Past Events

Speaker: Lamiya Ashraf Mowla, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wellesley College, USA. Abstract: The most distant galaxies observed date back to when the Universe was only 5% of its current age, with progenitors of galaxies like the Milky Way being about 10,000 times less massive. Using JWST and the magnification provided by […]

Speaker: Syed A Uddin, PhD, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, USA. The Known Unknowns of Observational Cosmology: Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe from Carnegie Supernova Project Abstract: In the era of precision cosmology, where percent-level accuracy in measurements is now within reach, we are still confronted with profound enigmas: […]

Speaker: Shah Mohammad Bahauddin, PhD, Research Faculty, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Abstract: The next frontier of astronomy lies in leveraging the unique environments of space and the Moon to unlock unprecedented scientific discoveries. This presentation will explore the speaker's journey of transforming […]

Speaker: Istiak Akib, PhD candidate, Laboratoire d'Instrumentation et de Recherche en Astrophysique (LIRA), Observatoire de Paris, Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). Abstract: Fitting the flat rotation curves of the Galaxies indicate vast majority of the matter content in the galaxies is dark matter, even higher than the cosmological estimate of 85% and giving rise […]

Speaker: Tanveer Karim, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, and a member of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration and the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). Abstract: Over the past decade, cosmology has encountered significant tensions between different measurements of key cosmological parameters, particularly […]