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SCIENTIFIC TALKS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES/MEETINGS

SCIENTIFIC TALKS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES/MEETINGS

SCIENCE PUBLIC OUTREACH PROJECTS/EVENTS

  1. Chief Coordinator of a Telescope Donation Drive (2022) to Govt School, Othakkalmandapam in rural Tamil Nadu, India by initiative from Dr Sameeran IAS, Coimbatore District Collector and Mr Abhilash Krishnan, MD, Neydhal and UAE Group of Companies.

  2. Initiated and organised CERN in India Travelling Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan Samagam’ in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi by coordinating between Permanent Mission of India to UN Geneva, National Council of Science Museums, Ministry of Culture, Dept of Atomic Energy, Dept of Science & Technology, Government of India (2018-2020).

  3. Coordinated visit of tribal school students from Kerala to Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Indian Institute of Astrophysics in collaboration with Dr Shashi Tharoor MP (former Under-Secretary General of UN and former Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Human Resources Development) in 2018.

  4. Outreach Talk on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors presented at MRS Tribal School, Idukki on invitation by Mr G. R. Gokul IAS, District Collector of Idukki, Kerala, India in 2018.

  5. Planning Meeting for CERN Travelling Exhibition to India, Dept of Atomic Energy HQ Mumbai, India (2018-2019).

  6. Planning Meeting for CERN India Mega Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan Samagam’, National Council of Science Museums HQ Kolkata, India (2018-2019).

  7. Planning Meeting for CERN India Mega Science Exhibition, Office of His Excellency The Swiss Ambassador to India, Embassy of Switzerland, New Delhi (2018-2019).

  8. Science Talks and Interviews through All India Radio (2018-present).

  9. Contributed numerous press articles on science, research and education for national and international media (2016 - present).

  10. The Exciting World of Comets, Asteroids and Meteoroids at ‘Science Outreach to Schools Event’ 2014, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
    (Other Speakers included Nobel Laureate Prof Venki Ramakrishnan, President of Royal Society, London and Padma Vibhushan Prof M S. Swaminathan, Father of Green Revolution in India; Organised by Dr. Anuradha Pallipurath, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge,England)

  11. Lead Guided Tours of Armagh Observatory to General Public (2010-2015).

  12. Assisted in the supervision of school students attending for work experience projects about the observation and astrometric reduction of comets/asteroids using the 2-m Faulkes Telescopes Network at Hawaii, USA and Australia (2012-2014).

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