Events

02/08/2023

CESSI Seminar: DANSE: Data-driven Nonlinear State Estimation in Unsupervised Learning
Speaker: Dr. Saikat Chatterjee (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 11:00 AM (IST)

29/03/2023

CESSI Seminar: Modelling of the Exoplanetary Atmosphere: The Theoretical View
Speaker: Dr. Soumya Sengupta (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangaluru)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:30 PM (IST)

16/03/2023

CESSI Seminar: Stably stratified layers in planets and stars
Speaker: Dr. Ankit Barik (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 12:00 Noon (IST)

03/02/2023

CESSI Seminar: Generative Models and Role of Deep Neural Networks
Speaker: Prof. Saikat Chatterjee (Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:00PM (IST)

03/02/2023

CESSI Seminar: Exploring the Solar-Stellar Magnetic Activity Through Novel Computational Modelling Approaches
Speaker: Dr. Prantika Bhowmik (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:30PM (IST)

30/01/2023

CESSI Colloquium: The evolution of solar magnetic storms through interplanetary space
Speaker: Dr. Sanchita Pal (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA)
Venue: Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre
Time: 2:00PM (IST)

06/01/2023

CESSI Seminar: Machine learning in solar physics
Speaker: Dr. Dhrubaditya Mitra (NORDITA, Stockholm)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 12:00 Noon (IST)

23/12/2022

CESSI Seminar: Understanding particle acceleration in ICME-shocks through MHD-PIC approach
Speaker: Shanwlee Sow Mondal (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:00PM (IST)

22/11/2022

CESSI Seminar: The first UVIT study of T-Tauri Stars
Speaker: Dr. Prasanta Nayak (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:30PM (IST)

14/09/2022

CESSI Seminar: A volumetric study of Flux Transfer Events at the Dayside Magnetopause
Speaker: Arghyadeep Paul (IIT Indore)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 12:00 Noon (IST)

25/08/2022

CESSI Seminar: Perturbed Einstein's equations with a stochastic source and its applications to relativistic stars
Speaker: Dr. Seema Satin (IISER Pune)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:30PM (IST)

23/08/2022

CESSI Seminar: Star formation suppression and feedback in nearby passive galaxies
Speaker: Dr. Namrata Roy (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:30PM (IST)

24/06/2022

CESSI Seminar: Understanding exoplanetary and brown dwarf atmospheres with JWST
Speaker: Sagnick Mukherjee (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:30PM (IST)

13/05/2022

CESSI Seminar: Searching for dual AGN in galaxy mergers and their effect on galaxy evolution
Speaker: Dr. Rubinur Khatun (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR), Pune)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 2:30PM (IST)

28/04/2022

CESSI Seminar: Dynamics of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Inner Solar Corona
Speaker: Dr. Vaibhav Pant (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital)
Venue: CESSI Space Weather Lab, C.V. Raman Building, Room 307
Time: 3.30 PM (IST)

03/03/2022

CESSI Seminar: Radiative MHD Simulations of Spots on Cool Main-Sequence Stars
Speaker: Dr. Mayukh Panja (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen)
Venue: Online
Time: 3.30 PM (IST)

08/12/2021

CESSI Seminar: Magnetofrictional Modelling of the Global Coronal Magnetic Field
Speaker: Dr. Prantika Bhowmik (Durham University, UK)
Venue: Online
Time: 12:00 Noon (IST)

22/10/2021

CESSI Seminar: Geodesic Mesh MHD: Modeling Magnetic Massive Stars in 3D
Speaker: Prof. Dinshaw S. Balsara (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Venue: Online
Time: 3.00 PM (IST)

10 Jun 2021

CESSI Seminar: Numerical Experiment using Computational Magnetohydrodynamics
Speaker: Dr. Sudip K. Garain (GITAM)
Venue: https://meet.google.com/vrt-gxhb-rgd
Time: 11.30 AM (IST)

10 November 2020

CESSI Webinar: Listening to Einstein's Universe: Probing Fundamental Physics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves
Speaker: Prof Martin Hendry (University of Glasgow)
Venue: meet.google.com/nsu-xube-qka
Time: 5:00 PM (IST)

25 September 2020

CESSI Webinar: Development of Innovative Point-of-Care Microdevices
Speaker: Prof. Amit Agrawal (IIT Bombay)
Venue: https://meet.google.com/ezo-kxfd-pfo
Time: 3:00 PM

22 January 2020

CESSI Seminar: Formation and Evolution of Magnetic Flux Ropes During Solar Minimum
Speaker: Dr. Prantika Bhowmik (Durham University, Durham, UK)
DPS Meeting Room, RC, Room-113
Time: 12:00 noon

