Events for November 13, 2025 - July 1, 2025

  • 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

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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

    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

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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