That's a wrap on the SKA-India Training School 2025! 🚀. We've just concluded two incredible weeks of deep diving into the world of radio astronomy! From July 7th to July 18th, it was an absolute pleasure to host 43 bright and enthusiastic students from all across India!. Over

This tour allowed them to see firsthand the sophisticated engineering and intricate systems that power modern radio astronomy, perfectly complementing their classroom learning. The insightful questions and keen observations from the participants underscore the success of this

📡 SKA-India Summer School Update! 📡. 🌟Observatory Visit ✨.💫IIT Indore Radio Interferometer (IIRI) 🌠. Bridging theory with groundbreaking practice. A key objective of the SKA Summer School is to provide a holistic learning experience. Today, we achieved a major milestone by

Following the lectures, the venue was opened for a feedback session, allowing participants to share their constructive comments and experiences from the workshop. @SKAO .@IndiaDST.@IITIOfficial.@asipoec

Dr. Mayuresh Surnis discussed the concepts of beam forming in both coherent and incoherent arrays, providing valuable insights into the relationship between beamforming and interferometry. He delivered an in-depth lecture on the mechanics of phased arrays and the process of

📡 SKA-India Summer School Update! 📡. 👨🏻‍🏫 Day-10 Morning Session 👩🏻‍🏫. The final session began with two consecutive talks by Dr. Mayuresh Surnis from IISER Bhopal. His presentations primarily emphasized the significance of utilizing phased array techniques for observing pulsars. He

Following this, a thorough demonstration was provided where participants learned how to connect each stage of the receiver chain. This process began with the RF input, which is mixed with an LO signal, followed by filtering the intermediate frequency (IF) output, and finally

In today’s hands-on session, participants were introduced to the heterodyne receiver chain used in radio telescopes. The functions of key components such as mixers, local oscillators (LO), and low-pass filters (LPF) were explained in detail. The concepts of upconversion and

📡 SKA-India Summer School Update! 📡. ⚙️ Day-9 Afternoon Session 🔩

Following the talks, the room was set up for the panel discussion, which was moderated by Dr. Narendranath Patra. The panelists included Prof. Yashwant Gupta(@yash_gupta_62 ), Prof. Abhirup Datta(@datta_abhirup ), and Dr. Rohit Sharma(@rohitcbscient ). They addressed various

In the final talk of the session Dr. Narendranath Patra discussed the detailed method to submit a scientific proposal to the GMRT and a proposal get reviewed by field experts before it gets accepted for observation.

📡 SKA-India Summer School Update! 📡. 👨🏻‍🏫 Day-9 Morning Session 👩🏻‍🏫. The day's first talk was delivered by Prof. Yashwant Gupta(@yash_gupta_62 ) of NCRA-TIFR, who gave a delightful overview of the history of Radio Astronomy in India. He spoke about the efforts of Prof. Govind

Then Dr. Swarna Chatterjee of Rhodes University, South Africa, conducted an in-depth tutorial about how to see and analyse the images using software like SAO-DS9. She also explained how to obtain sky images in various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, observed using various

📡 SKA-India Summer School Update! 📡. ⚙️ Day-8 Afternoon Session 🔩. The afternoon's session offered some well-needed hands-on experience in radio image analysis after two weeks of in-depth learning about the radio sky and observation techniques. Dr. Narendra Nath Patra gave a

Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh(IIT Indore) delivered the third talk of the day. He discussed high-performance wideband antennas, highlighting frequency selective surfaces (FSS) and their role in filtering and shaping electromagnetic waves. He also explained the concept of phase-gradient

Picking up this thread and extending it further, Prof. Yogesh Wadadekar(@YWadadekar ) of NCRA-TIFR Pune delivered a fascinating talk on career opportunities and various avenues open to the SKA-India Summer Training School students. He emphasized the importance of studying the

📡 SKA-India Summer School Update! 📡. 👨🏻‍🏫 Day-8 Morning Session 👩🏻‍🏫. Today's sessions started with a very informative talk by Prof. Yashwant Gupta(@yash_gupta_62 ), Centre Director at NCRA-TIFR Pune, giving a very in-depth overview of the Square Kilometre Array Telescope;

These two concepts are essential principles in radio communication and radio astronomy. They highlight the directionality of radio equipment and illustrate how we can infer the nature of sources based on our observations. @SKAO .@IndiaDST .@IITIOfficial .@asipoec

Students conducted experiments on the characteristics of RF antennas, demonstrating two fundamental properties of antennas:. 1. Inverse Square Law: The power received from a source decreases in proportion to the square of the distance between the transmitter and the receiver.

📡 SKA-India Summer School Update! 📡. ⚙️ Day-7 Afternoon Session 🔩