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Science Talk and Interaction Program

Updated list of events and the link of all talks This program began 2024. In this every two month, a talk is uploaded on the YouTube channel "SERF Ahmedabad" for the readers to learn and i they have any question/s, they can ask by sending an email to serfahmedabad@gmail.com. The participation certificate for this event will be given to those who pass an online test or submit an Essay on this topic on a given date. The events conducted so far are listed below: the 8th event of its program "Science Talks and Interaction”. For this, a talk entitled "Astronomy in Ancient India - A brief". by Dr Harshal N. Deota has been uploaded on YouTube and the link is as below: Astronomy in Ancient India - A brief The participants can go through the talk/s at their convenience and can ask question/s by email to  deotaharshal@yahoo.co.in or   serfahmedabad@gmail.com  These will be adequately addressed as much as possible. Those who wish to get a participation certifica...

Physics Nobel Prize -2021 Complexity in Climate Science

  Webinar on Physics Nobel Prize -2021: Complexity in Climate Science Prof. B. N. Goswami FASc, FNA, FNASc, FTWAS     Friday, 3rd December 2021 at 11:00 hrs IST (05:30 UT) Organizers Space Education and Research Foundation (SERF) Indian Meteorology Society, Ahmedabad Chapter (IMSA) R. K University, Rajkot (RKU)   Abstract: The recognition that ‘complexity’ in physical systems is ubiquitous where apparent ‘chaos’ and ‘regularity’ co-exit led to the Nobel award for 2021 in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems”. While Parisi discovered interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems at atomic level, Manabe and Hasselmann unraveled interplay between chaotic weather to climate variability at planetary scales. The Prize is also recognition of Complexity in Climate Science and climate modeling by the ...

International space science quiz

 Space Education and Research Foundation, Ahmedabad successfully organized "International Space Science Quiz" on Sunday, 15 th August 2021. There was a time limit of 7 minutes (after the google of answer sheet was opened by the participants. In this 155 participant were able to submit there answer sheets. Of these 84 qualified to get certificates. Passing for certificate was 30 or more correct answers. Those who participated in the event or obtained less than 30 marks and wish to get certificate. They are given an option to fill the certificate form in which they are required to write in their own words a report based on "The enigmatic Sun" by Prof Ashok Ambastha. Three links are given below: Form for the Certificate and report  Talk on " The Enigmatic Sun ". Space Science Quiz 1 for practice

International Conference on Space Science and Technology (ICSST 2021) The recordings of all three sessions are listed here along with links

It is our pleasure to inform you  "International Conference on Space Science and Technology (ICSST 2021)"  successfully completed today (7th April) Videos of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sessions are available on SERF You Tube channel and link are given below as in the program  (names of speakers and their topics, VIDEO link) Session 1 Monday  (5 th  April 2021) Title       Speaker  Link Invocation Smt Uma Narayanan Video Welcome/Theme Director, SERF Video Inaugural talk: “Space Science and Technology” Prof Rajmal Jain Video Contributory papers Future Space Exploration Raj Panchal Video Foreground Removal for Planck Satellite Based Observation of the CMB Harshal Mittal Video Combined multi-temporal burned area mappi...

Conference on Physics Education and Research

Conference on Physics Education and Research (CPER 2020) was held online during 21- 26 September 2020. This had six sessions. In each sessions there were lead talk and contributory presentations. The recordings of all the talks are available as below (please click on the speakers name for his/her video recording): Videos of Session 1   KN Joshipura ,  Atika Fatima ,  Payal Joshi  and  Anesh Chetan Videos of Session 2   DG Vyas ,  Ambily G ,  Raj Panchal ,  Joy Agrawal ,  Navin Joshi Videos of Session 3  Amarendra Narayan  ,  Sunita Gupta  ,  Ashutosh Kumawat  ,  M S Narayanan  ,  Pankaj Ranjan Videos of Session 4     Kuberkar ,  Rajyalakshmi ,  Rukmini ,  Priyanka ,  Kayathri ,  Lovepreet Videoof Session 5     B Thakore ,  N Chaubey ,  Varsha ,  Kaushal   Videos of Session 6 DV Subhedar , Sanjiv Puri , Kunjal Vara , SS...

International Workshop on Space Science (IWSS 2020)

Welcome/Theme                                    VIDEO Inaugural talk “Unity of Science”                             VIDEO Space Weather effects to Satellite Communications                  VIDEO Applications of Michelson Interferometer                   VIDEO The X-ray emission from solar flares                VIDEO Study of the acoustic emission in the  sunspot  accompanying major solar flares             VIDE O Temperature related variation of differential  rotation in solar atmosphere                         VIDEO Multi-wavelength and Multi-instrumental Analysis...

Webinar 22 Satellite Navigation

Talk 1  Introduction to Satellite Navigation   PPT  and   VIDEO Talk 2:  Principle of Global Positioning System   PPT   and   VIDEO Talk 3:  Global Satellite Navigation Systems  PPT  and  VIDEO Talk 4:  Augmented GPS and LAAS   PPT   and  VIDEO Talk 5:  NAVIC (Indian GPS) PPT    and  VIDEO \Space Education and Research Foundation organised its 22 nd webinar. The topic of this webinar was  “ Satellite Navigation ” . It had five talks by Dr. M. R. Sivaraman (Former Scientist at ISRO). These talks were made live one each on 24 th , 25 th , 26 th , 27 th and 28 th February 2020. Live transmission Time: 06:00 to 07:00 UT . Please check time at your location (e.g. in India it will be 11:30 to 12:30 IST ) The topics of these five talks are as follows: Talk 1:  Introduction to Satellite Navigation on Monday 24-02-2020 Talk 2: Principle of ...

Webinar 21 "Remote Sensing of Planets

Talk 1 Comparative Planetology  PPT  and  VIDEO Talk 2: Reflectance Spectroscopy  PPT  and  VIDEO Talk 3 Remote Sensing of Moon  PPT  and  VIDEO Talk 4 Advances in Planetary Sciences PPT   and VIDEO Space Education and Research Foundation organized its 21 st webinar. The topic of this webinar was   “Remote Sensing of Planets” . It had four talks by Dr. Megha U. Bhatt (Planetary Science Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, INDIA). These talks were made live one each on 8 th , 9 th , 10 th and 13 th January 2020. About the speaker ( Dr. Megha Bhatt) Dr. Megha Bhatt is presently a faculty at Planetary Sciences Division of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. She obtained her B. Sc. and M. Sc. degree from Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyala, Jabalpur. She completed her PhD in 2012 from Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research, Germany. She developed a new iron estimation algorithm using the multispec...

Webinar 20 - Space Biology

Talk 4  Clinical problems and Medical care in Space PPT and      VIDEO   Talk 3   Human Physiology and Space Conditions   PPT    and   VIDEO Talk 2: Genetics effects from non-Earth like environment      PPT Talk 1: Life in the Universe (Exobiology)     PPT     and       VIDEO Space Education and Research Foundation (SERF) organized its 20th webinar. This was on “Space Biology” and had four talks one each on 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th December 2019. Prof. Harish Padh (former Vice-chancellor S. P. University, Vidyanagr, Gujarat, India) and Dr Divya Vats (Director, Regional Metabolic Genetics Clinic, Kaiser Permanenta Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) were the speakers of this webinar. They will deliver two talks each. The live transmission of the talks will be during 06:00 – 07:00 UT. Please check time  in your zone (for example in India it will be 11:30 –...