Mr. Akshay Kumar belonging Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir who
completed his master in Physics from Patiala University Punjab. He conducted a two months
project from 3- September to 30 November 2017 on Photometric Study of Eclipsing Cotact
Binary VZ Tri ".
Rishav Malik from IIT Delhi completed a two months project from 15 May 15 July on
topic Search for new variable stars using data of about 22000 stars collected from 104 cm
Sampurnanand telescope of ARIES, and the Kepler data of thousands of stars observed by
Kepler space telescope".
Mr. Sankalp Kumar from IISER, Thiruvananthapuram completed a two months project from
15 May 15 July on topic Photometric Study of CW Leonis."
Ms. Arushi Gupta from Amity University, Delhi completed two months project from 15 May 15
July on topic Time Series Photometric Study of Exoplant CoRoT-24b".
Mr. Sowgata Chowdhury from Tejpur University completed nine months project on Stellar
Variability and Rotational Activities in Kepler Field" from August 2014 to April 2015.
Mr. Rajat Gupta from Panjabi University Chandigarh, Mr. Madan L. Sharama from Kuruk-
shetra University, Mr. Hemant Kumar, Ms. Jagriti Sahu and Mr. Bharat Kumar Devangan
from Raipur university did project for two weeks under the ATSOA programe held at ARIES
from 02 to 12 March 2015. This group of students learned the data reduction technique through
IRAF and produced the differential light curve of a CP star.
Ms. Shreyasi Acharaya from Jadhavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal completed a two
months project from 01 June to 31 July 2014 on Search for Variable Stars in Open Star
Cluster NGC6866 using ISIS technique".
Deepak Eappachen from Newman college Thodupuza, Kerala conducted a two months
project from 14 June to 10 August 2013 on Photometruc data Analysis of a binary star AV
CMi".
Ms. Ragadeepika Pucha from ISERC Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan completed two months
project from 01 July to 15 August 2013 on Search for Pulsational Variability in Ap Stars".
Pramod Sati from Manav Racha International University, Faridabad completed a six
months project on Photometric Variability of Brown Dwarfs" .
Ms. Sunita Bhatta from D. S. B. Campus Kumaun University completed a three months project
from 01 September-30 November 2015 on Time Resolved Photometric Analysis of a CP star
HD73045"
Mr. Arinjoy Nag from NIT Suratkal, Karnataka completed a two months on Online Data base
for Nainital-Cape Survey" in May-June 2010.
Dr. S. K. Tiwari worked as a post-doctoral fellow for the period of about six months.
Dr. Bharat Kumar Yerra worked as a post-doctoral fellow at ARIES for the period of one year.
Harshita Gandhi from Delhi University on Investigating Pulsational Variability in HD73045.
Saharsh Pandey from College of Engineering Roorkee worked as a Java & Web Developer .
7.0.4 Public Outreach talk on Life Cycle of Stars and Human Development" at G. I. C. Champawat on 08
May 2016 in an event organized by Himvatsa".
Invited talk on Music of Stars" G. I. C. Champawat, G. G. I. C. Champawat and Navodaya
Vidyalaya, Champawat in rst week of May 2015 in the occasion of International Light Year
organized by Himvatsa".
Attended an IAU workshop on Oce of Astronomy for Development (OAD)" at SAAO, South
Africa from 12 to 14 December 2011.
Educated general public under the sky-grazing programme at ARIES.
7.0.5 Committees/In-charge/Chairmanship