Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

With the lack of dark skies, the pleasure of doing astronomical observations with telescopes has been very strongly affected. The experience of obtaining live astronomical data is a very important step in Data Analysis. In partnership with the Las Cumbres Observatory, we are training students to observe star clusters, open and globular. We teach them processing of the images and photometry. They finally make Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams of the clusters to study stellar evolution.

Biography:

Growing up in Mumbai, I went to erstwhile USSR to pursue an Integrated Masters in Physics at the Moscow State University, Russia. I did my PhD in Astronomy in Osmania University, Hyderabad (2004). She did an Indo-French post-doctoral research project at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India (2004-2006) and worked as DST-Women Scientist in Osmania University (2006-2009). I am very involved in outreach and education in Astronomy and have worked on IAU-OAD projects. I am also the Secretary of the Public Outreach and Education Committee of the Astronomical Society of India.

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