18 December 2019

CESSI Colloquium: TNeural Network based Generative and Data-driven Models
Speaker: Prof. Saikat Chatterjee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
Venue: CESSI Lab, RC N108
Time: 2.00 PM to 5.30 PM

4 December 2019

CESSI Colloquium: The Aditya-L1 Solar Space Mission
Speaker: Prof. Dipankar Banerjee (IIA)
Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre
Time: 12:00 noon

25 October 2019

CESSI Colloquium: Lunar Science and the Chandrayaan Missions
Speaker: Dr. Shyama Narendranath (ISRO)
Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre
Time: 12:00 noon

15 October 2019

CESSI Colloquium: Artificial Intelligence in Science
Speaker: Prathu Tiwari (Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA)
Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre
Time: 12:00 noon

14 - 15 October 2019

WORKSHOP ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
with NVIDIA
CESSI Lab, Room N108
Time: 11.00 am to 5:00 pm daily
For Details:
http://www.cessi.in/hpcworkshop/

25 September 2019

CESSI Public Lecture: Journey into Space
Speaker: Ann Devereaux (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre
Time: 12:00 noon

18 September 2019

CESSI Colloquium: Observational Constraints on the Solar Dynamo Mechanism
Speaker: Sushant S. Mahajan (Georgia State University)
CESSI Lab, Room N108
Time: 11.00 am

06 Aug 2019

CESSI Seminar: Can we see a singularity, the most extreme object in the universe?
Speaker: Dr Chandrachur Chakraborty, KAVLI INSTITUTE
Venue: G02 , APC Ray
Time: 3:00 pm

06 June 2019

CESSI Colloquium: Gravitational Waves: From Discovery to Astronomy
Speaker: Sanjeev Dhurandhar (IUCAA)
APC Ray-G08
Time: 3:00 pm

17 May 2019

CESSI Colloquium: Future Space Science Missions of India
Speaker: P. Sreekumar (Director, Space Science Program Office, ISRO)
Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre
Time: 2:30 pm

01 May 2019

CESSI Seminar: The Dual Foliation Approach & the Weak Null Condition for Free Evolution in Numerical Relativity
Speaker: Dr David Hilditch, CENTRA, Lisbon, Portugal
Venue: LHC-G08
Time: 2:00 pm

24 April 2019

CESSI Colloquium: The Scope of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Saikat Chatterjee, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Venue: Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre, IISER Kolkata
Time: 12:00 pm

18 March 2019

CESSI Seminar: Impact of relativistic jets on galaxies and their environments
Speaker: Dr. Dipanjan Mukherjee, University of Torino, Italy
Venue: G08, A P C Ray
Time: 3:00 pm

01 November 2018

CESSI Seminar: The Weak Null Condition in Free-evolution Schemes for Numerical Relativity
Speaker: Dr David Hilditch, Technical University of Lisbon
Venue: CESSI, Research Complex
Time: 3:00 pm

12 Sep 2018

CESSI Seminar: Low Latitude Electrodynamics: Some New Understandings
Speaker: Dr Debrup Hui, IIG, Navi Mumbai, India
Venue: CESSI, Research Complex
Time: 12:45 PM

6 June 2018

CESSI Colloquium: Hyperbolicity of Relativistic Fluids
Speaker: Dr David Hilditch, Technical University of Lisbon
Venue: CESSI, Research Complex
Time: 3:00 pm

23 March 2018

Public Outreach: The Square Root of a Sonnet (Drama)
Directed by: Prakash Belawadi
Venue: Science City mini auditorium
Time: 10:30 AM & 6:00 PM

24 March 2018

Public Outreach: The Square Root of a Sonnet (Drama)
Directed by: Prakash Belawadi
Venue: LHC 107, IISER Kolkata
Time: 10:30 AM & 6:00 PM

07 March 2018

CESSI Colloquium: Science with AstroSat
Speaker: Dipankar Bhattacharya
Venue: LHC, G-06
Time: 4:15 pm

18 February 2018

WORKSHOP: Solar-Stellar Magnetism: Past, Present and Future
Venue: B.M. Birla Auditorium, Jaipur, India
Click here for details

30-31 January 2018

CESSI and Promote Science Activities: Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse

Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 6.00 - 7.15 pm
Venue: G06, Lecture Hall Complex

6.00 pm: Introduction to the Event (Dibyendu Nandi)
6.10 pm: Eclipse and Social Psyche (Soumitro Banerjee)
6.40 pm: What is a Super-Blue-Blood Moon Eclipse? (Promote Science)
7.00 pm: Planning for the 31 January 2018 Eclipse (Promote Science)

Lunar Eclipse Viewing Party

Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 5.15 - 8.00 pm
Venue: Student Activities Center Rooftop
Tea will be provided in-situ

Click here for details

16 January 2018
CESSI Seminar Series: Design and development of a satellite based gamma-ray burst polarimeter called SPHiNX
Speaker: Nirmal Kumar Iyer, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: CESSI Laboratory, RC 124, IISER Kolkata

