Author Archives: Ram Venugopal

update: Final report

The educational system of Myanmar is government-operated. There are 158 Universities in total under the management of Ministry of Education. There are three types of Universities, the Arts and Science Universities including our University (Mandalay University), University of Computer Science and Technological Universities. Role of Astronomy Education in Myanmar Universities has diminished for decades due […]

update: short report

The HASC project aims to deploy an All Sky Camera in Haiti and set up a collaboration between the University of Maryland and a number of higher ed institutions in Haiti. Students from Maryland and Haiti collaborate via github to understand aspects of the data taken with such a camera. In modern parlor: A Time […]

Final report

The Astronomy Winter School in India, or Astrowin, was held in Hyderabad, India, on February 20-23, 2017. This was the second in a series of schools, the first of which was held in February 2016, in Agra, India. The Astrowin events are actually a combination training school for Bachelors and Masters degree level students, a […]

Workshop

The radio-astrophysics workshop is aimed at students studying the last year of the careers of Physics, Mathematics, Engineering and related areas in institutions in Mexico, Central and South America. The objective is to introduce you to radio-astrophysics and millimeter astronomy through the research carried out at the INAOE-Mexico. Scholarships will be awarded for travel, lodging and meals […]

update: Highlights from workshop

The second edition of the Kathmandu Astrophysics School has seen the participation of 25 undergraduate and graduate Nepali (19) and international (6) students, with maximal gender diversity (12 females and 13 males).  Students and faculty stayed in the Lakeside area of town, and classes were kindly hosted on the Prithvi Narayan Campus. The program was intensive but […]