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International Workshop on ADAP held at MANUU

The workshop was designed for post graduate students and early researchers to mentor them in coding in Python specifically to do data analysis projects based on astronomy archival data.

Hyderabad: The Department of Physics and the Department of Mathematics, Maulana Azad National Urdu University organised a four-day International Workshop Astronomy Data Analysis with Python (ADAP23) from 5-8 September 2023.

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It was funded by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.

The workshop was designed for post graduate students and early researchers to mentor them in coding in Python specifically to do data analysis projects based on astronomy archival data.

The inaugural program was held on 5 September 2023 at the Saiyid Hamid Library Auditorium. Prof Syed Ainul Hasan, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, MANUU was the Chief Guest and presided over the inaugural program.

The meeting was conducted in hybrid mode and all the talks were live streamed and are available online. There were 50 offline participants from various parts of the country like  Delhi, Kerala, Shillong, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, etc and 250 participants from all over the world registered for the workshop.

Talks and hands[1]on sessions were held by speakers from National Center of Radio Astrophysics, Pune, IUCAA, Pune, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, St Stefan’s College, New Delhi, Ohio State University, USA and MANUU, Hyderabad.

The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Margarita Safonova, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore on `Space Astronomy’. A public lecture was also held on 6 September by Dr Maqbool Ahmed on `Challenges of Landing on the Moon’. There were around 16 talks of one hour each with hands-on sessions on Python coding for astronomy data.

The valedictory function held on 8th September was presided by the Registrar, Prof Ishtiaq Ahmed. Dr Priya Hasan, Department of Physics was the Convenor and Prof S N Hasan, Department of Mathematics was co-Convenor of the workshop.

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