Events for November 13, 2025 - July 1, 2025

  • CASSA Tea Talk 1: Revisiting the age scale of Galactic globular clusters

    IUB Room BC2022, Digital Classroom IUB, Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Speaker: S M Masruk Uddin, M2 Sudent (International Research Track), Observatoire de Paris; Research Intern, Laboratory for Astrophysics Research and Instrumentation (LIRA); Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL), France. Abstract: Globular clusters (GCs) are critical for understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. Their ages provide constraints on Galactic formation models. This study […]

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  • CASSA Plenary Meeting 1

    Google Meet

    A meeting among the core and associate members for understanding the past and planning the future of CASSA.

  • 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, Bangladesh

    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

    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, Bangladesh

    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

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

    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

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

    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

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

    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