Amritsar, June 17 (Punjab Post Bureau) – Students\u2019 Science Club (SciRox) of Guru Nanak Dev University organized ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PPNJ1706202003.jpg\")
its first virtual conference on Astrophysics and Cosmology (AstroRetreat\u201920). The conference was co-organized by the Stellar Universe, a student club of Delhi University. This conference provided an opportunity to students and young physicists to understanding challenging problems of the contemporary times in the areas of Astrophysics and Cosmology.<\/p>\n
Renowned Physicists working in the area of Astrophysics, Prof. (Dr.) Avinash Deshpande (IUCAA & IIT Kanpur) and Prof. Dr. Jasjeet Bagla (IISER Mohali) presented their lectures on the theme. A total of 13 oral audio-visual presentations and 26 posters presentation from the students at undergraduate and PhD level were presented during the conference. This one day event was held completely online using Zoom platform, and was live streamed on YouTube so that participants from anywhere with internet access could participate.<\/p>\n
The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Sarbjot Singh Behl, Dean Academic Affairs and Dr. Hardeep Singh, Dean Students Welfare. Prof. Behl said that \u201cIt is wonderful to see students coming together and organizing such a conference. It not only enriched us about Astrophysics and Cosmology, but also helped the organizing student bodies to learn various aspects of event management. I am sure this event will become a benchmark for virtual conferences for other student bodies and people in the education sector.\u201d said Dr. Sarbjot Singh Behl. Senior faculty members from Department of Physics, Prof. R C. Singh and Prof. N. P. S. Saini were also part of the event.<\/p>\n
Dr. Hardeep Singh said that AstroRetreat focused on the scientific topics such as Relativity and Gravitation, Cosmology, High Energy Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Instrumentations and Methods in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrobiology and Astrochemistry, Fundamental Astronomy and Space Physics.<\/p>\n
The event was organized by students Saurabh, Ishita, Rishab, Simranpreet, Shankar, Priyamvada, Abhijeet, Preeti, and Yatin under the supervision of Dr. Bindiya Arora, Dept. of Physics with support of Dr. Venus Singh Mithu, Dept. of Chemistry. \u201cWe received a total of 365 national as well as international registrations. The event wasconducted successfully with the efforts of my team and we wish to organize more such events under the Science Club in future.We are thankful to our Vice Chancellor Dr. Jaspal Singh Sandhu for his continuous support to such student activities.\u201d said Dr. Bindiya Arora, Convener & Mentor, SciRox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amritsar, June 17 (Punjab Post Bureau) – Students\u2019 Science Club (SciRox) of Guru Nanak Dev University organized its first virtual conference on Astrophysics and Cosmology (AstroRetreat\u201920). The conference was co-organized by the Stellar Universe, a student club of Delhi University. This conference provided an opportunity to students and young physicists to understanding challenging problems of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english","category-educational-news"],"yoast_head":"\n