Events for January 15 - November 20, 2025
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CASSA Workshop 1: Unclouding the Thousand Eyes of an Array Radio Telescope
FeaturedCASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, BangladeshThe most advanced telescopes at radio wavelengths are now Array Radio Telescopes (ART), arrays of hundreds and thousands of radio antennas guarding the universe like Argus in Ovid's Metamorphoses. ARTs are everywhere, from the Y-shaped Very Large Array (VLA) in the deserts of New Mexico to the rectilinear Medicina displayed dramatically in the Red Desert […]
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Journal Talk 1: Garon et al. 2019
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, BangladeshRadio Galaxy Zoo: The Distortion of Radio Galaxies by Galaxy Clusters https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aaff62 Presenter: Mir Sazzat Hossain
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Rubin First Look Watch Party
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, Bangladesh🌌 You're Invited: Rubin First Look Watch Party at CASSA! 🌌 Join us at CASSA, IUB, for a truly historic moment in astronomy! 🚀 📅 Date: Monday, 23 June 2025 🕚 Time: 8:00 PM BST (Live stream starts at 8:30 PM) 📍 Venue: CASSA, Independent University, Bangladesh We are thrilled to host a local Watch […]
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Journal Talk 2: van Zyl & Grobler 2024
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, BangladeshRemove First Detect Later: a counter-intuitive approach for detecting radio frequency interference in radio sky imagery Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae979 Presenter: Adrita Khan Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9
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CASSA Colloquium 7: Strong Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Cosmology
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, BangladeshSpeaker (online): Kenneth C. Wong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU), University of Tokyo, Japan. Abstract: Strong gravitational lensing is sensitive to the total mass distribution along the line of sight, making it a unique probe of dark matter in galaxies and clusters, and useful for studying resolved properties of the […]
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Journal Talk 3: Wong et al. 2025
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, BangladeshRadio Galaxy Zoo data release 1: 100185 radio source classifications from the FIRST and ATLAS surveys Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2790 Presenter: Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal Related other papers: Radio galaxy zoo: towards building the first multipurpose foundation model for radio astronomy with self-supervised learning Identification of 4876 Bent-tail Radio Galaxies in the FIRST Survey Using Deep Learning […]
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Journal Talk 4: Shajib et al. 2025
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, Bangladeshdolphin: A fully automated forward modeling pipeline powered by artificial intelligence for galaxy-scale strong lenses Link: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.22657 Presenter: Nafis Sadik Nihal Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9
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Journal Talk 5: Wilensky et al. 2025
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, BangladeshHigh Dimensional Beam Inference II: Inference of a Perturbed HERA Beam from Simulated Visibility Data Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20712 Presenter: Afnan Uzzaman, IUB EEE Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9
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CASSA Colloquium 8: Environmental variations of the low-mass IMF
CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop), Dhaka, BangladeshSpeaker (online): Tabassum Shahriar Tanvir, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, USA. Title: Environmental variations of the low-mass IMF Abstract: The stellar initial mass function is arguably the most important distribution in astrophysics since it is at least partly determining everything from chemical evolution to the strength of stellar feedback […]
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