Events for March 13 - January 17

  • Journal Talk 8: Lin et al. 2025

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    MAPPING THE NEAREST ANCIENT SLOSHING COLD FRONT IN THE SKY WITH XMM-Newton Link:  https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.145187 Presenter: Tasnim Mahfuz Nafis, Software Engineering, Dhaka University. --- Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9

  • Astronomy Night 12: Spielberg’s E.T. and the Full Moon

    CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, Bangladesh

    On the night of the last full moon of 2025, join us for a special screening of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), directed by Steven Spielberg. Before the screening, an astronomer will offer a short introduction on the film’s enduring significance in the age of exoplanets. In the early 1980s, astronomers worldwide were searching the Milky […]

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  • Journal Talk 9: Shah et al. 2025

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    Beyond the clouds: advanced data analysis of a Dutch sky quality meter network Link:  https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1200 Presenter: Farzana Akter Lima, Physics, Govt. Bangla College. --- Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link, subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9

  • CASSA Colloquium 12: Between Stars and Planets

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    Title: Between Stars and Planets: Unveiling the Hidden World of Transiting Brown Dwarfs Speaker: Md Redyan Ahmed, PhD candidate, Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), University of Sydney, Australia. Abstract: Transiting brown dwarfs occupy the mass range between stars and planets, placing them in a unique regime where the physics of both worlds begin to overlap. […]

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  • Journal Talk 10: Tudorache et al. 2005

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    A 15 Mpc rotating galaxy filament at redshift z = 0.032 Link:  https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf2005 Presenter: Radit Raian, Adamjee Cantonment College . --- Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link, subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9

  • Journal Talk 11: Giacintucci et al. (2024)

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    Are Radio Minihalos Confined by Cold Fronts in Galaxy Clusters? Minihalos and Large-scale Sloshing in A3444 and MS 1455.0+2232 Link: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad12bc Presenter: Ashratul Zannati Purnota. --- Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link, subscribe using the Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDUg2eNHuB_z8-nfLU09lLaOmXYVwYC1O59e6hZVU_e07sbA/viewform?usp=header

  • Journal Talk 12: Hossain et al. (2025)

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    Detection of Exoplanets with Machine Learning Techniques Through Transit Light-curve Analysis. Link: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1ba3 Presenter: Md. Sadman. --- Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link, subscribe using the Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDUg2eNHuB_z8-nfLU09lLaOmXYVwYC1O59e6hZVU_e07sbA/viewform?usp=header

  • Durbin Workshop 2

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    Durbin Workshop 2 will be a 3-day intensive workshop focusing on observational techniques, telescope optics, and astronomical image processing for astrophotography. Topics covered Day 1: Introduction to Durbin 2.0, Observation Basics, Telescope Optics, and Intro to Image Processing. Day 2: Science Writing (with Dr. Asad), Remote Imaging via iTelescope (with Shahal), and Deep Sky Image […]

  • Journal Talk 13: Li et al. 2026

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    Large Language Models for Limited Noisy Data: A Gravitational Wave Identification Study Link: doi:10.48550/arXiv.2512.04031 Presenter: Siddhartho Sen, DIU. --- Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link, subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9

  • CASSA Colloquium 13: Modelling the Last Major Merger that Shaped the Milky Way

    CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Speaker (in person): Istiak Akib, PhD candidate, Laboratoire d’Instrumentation et de Recherche en Astrophysique (LIRA), Observatoire de Paris, Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL), France. Abstract: The last major merger of the Milky Way (MW) occurred 9-10 Gyr ago with an incoming galaxy known as the Gaia-Sausage Enceladus (GSE). We present the first hydrodynamical modelling […]

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