Events for March 13 - January 17

  • CASSA Colloquium 11: Catching a star: How modern astronomers find exciting phenomena

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

    Speaker (in person at IUB): Tonima Tasnim Ananna, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, USA Title: Catching a star: How modern astronomers find exciting phenomena […]

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  • Journal Talk 8: Lin et al. 2025

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

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

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  • Journal Talk 9: Shah et al. 2025

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

    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 […]

  • CASSA Colloquium 12: Between Stars and Planets

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

    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 […]

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  • Journal Talk 10: Tudorache et al. 2005

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

    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 […]

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

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

    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 […]

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

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

    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, […]

  • Durbin Workshop 2

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

    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 […]

  • Journal Talk 13: Li et al. 2026

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

    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 […]