Events for December 23, 2025 - November 28, 2025

  • Opening Ceremony of CASSA Workshop 2

    Lecture Gallery MK9006, DMK Building, IUB Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Free
  • CASSA Colloquium 10: Probing galaxy evolution using massive early-type galaxies at intermediate redshift

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

    Speaker (online): Pritom Mozumdar, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Title: Probing galaxy evolution using massive early-type galaxies at intermediate redshift Abstract: Over the past 8 billion years (since redshift, z ~ 1), the Universe - and the galaxies within it - have changed dramatically. Cosmological simulations suggest […]

    Free
  • Journal Talk 7: Mowla et al. 2022

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

    The Sparkler: Evolved High-redshift Globular Cluster Candidates Captured by JWST Link:  https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac90ca Presenter: Most. Atia Sanjida, MSc student, Physics, University of Dhaka --- Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9

  • Astronomy Night 11: Live demonstration of Bangladesh’s first array radio telescope

    Independent University, Bangladesh 16 Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Bashundhara RA, Bangladesh

    From November 17 to 21, in CASSA’s second workshop, 30 students from 10 universities in Bangladesh participated in building, for the first time in the country, a Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART). The workshop instructor was Dr. Tim Molteno from the University of Otago in New Zealand, the lead designer of TART. After seven countries […]

    Free
  • 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 Abstract: Modern astrophysics infers extreme phenomena from precise, theory-driven signatures. In this talk, we will explore the empirical case for the Big Bang—cosmic expansion, light-element […]

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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 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 […]

    Free
  • 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 get notifications and the Google Meet link, subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9

  • 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 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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