Outreach Gallery

To better understand what I do, I often find it useful to communicate it to others. From time to time, I talk about astronomical concepts at various outreach events. It is always gratifying to talk with curious young minds and see things from their perspective. Here are some snapshots from my outreach activities.

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Engaging with young minds using Virtual Reality (VR) headsets during National Science Week activities , Australia, August 2019.

SciVR demonstration to indigenous students at Koorie State Netball and Football Carnival, Australia, October 2019.

Giving a public lecture on "The Vivid Lives of Stars" at Swinburne University, Australia, June 2019.

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SciVR demonstration at the Avalon Airshow, Australia, March 2019.

Posing alongside Lisa Horsley with the VR headsets during Science Alive event, Australia, June 2019.

OzGrav outreach volunteer at Swinburne Open Day, Australia, July 2018.

With other In2science mentors from Swinburne University, Australia, October 2019.

Recieving Director's Outreach Excellence award from Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Australia, December 2019.

Demonstrating pulsar model to the public during National Science Day activities at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observatory, India, February 2016.

Motivating young minds at an astronomy camp at Kolhapur, India, April 2017.

Posing with the team after a succesful public outreach event orgainsed by U.P. Amateur Astronomers Club, India, May 2013.

A snippet from the local newspaper shows me answering questions during a public event for the telescopic observation of Jupiter and Mars, India, July 2012.

Giving a talk on radio astronomy to college students at the astronomy awareness camp at Jaunpur, India, December 2013.

Selected Talks

Hypatia Colloquium

Held on April 20th, 2021.

Youtube Link for the talk

Melbourne University Colloquium

Invited talk for the Astrophysics Colloquia at University of Melbourne on Can uncertainties in the evolution of the massive stars explain EM and GW observations? PDF of the talk

MOBSTER-1 Virtual Conference

Contributed talk at the MOBSTER (Magnetic OB[A] Stars with TESS: probing their Evolutionary and Rotational properties) Virtual Conference 2020 on Exploring uncertainties in the evolution of massive stars with METISSE. Youtube Link for the talk

Astronomy Delight Public Lecture

Invited talk about the story of stars delivered to amateur astronomers at Lucknow, India.

Youtube Link for the talk

Swinburne Astronomy Public Lecture

On The vivid lives of stars. I shared the story of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and the importance of the lives of these stars in the present-day astrophysical problems. Presented to general public on the June 21st, 2019. Link to the audio recording

ASA 2018

Contributed talk at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) 2018 on Modelling single star evolution in globular clusters. PDF of the talk