USA) Rolling the Dice: Monte Carlo Simulations of Pulsars and FRBs
9 06/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Apurba Bera (ASTRON, The Netherlands) Polarization of fast radio bursts
10 05/01/2026 04:00 PM Colloquium Siddharth Chaini (University of Delaware, USA) Transient hunting in the era of large-sky surveys
11 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
12 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
13 19/12/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Sayali Avachat (Springer, Nature, USA) Book Publishing Program at Springer and Publishing Opportunities
14 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
15 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
16 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
17 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
18 24/11/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Martijn Oei (CalTech, USA) Cancelled.
19 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
20 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
21 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
22 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
23 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
24 27/10/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Prajwal Padmanabh (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany) Pulsar searching with the MeerKAT telescope
25 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
26 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
27 01/09/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Agniva Roychowdhury (NCRA-TIFR) Unraveling the Nature of Extragalactic Jets with Radio Interferometry
28 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
29 16/06/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium A. J. Nayana (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Journeying through cosmic Life and Death
30 03/06/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium D A Green (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) Historical supernovae in our Galaxy, and their remnants
31 30/05/2025 11:00 AM Colloquium Payaswini Saikia (New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE) Disc-Jet Coupling and Mass-Scaling of Black Holes
32 16/05/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Arif Babul (University of Victoria, Canada) (Super)computing the Universe
33 15/05/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Arif Babul (University of Victoria, Canada) Modeling the Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies in the Cosmos: Successes & Opportunities
34 13/05/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Vivek Kumar Jha (NCRA-TIFR) Time-Domain Signatures of AGNs: Using Variability to Trace Accretion Disk Physics
35 28/04/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Andrea Botteon (Istituto di Radioastronomia, INAF, Bologna, Italy) Galaxy clusters in the golden age of radio astronomy (Online)
36 25/04/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Sunil Malik (NCRA-TIFR) Investigating Coherent and turbulent magnetic field in Milky Way and extragalactic systems
37 15/04/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Arun Naidu (University of Oxford, The UK) In-core Optimization of Detection Algorithms for Large-scale Pulsar Surveys with the SKA
38 15/04/2025 11:00 AM Colloquium Sushma Kurapati (ASTRON, The Netherlands) Tracing Cosmic and Galactic-Scale Structures with MeerKAT HI Surveys
39 07/04/2025 11:00 AM Colloquium Barnali Das (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Magnetic massive stars: celestial laboratories for stellar magnetism
40 01/04/2025 04:00 PM Colloquium Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial College, London, UK) 21cm studies of reionization and the cosmic dawn