Past Events

  • Journal Talk 1: Garon et al. 2019

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    Radio Galaxy Zoo: The Distortion of Radio Galaxies by Galaxy Clusters https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aaff62 Presenter: Mir Sazzat Hossain

  • Rubin First Look Watch Party

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    🌌 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

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    Remove 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

  • CASSA Colloquium 7: Strong Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Cosmology

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    Speaker (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

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    Radio 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 […]

  • Journal Talk 4: Shajib et al. 2025

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    dolphin: 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

  • Journal Talk 5: Wilensky et al. 2025

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    High 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

  • CASSA Colloquium 8: Environmental variations of the low-mass IMF

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    Speaker (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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  • Journal Talk 6: Brackenhoff et al. 2025

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    Robust direction-dependent gain-calibration of beam-modelling errors far from the target field Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02483 Presenter: Jannatul Feardous Nishi, postbac from RUET. Both in person and online. To get notifications and the Google Meet link subscribe using the Google Form: https://forms.gle/fikhmc7Y2whjJWKK9

  • CASSA Colloquium 9: Photometric Redshifts for Next-Generation Sky Surveys

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    Speaker (online): Biprateep Dey, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada. Title: Photometric Redshifts for Next-Generation Sky Surveys Abstract: Knowing the distances to galaxies as measured by their cosmological redshift is crucial for studies of cosmology, galaxy evolution, and astronomical transients. The next generation of astronomical imaging surveys (like LSST, Euclid, […]

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