12 January 2018
CESSI Seminar Series: LIGO's second observing run & the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy
Speaker: Deep Chatterjee, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: CESSI Laboratory, RC 124, IISER Kolkata

5 January 2018
CESSI Colloquia Series: The Effect of Magnetic Fields on the Column Density Probability Distribution Function in Star Forming Molecular Clouds
Speaker: Sayantan Auddy, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: CESSI Laboratory, RC 124, IISER Kolkata

3 January 2018
CESSI Seminar Series: An Application of Data-Assimilation to Solar Physics
Speaker: Dr. Dhrubaditya Mitra, NORDITA, Stockholm
Time: 12:00 pm
Venue: CESSI Laboratory, RC 124, IISER Kolkata

18-19 December, 2017
Conference: Contemporary Trends in Optics 2017
Venue: G06, LHC, IISER Kolkata
Website: Contemporary Trends in Optics 2017

8 November 2017
CESSI Colloquia Series: What do Numerical Simulations tell us about Solar-Stellar Magnetic Fields?
Speaker: Laurène Jouve, IRAP, University of Toulouse
Time: 12.00 PM
Venue: CESSI Laboratory, RC 124, IISER Kolkata

2 November 2017
CESSI Colloquia Series: Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Galaxies
Speaker: Anvar Shukurov, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, UK
Time: 3.00 PM
Venue: CESSI Laboratory, RC 124, IISER Kolkata

24 October 2017
CESSI Colloquia Series: Extreme Spacetimes with Numerical Relativity
Speaker: David Hilditch, University of Jena, Germany
Time: 4.15 PM
Venue: CESSI LAB, RC, IISER Kolkata

18 Oct, 2017
CESSI Seminar: Investigating Non-natural Plasmas with Particle-in-Cell Simulation
Speaker: Dr. Meghraj Sengupta(Institute for Plasma Research)
Time: 11:30 AM
Venue: CESSI LAB, RC, IISER Kolkata

11 Oct, 2017
CESSI Colloquia Series: Effect of Relativistic Jet Feedback from Massive Black Hole Gas on Host Galaxies
Speaker: Dr. Dipanjan Mukherjee (Australian National University)
Time: 12.00 PM
Venue: CESSI LAB, RC, IISER Kolkata

3 Oct, 2017
CESSI Colloquia Series: The Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Speaker: Dr. Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA, Pune)
Time: 3.00 PM
Venue: CESSI LAB, RC, IISER Kolkata

13 September 2017
Promote Science presents a one-day workshop on 'The Physics of Gravitational Waves and LIGO'
CESSI personnel Lekhshmi Madhu, Maitraya K Bhattacharyya and Amar Deo Chandra are a part of this effort
Venue: Serampore College
For more information click here.

19 April, 2017
CESSI Colloquia Series: Effect of Active Region Dynamics on Solar Flare Trigger
Speaker: Dr. Sreejith Padinhatteeri (Manipal University)
Time: 12.00 PM
Venue: CESSI LAB, RC, IISER Kolkata

24-26 March, 2017
Workshop: Space Astronomy and Telescope Making
Venue: Auditorium, RC, IISER Kolkata
Space Astronomy and Telescope Making Workshop

6 March, 2017
CESSI Colloquia Series: The Science of Space Weather
Speaker: Judy Karpen (Chief NASA Space Weather Laboratory Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA)
Time: 12.00 PM
Venue: G05, LHC, IISER Kolkata

30 January, 2017
CESSI Lecture: Basics of Optical Astronomy
Speaker: Prof. A.N. Ramaprakash (IUCAA, Pune), Time: 05:00 PM Venue: CESSI Lab

1 December, 2016
CESSI Seminar: Kodaikanal Digitised data archive and long term study of the sun
Speaker: Dipankar Banerjee (IIA, Bangalore), Time: 04.30 PM Venue: CESSI Lab

23 November, 2016
CESSI Seminar: Dynamical imprint of Dark Matter & Interstellar gas on the spiral structure in disk galaxies
Speaker: Soumavo Ghosh (IISc, Bangalore), Time: 2:30 PM Venue: CESSI Lab

17 to 21 October, 2016
International Astronomical Union Symposium 328 will be held at
Maresias, SP, Brazil
(http://www.sab-astro.org.br/IAUS328/)

10 to 13 May, 2016
ASI, 2016: The 34th Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India will be held at
the Kashmir University, Srinagar from May 10 to 13, 2016.
(http://www.astron­soc.in/)

20 April, 2016
CESSI Colloquium: Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Solar Corona and its Energetic Events
Speaker: Abhishek Srivastava (IIT-BHU), Time: 11.00 AM Venue: CESSI Lab